question about evolution?

Question

if the beginning of time according to evolution taught in schools is that a giant explosion (bang) happened and eventually formed into planets, where did all this matter come from? tell me, evolutionists, who or what created all this matter? how could something the size of a period on a piece of paper become all of this? if that IS true, didnt someone have to create all that matter to explode? when did something small and uncomplicated become something large and so complicated that we can barely comprehend it? if you take a stick of dynamite and put it next to some fallen trees, does it explode to become a log cabin?

Answer 1

Somethings are beyond our comprehension (at least for now), but how can you be so full of doubt about the Big Bang Theory - but have no trouble believing in an all-powerful being? Where did "He" come from?

Answer 2

This is not a question about evolution, its a question about physics, but thanks for asking it in the geology section!
Maybe the matter came from a singularity, or maybe it came from another dimension, or maybe it was created by energy, maybe it IS energy, or maybe it was always there. This is a good question that we don't know for sure yet, but that scientists are working on...

It is a mistake to presuppose that all matter was created by a person, or intelligent entity of some kind. It is giving up on science to say, well, I don't know, so it must have been a god (which is what you are implying).

Your final question is related to the second law of thermodynamics: in an isolated system, entropy always increases. Entropy is a measure of disorder. Dynamite exploding in the forest would not form a log cabin. To form an ordered structure like a cabin, you need to supply energy to the system, which makes it an open system and not subject to the second law. Nature has many ways of supplying matter and energy to simple systems, and through natural physical and chemical interactions that are very well understood, simple structures can evolve into more complex structures - again, there is no need to invoke a supernatural agent to explain complexity.

Answer 3

I think that you merely misunderstand the situation.

First, evolution has nothing to do with Big Bang theory, one is based in physics, the other in biology, they're pretty specifically different.

Second, all the matter in the universe was condensed to that size because that's how big a singularity is. You've heard of black holes right? Well that's how big they are. They're matter sinks - matter goes into them and, if the theory of conservation is anything to go by, it is stored in an unknown state or converted into something else somehow. But in the end that's how it is. Singularity = very very small.

Lastly, no, things don't NEED an intelligent anthropomorphic entity behind them. There's no saying what started everything before the Big Bang but there's no reason to say it had to be someONE. Considering the vastness of space and the reactions that go on, even within the smallest atom, without any interaction at all from an intelligent being I think it's safe to say that it's likely to be simply natural forces at work.

I'd also like to comment on your analogy - the dynamite and trees. The Big Bang wasn't a chemical explosion like dynamite is, it was the expansion of all matter within the singularity. The universe and all the planets in it didn't form in that instant, it took millions-billions of years for matter to coalesce in the void of space until suns were born and died, leaving behind their heavier elements that went on to form planets.

Read up on the science behind it, you'll benefit greatly from at least knowing what it is that other people "believe".

Answer 4

You should look into the theory that we are really inside a black hole. VERY interesting. The theory that all the matter that we see is seeping in from another universe and THAT is where the matter comes from.

Stephen Hawking who has done a lot of work on the Big Bang theory and black holes, is a fan of creationism. He believes the Big Bang gives God's hand a chance to be in the mix.

You are right, the matter had to come from somewhere. It is unknown how something the size of a period can become a peice of paper and it's an amazing process. I am facinated by math and physics and sometimes I wonder about the perfectionism of it all.

Have you studied any astrophysics and the process of turning hydrogen into higher elements? I assure you, if you have not...it's interesting. It does leave you to wonder how the spark of life began, however I don't expect you'll find that answer from Yahoo.

Answer 5

Ok, once more - with feeling.

EVOLUTION AND THE BIG BANG ARE NOT THE SAME THING.

Evolution deals with the differentiation of lifeforms and how they changed over time interacting with their environment. The Big Bang deals with how the universe, including all of its spacetime dimensions and physical laws, started and developed. One is Biology, the other is Astronomy/Cosmology.

I understand how someone with the need for a creator myth would oppose both theories, but they aren't the same.

They both operate according to natural processes and simple rules. Neither implies (or supports) the need for some being to make it all. You should probably study them both a bit more before you state what HAD TO happen in either field.

Answer 6

good old big bang cosmology, thats what exactly it is, COSMOLOGY! Not BIOLOGY!!

Now, quote from wikipedia:

"After inflation stopped, the universe consisted of a quark-gluon plasma, as well as all other elementary particles.[23] Temperatures were so high that the random motions of particles were at relativistic speeds, and particle-antiparticle pairs of all kinds were being continuously created and destroyed in collisions. At some point an unknown reaction called baryogenesis violated the conservation of baryon number, leading to a very small excess of quarks and leptons over antiquarks and anti-leptons—of the order of 1 part in 30 million. This resulted in the predominance of matter over antimatter in the present universe"

Answer 7

OK troll like you have probably been told millions upon millions of times....evolution has NOTHING to do with creation of universe or origin of life...only how life adapted from simple to complex lifeforms on Earth.


Seriously people....combining the 2 is like saying USA and USSR were one big country who believed in same thing. Please actually learn something about anything b4 asking these questions

Answer 8

That's why it is why called the 'big bang' because out of nothing, something came out. Evidence for Big Bang Theory are (1) red shift; (2) cosmic background noises; (3) existence of black holes. (uhm, not sure with the 3rd evidence)

Answer 9

You are mixing your creation science nonsense up.

Big bang =/= Evolution

Answer 10

Evolution- evolved "from", "from" evolved from what, then what. Doest what evolved. Or "evolution" is something which is existed from the beginning. Bang-explode, there's a life.Therefore, Bang-xplode, Skynnyrd Lover.

Your are right.