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BIG BANG = Creationists' Theory of Cosmic Evolution...
The term "Big Bang" was sarcastically
coined by the late Sir Fred Hoyle, Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge
University, and who was acknowledged to have been one of the most creative
scientists of the 20th century. Hoyle was a proponent of the history of the
universe known as the Steady-State in which hydrogen atoms gradually coalesced
into gas clouds, which then formed stars and galaxies. Even after the
steady-state theory was disproven through observation, Hoyle still felt that it
was completely inexplicable that the appearance of the entire universe could
have been created from nothing.
Monsignor Georges Lemaitre (1894-1966), a Catholic priest and president of the
Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Science, originated the concept for the Big Bang
with his "Hypothesis of the Primeval Atom" which was based on the doctrine of
the Catholic Church that the Universe was created by God from a single atom,
much as Christ's miracle of multiplying the loaves of bread and fishes. Pope
Pius XII endorsed his theory because it tied Holy Scripture to science.
Monsignor Lemaitre described his theory as "a day without yesterday... The
Cosmic Egg exploding at the moment of the creation." In a paper written in
1922, he wrote that the universe had begun in light just "as Genesis suggested
it." He went on to state in poetic license: "The evolution of the world can be
compared to a display of fireworks that has just ended: some few red wisps,
ashes and smoke."
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882-1944), called the "Father of Modern Theoretical
Astrophysics," and a devout Quaker, looked upon Monsignor Lemaitre's religious
interpretation with great disdain: "The notion of an abrupt beginning to the
present order of Nature is repugnant to me."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), who profoundly believed in the existence of God,
found Monsignor Lemaitre theory very suspect, because it was so strongly rooted
to the Christian dogma of creationism and was both unprovable and unjustifiable
from a basic physics point of view. Einstein told Monsignor Lemaitre that "your
grasp of physics is abominable.
While Stephen Hawking now admits that he prefers other universe models to the
Big Bang because the Big Bang "hints at divine creation," thousands of New-Age
scientists now agree with the Bible, that the universe was created from nothing,
had a distinct beginning and will have an end. This is not the first time in
history that so many bright minds have religiously followed the wrong path: The
Ptolemaic universe governed scientific thought for over 17 centuries; The
religious belief that the earth was at the very center of the universe. Now the
Big Bang has become the modern religious belief that everything was created from
nothing. The Big Bang is the religious precursor to Intelligent Design, the
latest fad in born-again science. Religion will never see the Face of God by
marrying Science. Such an ill-conceived union gives rise to conceptual
abominations that can only live in the Dark Ages, never to survive the light of
reason.
These mystic-theorists create hypotheses that when applied to the evolution of
the cosmos cannot be tested in any meaningful way, nor can cosmologists make
actual predictions based upon them.
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