ok can someone try to explain to me how the big bang bang theory makes any sense at all?

Question

it just seems kind of dumb to me, idk. i think it takes a lot more faith to be an athiest than a christian

Answer 1

Not possible. You have already made a decision to believe fantasies, no amount of science, even basic high school physics, is likely to open your eyes.

Ahh, but never give up.

The Big Bang model of the universe's birth is the most widely accepted model that has ever been conceived for the scientific origin of everything. No other model can predict as much with as high accuracy as the Big Bang model can.

The rest is here. Reading it should not be painful, it is not designed to remove your god, your god is irrelevant to it.

Answer 2

Well explaining the math behind it would take a graduate course in Astrophysics. But suffice it to say that if you run Einstein's equations back in time, you end up with all the matter at a single point. There are thousands of other things the same equations predicted that have been experimentally proven right like time shifts at speed and in different levels of gravity.

Just because it is to complex for you to take the time to get it doesn't make it not right.

There are also several other facts that it explains:
1- The Universe is expanding. Quite fast actually.
2- The theory predicted that there would be a trace radiation "echo" of the initial energy that would come evenly from all directions. It took decades to find, but it is there.
3- The relatively large amount of hydrogen and helium are exactly what it would predict. The heavier elements are made in stars and that takes time. The Universe is still relatively young.
4- The theory predicted the the age of the Universe by taking the speed that things are flying away and looking back you can see when they all would have been back in one place. The great thing is the furtherest things Hubble can see are about 13 billion LY away. After that there is no light. This is right in line with the 15 billion year estimate would predict the first stars starting up.

Answer 3

First, some evidence:
The earliest and most direct kinds of observational evidence (sometimes called the three pillars of the Big Bang theory) are the Hubble-type expansion seen in the redshifts of galaxies, the detailed measurements of the cosmic microwave background, and the abundance of light elements (see Big Bang nucleosynthesis). Many other lines of evidence now support the picture, notably various properties of the large-scale structure of the cosmos which are predicted to occur due to gravitational growth of structure in the standard Big Bang theory.

Now, if we plot back that expansion into the past, we end up with a picture where all the mass in the universe was compressed in a very small space. It was very dense, and very hot. Big bang does not state something came from nothing, and it does not give an explanation where it came from nor why it did what it did. Our models break down at shortly before t=0. But we have excellent models for everything since. It explains everything from the elements and why certain elements are more abundant than others to galaxy clusters and, well, the whole shebang.

Answer 4

I strongly suspect you have no understanding of it at all. Try learning science from science books instead of from creationist lies.

The big bang model is actually a homogenious solution to the General Theory of Relativity solved independently in the late 1920s by three people Friedman, Walker and Robertson.

It describes the expansion of the observable portion of the universe. It is independent of questions of origins. Many people have the false assumption that the big bang model tells how the universe began. It does not! It merely describes it's expansion.

In order to understand the General Theory of Relativity you will need to learn Differential Geometry. If General Relativity seems "dumb" to you that is not the fault of General Relativity, it is due merely your lack of a mathematical education.

As a mathematician myself who understands General Relativity and have gone through the solution of the big bang model, I can tell you that it makes perfect sense, providing of course you have the educational background to understand it.

Answer 5

"Big Bang" is NOT about origin. It ASSUMES PREEXISTING MATTER.

The theory is about how that matter became distributed as we now see it. Most everything we are able to OBSERVE seems to indicate that the universe is expanding. The vast majority of galaxies are moving away from us. This is what we would expect to find if it began as "Big Bang" states, as an exploding mass.

Simply put, "BIG BANG" DOES NOT DENY CREATION. There is NO CONFLICT.

Answer 6

Big bang is a theory of origin. Atheism is the beleif that there is no higher being. They aren't synonymous.


God could be the cause of the big bang, and an athiest can beleive that there was no beggining.

Answer 7

You can't spell, capitalize, or punctuate, and yet you are the expert when it comes to astronomy?

What faith is there in saying, "this is the evidence we have gathered to this date, and this is the conclusion we can make from that evidence"?

Also, it seems dumb because you don't know enough about it. If you did, creationism would seem dumb. But you won't believe me, nor will you do independent research. Its much easier if you only read one book ever, right?

Answer 8

The big bang has nothing to do with atheism. The big bang is science.
And it takes absolutely NO "faith" on my part whatsoever to not believe in YOUR God. That's your story...it has nothing to do with me. It's actually pretty arrogant to suggest that it takes "faith" on our part to not buy into your religion's completely implausible stories of invisible, magical beings.

Answer 9

You look at the galaxies, and see they are moving away from us. You look at the cosmic microwave background and realize that it shows a universal energy release occurred. That's not faith, that's evidence. It takes a lot of faith to ignore the evidence.

Answer 10

What has the Big Bang got to do with atheism?