Tag: Cosmology
What is the Big Bang?
by David K. on Mar.26, 2009, under Future, Research, Science
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The big bang is a theory on how this whole world and the universe started. The big bang theory is the theory that the universe started from a single point, and has been expanding ever since the initial explosion.
This has been well-established by observations, such as the apparent movement of galaxies away from earth, and the background radiation believed to be the leftover light from the big bang.
The evidence for a big bang having taken place about 15 to 20 billion years ago is fairly overwhelming, so it is reasonable to believe that it is the case.
Some astronomers, who are religious, argue that the big bang theory confirms the existence of God and the basic elements of the creation story as told in the Bible.
Scientists, like people in most any profession, have a vast diversity of religious beliefs. Some of us attend houses of worship, others do not. Some of us consider ourselves very religious, others consider ourselves staunch atheists. So simply while a scientific theory, it could validate God or stories from the Bible
