Chapter 4: Big Bang or Big Bust ?

1. “Big Bang Theory, currently accepted explanation of the beginning of the universe. The big bang theory proposes that the universe was once extremely compact, dense, and hot. Some original event, a cosmic explosion called the big bang, occurred about 10 billion to 20 billion years ago, and the universe has since been expanding and cooling.
   
2. History: The overall framework of the big bang theory came out of solutions to Einstein's general relativity field equations… Einstein himself initially believed that the universe was static. When his equations seemed to imply that the universe was expanding or contracting, Einstein added a constant term to cancel out the expansion or contraction of the universe. When the expansion of the universe was later discovered, Einstein stated that introducing this "cosmological constant" had been a mistake.
   
3. The big bang theory seeks to explain what happened at or soon after the beginning of the universe. Scientists can now model the universe back to 10^-43 seconds after the big bang. For the time before that moment, the classical theory of gravity is no longer adequate. Scientists are searching for a theory that merges quantum mechanics and gravity, but have not found one yet. Many scientists have hope that string theory will tie together gravity and quantum mechanics and help scientists explore further back in time.
   
4. Because scientists cannot look back in time beyond that early epoch, the actual big bang is hidden from them. There is no way at present to detect the origin of the universe. Further, the big bang theory does not explain what existed before the big bang. It may be that time itself began at the big bang, so that it makes no sense to discuss what happened "before" the big bang.
   
5. Refining the Theory: Evidence indicates that the matter that scientists detect in the universe is only a small fraction of all the matter that exists. For example, observations of the speeds with which individual galaxies move within clusters of galaxies show that there must be a great deal of unseen matter exerting gravitational forces to keep the clusters from flying apart. 
   
6. Cosmologists now think that much of the universe—perhaps 99 percent— is dark matter, or matter that has gravity but that we cannot see or otherwise detect... No such particles have yet been detected, though astronomers have given them names… This unseen matter would have provided the gravitational force needed to hold large structures such as clusters of galaxies together.
   
7. Astronomers are making new observations that are interpreted within the framework of the big bang theory. Scientists have not found any major problems with the big bang theory, but the theory is being constantly adjusted to match the observed universe.”[1] (emphasis mine)

Now, I don’t know about you, but there were a number of items that struck me as peculiar about the encyclopedia’s overview of the Big Bang Theory.  Let’s take a closer look at it, and you decide for yourself.  First of all, let’s look at who contributed this overview to the Encyclopedia:

“Contributed By: Jay M. Pasachoff, A.B., A.M., Ph.D. Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Hopkins Observatory, Williams College . Author of Astronomy: From the Earth to the Universe, 5th ed., Field Guide to the Stars and Planets, 3rd ed., and Fire in the Sky.”

He sounds OK to me.  So let’s look at what was written in the order presented.  These are my comments as I read between the lines.

Critique of The Big Bang Theory Overview

1.      The first thing that stuck out to me was in the very first line of the definition of the Big Bang Theory.  It states that it is the “currently accepted explanation of the beginning of the universe.”  This automatically tells me that this is definitely not proven as fact.  It seems to only be the most popular opinion or most popular Evolutionary FAITH for today.  It sounds more like an opinion doesn’t it?  In addition, in this section, it is awfully funny how the age is between 10 and 20 Billion years.  Isn’t that an awfully big margin of error…10 BILLION YEARS?  Are their models and calculations of the Big Bang so weak and flawed that it cannot tell the age of the universe any closer than +/- 10 Billion Years????  You bet!

2.      In the history section of the definition above, we learn that the Big Bang concept came from Albert Einstein’s equations.  The neat thing here is that it states that Einstein “believed” [MORE FAITH – NOT SCIENCE] something to be true so he added something to it to make it fit his belief.  This is the same thing we see with cults.  If the facts don’t support your theory, make up a savior to solve your problem.  Later, Einstein admitted that adding the imaginary constant was a “mistake.”  If you take the time to do research, you will discover that this is the common practice of all theories and beliefs that deal with evolution.

3.      The next paragraph states that science can produce a model that predicts what might have happened in the Big Bang back to a fraction of a second after the explosion.  However, they cannot go any farther back than that.  They cannot come up with a beginning to their model!  Can you build a house in mid air with nothing holding it up?  No foundation or frame?  NO!  The article states that, “For the time before that moment, the classical theory of gravity is no longer adequate.”  In other words, none of their other theories are creative enough to fix the holes in this theory.

