Do all Evolutionists believe in the "Big Bang" theory?

Question

If not, how do you explain the origin of our planet/solar system/universe?

I understand that we're talking about two different fields of science, but one seems to compliment the other and typically they go hand-in-hand.

Answer 1

Im an evolutionist, and I do NOT think the big bang is accurate

Answer 2

I know more about biology than I do about physics. I trust that the big bang theory explains more about the expansion of the universe than any other theory at the moment, but cosmology is a much younger science than biology, and I'm certain there are lots of things that are yet to be discovered.

I strongly appreciate the fact that science has come far enough along to author a theory like the big bang, and I trust that if it needs revision, science will find the way to do so.

Besides, the big bang theory goes hand in hand with evolution only when discussed by young earth creationists. I know of nowhere in science where the two share even the slightest connection. (OK, perhaps in a school science textbook, which would also talk about radar, chemistry, photosynthesis, plate techtonics, magnets, and conservation of energy.) Since the big bang involves cosomological physics and quantum mechanics, and these have nothing to do with the differentiation of species through evolution, the only reason to bind the two is to assert a religious point of view.

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Answer 3

there is no such thing as an Evolutionist, it's a word that Creationists made up.

There are people who accept the prevailing biological theory of the Origin of Species. Most of these people also accept the prevailing cosmological theory on the Origin of Space-Time. However biology and cosmology/astrophysics are completely unrelated disciplines. The only thing that Evolution and the Big Bang have in common is they are both the most widely accepted theories in their respective disciplines.

If someone asks me how old the universe is, I can tell them it's about 14 billion years old, because that's what the prevailing cosmological model suggests. If they ask what living family Homo sapiens is most closely related to, I can say primates, because that's something all life scientists in the world agree on. But I don't really know for sure.

Answer 4

Evolution has much more evidence than almost any other theory in science. It is proven everyday in biology labs everywhere. The Big Bang Models also have a great deal of evidence but it is possible although highly unlikely that there may be some explaination other than the Big Bang Model. I would place the probability of Evolution at about 99.9999 % while the probability of the Big Bang is maybe only at 99%.

Answer 5

Your underwear is showing. This question is a bit like asking, "Do all Italians drive Porsches?"

What does the one have to do with the other? By neccessity, it is more difficult to resolve the beginning of time and space itself (though the Big Bang Theory [scientific theories have a capital 'T'] is a pretty self-evident explanation consistent with most of what we observe) than it is to be confident of Evolutionary Theory, which really stands now in a position where someone would have to thoroughly disprove it to dislodge it.

It is reasonable to have doubts about the Big Bang, but to doubt evolution is to be somewhat of an ostrich...

Answer 6

No. These are two separate concepts. Evolution and the Big Bang are not one and the same. Evolution does not deal with the beginnings of life or the universe, but the development from the first life form to where we are today (macro-evolution), or the changes within species due to adopted beneficial mutations (micro-evolution).

Answer 7

rofl. There are other theories too you know. The Big Bang is only one of very many.

As for the order of the universe and how it's explained.... it isn't. Yet.

Do you honestly think human beings know all there is to know about all existance right NOW? Do you honestly believe that there isn't anything still to be learned?

Come on now... everything is more intelligent than to believe that.

Answer 8

Not necessarily. It doesn't have much relevance to biological evolution and comes under the category of cosmology. I don't seek to explain the origin of the universe because a lack of viable evidence would make it a fruitless exercise and I'm certainly not filling in the gaps with any supernatural fantasies.

Answer 9

No. Evolution has to do with Biology, whereas the Big Bang Theory has to do with physics. I am a bio major but know next to nothing about physics, so I do not feel I have the right to promote or dispute a theory that I know so little about.

Answer 10

No, they don't. I know for a fact that my old science teacher believed in evolution but not in the big bang. But most of them do because evolution gets rid of the idea of a God and then you have to try and account for the world's beginning somehow.