what initiated the 'big bang' from an evolutionists point of view?
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Science at this point does not know what caused the big bang. Or if there were multiple big bangs. \n\nBy the way, evolution has nothing to do with the big bang,other than they are both governed by natural laws of the universe (some have said these are God's Laws, or Maimonides equated these natural laws with angels, if that makes you feel any better). \n\n\nI have attached a paper on the big bang you might find enlightening.
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The discovery of  the universe expansion(doppler red shifted spectrum lines) was the source of the Big Bang theory (i think)\n\nBTW: this is a SCIENCE thread, all you Jesus Freak back off!\nthe theory of the Big Bang is compatible with the concept of a god.\nwhat was there before the big bang ..let there be light....BANG.
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About 15 billion years ago a tremendous explosion started the expansion of the universe. This explosion is known as the Big Bang. At the point of this event all of the matter and energy of space was contained at one point. What exisisted prior to this event is completely unknown and is a matter of pure speculation. This occurance was not a conventional explosion but rather an event filling all of space with all of the particles of the embryonic universe rushing away from each other. The Big Bang actually consisted of an explosion of space within itself unlike an explosion of a bomb were fragments are thrown outward. The galaxies were not all clumped together, but rather the Big Bang lay the foundations for the universe. \n\nHowever, I do not believe in this theory. I believe God created heaven and the planets. Isnt it better to believe this than not. :) I want to leave this Earth a believer. A believer in God and Jesus Christ, who saved us all. Ask Jesus to come into your heart. Accept him as your Lord and Savior.
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Science can say nothing about the source of the Big Bang or what might have preceded it, as science only deals with what can be observed. \n\nConcluding from this that there is a god is merely putting a name on the unknowable. This doesn't really get you anywhere, as you still have the problem of a total lack of observable evidence. Anything you say about your assumed god is no more supported than scientific surmises about the origins of the Big Bang. Even your assumption that said deity is almighty is mere surmise - for all we know the creator was sent to his room for having made this mess.\n\nConclusion: trying to validate religion scientifically is bad science and bad religion.
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The Big Bang didn't happen in a place.  Space and time were created in the big bang. The Big Bang is a theory to explain universal/spatial expansion. \n\nI think it's easiest to look at the idea this way. Scientists have observed that everything past our local galactic cluster seems to be retreating from us. All observations point to the universe being infinite and roughly uniform in all directions. \n\nIf it's expanding at given rate now, chances are it's slowed down. Go back in time, the universe was denser and expanding faster. Rewind the timeline far enough and you'll come to a period when everything was all bunched together in a massive, undiscernable clump. Then, suddenly, Bang!!! Space! And everything in it... which has been spreading out and slowing down (pretty much) ever since. \n\nTry thinking about it like the air expaning in bread as it rises, or in a balloon as it fills. Everything is moving apart from everything. Only the universe has been infinitely large from the get go. It's almost like someone just keeps adding empty space in between everything.\n\nIf it helps at all, the center of the big bang for the visible universe was the same place the center of the visible universe always is. Wherever you are. From that point, everything you can see was at some moment in the past gethered together in a lump with infinite density.
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If you believe the theory of creation, found in all major religions, you don't have a problem answering your own question.  If you subscribe to the 'Big Bang' theory (or a derivitive thereof), I would have to ask 'Who lit the fuse?'
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The Big Bang theory is the most popular one. It is hypothesized that the universe was a collection of dust and other particles forming to one huge mass, until heat and gases formed and pressure from gravity and mass caused it all to erupt in one "big bang" causing everything to project and very high speeds in all directions.\n\nOur world was theorize to have originated through this process. The debris and particles that were projected from the point of origin (now the sun) and locked into its gravitation rotation. The larger mass debris attracted other smaller debris by its gravitational pull to form an even larger mass.\nThis mass growing in size of gases, dust and other particles started to alter by factoring conditions such as distance from the sun and compostion of gases and such. Eventually providing the right conditions and atmosphere to form water which is the basis of life. From that life was made sustainable by the oxygen created by water and plant life... so a billion bunch years later we have our planet earth and the universe we live in surrounded by other planets and stars.\n\nThere are also legends and tales from various religions and cultures that tell the begins of our universe and earth. You'll have to look these up and see.
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Darwin never "withdrew" his theory, nice try.\n\nYou're right there were lots of storms and meteorites.  For all we know, life needed a couple of tries to get started.\n\nJust the fact that you are asking whether we came from monkeys or from goo, shows that you either have NO idea what evolution is about or are just trying to get a rise out of people.  You bore me.
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Okay considering this scientifically (ie not just assuming there is a God) at the moment no one is sure how the big band happened. However the big bang was the start of time as well as space so it is difficult to talk about before. Some scientists believe that the big band was caused by tiny fluctuations of the vacume. Something like the universe can be forever just by never stopping or by time ending much as it began in a 'big crunch'. It is possible that there is something beyond the universe. M-theory suggests that there are many different dimensional universes floating around in a larger dimensional space. All of these are of course theories the point is to try to use these to make observable predictions which will either support or contradict the theory.
