Why did a Catholic priest propose the big bang theory?

Georges Lamaitre's primeval atom is quite different from what we now know. The hypothetical primeval atom contained all the matter of the universe.

The Big Bang Theory shows how the universe grew from nothing but a random quantum vacuum fluctuation, creating the energy and matter as it expanded - with the balancing negative energy in the gravitational field. This doesn't make sense in Newtonian physics or our Newtonian experience, but it does in the physics of quantum mechanics and relativity.

As Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman wrote, "The theory of quantum electrodynamics describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And it agrees fully with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as she is — absurd."

For more about the Big Bang and its implications, 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), or get his new book (at the 3rd link). See the 4th link for "The Universe: Big Bang to Now in 10 Easy Steps." And, see the 5th link for "Quantum scientists make something out of nothing."

"The total energy of the universe is precisely zero, because gravity can have negative energy. The negative energy of gravity balances out the positive energy of matter. Only such a universe can begin from nothing. The laws of physics allow a universe to begin from nothing. You don't need a deity. Quantum fluctuations can produce a universe."

- Lawrence Krauss, physicist

I do not know.

As long as the Universe was thought to be eternal, Atheism had a chance. With unlimited time, it was logically possible that eventually the pieces needed to create and sustain life would come together.

But now that the Big Bang has proven that the Universe is not eternal and, in fact, is only 13.7 billion years old, that argument no long holds water. It is mathematically impossible that in only a short 13.7 billion years that all the pieces needed to create and sustain life would come together by accident.

Not to mention that the fact of the Big Bang (and Occam's Razor) lends support to the idea of creation by God ex nihilo ("out of nothing").

In 1951, Pope Pius XII gave a speech before the Pontifical Academy of Sciences discussing the Big Bang theory: "…it would seem that present-day science, with one sweep back across the centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to the august instant of the primordial Fiat Lux [Let there be Light], when along with matter, there burst forth from nothing a sea of light and radiation, and the elements split and churned and formed into millions of galaxies."

Here is the entire address: http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius12/P12EXIST.HT...

I also suggest you read Robert Spitzer's book "New Proofs for the Existence of God: Contributions of Contemporary Physics and Philosophy"

The Magis Online Encyclopedia of Reason and Faith: http://www.magiswiki.org/index.php/Cosmology#Was_t...

With love in Christ.

In 1927 they had no idea what they were looking at and were grasping at any idea that came along. A big part of science is conjecture, which means making up "What if" scenarios. Often those scenarios get discussed a lot for a long time, and people begin to assume they are true just because they keep hearing them. The big bang is one such scenario. The big bang exists only in somebody's imagination. It was needed to explain implications of the expanding universe conjecture, which was needed to explain the receding galaxy conjecture, which was based on the observed red shift in light from galaxies and the assumption that the red shift is caused by the Doppler effect. If that assumption is wrong then the entire collection of conjectures is without support. There are other possible causes of red shift. Hospitals use a magnet to produce red shift. It is called MRI.

Science is supposed to be based on observations, tests, and proofs. There is a strong tendency to accept conjectures, math models, and consensus of opinions instead. You need to be careful about accepting things that have not actually been observed.

It is one of those strange inversions. A Christian puts forward the theory. An atheist derides it by calling it the big bang theory. The name sticks but evidence for it mounts and it becomes popular. Christians condemn the theory. Atheists claim it as their own.

Another example is modern science. Derived from medieval Christian Europe it was originally based on Christian thinking and called "natural theology". It worked. Everyone adopted it. Christians get suspicious of it. Atheists claim it.

Fortunately not all Christians are like that.

People just are ignorant of what the Church is about they think they know

but they only know about it from the secular press which is more ignorant.

The church has been involved with science because it sees God in all of creation.

As the world progressed in learning which was usually only by tutor by the rich, or

if you were lucky the monks would teach reading and writing they founded the university system. The same system that goes out of its way to try to push God out of its walls.

Science is very much part of the Church from astronomy to physics to biology most early discoveries were by priests or monks, many of them are teachers in universities they don't all have parishes.

The mystery's of faith an GOD are beyond human comprehension. Faith concerns questions which cannot be settled by evidence.

How can the universe create itself out of nothingness?

Did it create itself?

If not, how did NOTHING create EVERYTHING? Doesn't it make more sense to assume that the existence of a Creation. Everything must have a beginning?

Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - it has no point.

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Georgie proposed a theory, which means he suggested something unproven. If it contradicts the teachings of any church. The church has to dismiss his theory. They dismiss what isn't proven, if it questions the church's teachings.

Science and religion are not similar, so don't compare them casualty. Look at the big picture and see what happens.

Revelation points toward the catholic church and of many things that it has done wrong and not of the Bible; so this too is yet another falsehood.

I think you got some stuff mixed because it primarily came forward from Charles Darwin, and so maybe this priest jumped on his 'big bang' wagon and helped to promote his lies. Lies which were exposed by the way, so the theory holds no evidence, and cannot be true.

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they are catholic priests, they don't know God so they make up stuff