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Since science contradicts itself, is it rational to believe it?

Science teaches about black holes, that they are a large mass in a very confined space. Their gravity is so powerful that nothing escapes them, not even light. The more mass, the greater the gravity, scientists say. Science also teaches the big bang theory, that the mass of the entire universe was contained in an infinitsimal point smaller than any black hole, and all this mass then exploded outward to form the universe. Shouldn't that be impossible, since the gravity of all that mass would be larger than any black hole and would not let anything escape? In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Update:

St lileth of the vines, you make a true statement, which can also be applied to God.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    so much for the theoretical aspects of science.

    it is always changing especially when trying to explain origins.

    what will not change is "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."(Mat 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.)

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    We're not really sure how gravity acts on objects with an almost infinite amount of mass, such as the entire Universe. Astronomers have found that the galaxies of the Universe are speeding away from each other at increasing speed. That shouldn't be impossible. But it's happening. Perhaps when the mass of an object reaches a certain point, gravity starts acting as a repulsion force instead of an attraction force. This would explain the Big Bang. Once all of the matter in the Universe was compressed into a single point in space, gravity changed and pushed it all apart again.

  • 1 decade ago

    You can't really debate with those who believe in science just as much as you believe in God. They can't hear you, and you can't hear them. It's a waste of time. The only unbelievers you can have a rational debate with when it comes to the creation of the universe are those who are actually interested in truth rather than displaying their "superior intellect." When I think about all the science and the big bang,

    (and I certainly haven't read a whole lot about it, so save the old "get a book idiot" reply) I have to go way back to the beginning and ask: what would make that happen? out of nothing nothing comes. And if there was that speck of whatever became the universe, and that speck was always there, why would it become a universe after all that eternity not doing anything? Something made it change. If it was eternal, something outside of it must have acted upon it to change it or it would still be sitting there. If it was not eternal, something created it. Things can't create themselves. There had to be some other force at work. And that force had to be eternal, because things can't create themselves. Can anyone tell me what eternal force that was outside of that speck, before the universe exsisted, caused that speck to change into a universe? And how would that force act, after all of eternity, to change anything if it did not have will and the power of being in and of itself? And what would you call that force? That is the question. And no scientist has the answer. Not without making something up. Not without having more blind faith in science that I have in God.

  • 1 decade ago

    Well to be accurate, no it was not an explosion, it was a rapid expansion. This is a subtle but significant difference. Simply thinking that this expansion is impossible is no indication that it is. For one, we know very little of black hole life cycles, it is quite possible that after they "suck up" all other available matter, they consume each other creating a single singularity, which by nature starts the whole process over.

    Then too, M-Theory and/or Superstring Theory may be correct and we are just on of an infinite number of universes.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Err...actually stuff does escape black holes. It's called Hawking radiation.

    It isn't a contradiction, and it isn't impossible at all. This is what is called an argument from ignorance. I can't understand it, so it can't be true. But all the best scientific minds know it happened. There are several solid pieces of evidence like the Cosmic Background Radiation that have no other explanation....but were predicted by the Big Bang.

  • 1 decade ago

    Thank you for proving that your religious delusions blind you to even the basic understanding of cosmology.

    Black holes work as they do because they are in space-time.

    The Big Bang Singularity existed outside of space-time. Thats rather the whole point, that the physical laws of the Universe don't exist, when the Universe doesn't. Duh.

    Go read another book, this time, from the NON fiction section.

  • Geo
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    Religion also contradicts itself.

    The story of Noah comes from the Sumerian Legend called the Flood of Gilgamesh.

    The main character is Utnapishtim, and is identical to Noah in every way, from the arc building, to his long age, to the arc landing on the mountain, and the destruction of humanity. Yet Utnapishtim existed 2,000 years before Judaism ever existed

    And that should be interesting to you in some fashion

  • 1 decade ago

    Uh, no. If the energy is sufficient, it can escape the gravity well. As it happens, x-rays DO escape black holes and that's how we detect them. When scientists say "nothing" they're just trying to make it simple for simpletons to understand. Little did they know that you would come along and prove all of them wrong. How all those astrophysicists must be cringing in embarrassment right now in the face of your superior intellect...

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    i in basic terms needed to communicate about we did not evolve from monkeys....yet really an elementary ancestor...monkey-like yet no longer monkeys technological understanding is incorrect because they do no longer have an answer for each thing?? Why ought to human beings grow to be scientists if each and every thing replaced into discovered. the significant reason human beings believe in the large bang is because they have shown that the universe is increasing...all from a similar course. the actually aspect that would have reason it really is a large bang believe what you want to yet technological understanding is sponsored up with info

  • 1 decade ago

    So your lack of understanding is a sign that scientific theory is incorrect? Wow, that is a tremendous display of your critical thinking skills.

    Look up some videos of the implosion of structures at extreme depths. Intense pressure condensing into an increasingly smaller space resulting in explosion and expansion. It isn't difficult to understand, but perhaps some video will help you with it.

  • 1 decade ago

    I'm tempted to discuss how the physics of a 10-dimensional universe would inevitably cause it to break down into a lower dimensional one like ours that has only 3 of any significant size.

    But we both know that you wouldn't understand a word I said, so I'm not going to waste my time.

    Your lack of an education is no proof of God.

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