| TheRealMafoo said: @highwaystar101 Sorry, but the Big Bang Theory i not remotely proven, or even "a case that there is so much evidence that it must have happened." I am an atheist, but I fall into the camp of "We don't know yet". I have no problem teaching The Big Bang as what we think it might have been, as today there is not another option that comes close, but in no way does that say I will state as fact that we know what happened 14 billion years ago. We make predictions about space all the time, and more times that not, when we get a chance to prove our theories (probes), we are wrong. Nothing in the observed world tells me God did anything, so teaching religion in school like it holds the same amount of water is like teaching people about the spaghetti monster, so I am not defending his point. I just can't defend yours either :) |
How so? The big bang theory is based on sound logic and strong evidence.
Here's a fun way for you to test for it in your own home. Cosmic background radiation is a type of electromagnetic radiation which can be measured by observing the photons produced shortly after the big bang, they can be measured in the microwave section of the electromagnetic spectrum. We have probes that have created fairly detailed maps of this radiation. But the best things about this is that you can test for this radiation in your own home, you can test for the radiation by detuning a TV (Remember the un-tuned fuzziness), what you see is partially this cosmic microwave background radiation created by the big bang.
There's a little test you can do in your own home to test for the big bang.
Anyway, I digress. I think it's fair that people can argue about what happened before and after the big bang (such as debating about Planck time, which is still a hot topic). But I think with the evidence we've found and the facts we take from them (the Universe is expanding in a metric manner and it has existed for a finite time) strongly suggests that at one point the Universe must have been a singularity at some point and expanded from there*.
Saying "it is not even remotely proven" is just plain false when so much evidence exists. It's almost to the point where we can practically be 99% certain. Sorry to be brutally honest Mafoo :).
(*We know the Universe is expanding. Now imagine if I put the universe in reverse time, it will keep shrinking and shrinking until it reaches a single point.)