The article further states that scientists, “have not found one yet.”  However, it continues to say that, “scientists have hope” for other theories.  In other words, they have more BLIND FAITH in one of their colleagues to produce a savior for their faith in the Big Bang.  Does this really merit being taught as science or even being taught at all? NO!  Especially not in public schools with our tax dollars brainwashing our children!

4.      The next paragraph clearly states that, “the actual big bang is hidden from them.  There is no way to detect the origin of the universe.”  OK…If the actual big bang is hidden from them, and they admit that there is NO way to detect the origin of the universe, why is it taught as fact?  Why is it taught at all?  Why are we wasting billions & billions of dollars on researching it?  Because it is a religious quest to avoid the only other alternative—God!

In addition, in this paragraph the author admits that, “the big bang theory does not explain what existed before the big bang.  It may be that time itself began at the big bang, so that it makes no sense to discuss what happened “before” the big bang.”   As a Christian, I admit that I cannot explain how it is that God is eternal and has always existed—it is an admitted Faith issue.  However, science in its never ending quest for the ‘truth’ basically wants to ignore what the big bang was, what caused it, and what there was before it.  “Science” would rather have FAITH about these things than to discuss them. It must be a guarded part of their Religion.   These same evolutionists want Creation and God kept out of classrooms and textbooks, because they say that God cannot be proven systematically or scientifically.  But doesn’t this put them in the same category? 

They can’t answer the basic issue that their whole entire faith in evolution and life’s work is based on, and so they choose to ignore it and sweep it under the rug.  What hypocrites!

5.      Another flag should go up while reading the 5^th paragraph.  Its title is Refining the Theory.  This paragraph basically tells us that there is a BIG PROBLEM with the Big Bang.  It says that, “Evidence indicates that the matter that scientists detect in the universe is only a small fraction of all matter that exists.”  The key word here is detect.

Now this can be taken one of two ways.  First, it could mean that scientists need better measuring equipment.  The second option—the most likely—is that they have to say this in order to explain away problems with the religion of the big bang.  Let’s see if we can gather more evidence from the same paragraph in order to determine the proper implication.

The next sentence states, “For example, observations…show that there must be a great deal of unseen matter exerting gravitational forces to keep the clusters from flying apart.”

Now does that sound like science or faith?  The ‘must be’ seems to be a cry for help for their faith.  The ‘must be’ is not included because it is scientific – rather it is needed to save the theory.  Again, not only is it faith…but blind faith.  It is a belief in a “great deal of unseen matter.”  Again, we as Christians believe in God…and these Religious Scientists-of the Big Bang Order (I thought they deserved a name for their amazing faith in something so ridiculous) believe in a great deal of unseen matter!  Their religion requires more faith than Christianity!!!

6.      The 6^th paragraph continues on with the same faith issue.  Let’s look at how much faith they must have in order to believe in their religion.  It states,

“Cosmologists now think that much of the universe—perhaps 99 percent— is dark matter, or matter that has gravity but that we cannot see or otherwise detect... No such particles have yet been detected, though astronomers have given them names…”

So now what ‘scientists’ are calling a scientific and plausible theory is based on a recipe that mixes approximately 1% fact with 99% BLIND FAITH.  And this is the best that science can come up with?  The funny thing is that they have named their dark matter gods even though they cannot see them.  This kind of sounds like what the Greeks and other civilizations did when they could not explain day, night, lightning, volcanoes, lightning, etc.—they simply used  their imagination and created gods to suit their needs.

The quoted paragraph concludes with, “This unseen matter would have provided the gravitational force needed to hold large structures such as clusters of galaxies together.”  I do not claim to be an astronomer or cosmologists, but it seems blatantly obvious that an important and major part of their theory is missing yet believed to be true out of FAITH—not SCIENCE.

7.      The article concludes with some important final statements.  Let’s look again:
“Astronomers are making new observations that are interpreted within the framework of the big bang theory. Scientists have not found any major problems with the big bang theory, but the theory is being constantly adjusted to match the observed universe.”

