the Big Bang

 

I am monitoring a biology class this week, and today's assignment included a number of questions about the Big Bang.

Here is the opening paragraph:

"Around 13.7 billion years ago, everything in the entire universe was condensed in an  infinitesimally small singularity, a point of infinite denseness and heat. Suddenly, an expansion began, ballooning our universe outwards faster than the speed of light. This was a period of cosmic inflation that lasted mere fractions of a second. After the first second of the early universe, the temperature of everything was insanely hot, at about 10 billion degrees Fahrenheit. The cosmos now contained a vast array of fundamental particles such as neutrons, electrons, and protons - the raw materials that would become the building blocks for everything that exists today"

The man who discovered the Big Bang was a Catholic priest named Georges Lemaitre.

If you could diagram what it looked like, it would resemble the picture below

A 2017 Gallup creationism survey found that 38 percent of adults in the United States held the view that "God created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years" when asked for their views on the origin and development of human beings, which Gallup noted was the lowest level in 35 years. It was suggested that the level of support could be lower when poll results are adjusted after comparison with other polls with questions that more specifically account for uncertainty and ambivalence.^] Gallup found that, when asking a similar question in 2019, 40 percent of US adults held the view that "God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so".

Among the biggest young Earth creationist organizations are Answers in Genesis, Institute for Creation Research, and Creation Ministries International.

In the group that believe that the early is less than 10,000 years old, there are some who believe it was created in six days as we know them, because that was it says in Genesis.

30% of the American population believes that the Bible is literally true. The articles below will demonstrate why that is nonsense:

https://tohell-andback.blogspot.com/2013/04/noahs-ark-and-othe-rfairy-tales.html

https://tohell-andback.blogspot.com/2010/09/bible-told-me-so.html

Neil deGrasse Tyson (US: /dəˈɡræs/ də-GRASS or UK: /dəˈɡrɑːs/ də-GRAHSS; born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. Tyson studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia University. From 1991 to 1994, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. In 1994, he joined the Hayden Planetarium as a staff scientist and the Princeton faculty as a visiting research scientist and lecturer. In 1996, he became director of the planetarium and oversaw its $210 million reconstruction project, which was completed in 2000. Since 1996, he has been the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City. The center is part of the American Museum of Natural History, where Tyson founded the Department of Astrophysics in 1997 and has been a research associate in the department since 2003.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson

Tyson's most famous quote about science is this:

"Science is still true, even if you don't believe in it:"

There is certainly a place for religion in our society, but when it starts dictating public policy, it is a dangerous thing, and the recent controversy about frozen embryos in Alabama is just the latest example. Both the current speaker of the House and the Supreme Court justice in Alabama are evangelical Christians, a group that overwhelmingly supports Donald Trump, who is officially the worst president in our country's history.

Here's my final thought:

When in doubt - trust the science.