2007-09-19 20:13:58 · 10 answers · asked by Diver Down 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The inflationary theory was developed to explain observable features of the universe, and it has been remarkably successful. One example is the nature of the cosmic background radiation, which cosmologists interpret as the afterglow of the heat of the big bang itself.
2007-09-19 20:16:28 · update #1
Astronomers have made high precision measurements of this radiation, finding that it arrives at Earth with the same intensity from all directions, to the extraordinary accuracy of about 1/1000 of a percent. Tracing the history of this radiation backwards in time, cosmologists conclude that the temperature and the density of matter in the universe must have been uniform to this accuracy when the cosmic background radiation was released, about 300,000 years after the big bang. Without inflation, this extreme uniformity of the early universe must be assumed, but cannot be explained. Calculations show that without inflation there would not have been nearly enough time for this uniformity to come about, so one is forced to assume, without explanation, that the universe was uniform from its very beginning.
2007-09-19 20:18:01 · update #2
The Bible doesn't say that the universe was created in one day. It shows it as being six days. Not that that would make much difference to your theory but just to get the info. right. The sun and moon themselves were not created till the the fourth day of creation (see Genesis 1:14-19) There was light but not from the sun. So, how long were those first days? Could they have been billions of years long? I don't think I hold to that belief but I guess it's possible. To think all the accuracy came about by chance, by some sort of big bang that unexpectedly came about by chance doesn't seem to make much sense. What would the odds be for that to be accurate? I guess it's billions to one. The accuracy, wonder, knowledge, and wonder of as you describe, just add to display how wonderful, smart, powerful, God really is. The notion that God created it that way, that that is just the way He made it, is a lot easier to believe, and the odds are nothing near billions to one.
2007-09-19 20:34:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, well. Yuh know, days weren't really days. Know what I mean?
Actually, it seems that in the beginning there already was supposed to be a universe. The descriptions of the Earth are kind of muddy -- void, covered with water. Can't be both.
However, the Earth could not be created at the beginning of our Universe. We have to wait about 10 billion years because the stuff that our Earth and ourselves are made of didn't exist in the new Universe. Stars had to be born and then aged until they blew apart creating the more complex elements such as carbon necessary for life as we know it. Therefor, our Sun is a second generation sun - one that is born of the dust of stars long since destroyed.
I don't think the explosion was that uniform because our Universe isn't. There must be some cause for its irregularity.
Julie -- You can't just make things up to believe. Whoopy Goldberg does this and it's really quite silly.
Like a Rolling Stone -- NO. The Bible doesn't speak specifically of the creation of our Universe. The Earth is already here as a void? as unformed? as covered with water.
2007-09-20 03:19:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that the universe was created in one day. The Big Bang Theory doesn't make sense to me at all. I believe that God when creating it created it old like the Earth. I believe that the reasoning too behind why scientists think the Earth is billons of years old is because it is. physically. I believe that God created the earth old and therefore scientifically speaking it makes sense. Think of when he created the animals. Which came first the chicken or the egg? The chicken in which was already old. Just like the chicken example I feel God created the universe old and in one day. What is one day though? Who knows. No one will ever know the exact time period was in "one day" back then. We have proof elsewhere that time has changed from way back in the earlier years and so that was when the "year" came about. Hence nowadays our leap year.
2007-09-20 03:26:37 · answer #3 · answered by Julie 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
and then one day later, the earth and other planets were created, right?
... right?
(it took billions of years)
you know, this retroactive interpreting of the bible to mean whatever modern science comes up with is all fine and good now, but what happens when science discovers more evidence and revises its picture? your apologetics goes into the dustbin of history, that's what. it's a pointless exercise as far as explaining nature goes. why don't you just admit/proclaim that you'll believe in your favorite bronze age myth no matter what, and leave it at that?
2007-09-20 03:21:23 · answer #4 · answered by vorenhutz 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No scientific proof, but I imagine that the initial expansion of the universe was explosive.
2007-09-20 03:18:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No where in the Bible does it say the Universe was created in one day.
You've spent so much time reading the science you forgot to read the Bible.
2007-09-20 03:19:48 · answer #6 · answered by Augustine 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Science could NEVER prove NOR disprove such a thing. God is not bound by the laws of science. He created them for OUR benefits.
2007-09-20 03:26:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Who knows? The TV says so!
2007-09-20 03:16:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeap the Bible that is one day in God's time not our time, and one day in his time is billions and billions of years in our time.
2007-09-20 03:29:30 · answer #9 · answered by JUAN FRAN$$$ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
science is still progressing in its understanding of the world.
is there a scientific proof that you really exist. is there a scientific proof that this is real.
2007-09-20 03:19:59 · answer #10 · answered by Ozzy 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