All we wish to do is seek to disprove it
2007-08-29 16:15:16 · 10 answers · asked by sahara_springs 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That's just how the game of science is played--try to find evidence to knock off the prevailing theory and win the Nobel Prize. Of course your new theory needs to incorporate the old theory (ie explain all the old observations just as well) but also explain new evidence inconsistent with the old theory--preferably in a clean and intellectually satisfying way.
2007-08-31 09:44:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What specifically do you want to disprove about the Big Bang theory?
The Big Bang theory was totally rejected at first. But those who supported it had predicted that the ignition of the Big Bang would have left behind a sort of 'hot flash' of radiation.
If a big black wood stove produces heat that you can feel, then in a similar manner, the Big Bang should produce its own kind of heat that would echo throughout the universe.
In 1965, without looking for it, two physicists at Bell Labs in New Jersey found it. At first, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were bothered because, while trying to refine the world's most sensitive radio antenna, they couldn't eliminate a bothersome source of noise. They picked up this noise everywhere they pointed the antenna.
At first they thought it was bird droppings. The antenna was so sensitive it could pick up the heat of bird droppings (which certainly are warm when they're brand new) but even after cleaning it off, they still picked up this noise.
This noise had actually been predicted in detail by other astronomers, and after a year of checking and re-checking the data, they arrived at a conclusion: This crazy Big Bang theory really was correct.
In an interview, Penzias was asked why there was so much resistance to the Big Bang theory. He said, "Most physicists would rather attempt to describe the universe in ways which require no explanation and since science can't *explain* anything - it can only *describe* things - that's perfectly sensible. If you have a universe, which has always been there, you don't explain it, right?
"Somebody asks you, 'How come all the secretaries in your company are women?' You can say, 'Well, it's always been that way.' That's a way of not having to explain it. So in the same way, theories, which don't require explanation, tend to be the ones accepted by science, which is perfectly acceptable
But on the older theory that the universe was eternal, he explains: "It turned out to be so ugly that people dismissed it. What we find - the simplest theory - is a creation out of nothing, the appearance out of nothing of the universe."
Penzias and his partner, Robert Wilson, won the Nobel Prize for their discovery of this radiation. The Big Bang theory is now one of the most thoroughly validated theories in all of science. Robert Wilson was asked by journalist Fred Heeren if there was an Intelligent Creator.
Wilson said, "Certainly there was something that set it all off. Certainly, if you are religious, I can't think of a better theory of the origin of the universe to match with Genesis."
2007-08-29 23:21:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I understand the theory was put forward by a priest. So I can understand your stance. If I think deeply enough about it, I would say it was probably more like being in labour and giving birth. But what do I know? I'm only a woman.
2007-08-29 23:19:55 · answer #3 · answered by Shinigami 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a believer in The SMALL Bang...and it's not a theory...it's based on personal experience.
2007-08-29 23:25:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Earth is also the center of the universe.. The person who made up the name Big Bang says it is wrong! If it all started with a big ball of matter, how did the universe travel so far, so fast? Matter cant travel at light speed.
2007-08-29 23:21:08 · answer #5 · answered by Balla 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's just a theory. No one actually says it is absolutely what happened.
2007-08-29 23:26:58 · answer #6 · answered by Helga G. Pataki 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes.
show us one concrete evidence of big bang , we will believe it , but for now , it's one of the explaination on the possibilty of how we start.
likewise ,
show us one concrete evidence that god exist other than assumptions and feeling , we will believe in god too.
2007-08-29 23:23:01 · answer #7 · answered by Curious 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, that's the skepticism intrinsic to the scientific method.
2007-08-29 23:50:10 · answer #8 · answered by novangelis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What do you mean "we"? You speak for all atheists now? How about agnostics, you have their collective consensus as well?
2007-08-29 23:40:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure you do. Unfortunately for you, all the evidence favors it.
Good luck!
2007-08-29 23:32:55 · answer #10 · answered by Agellius CM 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