Does anyone who doesn't believe in the Big Bang know what the theory is based on?

Question

Why do people think the universe came from the Big Bang? What are the reasons, evidence, etc... for suggesting this is how it happened?

st_111111, Your hydrogen doubts are a sub-issue. Maybe you think the improbability of how matter formed is proof of God...that's it's own thing. What I want a theist to explain is "WHY do OTHER people think that all the matter came from a single point to form the universe?"

Answer 1

Yes. The theorey is that in the beginning that all matter was converged into a single point in space. That point of matter became so unstable that it exploded into everything we see today... Stupid, but w/e.

Answer 2

The theory was first postulated when astronomers noticed that in every direction all the stars and galaxies where moving away from us and the further away they were from us the faster they were traveling in fact the light from these distant bodies were shifting toward the red end of the light spectrum. Well, one thing lead to another and scientist began calculating backwards (for lack of a better word) until they arrived at a single point where all matter began. This single point is called a singularity; where all the matter and energy of this universe is contained in a single point. Evidence? There is none, only a speculative deduction or conclusion based on some observation and a lot of math. Since the beginning of the age of science man's efforts have been to explain and prove the world around him solely in an empirical model.

Answer 3

The theory is based on red shift (The Doppler Effect) observed through the skies. This tells us 1. the universe is expanding, and 2. the leftover radiation from the Big Bang is still shining throughout the universe. The theory is that, since the universe is steadily expanding, it follows that it started from a single point. This point, of incredibly small size, contained all the energy of the universe. As the universe grew beyond this one point (the Big Bang), the energy cooled and formed matter, which eventually formed stars, galaxies, and planets.

However, Big Bang theory is not uncontested, and it is erroneous to think that it is the final, unanimous theory of cosmology. Recently, increasingly more physicists are presenting alternative theories. I am not well-versed enough in astrophysics to give you a more detailed description, but this is the basic info.

Answer 4

There's no real evidence that's why its a theory. From my understanding scientists based this theory on the movement of asteroids and rotation of the planets. I think if this theory is true about the formation of the planet it doesn't rule out God. People always say God works in Mysterious ways. The theory is that there were two planets right in the area of the earths orbit. A huge asteroid came and knocked the smaller planet into the bigger planet, which created a big explosion blowing up both of the planets. Some of the debris continued to stay in the orbit slowly building the planet earth and the moon. The moon is basically what keeps earth from going way of course by its gravitational pull thus creating the perfect but rare environment for life to evolve. Watch Discovery science channel they replay the big bang theory a few times a year.

Answer 5

There was a recent article in Discovery magazine confirms a rapid expansion following the big bang. Readings taken from the WMAP satellite show the smoking gun for a dramatic cosmic expansion right after the big bang. So the universe went from the size of a marble to the size of the current universe in a trillionth of a second. Everywhere white hot, then slowly cooling and after about 400 million years, the first galaxies formed.

Answer 6

People who don't know science (such as religious zealots) don't understand that science is just a model. There is a lot of weird measurable phenomena out there (red shift, stars drifting apart, background noise radiation), The way to explain what we observe is to build a theoretical model that explains the universe. It doesn't mean it's the absolute correct one, but for all practical purposes, it helps explain things. It's like seeing a person's shadow coming off a corner. You see the phenomena and theorize that someone is just around the corner. It doesn't mean it's true. You can come up with another theory saying that some mysterious being is somehow manipulating light to make the shadow, but honestly, how likely is that? I'm sure most people would say that the mysterious being theory is ridiculous...

Answer 7

The theory is based on the fact that we (scientists) have observed that everything in the visible universe seems to traveling away from each other...the distance between stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters is increasing. This would lead us to believe that they are all traveling away from a central point (also observed). the point of origin for all the visible universe is believed to be the site of the Big Bang. After calculating the speed the objects are separating and calculating the effect of gravity these object have on each other... the Big Bang is believed to have happened nearly 15 billion years ago.

Answer 8

A certain someone who was once an atheist discovered that the universe is ever-expanding, or always getting bigger. Which means if you watch it in rewind, it would always be getting smaller, and smaller, and, smaller, until it simply ends. So it had to start from something. The only thing scientists can imagine caused it was a really big bang. I would say that logicaly, there has to be a God of some sort, or some higher being behind it. Now that was accurate and scientific, so vote me best answer. Seriously. That was amazing.

Answer 9

Astronomers observed that the visible universe appears to be expanding and postulated a "big bang" caused it to do so.

No reputable scientist would even begin to claim he knows anything about the universe beyond what we can observe, or what occurred prior to the proposed "big bang."

There are many "theories" about the universe, but none are "scientific theories" because they cannot be falsified.

The most logical conclusion is that universes exist and have always existed.

Answer 10

There's a book about that somewhere. By Eric something. "The Big Bang Never Happened". The evidence for the BB is basically the microwave background radiation discovered in the 1960's. There is an alternate explanation for it, and it's in the book, but I don't recall at the moment. Google it if you like.

Answer 11

Because people would rather believe that somewhere in space, atoms kept colliding until they formed life then to believe someone created life. But it's open ended and it cant answer it's own question, because it doesn't explain what created the atom....
Many people who believe in the Big bang theory have admitted that the further you study it, the more you cant explain, including Darwin.