The Big Bang (Religion and Science)

Question 1

What is the big bang?

Answer 1

A scientific theory about how the universe began

Question 2

Who came up with the idea of the big bang?

Answer 2

A Belgian Priest in 1927 came up with the idea that the universe started with an explosion

Question 3

What is the evidence for the big bang?

Answer 3

Red Shift (Edward Hubble) : light waves become more red as they move further away. He discovered that distant galaxies are moving away from us and the universe is constantly expanding at a rapid rate so scientists have worked backwards to the original explosion. Background radiation left over as an echo of the big bang

Question 4

How did the Big Bang actually work?

Answer 4

The universe began as a small, incredibly dense and hot singularity that contained particles (smaller than a pinhead) but then it exploded which formed a cloud of gas and dust , Particles combined to eventually form the sun, planets, earth etc

Question 5

What is GUT?

Answer 5

The Grand Unified Theory. Scientists like Atkins and Dawkins say that one day science will be able to explain everything. God is used to fill in the gaps in human knowledge and the more science expands, the more God is abandoned

Question 6

What did Russell say?

Answer 6

The universe is self-explanatory; no questioning is necessary

Question 7

What did K.Ward say?

Answer 7

Keith Ward suggests the God hypothesis is more probable as the universe coming into existence by blind chance is almost infinitely unlikely