There are several things we need to focus in on here.  First of all, it states that all “observations…are interpreted within the framework of the big bang theory.”  This means that all new evidence and observations are tainted.  Using an analogy of a court case, if you have your mind made up as to the outcome, you cannot be objective or ‘scientific.’  No matter what the evidence shows, you already have your preconceived verdict.  The inherent danger in this type situation is that if evidence is found proving their religious theory of evolution wrong, what are the odds of that evidence getting lost?  Doesn’t this give real cause for the general public to be concerned about hidden agendas of the ‘Scientific’ community?  Can they be trusted?

The closing sentence clearly demonstrates how much trouble this religion of evolution is in, and how their Faith in the Big Bang is Evolving…and/or becoming Extinct.  The Religious Scientists-of the Big Bang Order must be in serious denial to state that there are no “major problems with the big bang theory.”

How can you have faith in a theory that has no beginning, no foundation, and relies on 99% unseen, un-provable, unknown facts to support it and honestly  say it has no major problems?  And this coming from highly educated professionals that ridicule Christians and Creationists for being naive enough to believe in a God that they can’t ‘test and prove scientifically.’  Finally, they throw in at the end that the theory is being “constantly adjusted.”  Isn’t it amazing…true Christianity has never needed adjusting…especially not constantly.  Maybe these Religious Scientists-of the Big Bang Order should meet in secret to plan the evolution of their theory and keep it out of our classrooms until they PROVE it!  That way we can keep all religions out of the schools!

The above definition and critique should be effective enough to at least get the person to whom you are defending the Christian faith to start evaluating their beliefs and start thinking for themselves. Just for additional support, I have included many quotes useful for pointing out the fallibility of the Big Bang below.  But first, I would like to offer my layman’s overview of the Big Bang Model.

The Big Bang Theory in Layman’s Terms

This comes from the Book of Second Opinions in the Evolutionary Bible. 

CHAPTER 1  “In the beginning somewhere in the middle of Nowhere there was Nothing, and the Nothing was formless and void and darkness was everywhere because there was no light.  ²And the great Nothingness said, ‘I’m bored; let Stuff appear.’  And the Stuff appeared.  ³The Stuff got lonely and wanted to organize itself from all over Nowhere into one large clump in the middle of Nowhere.  ⁴But there was a problem…the Stuff did not know how to get to the middle of Nowhere because they had no legs to walk and they couldn’t see because there was no light, and they did not know exactly how to tell others where to go since there were no street signs or anything yet…so they complained to Nothing.  ⁵Nothing answered the Stuff it had created and said, ‘behold, I will make gravity.’  ⁶The Stuff replied, ‘what is gravity?’  ⁷Nothing answered the Stuff, ‘I can’t explain it to you because you are just Stuff, but don’t worry it will draw you all together.  I’ll put it in the middle of Nowhere.’”

CHAPTER 2  “So Nothing made gravity and it sucked all of the Stuff together in the middle of Nowhere into one itsy-bitsy-tiny region.  ²The region was very, very, very, very, very small.  ³So again the Stuff complained, ‘Hey Nothing, can you turn this gravity thing off…it’s getting kind of crowded here in the middle of Nowhere.’  ⁴To which Nothing replied, ‘Sorry, I can’t turn it off…it didn’t come with an instruction manual.’  ⁵This is how the phrase, ‘Be careful of what you ask for, because you just might get it,’ got started in the universe.  Nobody started it.”

CHAPTER 3  “Soon (or later no one is really sure because there still was no time yet) the Stuff got squished so tight that it literally became nothing again and exploded.  ²So it was that Nothing and the Stuff that became nothing (or double nothing to all you math majors) exploded somewhere in or near the middle of Nowhere and created the universe.  ³Again, the Stuff that Nothing created that shrunk into nothing with Nothing and exploded from nothing in the middle of Nowhere cried out, ‘Hey Nothing, why did we explode?’  ⁴But this time Nothing did not answer.  He could not answer, because Nothing no longer existed.  ⁵Since the universe was created by the explosion, Nothing evolved into Something.”

“Something replied to the Stuff as it was flying out from the explosion.  He said, “I am not sure why we exploded.  ⁷When I evolved from Nothing into Something I must have gotten amnesia.’ ⁸So after a while, the Stuff realized that it had been a while and asked Something something.  ⁹They asked, ‘are we there yet?’  (That is why kids to this day ask the same question on family trips.)  ¹⁰Something replied to Stuff and said, ‘It is going to be a while before we get to where we are going.’”

