Why did the Big Bang take place?
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Answer:Theologians such as William Lane Craig absolutely adore Big Bang Creationism. It serves their agendas quite well. All the popes also loved it, smirking in private: “We told you so, scientists!”. You will find more religious denominations that champion Big Bang at the Wikipedia article: Religious interpretations of the Big Bang theory.
Of course, they are all correct. Despite periodic denials, Big Bang is a Creationist theory. Relativists can fool themselves, but they can’t hide this obvious contradiction from rational folk. Relativity proposes that suddenly, spontaneously, without cause or Causer, matter sprang into existence from nothing, from the void. The religious folk merely disagree in that there was no Causer.
What relativists have done to get around this unimaginable beginning is to develop amusing explanations and disclaimers. The most popular of these are:
The ‘know-nothings’…
“We have no idea what happened before the Big Bang. It is an irrational question… like asking ‘What’s north of the North Pole?’ We have no way to test the hypothesis; therefore, it is an unscientific question.”
With this rebuff, relativist sweep the nagging issue under the rug and continue bragging about how General Relativity has never been proven false.
2. If you really want the super-duper, uninhibited, official explanation, you’ll just have to listen to Stephen Hawking, the Lucasian Chair at Cambridge, THE authority on such matters:
“At the big bang itself the universe is thought to have had zero size… the total energy of the universe is zero. Now twice zero is also zero. Thus the universe can double the amount of positive matter energy and also double the negative gravitational energy without violation of the conservation of energy… as the universe expanded, the temperature of the radiation decreased…
The general theory of relativity, on its own, cannot explain these features or answer these questions because of its prediction that the universe started off with infinite density at the big bang singularity. At the singularity, general relativity and all other physical laws would break down: one couldn’t predict what would come out of the singularity… this means that one might as well cut the big bang, and any events before it, out of the theory, because they can have no effect on what we observe…”
S. Hawking, A Brief History of Time, Chp. 8.
What the mathematicians have yet to answer is what this mysterious spirit they call ‘energy’ is…
“It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is."
Richard Feynman (1965 Nobel Prize) Feyman Lectures (p. 4-1) .
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We could go on and on with the fine prints — from ‘oscillating universe’ to ‘Big Bang starts when Big Crunch ends’ to ‘we simply don’t know’. But all Creationist nonsense actually suffers sudden death with a simple argument. We start with definitions so that readers can follow the train of thought…
object: that which has shape (synonyms: thing, something, anything, body, structure, entity, etc.)
space: that which doesn’t have shape (synonyms: nothing, void, vacuum, zip, emptiness)
Now we can use these terms consistently, rationally… scientifically… to understand why Creationism in all its forms is nonsense.
a. There is no mechanism that anyone can imagine, let alone illustrate or make into a movie where an object spontaneously loses length, width, and height and converts to space (i.e., nothing, vacuum, void)… with or without God! Matter had to have self assembled from nothing in 0 time, within a photograph.
b. Conversely, there is no mechanism that anyone can imagine, let alone illustrate or make into a movie where vacuum (i.e., nothing, void, space) suddenly acquires length, width, and height and converts to something…
Atoms have ALWAYS been there. They were never created (i.e., from the void)! They cannot be destroyed (i.e., magically morphed into nothing)!
Atoms also have nowhere to go because space (vacuum, void) does not have a border for anyone or anything to cross. By definition, space has no shape, no frontiers, no fences. Not even God can escape space if He exists. Space is the largest prison never built!
It is the unscientific proposal called ‘spacetime’ which once and for all needs to be abandoned…