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More Evidential Confirmation of the Big Bang Theory

quantumfaith

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I read something an eminent scientist once said. It may have been Einstein, I cannot remember. Anyway, "whoever" said that it seemed their great ideas came almost like a revelation. Of course they had to be smart enough to understand whatever was revealed.

Sorry, does not "ring any bell" for me.
 

quantumfaith

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A theory is an idea or set of ideas that try and explain facts or events. While the big bang is a theory the bible account is not a theory. The truth is we do not need to observe creation if we have creditable evidence of how it came about. We have the word of God and He is creditable and faith accepts it as written. If the creation account is theory then so is the cross and the resurrection and the whole of the bible and if the bible is theory then we have no faith as faith and theoy are not comaptable which leaves us lost in our sins. Theory is why many fall away. Faith is what keeps us on the path.

Judith, no disrespect here, but you really should understand a little more about science and physics in general. The word "theory" is much richer and robust than you are willing to acknowledge.

Is our faith (christianity) a "theory'?
 

Revmitchell

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The word Theory has been redefined in order to suit their agenda. What ever you want to call their so called "theories" they are unproven. Cannot be stated as fact without doubt.
 

Judith

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Judith, no disrespect here, but you really should understand a little more about science and physics in general. The word "theory" is much richer and robust than you are willing to acknowledge.

Is our faith (christianity) a "theory'?

I understand the word "theory" and there is no way to link it to faith. As for science what is being called science today by some is nothing but total speculation with no science involved.
As I said before the only reason anyone believes in a big bang theory is because they do not have the faith to believe in the creation account. The big bang theory is in fact scientificly impossible yet some still hold to it. No disrespect to you but It is as the bible says some are willfully ignorant.

They just flat out refuse to believe that God created everything in 6 literal days so they have to make up something to cling to and the big bang is them. Like I said the big bang is scientifically impossible and violates every known law of physics.
 

Aaron

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From the article:

A potential hitch in the presumed course of cosmic evolution could have infused space itself with a special energy that exerted a repulsive force, causing the universe to swell faster than the speed of light for a prodigiously violent instant.​
:laugh::laugh:

"potential hitch"

"special energy"

:laugh::laugh:

Funny how one can swallow the camel of unspecified metaphysics of Naturalism and strain at the the gnat of a six day creation.

But . . . this rapid, faster-than-the-speed-of-light expansion sounds to me the Second Day described in Genesis 1, and yet they say it took less than an earth second.

Just sayin'.
 

quantumfaith

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From the article:

A potential hitch in the presumed course of cosmic evolution could have infused space itself with a special energy that exerted a repulsive force, causing the universe to swell faster than the speed of light for a prodigiously violent instant.​
:laugh::laugh:

"potential hitch"

"special energy"

:laugh::laugh:

Funny how one can swallow the camel of unspecified metaphysics of Naturalism and strain at the the gnat of a six day creation.

But . . . this rapid, faster-than-the-speed-of-light expansion sounds to me the Second Day described in Genesis 1, and yet they say it took less than an earth second.

Just sayin'.


For a change, you may actually be "on to something' Keep digging Aaron.
 

OldRegular

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QF,

With all this speculation about THE BIG BANG.......contrary to scripture.....where was God when this occured...was he ;

1] a spectator...he waited until it happened and learned....as Winman would suggest?

2] Did he exist in a vacuum?

3] Did he emerge from the big bang himself , and was not really from everlasting?

Everyone who wants to jump up and down and fawn over these "scientists procalamtions and vain speculations"....never seem to answer these questions.

Did your "interesting Scientists" have any idea about this?

Big Bang is simply an attempt by atheistic science to account for the existence of the universe absent God. So denying God they postulate "a submicroscopic speck of primordial energy". If one looks up the meaning of primordial it really isn't very clear what primordial or primordial energy is. Of course knowing in this 21st Century a little about energy the question is: How could a "submicroscopic speck of primordial energy" become the universe 28 billion light years in diameter, more or less?
 

OldRegular

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Dr John G. Hartnett, an Australian cosmologist, comments on the supposed 'More Evidential Confirmation of the Big Bang Theory" in an extensive article Has the ‘smoking gun’ of the ‘big bang’ been found? at: http://creation.com/big-bang-smoking-gun

I present his concluding remarks below.

