O.k. What is the difference between evolution and the big bang, and how can you have the one w/o the other?

Question

Flandarg---very good answer---your answer goes into great depth. Much better than the superficial answers above you that only pretend to be smart.

Answer 1

As I understand it, there are SIX types of evolution.

1. Cosmic evolution - the origin of the universe, time and matter. The Big Bang theory falls within this discipline.
2. Chemical evolution - the origin of complex elements.
3. Stellar and Planetary evolution - the origin of stars and planets ( distinct from cosmic evolution, with some overlap).
4. Organic evolution - the origin of living matter.
5. Micro-evolution - living organisms experience small fluctuating changes WITHIN a given species.
6. Macro-evolution - living organisms experience small changes that eventually accumulate to a DIFFERENT species.

For most people, the word 'evolution' has the meaning of #6 above. Many scientist use micro-evolution to promote macro-evolution based on extrapolation. But it is only an EXTRAPOLATION.

It is possible to accept Big Bang and creationism (rejecting macro-evolution) because the Big Bang proves the existence of God. That is, matter, time and space have a beginning. This is the EFFECT. Now, what was the CAUSE of that?

I think that all evolutionists TODAY accept the Big Bang but when it was originally proposed, there was vehement opposition to it from EVOLUTIONISTS (yes, and Christians, too).

Answer 2

1. Evolution is about the origin of modern species from the first life form. The Big Bang theory is about the origin of the universe.

2. Evolution is much more universally accepted by scientists ... no serious biologist disputes it. The Big Bang theory, while almost universally accepted, still has some serious astronomers and astrophysicists who dispute it.

3. Evolution gets its evidence from biological sources (fossils, structures, genetics, DNA, etc.). The Big Bang gets its evidence from astronomy.

As for how can you have one without the other?

Simple. If the Big Bang theory turned out to be false, and the universe really was a Steady State (no beginning at all), this would say absolutely nothing about the theory of evolution, or how it explains the origins of species. They rely on completely different methods and types of evidence, and explain completely different phenomena.

Answer 3

One concerns the origin of the known and knowable physical universe and the other explains biological change (of existing life only - evolution has nothing to do with the origin of life).

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flandargo --

No scientist confuses micro- and macro-evolution. You confound fact, scientific theory, and generic change. It is a fabricated and intentionally dishonest attempt by anti-science creationists to prey on the scientifically illiterate. The scientific theory of evolution is only about biology. Moreover, Darwin did not invent evolution. That species evolved from one form to another was a fact well known at the time. Darwin provided the mechanism that explained how it worked.

As it turns out, his theory is the single most powerful general explanatory model in all of science. It is the biological equivalent of the unifying theory physicists have long sought regarding the processes that drive the physical universe. Without it, every life science collapses, as does every discipline indirectly tied to biology.

Any creationist who goes to a modern doctor or hospital is, by definition, either a hypocrite or a closet realist. Without the theory of evolution, medical science is no more than voodoo or the magic practiced by witchdoctors. In fact, if evolution is false, then not only are we wrong about everything we think that we know, we have no hope of ever being certain of anything or of empirically understanding the world we live in.

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Lover of God –

You really mean Hater of Knowledge, don’t you?

Answer 4

Big Bang

In physical cosmology, the Big Bang is a cosmological model in which the universe has been expanding for around 13.7 billion years, starting from a tremendously dense and hot state.

Observational evidence for the Big Bang includes the analysis of the spectrum of light from galaxies, which reveal a shift towards longer wavelengths proportional to each galaxy's distance in a relationship described by Hubble's law. Combined with the assumption that observers located anywhere in the universe would make similar observations (the Copernican principle), this suggests that space itself is expanding. Extrapolation of this expansion back in time yields a state in the distant past in which all matter and energy interacted within an environment of immense temperature and density. This hot, dense state is the key premise of the Big Bang.


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Evolution

In biology, evolution is the change in a population's inherited traits from generation to generation. These traits are the expression of genes that are copied and passed on to offspring during reproduction. Mutations and other random changes in these genes can produce new or altered traits, resulting in heritable differences (genetic variation) between organisms. New traits can also come from transfer of genes between populations, as in horizontal gene transfer or breeding between species. Evolution occurs when these differences become more common or rare in a population, either randomly through genetic drift or nonrandomly through natural selection.

Natural selection causes inheritable traits that are helpful for survival and reproduction to become more common and harmful traits to become more rare. This occurs because organisms with these advantageous traits produce more offspring, thus passing more copies of the traits on to the next generation.[1][2][3] Over very long periods of time, adaptations are produced by a combination of the continuous production of small, random changes in traits, followed by natural selection of the variants best-suited for their environment.[4]

A species is a group of animals that can breed with one another. However, when a species is separated into different populations that are prevented from reproducing with each other, random mutation and drift, combined with different environments selecting for and against different traits, results in these populations accumulating differences over time and eventually becoming two separate new species. The similarities between all organisms suggest that all known species are descended from a single ancestral species through this process of gradual divergence.[1][5][6]


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If you'll notice, the big bang says nothing about the formation of life itself. Evolution could certainly exist without the big bang.

Answer 5

Evolution is the statistical process by which populations change over time in an orderly manner determined by variation, reproduction and natural selection. Biological evolution is one instantiation of evolution, and is the process by which populations of living organisms change across the generations.

The "big bang" refers to the event that occurred about 14 billion years ago at the origin of the universe. We know that the universe is currently expanding, and believe that it came from a single point. That theory correctly predicted the cosmic background radiation that was later experimentally confirmed.

Could you have one without the other? Well, evolution is simply inevitable - it's a statistical process that will occur whenever you have variation, reproduction, and natural selection, and it certainly does not require a "big bang" origin of the universe.

Answer 6

Stop associating evolution and the big bang. Different topics, not related.

If you wanna dig at atheists and scientists etc challenge them on why the received laws of physics and the laws of astrophysicts don't fit together. What is correct under one theory can be incorrect according to the other. (Consider the laws of gravity as they apply to muons)

Answer 7

Let me put it terms I think you can understand.

Evolution: A scientific theory that you don't understand.
Big Bang: A completely different scientific theory that you also don't understand.

I notice that a complete lack of understanding of either theory has not prevented you from asking numerous inane questions challenging both.

Answer 8

Big Bang

Then

Evolution

Answer 9

The big bang is a theory of how the world BEGAN, evolution is a theory of how it became what it is today.

Answer 10

They dont have enough arguements for the big bang, so I guess that they dont talk about it anymore. Im still trying to figure out how matter was created. Since it can neither be created or destroyed according to ummmmmm SCIENCE. Ask that and they say where did God come from. But, science cant explain God. Science has to explain the big bang.