Do you believe in the Big Bang?

Question

I don't think the theory makes any sense. Where's the evidence?

Answer 1

This is a logical fallacy called "argument from personal incredulity." If someone tells me that they don't believe in gravity because it just doesn't ring true with them then I have to tell them that that's their problem, not the theory of gravity's. The truth of the matter is that the Big Bang theory managed to predict a lot of findings that, if wrong, would have shown the theory likely false. Because the predictions were specific, could possibly have been wrong, and weren't explained equally by other models, the fact that the predictions were right gives tremendous credibility to the theory.

You don't have to show what happened before the Big Bang for the Big Bang to have happened. The evidence shows it did happen.

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Answer 2

I believe it is as valid a theory as any other.

None of us will ever know all of life's mysteries until we stand before God.

I believe God created the world....however, I believe he made have done so with the big bang, or with evolution, etc....

A God is the only thing that our finite mind can comprehend....God says he is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end...it is the only explanation we have.

If the big bang theory is what started the world...what created those two rocks that banged together? I say God.

Fundies will get bent out of shape because the big-bang goes against their narrow interpretation of scripture...but, I believe God transcends people's understanding, people's religion...and even the Bible, which while inspired by God, was written by humans.

Answer 3

I believe it is the best explanation to date and best fits the available evidence. If new evidence comes to light, I will reconsider whether it still makes sense.

The most obvious piece of evidence is the fact that the universe is expanding in all directions, implying that it all started in one location. The effect called red shift is the most commonly known phenomena that tells us that these objects are all moving away from each other. If you want a more detailed scientific explanation, you should really be in the science section of Yahoo Answers.

Answer 4

Not a single person here listed any evidence, so here it goes:

-cosmic microwave background radiation (the smoking gun, studied in detail by COBE spacecraft in 90s)
-distribution and evolution of galaxies
-redshift seen in galaxies according to hubble's law (direct evidence, we can see and measure galaxies moving away from us at an ever faster rate)
-abundance of primordial elements
-age of universe (app 13.7 billion years) estimated with hubble's law in good agreement with ages of oldest stars and stellar evolution

and the list goes on... scientists are some of the most skeptical human beings... it takes more than just a logical guess and some obsevations to convince vast majority of them into accepting a theory like this.

Answer 5

I guess the big bang is plausible. It certainly makes more sense than everything being willed into creation by a magic man that no one can see. But I don't think how the universe came to be is all that important. Regardless of how the universe came to be, it is as it is now. I think it would be more useful for great minds to dedicate their thoughts to the future rather than the past.

Answer 6

I don't see anything wrong with it. Assume it's the divine spark of God, and you may open up to it too.
Astronomers can see back in time to the early universe, so they have a good understanding of how things function.
The reason I say they can see back in time, is because when something in xxxxlight years away, it takes a real long time for that light to reach our planet. And if you know how the eye works, you'll realize they are not seeing events as they are happening, but events that happened a long time ago.

Answer 7

The fact that light from stars have been taking progressively longer to arrive at another location over millenia (suggesting an expanding universe). There is extensive proof for an expanding universe, as for the Big Bang, it is just an assumption, as I take it (I don't know enough about it to say otherwise)

Answer 8

well, this is just a theory. The evidence is 5 billions years old, so, as you can imagine is really hard to prove.

I think it may have happened, but think is almost impossible to prove.

Answer 9

The biggest evidence to support it is the fact that the universe is observably expanding still. The arrangement of it is also evidence to some degree.

Answer 10

Nope don't believe it and I don't accept it as fact.

Its easier to believe that the world is built on the back of a giant turtle than to believe the impossibility of the big bang.

ThatguyJoe; lol same can be said for creation