Concluding remarks

The universe began as God said in Genesis chapter 1, with no big bang. He created it out of nothing, by His supernatural omnipotence. God said: “Let there be light.” He filled the universe with light and that light might be what we observe today in the CMB radiation. My own cosmology—a derivative of Moshe Carmeli’s own big bang cosmology, but with biblical initial conditions—has a period of super-rapid accelerating expansion in the 4th Day of Creation, not quite the same as inflation, yet sufficient to adiabatically cool the initial light from a temperature of about 9,000K to nearly 3K today.

I proposed that the initial light was due to plasma glowing blue, which filled the initial much smaller universe. That initial plasma would have had sound waves resonating through it. And gravitational waves are entirely possible real physics, though they have yet to be shown to exist. Even the case of the Hulse-Taylor binary pulsar-neutron star pair, the discovery for which they were given the Nobel Prize in 1993 (where energy is lost as the binary pair spiral in towards each other), shows only that gravitational energy is lost, not that that gravitational energy is dissipated in waves.

My point is that even if this detection of an anisotropy in the excess B-mode polarization of the CMB photon field at the claimed angular scales is confirmed it may not be evidence of anything more than an effect resulting from some other source in the universe. You would have to rule out all other causes before you could definitely say it was a detection of the big bang. But to do that you would have to know everything and that would make you a god.

Making a prediction from some esoteric quantum theory6 in regard to the putative inflationary epoch, and then claiming a fulfilment of this in these observations is not the same as a clean prediction in testable, repeatable physics. In the case of the latter, there are ways to interact with the experiment and repeatably test one’s hypothesis. In the case of the former, i.e. when the laboratory is the cosmos, we cannot do that. The best we can do is run simulations on what we think the universe should look like and try to quantify the likelihood of the outcome of an observation. Astrophysicist Richard Lieu wrote,

Hence the promise of using the Universe as a laboratory from which new incorruptible physical laws may be established without the support of laboratory experiments is preposterous7 …

Summary

Far from being a definitive proof of either inflation or the big bang, this so-called ‘smoking gun’ is very ‘model-dependent’, which means it depends on unprovable assumptions—including that there was a big bang to begin with. Whereas even the idea that the CMB is the leftover echo of this alleged event has some serious and unresolved problems; for example, if the radiation really is coming from deep space, why is there no ‘shadow’ in it from objects supposedly in its foreground? See The big bang fails another test.

Consider for a moment something else, something consistent with all the observations, including these latest reports; namely, that the universe did not begin in a big bang, because the universe never started in a singularity. It began in time, yes, … but, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”

http://creation.com/big-bang-smoking-gun[/quote]
 

Van

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So, according to the article, did the Universe expand to the size of a grapefruit, or beyond the current limits of the known universe during the "inflation" period of much less than a fraction of a second?

Clue, you have to read the article. And then you will realize the article provides at least two answers! :)

The problem with trying to calculate the size after inflation, assuming duration to be 10 to the minus 32 seconds, is we do not know how much faster than the speed of light is needed to match future data. :)

As one article said, cosmic inflation appears to be a contrivance to explain any data known or postulated. It is like a black hole, which swallows up any and all data to explain away the "supernatural" birth of the universe.
 
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Judith

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As I stated before the big bang theory is biblically impossible. If you read the biblical account the earth was created on the first day and the sun, moon and stars on the 4th day. Also the big bang theory says something exploded. The bible says God created everything out of nothing. That is the end of any big bang.
 
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just-want-peace

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Following is a post I wrote, from a few years back, re: the brouhaha over the age of the earth. I never got a satisfactory answer!
The same question(s) can be inserted into this post, as the basic premise is the same - do you trust God or science when they differ????????

Bear with me, as I try to understand the reluctance of some to take God at His word, but believe “SCIENCE” instead when the two don’t gee-haw.

