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Is the Big Bang theory of the creation of the universe still accepted by the scientific community?

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  • 9 years ago
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    Far as I know....

    There has not been any others with any evidence to support them...

    IMHO

  • 9 years ago

    Of course.

    The big bang is supported by a great deal of evidence:

    * Einstein's general theory of relativity implies that the universe cannot be static; it must be either expanding or contracting.

    * The more distant a galaxy is, the faster it is receding from us (the Hubble law). This indicates that the universe is expanding. An expanding universe implies that the universe was small and compact in the distant past.

    * The big bang model predicts that cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation should appear in all directions, with a blackbody spectrum and temperature about 3 degrees K. We observe an exact blackbody spectrum with a temperature of 2.73 degrees K.

    * The CMB is even to about one part in 100,000. There should be a slight unevenness to account for the uneven distribution of matter in the universe today. Such unevenness is observed, and at a predicted amount.

    * The big bang predicts the observed abundances of primordial hydrogen, deuterium, helium, and lithium. No other models have been able to do so.

    * The big bang predicts that the universe changes through time. Because the speed of light is finite, looking at large distances allows us to look into the past. We see, among other changes, that quasars were more common and stars were bluer when the universe was younger.

    Note that most of these points are not simply observations that fit with the theory; the big bang theory predicted them.

    If you reject the big bang, how do you explain all the evidence for it?

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    A scientific theory is a unifying concept that explains a large body of data. It is a hypothesis that has withstood the test of time and the challenge of opposing views. The Big Bang Theory is supported by extensive empirical data. There is no reliable data supporting the some-god-did-it hypothesis, and especially not the Yahweh-did-it hypothesis.

    Six prominent facts supporting the Big Bang Theory are:

    ** The red shift of almost all galaxies, getting greater as their distance increases.

    — This shows that the galaxies are flying away from each other, at greater speeds at greater distances.

    ** The cosmic microwave background radiation.

    — This is a remnant of the radiation from the Big Bang, and has cooled over time to the exact temperature predicted.

    ** The variations in the cosmic microwave background radiation.

    — These variations fit theoretical predictions, and were caused by quantum differences near the start of Big Bang.

    ** The proportions of the lightest elements and isotopes.

    — This helps show that the calculations for nuclear interactions immediately following the Big Bang are correct.

    ** The changes in galaxies as we look further away (and thus back in time), with distant galaxies more primitive and having fewer heavy elements.

    — This shows some of the changes in the universe since the Big Bang, and confirms the deep time of the universe.

    ** The change in the apparent speed of type 1a supernova as we look back in time, with distant supernova exploding more slowly.

    — This shows that the light has been stretched out by the expansion of space over billions of years.

    For more, watch the video at the 1st link - "A Universe From Nothing" by theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss, read an interview with him (at the 2nd link), get his new book (at the 3rd link), or read an excerpt from his book (at the 4th link).

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  • 9 years ago

    Yes, but I would not consider it a "Creation Theory" because it does not explain the origin of the Big Bang, it only describes what may have occurred following an explosion of matter that was crammed into space the side of a pinhead,

    So where did the pinhead containing all the universe come from?

    There is no valid theory.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    Yes. There is also m theory. m theory cannot be tested with our current technology but it is truly mind blowing, and explains the cause of the big bang. But no scientist can get around the scientific community if he denies the big bang. He or she would be an outcast.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    Yes, it is. It is the most widely held belief among scientists. Even the Catholic Church has said you can believe in the big bang and the theory on evolution as long as you also believe it was God who created that first spark. Its in the Catechism of the Catholic in the section about the creation story. Read it. I dare you.

    Source(s): Former Seminarian and bachelors degree in philosophy and theology.
  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    The telescope reveals the past, laid out as a view of stars and gases and dust, basically a glimpse of history, given that the light from those stars took billions of years to reach our eyes.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Yes, and acceptance of the model has only grown stronger with new evidence.

    We discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation which was predicted to exist before anyone ever found it. And then, boom, we found it. That piece of evidence is probably one of the strongest so far.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    You mean the Singularity Expansion? Yes.

  • That is not the actual name of the theory, and yes it is.

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