Big Bang Theory...or Not?

Question

Just a quick survey. If you choose to believe in the big bang, please briefly explain why. Same goes if you don't believe in it. If you believe God or something caused the big bang, then explain, and your opinion will agree/disagree with both sides.

Thanks for sharing your opinion with me; I don't want a huge debate or argument over this either.

By the way, I don't believe in the big bang.

Uhm. If you believe in the theory, can you please explain why? You could at least say because of science, or evidence instead of just saying, definitely theory. Thx!

Wow! So many ratings already. I've gotten so many answers...maybe this section just happens to be really popular. Thanks everyone!

Answer 1

I do believe in Big Bang, and i belive God did it.
Just think about it, from the nothing, elements and certain gases and things like that appeared and that provocated the Big Bang, so everything has a beginig,where is the begining of the Big Bang? Maybe God is the beginig

Answer 2

I believe that it probably happened because there's the fact that the universe is expanding and there's the cosmic microwave background radiation that's sort of a smoking gun. Sure, it's possible that scientists are just completely wrong about the whole thing, but there's enough evidence that it's likely that they're right. And as for what caused the Big Bang, who cares? The Big Bang was the beginning of our universe and anything that happened before that is irrelevant. Maybe we're all just a big experiment created by an advanced alien race in another universe. Maybe the Big Bang just randomly happened out of a sea of nothingness. Maybe some guy was really constipated and projectile-pooped and that was sufficient to create the universe. We'll likely never know so there's no sense in speculating about it. Our universe follows natural laws so if there is/was a god, it doesn't have its hand in our business.

Answer 3

The Big Bang theory is the most credible theory so far to explain the universe. Considering the field of astrophysics has only been around for 80-100 years, different theories will arise in the future that may invalidate the work of Hawking. Data collected from radio telescopes on background noises does validate the theory, but the field is in it's infancy.

Knowledge is dynamic, why does everyone have to believe that we have derived all the answers to the mysteries of the cosmos. Last time I checked, the year is 2007.

Answer 4

May Peace Mercy and Blessings of Allah(swt) be on all of you.

I do believe in Big bang theory as its an established fact now and nto a theory any more and the main reason for my belief is the verse of the Glorious Qur'an mentioned below.

surah Ambia CH:21 V:30 " do not the unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together(as one unit of creation) and we clove them asunder?.(speaking about the big bang theory in a nut shell regarding the creation of the universe which is discovered recently) .and the verse continuous "and we have created every living thing with water will they(unbeliever) not than believe(in GOD).

May Peace Mercy and Blessings of Allah(swt) be on all of you.

Answer 5

Thor caused the big bang with his mighty hammer! Lol (I'm just kidding.) The big bang was probably a result of branes colliding.

Yes, I believe in the big bang theory because it explains why the universe is expanding and it has tons of evidence to back it up.( I don't understand how anyone could not believe that the universe is expanding. ) Some would argue the apparent “fine tuning” of the universe is proof of a creator. There is however another explanation. Many universes may exist, but only some of them would allow creature such as ourselves to emerge. Perhaps our big bang wasn’t the only one, perhaps there was multiple big bangs each universe with its own set of constants. Some universes might resemble ours and most others would be “stillborn”. They would collapse after a brief existence, or the laws governing them would not permit complex consequences.

Answer 6

I believe something like the big bang occured and everything is controlled and sustained by God. There is good scientific evidence to believe there was a beginning point to the universe as does the Bible suggest and many believers believe. I do not believe however it was random act of the elements or that God has left us to fend for ourselves as in deism after setting everything in motion.

Answer 7

believe in it.
St. Thomas Aquinas was a scientist who came up with the theory of the primary mover. If there were 2 gases that mixed to create the big bang, then who/what mixed them. Nothing happens in a vacuum. What moved to generate the motion that mixed it all?

Science can prove everything after that.

Answer 8

I accept that the Big Bang is the most accepted hypothesis available to date. I won't vouch for its validity as much of it still speculative or founded in mathematic probability. But it is far more accurate and compelling (and there is much more evidence for it) than other ideas available currently.


I think it's absurd when people criticize science for always changing. Do you know what psychologists call it when you are able to arrive at new conclusions after presented with new evidence? They call it intelligence. Science is always changing because it's always trying to prove itself wrong to test and adjust itself. When a new hypothesis is introduced that changes our understanding of something, it can be adopted (as long as we can't prove it wrong). This is how understanding of the universe develops.


Jeff C: you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about when you talk about "evolutionists" trying to explain star cooling... Did you go to school and learn of the different branches of science? I fear for the education in this country when egregious misinformation like this is allowed to fester. Evolutionists deal with how life changes over time, they have NOTHING to do with big bang, the creation of the universe, or even the origin of life. The origin of life is the abiogenesis hypothesis and not connected with evolution. You will never find a single evolution scientist who claims to be an expert on the stars, and none of them claim to know with any certainty how life began.

Answer 9

Yeah I believe. That's the best theory we have based on the available evidence. That's science.

Actually Dug, the superstring theory has many problems and is a seperate issue from the origin of the universe regardless.

Answer 10

Stars could not have come from the ‘big bang’
Evolutionists generally believe that stars formed by the collapse of gas clouds under gravity. This is supposed to generate the millions of degrees required for nuclear fusion.

But most clouds would be so hot that outward pressure would prevent collapse. Evolutionists must find a way for the cloud to cool down. One such mechanism might be through molecules in the cloud colliding and radiating enough of the heat away.

But according to theory, the ‘big bang’ made mainly hydrogen, with a little helium—the other elements supposedly formed inside stars. Helium can't form molecules at all, so the only molecule that could be formed would be molecular hydrogen (H2). Even this is easily destroyed by ultraviolet light, and usually needs dust grains to form—and dust grains require heavier elements. So the only coolant left is atomic hydrogen, and this would leave gas clouds over a hundred times too hot to collapse.

Abraham Loeb of Harvard’s Center for Astrophysics says: ‘The truth is that we don't understand star formation at a fundamental level.’