1-What is the absolute base, bedrock, or foundation for determining the age of earth, artifacts, fossils, etc etc? Now I don’t want a long scientific explanation that I can’t grasp, but in simple words, where/what is the proven, unchallenged parameter, upon which the determination of the age of any artifact or fossil, that is beyond our present ability to observe, is based? Allow me to be a bit ridiculous here; is there anything that is as solid as if ( please note “AS IF”, not to be taken literal) you found a bronze war-ax that was stamped “MFG IN MESOPOTAMIA IN 3008 BC”? This is not debatable (excluding a forgery) so this is a fact that you could date similar objects to, or date those found in the same area/level of the discovery

2- Suppose an archeologist unearthed some human bones that happened to be the remains of Seth. What would forensics claim as the age of this man when he died? Note his age according to God’s word:
Gen 5:8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.
I submit that modern science would claim his age at death would be 80 min, to 100 max. Yet, if you trust God’s word, the “scientific estimate would be off more than 800 years. WHY?? Simply because this age is no longer realistic for any human, so the results are adjusted to what is reality TODAY! They would judge the remains by today’s faster aging standard to determine the “age at death”. Quite similar to forensics dating a murder victim as: Male, 25-30 YO, etc.

The point I’m trying to find, is what is the foundation that the Old Earth/Evolutionists are using to justify their beliefs? The foundation, please, not an essay on processes etc.

Now before you challenge, I do not have any foundation to believe YOUNG EARTH/CREATION other than the word of God; in other words since there are two contrasting interpretations of existing evidence, I CHOOSE to believe God over SCIENCE. So please, don’t start the old complaint that I can’t prove my beliefs either. I’m admitting this up front.

The difference is that I admit I’m going on faith; you tell me what you are using that IS NOT FAITH, but concrete facts!

If I did not know the Scripture, then I would have no problem accepting the scientific explanation, BUT I DO KNOW what God said, so I look at this whole subject in a different light than the unknowing or the unbeliever.

Again, we see the same physical evidence, but vary vastly in the conclusions thus drawn.
So what compels one to trust science's BIG BANG vs God's several day creation? Either is an act of FAITH!!
I seriously doubt that God would have used the "big bang" and then told us that He took several days to complete the task!?!?!?
Ya think???????
 

Judith

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Following is a post I wrote, from a few years back, re: the brouhaha over the age of the earth. I never got a satisfactory answer!
The same question(s) can be inserted into this post, as the basic premise is the same - do you trust God or science when they differ????????



Again, we see the same physical evidence, but vary vastly in the conclusions thus drawn.
So what compels one to trust science's BIG BANG vs God's several day creation? Either is an act of FAITH!!
I seriously doubt that God would have used the "big bang" and then told us that He took several days to complete the task!?!?!?
Ya think???????

No disrespect, but comparing the big bang to being the same kind of faith as believing God's word tells me you do not understand what faith is.
 

OldRegular

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Following is a post I wrote, from a few years back, re: the brouhaha over the age of the earth. I never got a satisfactory answer!
The same question(s) can be inserted into this post, as the basic premise is the same - do you trust God or science when they differ????????



Again, we see the same physical evidence, but vary vastly in the conclusions thus drawn.
So what compels one to trust science's BIG BANG vs God's several day creation? Either is an act of FAITH!!
I seriously doubt that God would have used the "big bang" and then told us that He took several days to complete the task!?!?!?
Ya think???????

I agree that belief in evolution is an act of faith. I would not call it the same as saving faith which I believe is a gift of God. Having said that I believe evolution to be the religion of the atheist.

There are two possible causes for the existence of the universe, an eternal God or eternal energy/matter. And then there are some who peddle the following:

"Quantum mechanical fluctuations can produce the cosmos," said panelist Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the non-profit Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute. "If you would just, in this room, just twist time and space the right way, you might create an entirely new universe. It's not clear you could get into that universe, but you would create it."

"So it could be that this universe is merely the science fair project of a kid in another universe," Shostak added. "I don't know how that affects your theological leanings, but it is something to consider."

http://www.space.com/16281-big-bang-god-intervention-science.html
 

NaasPreacher (C4K)

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Again, we see the same physical evidence, but vary vastly in the conclusions thus drawn.

So what compels one to trust science's BIG BANG vs God's several day creation? Either is an act of FAITH!!


You are of course correct. One is faith in flawed human reasoning and one is Holy Spirit given faith in the eternal creator God, but both are acts of faith.
 

