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Firstly I will agree with Donovans point and secondary I have to ask all who agree with the Big Bang theory! An explosion in physics will explain that the parts and particles that are exploded will follow one rotated path! In other words, once an object is thrusted from an initial explosion it will all move in the same rotation until the completion of its movement! If this is the case why do all the planets and moons rotate in different directions? Remember all you scholars; the gravitational pull from the EARTH is considered one of the strongest in the solar system! Im not a well educated in this area what Ive read is what I know and so you maybe able to answer my questions or points.

I neither agree nor disagree, but in whatever case I would still say that God had a hand in it.

I take it you're not asking about the day I lost my virginity.

As to the universe creation thing, it works as well as anything else I've heard, and matters about as little to me, on a day to day basis, as all the other theories.

Yeah, that's about how far man's tiny little brain can reach, into space of "Theory" never explaining what caused the BIG BANG! and if they attempt, it's theory, not facts. Ah ha! God, the cosmic creator, He is the fact, and not garbage theory that agnostics feed on, ha ha ha! keep dreaming about your false Big Bang theory- what a joke.

If the "Big Bang Theory" is accepted as scientific evidence of the creation of the universe, what then caused it to occur? How did this big dirt ball get created prior to the bang?

UPDATE: If anything proves the existence of God, the Big Bang Theory does. I first started thinking about this after reading a quote from Pope Pius XII about fifty years ago. Pius was probably the most intelligent and learned pope in the 20th Century, especially on science.

My own commentary on it is this. Imagine an inchoate mass of matter of a size so large that the human mind would have a hard time comprehending its dimensions. Then for some reason, this mass explodes, and the moving parts solidify into the known universe, stars, solar systems, nebula, planets, galaxies and the rest.

Query. Where did this mass originate. Did it always exist? What force caused it to explode.? What natural forces caused the formation of all the various bodies that I have mentioned? This theory could accomodate from the deists to the rest of the believers with the possible exception of the fundies who are painted into a theological corner and have to adhere to the date of creation in 4004 B.C. or some such.

ORIGINAL COMMENT: This appears to have increasing credence in the scientific community. The new telescopes add more evidence to the opinion that all objects are moving outwards as if blown apart.

The flipside of this theory is what you hope for on that hot date next Saturday Night!

The Big Bang theory implies that there was a point in space where all things came into existence through a colossal explosion and then all mater is expanding from this original point outwards. That point would be easy to locate if the "expansion" of the Universe would be consistent as a result of an initial explosion. That originating point has never been located. Why? Because there is no such a point. The Universe came into existence as is today and the illusion of expansion is nothing more than ordinary movement of colossal masses of mater in an orderly manner. There are galaxies and clusters that are moving away from us, there are galaxies and clusters that are moving towards us, there are galaxies and clusters that move along with us. The Universe cannot be expanding because the Universe occupies the whole infinite space, and if it were expanding, it would imply that there is still additional space where it could expand. If the Universe is not infinite, then it must have an edge. What is there beyond that edge? The theory collapses on itself.

Negative! I'm a strict creationist! Everyone and everything has a master designer. It is just beyond me how anyone can think anything can appear from an explosion, especially this complex universe... it just isn't logical! Think of the vehicles we drive, the TVs we watch, the radios we listen to, and the computers we use. Surely we don't believe that trillions of electronic parts just exploded out of nowhere, and formed into these things. This sounds silly, doesn't it? Well, that's probably because it is!

The key word here is theory, and that's all it is, and it's a lie from the pits of Hell.

Yes, and supported by a lot more smarter people than me.

Took a few shots in the 20th century but has been gaining real scientific steam in the last 20-30 years (due to fascinating scientific revalations about the universe and Hawking's explanations) have put this one back to the forefront. . .

As genghis notes, scientific study does support it. I think its possible something created it as well. Why is it that science and nature have such a hard time coexisting on these issues? Is it not possible that a creator made the universe to have a Big Bang, evolve intelligent life and just let that life do what it would with its time? It just seems like it is always one way or the other with no middle ground. I am not sure that is the case.

Unfortunately I'm not good enough at physics to site all the evidence on which this theory is based and any attempt would probably be partially inaccurate and therefore distorted. But usually when a theory successfully predicts phenomena that are then discovered, it means you're on the right track. One example of this(which has been popularised to some extent) is that the big bang theory predicts that the remnants of the explosion should still be detectable in the form of low frequency microwave radiation. When astronomers tried looking for this, they found it everywhere! I would suggest to anyone who disputes this theory should to attempt to understand it's theoretical basis in order to develop a balaced critque of it as opposed to dismissing it simply because it is seems incompatible with their belief. Branches of physics such as quantum mechanics and space time theory often ARE counter intuitive, but that's because we're not consciously aware of how sub atomic particles behave or how gravity effects distorts time. Just because you're not capable of seeing something, or it doesn't seem to make sense mean doesn't it's not happening.

Did not happen that way...

Definitely not, if there was no life an nothing here what caused the bang and why isnt more life being created by more big bangs? I believe as any child can see from the evidence all around us that life came from intelligent life, just like it continues to today.

In my view, there is too much order within the universe for this to be the result of a haphazard explosion. The relationship of the planets, the way the moon affects the tides, the way animals and insects work together within nature, the creatures in the ocean, the plant life, and on and on and on. It's also difficult to understand how something living could come from something non living. There is just too much order for this to have happened by chance. In my opinion, the big bang theory is like parking a Sherwin-Williams paint truck next to a white wall. Take a hand grenade and blow up the truck. The explosion creates the Mona Lisa on the wall. Possible? Yes. Likely? No.

What makes more sense... There was a Big Bang and now we're all watching football and shopping at Amazon.com for no apparent reason or....we were all created not by chance but with intent and with a purpose and destiny that ultimately will have a conclusion?

Anyone who honestly believes in creationism is walking around with their eyes closed. Besides, what makes you think that Let there be light isn't refering to the Big Bang. Plus, take a look at the human body..it's amazing! To simply say that we were made out of clay isn't giving God (whether you believe or not) enough credit. The circulatory system seems more like the work of an omnipotent being, while a talking snake in tree and clay making sounds more like kindergarten. Creationists, it is a debate no-no to use this word, but I feel it's quite appropriate here: You're stupid.

It has enjoyed longstanding popularity, and still has many adherents in the scientific community. As for my opinion on its plausibility, I really can't say. It is a pretty good way of describing why exactly the universe is expanding, but isn't very helpful in explaining why it is expanding the way it does. It does not expand like a balloon, but every part of the universe is expanding. So imagine a loaf of raisin bread with the raisins representing different galaxies. They not only get further from the center of the loaf as it rises, but they also get further from each other. Also, the further the galaxy is from the hypothetical 'center' of the universe, the faster it is accelerating away from the center. This means that those galaxies that are at the 'edge' of the universe are travelling at a relative speed close to the speed of light. Explosions don't cause this kind of behavior. Also, the Big Bang kind of requires that the universe be expanding 'into' something that contains the universe. This is futile to think about, since nothing 'contains' the universe, the universe is everything, which is why it is called the universe. Our expansion is so complex that an outward explosion from an infinitely dense particle would have trouble explaining it, or at least according to our understanding of the laws of physics.

Hmm. Tough call. I obviously wasn't there for it, and this isn't a testable hypothesis, recreatable in a laboratory. Then again, astrophysics and cosmology are things that I haven't gotten into much at all, and it's something I would like to research on before deciding fully what the origin of the universe likely is or is not.

I prefer the Steady State theory: the universe has always been here and will always be here!