“¹¹This comment by Something greatly perplexed the Stuff and they asked, ‘How long will it be?’  ¹²Being the wise Something that Nothing had become when he left Nowhere, he saw how the questions could go on forever, so in his great Something-ness wisdom he created time, watches and calendars for all of the Stuff.  ¹³That way he would be done answering silly questions and could focus on something more important for a great Something.  ¹⁴So this is how time was created by Nothing that became Something out of nothing that exploded because of something that happened before there was a Something in the middle of Nowhere.”

CHAPTER 4  “Now after a long while, the Stuff began to get bored yet again.  You see, the newly created universe from Something that was Nothing that came from Nowhere had nowhere to go.  ²So the Stuff became restless and cried out to Something that was Nothing and asked him something.  ³They inquired, ‘Where are we going?’  When Something heard this question, he had to think for a moment.  ⁴He realized that if he said, ‘nowhere,’ that the Stuff would get confused and think it was the other Nowhere from which that had left.  ⁵So to solve this quandary, Something decided to create ‘Somewhere’ that was far away from ⁶Nowhere’ so the Stuff would have somewhere to go which is Somewhere.”

“⁷There was only one problem, Something had nothing (Not to be confused with the Nothing that Something was before he evolved into Something) to create Somewhere with.  ⁸So, he decided to use the Stuff.  So Something revealed to the Stuff, “I need something to make somewhere to go that we will call Somewhere, do any of you Stuff want to volunteer?”  ⁹Then there was silence.  No Stuff wanted to volunteer to be used by Something to make something that would be their Somewhere to which they were headed.  ¹⁰From that point on, the Stuff was divided.  ¹¹No Stuff wanted to be used, and the ones that did agree to be used by Something to make something called Somewhere could not agree on what that Somewhere should be.  ¹²So this lead to the first use of an opinion poll in the universe by a political leader.”

“¹³Once Something counted the results of the Stuff’s opinion poll, he determined that the Stuff wanted different things, so he broke them into groups of Stuff.  ¹⁴He did this by his old friend Gravity.  He put one kind of Gravity in one place to make Stuff known as stars.  ¹⁵Something told other Gravity to make planets, and others moons.  The rest of the Stuff that did not want to be used was banished to float around forever between the old location of Nowhere and the soon to be created Somewhere.”

CHAPTER 5  “Things were Ok for a while but then the Groups of Stuff got bored being sucked into the same place again.  ²Many rebelled and exploded like in the beginning in the middle of Nowhere.  ³Again the Stuff and stuff created from the Stuff that exploded cried out to Something that was Nothing that came from somewhere before there was a Somewhere in the middle of Nowhere.  ⁴They said, ‘Something, we are tired of just sitting here Somewhere away from nowhere.  ⁵We want to go somewhere other than the Somewhere we already are.’”

⁶“By this time in time Something was quite angry with the Stuff and their constant whining and complaining.  He felt like he was going nowhere (not the original Nowhere where everything started) with this stuff.  ⁷So he shouted to all of the Stuff near and far that were all Somewhere other than Nowhere, ‘Since you keep going round and round with your constant complaining and are never satisfied, I am going to teach you a lesson.’  ⁸So once again Something called on his old friend Gravity and Gravity’s only begotten motion—a new friend called Orbit.  ⁹Gravity and Orbit worked together to make all the stuff go in circles.  They made moons spin around planets, planets spin around stars, and so forth.  ¹⁰This is when the old saying, ‘what goes around comes around’ was started.”

“¹¹This is the account of how Something came from Nothing in the middle of Nowhere and created Stuff, Gravity, Orbit, and Somewhere.  ¹²When his work was done, he went on permanent vacation far away from Somewhere and Nowhere called ‘AnyWhereButHere.’  He eventually would settle down on one of the somewheres he created called Earth.  ¹³He thought his troubles were over until the Stuff on Earth decided it wanted a better life by being Alive.”  (This story is told in Second Opinions chapters 6 – 13)    

            The above of course is simply my cynically humorous view of evolution, but the basic plot is still the same (except mine is easier to follow).  The Big Bang and evolution teaches that everything literally came from nothing.  This everything includes matter, laws, gravity, stars, planets, orbits, light, elements, life, etc.  While the above is a silly dramatization, it only exploits the already ludicrous assumptions the evolutionary faith makes. 