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Mathematetically, philosophically, nothing. That has been the big question since Einstein theorized that the universe had a beginning. The question moves from the realm of science, a process of theory and discovery, to revelation, a process of information delivery. In short because nothing (not mathematic formulas, time, energy, literally anything) existed the only way for us to know what happened prior to the Big Bang is by devine revelation. Science has struggled with this idea for a long time and many theories have been proposed but all theories proposed require a moment when nothing existed and then suddenly there is existence. This is the principle behind the Cosmological Argument. Briefly since everything that exists has a cause, the universe exists, it must logically have a cause. I would encourage you to read, 'When Skeptics Ask', by Norman Geisler or 'I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist', by Geisler and Turk. Good luck on your search.
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The scientific theory is that the Universe started as a fluctuation of the vacuum. Such vacuum fluctuations make appear a small amount of energy, for a small time. This phenomenon is responsible for the existence of forces, that hold the Universe and matter together.\n\nNormally the bigger the energy fluctuation, the smaller the time it is in existence.\n\nNot so the Big Bang. That was a HUGE fluctuation. So big that a lot of energy came to appearance in the form of mass, elementary particles. These particles started expanding, before the vacuum could reclaim the energy.\n\nAnd it is still expanding today. 14 billion years later.\n\nThe Big Bang theory itself, doesn't say anything about the *cause* of the explosion. It describes only how the Universe evolved after the explosion took place.\n\nNow for some speculation. Is our Universe the only one? Maybe not. The Big Bang was one big fluctuation, maybe other smaller or bigger, take place all the time.\nBut most of these fluctuations will produce Universes in which conditions are just not suitable for life.\nThe Universe we observe is by necessity one in which the conditions are just right for us to have evolved into Homo Sapiens capable of asking philosophical questions.
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Maybe it was god. maybe it was the big bang, maybe god created the universe through the big bang...I dont know...but I just want to 'think - out - loud' in this forum....maybe the Universe alwasy existed? No beginning? no end? Because we experience life and death in every cycle on Earth doesnt mean the Universe is also controlled in the same manner. *sigh* I wish I knew it all :)
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Yes it all started with dark matter and energy that were under enormous pressure in a molecule and then the big bang was sparked because of this pressure building up. However what was before this and more importantly why it happened no one will ever know. I prefer to follow the scientific explanation of the origins of the universe as opposed to religious ones because it makes more sense and there is proof.
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The Big Bang Theory is the dominant scientific theory about the origin of the universe. According to the big bang, the universe was created sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from a cosmic explosion that hurled matter and in all directions. \nIn 1927, the Belgian priest Georges Lemaître was the first to propose that the universe began with the explosion of a primeval atom. His proposal came after observing the red shift in distant nebulas by astronomers to a model of the universe based on relativity. Years later, Edwin Hubble found experimental evidence to help justify Lemaître's theory. He found that distant galaxies in every direction are going away from us with speeds proportional to their distance. \n\nThe big bang was initially suggested because it explains why distant galaxies are traveling away from us at great speeds. The theory also predicts the existence of cosmic background radiation (the glow left over from the explosion itself). The Big Bang Theory received its strongest confirmation when this radiation was discovered in 1964 by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, who later won the Nobel Prize for this discovery. \n\nAlthough the Big Bang Theory is widely accepted, it probably will never be proved; consequentially, leaving a number of tough, unanswered questions.
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Why is it hard for people to believe that someone bigger than us created a masterpiece? This all leads into the question, Is there a God? If the big bang theory was true, what caused the big bang? I don't see things just happening all around me for no reason. When you plant a seed it grows. But you have to plant the seed first. \nBabies don't just happen. They have to be conceived. The point I'm trying to make is that if we have to react in order to get a reaction, why would it be any different from the beginning? Someone HAD to create us or nothing would be possible.
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Yeah...one of my college professors said that God started the whole thing...I agree...who said that creation was a "quiet" event...The BIG BANG...and God was the one that fired the shot!
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We have abundant examples of a species adapting to its environment, and the fittest survive.  But we don't have evidence of one species changing into another, or of a living entity being created from non-living matter.  We then create a theory to explain how it might have happened.  Until a theory is proven, it's still a theory.\n\nThe hardest to explain is the first life.  The odds are astronomically small, but maybe energy interacting with matter over huge periods of time eventually converted some simple molecules into DNA which could survive and reproduce itself.\nBut where did the matter and energy come from in the first place?  The "Big Bang" theories (cosmology, not evolution) conjecture what was happening in the first few nanoseconds of the history of the universe,   But even they can't say what started the whole thing.\n\nAn earlier question here was "Why is there gravity?"  That is an excellent question.  The similar question appropriate here is, "Why is there a universe?"