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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030602181_2.html A strange thing happened yesterday when Sen. Paul G. Pinsky (D-Prince George's) introduced a resolution to honor John C. Mather, co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics. Two senators -- Janet Greenip...

In the Bible it says that God created the heavens and earth in seven days. As a day is the time it takes for the earth to revolve once in reference to the sun, then this seems to be mere metaphor as the earth wasn't created first. Seems the same way when physicists talk about something...

I’ve heard a Creationist use this twice in an argument this week. "The big bang violates the 2nd law of thermodynamic because something can’t come from nothing"!:confused: As far as I’m aware the 2nd Law has nothing to do with something coming from nothing. I think the guy must have read it...

Where do you stand on the BBT?

If I held the belief that a God was the creator of everything, I would be delirious with joy that a significant part the scientific community was championing the Big Bang Theory. I would claim that, as far as it goes, the BBT is essentially correct and fully supportive of my beliefs. The only...

It doesn't really matter if you're familiar with the Apples to Apples game, my MIL put down "Big Bang Theory" when asked to play something that matched "Believable" and I cheered (inside). My SILIL, my DW's SIL (who sends her children to a Christian Academy, that actually refrained from calling...

In the forum of a datingsite, someone started a thread titled: "How do I get to heaven?" and there she posted some religious statement of faith. Thus I could not resist to add a comment: "your heaven can only be beyond our universe ... so to reach your heaven, you have to spend at...

That's the question someone asked me. She was obviously fed the line by some crazy churchgoer, but not being a planetary scientist, I found it hard to try to explain to her. Can anyone give me an answer to that question that a fundie can understand?

This comes from the world's biggest telescope thread, looking backwards in time at light emitted billions of years ago. What if there was no light emitted prior to year X? How does anyone know that light has always been emitted - there's no proof of that at all. Light may only have been...

From this thread Or, maybe the problem is that we have a hard time thinking outside of the box? For example, let's say we had an infinite amount of space. And that's all we had, except for a single cardboard box, 1 foot by 1 foot by 1 foot, somewhere out in the middle of it. (I guess that's...

Big bang and string theoryandhowatomsandmoleculesmighthavebeencreated I think that since strings are at the heart of all reality, then they were what made up the big bang because that was energy. And then the big bang's strings interacted and transformed into other kinds of strings with...

Ok, I have a question that I hope makes sense, and have been unable to answer on my own. I consider my knowledge of general science to be a bit above average (not saying much considering the average American's grip of the subject) but I recently came across something that is more than a bit...

http://wwwphy.princeton.edu/~steinh/npr/ It wasn't a big bang but a big collision, is what I think they are saying.

I know nothing about quantum physics/space-time/string theory etc, but wonder if the conditions that led to the big bang might still exist or be operable - could there feasibly be a BB2?

Researchers: Early Universe Liquid-Like Apr 18, 2005 — New results from a particle collider suggest that the universe behaved like a liquid in its earliest moments, not the fiery gas that was thought to have pervaded the first microseconds of existence.

No matter what you believe, your belief system requires a belief in something that has no beginning and was always there. If not God than the raw materials for the Big Bang. I've always been curious as to why some think it is more logical to believe in raw materials that independently...

So, a (not fully committed) creationist and I were talking yesterday, and we had a conversation like this: Creationist: "Evolution is so unproven, you science types take it all on faith. Tell me, where did the original big bang particle come from?" SkepticalScience: "Huh? Big Bang? What does...

Just read these 2 articles this morning. . . Is it legit?? (I suspect this might be due to reporters hastiness, but wanted to pass it by you all first) http://www.newstarget.com/003643.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/01/050111115201.htm

I'm listening to a lecture on dark energy right now and it reminded me of a question I've had in the back of my mind. We have theories that attempt to predict results of nucleosynthesis taking place at moments past the big bang's "start". My question is on how accurate we can be when the...

Two groups of astronomers have mapped over 250,000 galaxies, and the results show that the galaxies position is exactly where it would be....if the universe started with a giant explosion - big bang. Martin Reese, Royal Astronomer, Cambridge University: "Experimentalists, using new technology...

I am so tired of fundies telling me that the Big Bang proves God because everything spontaneously sprang from nothing. The ignorance of this argument is amazing and I'm ready to set things straight. The latest research into the Big Bang has coalesced the scientific community's opinion on the...

Chicken Dish Leads to Gunfire [/b]

Recent Cosmic Microwave Background data supports creationist cosmologies http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2003/tj_151_cmb.PDF hey, I'm in no way proposing that this is right, or wrong, I simply want other peoples opinions on this article. And, possibly, some refutations.

if time presupposes the big bang then how can the singularity exist to cause the big bang without the presence of time? I guess I'm asking can something exist without the existence of time? Also, In George H. Smith's Atheism The Case Against God (pgs. 240-1)he argues that causality presupposes...

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/01/08/galaxies.find/index.html

This Prince of Peace is well defended against the ACLU!

Did/could The Big Bang have a 'sound'? The New Scientist

In leaving behind Christiniaty, there is much that makes more sense to me...but I am stumped about a few things. Excuse my ignorance...but I am trying to understand how it is possible for the world to come into existence without a creator. I just can't make sense of the big bang happening...

Hi again. Some of the questions that my hubby and I wrestle with are things like, "How can the world come into being without a Creator".? While we can no longer believe in a personal God, we just can't fathom the Universe forming all by itself. However, this creates another dilemna because if...

I don't know much about this. What could have "caused" the big bang? Did it need a cause?