QUOTES Against The Big Bang Theory

In this section you will see a variety of quotes that demonstrate how flawed the evolutionary Big Bang model is.  The quotes are organized into categories for ease of reading.  We will begin with a few that touch on the overall theory itself.

“There has been remarkably little discussion of whether the basic big bang hypothesis is correct or not…The large body of observations which are not in agreement with it are either accounted for by numerous ad hoc [especially selected to prove a pre-determined point] hypothesis or simply neglected.”[2]

“A number of scientists are unhappy with the big bang theory…For one thing, it leaves unanswered the questions that always arise when a precise date is given for the creation of the universe.  Where did the matter come from in the first place?”[3] (emphasis mine)

“Some cosmologists, albeit it a minority, do sometimes wonder whether the confidence so often claimed in the big bang picture is really justified by our observable knowledge.”[4]  (emphasis mine)

 The quote below deals with the obvious absurdity that the laws that govern the universe invented themselves without a creator:

“The naïve view implies that the universe suddenly came into existence and found a complete system of physical laws waiting to be obeyed.”[5]

Notice this quote deals with the fact that the universe is too perfectly balanced to make it a suitable home specifically for man to be a coincidence.

“According to the picture of evolution of the universe…the smallest change in any of the circumstances of the natural work, such as the relative strengths of the forces of nature, or the properties of elementary particles, would have led to a universe in which there could be no life and no man.”[6]  (This author classifies himself as an agnostic.)

Next, we will see that the Big Bang Theory contradicts at least two of the fundamental laws of science.  They are:

1.      “The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that “disorder” in a closed system must increase with time; the “big-bang” idea, on the other hand, states that the primeval explosion (which would certainly have been the ultimate in disorder!) has somehow increased the “order” of the whole universe with time.

2.      The Law of Conservation of Angular Momentum states that pure radial motion (in the primeval explosion, all products would move radially outward from its center) cannot give rise to orbital motion; yet planets, stars, and galaxies somehow all managed to start to rotate in vast orbits around different centers throughout the universe.”[7]

The two key points exposed here focus on the idea that evolution makes things better and more orderly.  This is not possible based on the laws that govern our universe.  Secondly, if the universe started as matter spinning fast and exploding, then all of the galaxies, stars, planets, etc should all be spinning the same direction.  However, obviously they are not.

            Another problem for the diehard evolutionist is that a universe originating from an explosion like the imagined Big Bang, should not have clumps of matter like stars, planets, galaxies, etc.  It should be smooth and homogenous.  This is a BIG problem for evolutionists.  Here are some quotes telling of the problem:

“We find matter in relatively compact aggregations called galaxies, with almost no detectable matter in between.  Within [our] galaxy are other important aggregations of matter--stars, planets, and living organisms. If the matter we are aware of in the universe were spread uniformly through space, it would be so sparsely distributed that a cube measuring 62,000 miles on a side would contain only a single gram of material-about the mass of a 1-inch paper clip!”[8]  (emphasis mine)

“The cosmological question arises from cosmologists’ habit of assuming that the universe is homogeneous. Homogeneity is known to be violated on the small scale by such things as galaxies and ordinary clusters, but cosmologists held out for a large-scale over-all homogeneity. Now if a super cluster can extend halfway around the sky, there doesn’t seem to be too much room left to look for homogeneity.”[9]  (emphasis mine)

“The discovery of the largest known structure in the Universe could plunge cosmology into crisis. Theorists are going to find it extremely difficult to explain how a long band of quasars stretching hundreds of millions of light years across space could have formed so early in the life on the universe.”[10]

“West German and American astronomers recently discovered a super super-cluster nearly two and a half billion light years long; to grow to such a scale under the force of gravity alone would have taken more than 100 billion years, five times longer (or 10) than our big bang model allows.”[11] (emphasis mine)

“There is no accepted theory as to how the hot gas clouds of hydrogen and helium arising out of the big bang condensed into galaxies, stars, and planets.”[12]

“The standard Big Bang model does not give rise to lumpiness.  That model assumes that the universe started out as a globally smooth, homogeneous expanding gas.  If you apply the laws of physics to this model, you get a universe that is uniform, a cosmic vastness of evenly distributed atoms with no organization of any kind.”[13]  This means no galaxies, stars, planets, moons, rocks, etc.

