Jennifer Rothnie Supporter Housewife, Artist, Perpetually Curious

It is doubtful that God used the 'Big Bang' to form the universe.

- From a purely cosmological standpoint, the 'Big Bang' theory is a very weak theory. In fact, the theory has been retroactively revised over a dozen times when it's predictions have been shown false by observation. There has yet to be a version of the theory which a new observation has actually supported. Observations retroactively co-opted as 'proofs' of the Big Bang can easily be explained by known phenomena.

- Various theories that accompany this model (expanding universe, elemental abundance predictions, etc) rely on countless adjustable parameters to make things fit. More assumptions are added each time a problem with the theory arises.

- Factors crucial to the model working, such as dark-matter, dark energy, a universe of anti-matter, etc, are assumed, despite no observation supporting them. For someone to hold this theory, he must assume that 90% of the universe is filled with something that man has never detected, that no natural law or observation has supported, and that is not necessary for the orderly working of the universe. 

- The Big Bang assumes as a maxim that 'Viewed on a sufficiently large scale, the properties of the Universe are the same for all observers.'. Yet even within the observable universe scientists have been able to observe large unique structures (such as one large quasar group that is over 4 billion lightyears across, 16,000 times larger than the distance between the Milky Way and Andromeda), which are incompatible with the idea of perfect homogeneity.

- The observable universe shows too many large scale structures to have been formed in less than 100 Billion years via the Big Bang. As such, the theory must assume (again with no backing) that the speed of galaxies was once much higher.

-The largest 'proof' for the Big Bang theory that is often cited is that of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation (or CMB), a low level of radiation found throughout black space. This radiation is currently assumed by many scientists to be the 'afterglow' of the Big Bang.

However, there are a two major problems with this:

#1 The CMB is uniform, which the Big Bang model cannot account for. This is often called the 'horizon problem'. As the Big Bang model calls for the rapid expansion of energy and matter, certain areas of the universe would be hot and others cold. [Try scribbling a baloon with a black sharpie, then blowing it up, for a crude example of how uniformity decreases as the baloon expands]. For hot and cold to equalize across the vast expanse of the universe, one needs a LOT more than 14 billion years.

#2 The CMB is a perfect example of a failed prediction that led to the theory being retrofitted/revised to fit the new data. Scientists mid 20th century theorizing a Big Bang actually assumed that a -minimum- CMB between 5°K and 50°K would be found, for the theory to be viable. Observations were too low to meet this threshhold, and thus in no way supported the idea of a Big Bang. 

Sir Eddington in 1926 had put forth the theory that the minimum temperature any body in space would cool to was approximately three degrees Kelvin.

Which hypothesis was then supported by the CMB? Sir Eddingtons, with the finding of a uniform background radiation of 2.725 Kelvin. The Big Bang theory (of the time) was actually falsified by the low level CMB.

There are many other problems with the Big Bang Theory as well, but the summation is this:

- A 'possible explanation' is not a proof
- A good hypothesis should be falsifiable, not claimed true simply by altering it to fit observed data
- There are other cosmological models, and scientists are continually refining models and coming up with new ones as new discoveries are made
- The assumption of a mostly homogeneous universe that the Big Bang relies on faces more and more difficulties/contrary data as we observe and discover a more fractal-like universe of varied scale and spatial topography

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