Yeshua1

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The truth that no one was there to observe it but God. Both theories must be accepted by faith, and I would rather trust a God who has proven Himself that some scientist with an uncorroborated theory full of ifs and maybes.
its not JUTits NOT "just the Bible", as there is much more scientific facts that support creationism and

Actually, the bible IS indeed God saying what happened at that time to us, so not really faith, but a sure acceptance of what actually happened there!

And its NOT just the Bible alone , but even scientific facts support how we view this, as evolutionists MUST strain to make sure the "facts' fir their mindset set, so mis and re interprete the facts to get their desired results!
 

Judith

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You are of course correct. One is faith in flawed human reasoning and one is Holy Spirit given faith in the eternal creator God, but both are acts of faith.

One could say that jumping out of an airplane without a parachute is a leap of faith and jumping out with one is also faith. However if truth is what is desired they are not comparable. Without a parachute is reckless stupidity, not faith as it is hope without substance. With one it is truly faith.

The same applies with the big bang and the bible account. There is absolutely no scientific evidence of a big bang. All we have is total made up speculation and it is of a nature that totally contradicts itself. Believing this kind of mumbo jumbo is not faith. It is stuborn willful ignorance. Believing the biblical account IS faith because the One who gave it is believable.
 

Iconoclast

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Well ICON and others....for myself and MANY other believing folk who are also scientifically minded...it is absolutely without question that the BB was "brought about" by God. To an atheist scientist, yes they would view it as a totally natural, yet unexplained physical event. To a theist, it is a supernatural creative act of God.

God has always existed, before the universe and the cosmos all you and I can say is HE existed in completion. Even time, as we understand it did not exist, but HE and the Godhead did.

No HE is NOT a spectator, HE is the cause.

No, HE did not "arise" out of or as a result of the BB.

Hello Qf,

As i know you have a lust for anything academic if i was going to seek some science that could possibly go along with biblical revelation...i would look more into this...as it can be reconciled with the biblical account of creation......even thought it is undeveloped to an extent;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biU3W0w2Oq0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGAo5uLCPio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuANDlrTHyI
They deny God....however this concept i believe can mesh with Hebrews 11:3...the images in our brain take in what God allows us to "see". What do you think on this QF...there are dozens of longer versions of these two examples.
 
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nodak

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No matter who screams the loudest, there really is no need to choose between science and the Bible.

They just are not in conflict--not unless you READ INTO the Biblical account that which it does not say.
 

OldRegular

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Judith, I believe that saving faith is a gift of God and is not the same as believing that jumping out of a plane with a parachute is in any way similar to saving faith.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones in his book, God The Holy Spirit, page 140 makes the following argument [Paraphrased for brevity.]

“It is unfortunate that all too often saving faith is compared to the choices that people make in life. The argument is as follows :

Faith is a natural faculty that every person has. You are always exercising faith in your life, you couldn’t live a day without doing so. You exercise faith when you go out to start your car. You exercise faith when you board an airplane. Just as you trust that the car will start and the airplane will arrive safely, why don’t you trust Jesus Christ as Savior?

“In fact starting a car or boarding an airplane have nothing to do with faith, rather they have to do with an understanding [to a greater or lesser degree] that the probability of the desired event will happen. Therefore, such a comparison is meaningless.“



One could say that jumping out of an airplane without a parachute is a leap of faith and jumping out with one is also faith. However if truth is what is desired they are not comparable. Without a parachute is reckless stupidity, not faith as it is hope without substance. With one it is truly faith.

The same applies with the big bang and the bible account. There is absolutely no scientific evidence of a big bang. All we have is total made up speculation and it is of a nature that totally contradicts itself. Believing this kind of mumbo jumbo is not faith. It is stuborn willful ignorance. Believing the biblical account IS faith because the One who gave it is believable.

You say
Believing this kind of mumbo jumbo is not faith.
Actually Judith it is for the very reason you say that belief in the Big Bang is a kind of faith. Recall that Scripture tells us: Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.{Hebrews 11:1} Now those people who believe in cosmological evolution are believing in mumbo jumbo. They do this , in my opinion, because they are hoping to demonstrate that God had nothing to do with creation. That is the substance of things they hope for even in the absence of anything other than vivid imaginations and the ability to manipulate mathematical equations.

I believe I stated earlier that evolution is the religion of atheists. I also believe there is an element of faith/belief in any religion!
 
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