Big Bang

Are any of the following theories or arguments interesting to you? Can you think of any objections to them?

Theory of General Relativity - Albert Einstein, Arthur Eddington (British Cosmologist), Alexander Friedmann (Russian Mathematician) – all uphold that “the universe appears to be expanding from a single point in the distant past.” In other words, the universe is not eternal (Geisler & Turek - I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist 73-75).

Cosmological Argument: everything that had a beginning had a cause (the Law of Causality); the universe had a beginning; therefore the universe had a cause.

Big Bang Theory – The universe had a beginning – everything natural began at the Big Bang. What caused the big bang? Something Supernatural – something outside of nature (Geisler 85).

Robert Jastrow, astronomer and founder of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies wrote in God and the Astronomers: 'I am an agnostic in religious matters.' Yet he also writes after explaining some of the Big Bang evidence – 'Now we see how the astronomical evidence leads to a biblical view of the origin of the world. The details differ, but the essential elements in the astronomical and biblical accounts of Genesis are the same: the chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy' (Geisler 84).