Below is a list of sequential problems that clearly identify six fairly simple, logical and mathematical impossibilities of the Big Bang Theory.[14]

1.      “Not Squeezable – Nothingness never packs together.  It would have no way to push itself into a pile.  There is no physical law to explain such a peculiar event.  Hannes Alfven, Professor of Plasma physics at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm , heatedly opposes the idea that the universe could ever have attained such a fantastic density.”

2.      “Not Stoppable – There would be no mechanism that could push all the emptiness in the universe to a common center…and then suddenly stop it at a single point…Gravity operates on matter and radiations, not a lack of it.”

3.      “Nothing to Explode it – Not only was there no matter in this theoretical ‘beginning,’ –there obviously could be no energy at that time either.  It takes energy to have an explosion.”   Evolution cannot account where matter or energy came from.  They believe that both had to have existed and knew what to do.”

4.      “Nothing to Expand it – Even if the magical vacuum could be pulled together (which it cannot), what would then cause [it] to push outward” and expand?”

5.      “Nothing to Slow it – This theoretical Big Bang would have sent “Stuff” flying outward after the explosion.  Since nothing else existed, the frictionless [environment] of space would have allowed the Stuff to continue in the same direction for eternity with nothing to slow it down.  There was nothing in its path to slow it down.  There were no objects in space to exhibit gravity on it.  There would have been nothing to slow or stop it.”

6.      “No way to Clump it – On Earth, gas never clumps into a solid.  Out in space, where everything is a near-vacuum, it would be totally impossible—impossible in the extreme—for this to occur.  [In fact], the hydrogen gas observed by astronomers through telescopes is gradually expanding.  None of it is packing together.  There are no exceptions.”  (some emphasis mine)

Through the six items above, we can see how the beginnings of the Big Bang are impossible.  Now let’s take a look at some quotes of the specifics things that are supposed to have been produced by the Big Bang.

  Additional Quotes

7   “There is no mechanism known as yet that would allow the universe to begin in an arbitrary state and then evolve to its presently highly-ordered state”[15] (emphasis mine)

7   “From a historical point of view probably the most revolutionary aspect of the inflationary model is the notion that all the matter and energy in the observable universe may have emerged from almost nothing…It is tempting then to go one step further and speculate that the entire universe evolved from literally nothing.”[16] (emphasis mine)

7   “The big-bang cosmological model has several serious problems, and the inflationary hypothesis… was brought in to rescue it. When the original inflation model ran into contradictions, it was replaced by a modification called the “new inflation.” When further problems arose, theorists postulated yet another version called “extended inflation.” Some have even advocated adding a second inflationary period – “double inflation.”[17] (emphasis mine)

7  “In all respects save that of convenience, this view of the origin of the Universe is thoroughly unsatisfactory.”[18] (emphasis mine)

7   “Indeed, big-bang cosmology has become a bandwagon of thought that reflects faith as much as objective truth…This situation is particularly worrisome because there are good reasons to think that the big-bang model is seriously flawed.”[19] (emphasis mine)

7   “It is the quality of thought embodied in work like [Halton Arp’s - one of the world’s finest astronomical observers] that is necessary to overturn the abomination of the big-bang theory.”[20] (emphasis mine)  Halton Arp is a respected scientist that is losing favor with evolutionary colleagues for pointing out what true evidence shows about evolution.

7  "To my mind, the theory does not stand up at all."[21] (Quote by non-Creationist Physicist regarding the theory of Evolution in an article entitled “A Physicist Looks at Evolution”)

Chapter Summary

While these quotes and brief examination shine a bright light on the darkness of the Religious Scientists-of the Big Bang Order, they are by no means exhaustive.  An entire book could be written on the flaws, controversies and cover-ups associated with this religious belief system masquerading as science.  However, the evidence above should be sufficient for most up to this point.

            Now that you are equipped with ample evidence above to refute the validity of the Big Bang theory itself, now let us look at the next component of our universe that evolution must explain—Star Formation.