Evolution or Creation?
The Big Bang
About fifty years ago, American astronomers studying the galactic star clusters, stumbled on evidence that the entire Universe is blowing up before our eyes. According to their observations, all the galaxies in the Universe are moving away from us and from one another at very high speeds, and the most distant are receding at the extraordinary speed of hundreds of millions of miles an hour.[33]
First there was nothing and it blew up and then there was everything and scientists have calculated that it all happened in 1043 of a second. [The] echo of that explosion can still be heard bouncing around in space. Scientists claim that in the big bang all of the fundamental particles necessary for life were formed. All of the complexity we see around us is the result of this massive explosion.[37]
"The new finding hit the scientific world like a thunderclap." It meant that the idea of an ultimate beginning was no longer merely religious dogma. Science itself now indicated that the universe burst into existence at a particular time in the remote past.[44]
George Smoot, an American astrophysicist said, “What we have found is evidence of the birth of the Universe. It's like looking at God.”[78]
Frederick Burnham, a science historian, said, “The idea that God created the Universe is a more respectable hypothesis today than at any time in the last 100 years.”[78]
If the universe is "blowing up" like a balloon as time progresses, then what would happen if you were to run the timeline backwards? You would find that there must have been a time when the universe was an infinitesimally small point in which all physical laws that we know of did not apply.[6]
However, naturalists believe that there have been an infinite number of universes before this one, and believe that the universe goes through an endless cycle of expansion and contraction. However, in order for the universe to fall back in on itself there would have to be enough mass for gravity to overcome the outward force of the expansion. But according to the best estimates scientists have, there isn't enough matter to cause such a contraction. Consequently, if the universe cannot contract, there could have been no previous big bangs and no endless cycles. At most you could have one big bang.[52]
There is nothing that would cause the universe to expand again after it had collapsed. If such a collapse occurred — a big crunch, so to speak — the universe would remain in an unimaginably compressed state, never capable of expanding again. The tremendous gravity exerted by such a great mass would prevent any expansion. Nothing could escape in the form of another big bang.[52]
Even if there were a mechanism to re-expand the universe, each cycle of expansion and contraction would lose energy because of entropy, the tendency to of matter run down, much as a spring-driven clock runs down. The extent of the universe's expansion would diminish with each cycle - consider how swings of a pendulum slowly diminish - and eventually the universe would cease expanding entirely, its mass remaining collapsed. There could never be an infinite number of successive expansions and contractions.[52]
What's more, the first law of thermodynamics (the conservation of matter) implies that matter cannot just pop into existence or create itself. And therefore, if the universe had a beginning, then something external to the universe must have caused it to come into existence — something, or Someone, transcendent to the natural world.[44]
The facts clearly indicate that the universe is not eternal, and it cannot originate itself The implication is that the universe began at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy. Science has begun to sound eerily like Genesis 1: "And God said, 'Let there be light"' (1:3).[44]
The evidence requires that we believe God formed the universe at His command, pointing to the importance of taking God at His word literally - from the beginning both of time and the Bible. Second, there is such a striking parallel between the Hebrews 11:3 account of Creation and the Big Bang Theory when it is coupled with the creation of visible matter from what scientists call antimatter.[61]
In Jeremiah 10:12 the Bible says that God "stretched out the heavens" after it was created ... other verses found throughout the Old Testament affirm that the universe has expanded, and is still expanding. They include: Psalm 104:2, 144:5, 18:9; Zechariah 12:1; Job 9:8, 26:7, 37:18; Isaiah 40:22, 48:13; 42:5, 51:13, 44:24, 45:12; II Samuel 22:10; Jeremiah 51:15; and Ezekiel 1:22.[28]
All of these verses use four different Hebrew verbs and occur in a wide variety of contexts. These are natah, matach, raqa and taphach which all mean "to spread out." Their frequency and diversity provide biblical support for thinking that the universe was much smaller in the past.[28]
Not only are these verses an accurate scientific depiction of the universe, as we understand it today, but they also affirm God as Creator. Who else but God the Creator could have provided such insight, and placed it in recorded history over 4,000 years ago?[28]
Secular scientists require people to have "faith" in the "matter from antimatter" theory in the same way that God requires that Christians have faith in His Biblical account of Creation. However scientists will never prove the earth and all its contents are the creation or result of matter from antimatter. It is a logical impossibility if not a physical one.[61]
Roger Primrose, one of the major forces in the development of the black hole theory estimates the odds of our universe being formed by chance are 1 in 10 billion.[34]
Astrophysicist Sir Fred Hoyle stated, "A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests a super intellect has monkeyed with the physics as well as with the chemistry and biology are there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. ... The numbers that one calculates from the facts seem to be so overwhelming as to put this conclusion beyond question."[37]
Albert Einstein said, "The scientist is possessed by a sense of universal causation. When you look at the complexity around us, someone had to cause it ... Such a super intellect that when you take all of the thinking minds that have ever existed, put them all together ... they were utterly insignificant in comparison."[37]
Even Robert Jastrow, one of the worlds leading agnostic astronomers (described by Paddy Chayevsky as "the greatest writer on science alive today."[33]) admitted, "Consider the enormity of this problem: Science has proven that the universe exploded into being in a certain moment. What cause produced this effect, who or what put the matter and the energy into the universe? Science can not answer these questions. For the scientist who has lived by faith and the power of reason our story ends like a bad dream. We have scaled the mountains of ignorance; we're about to conquer its highest peak, we pull ourselves over the final rock and we are greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."[37]