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Adding explanatory note on BB vs. expanding universe
== Bible and origins ==
== Bible and origins ==
Scientists who are biblical Christians believe that a [[creation]] model of the biblical kind clearly predicted a beginning of the world, <ref name="LENNOX"/> and thus this can be considered as successful testable prediction giving the credit to predictive power of Biblical message. They warn against the danger of being seduced by speculation masquerading as science and they consider cosmic singularity to be compatible with creation of space, time, matter and energy ''ex nihilo'' (i.e. out of nothing) and often cite Arno Penzias, astrophysicist and Nobel laureate who stated in 1978 for [[The New York Times]] that "The best data we have (concerning the Big Bang) are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the Bible as a whole."<ref name="WhomadeGod"/> The [[New Atheism|New Atheists]] object to God as a final explanation for ''ultimate cause'', yet they themselves have no explanation for the existence of the mass/energy of which the universe is formed and thus must regard it essentially as a ''brute fact''. Due to [[law of causality]], [[explanation in science]], if it is to avoid [[infinite regress]], always leads to certain things that are regarded as ''ultimate''.<ref name="LENNOX"/> American astronomer, physicist and cosmologist Robert Jastrow closes his book ''God and the Astronomers'' with these words: "At this moment it seems as though science will never be able to raise the curtain on the mystery of creation. For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the ''power of reason'', the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."<ref>{{cite book
Scientists who are biblical Christians believe that a [[creation]] model of the biblical kind clearly predicted a beginning of the world, <ref name="LENNOX"/> and thus this can be considered as successful testable prediction giving the credit to predictive power of Biblical message. They warn against the danger of being seduced by speculation masquerading as science and they consider cosmic singularity to be compatible with creation of space, time, matter and energy ''ex nihilo'' (i.e. out of nothing) and often cite Arno Penzias, astrophysicist and Nobel laureate who stated in 1978 for [[The New York Times]] that "The best data we have (concerning the Big Bang{{#tag:ref|To avoid confusion, an explanatory note should be made that the ‘big bang’ in this context obviously connotes the concept of the rapid ''expansion of the universe'' formulated to interpret the evidence (such as the Hubble’s law<ref>{{cite web
|title=The Observational Approach to Cosmology
|author=Edwin Hubble
|publisher=Oxford University Press
|year = 1937
|url= http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Sept04/Hubble/Hubble_contents.html
|access date=27.09.2012
}}</ref>, or later the ''accelerating universe''<ref name="Riess 1998">{{cite journal|author=Adam G. Riess ''et al.'' (Supernova Search Team)|year=1998|title=Observational evidence from supernovae for an accelerating universe and a cosmological constant|journal=Astronomical J.|volume=116|issue=3|pages=1009–38|doi=10.1086/300499}}</ref>) for universal expansion. According to W. Gitt et al. the Bible states twelve times an expansion of that kind had happened when God ''stretched out the heavens'''.<ref name="WITHOUT EXCUSE">{{cite book
|author=Werner Gitt, Bob Compton, Jorge Fernandez
|title=Without Excuse
|publisher=Creation Book Publishers
|year=2011
|pages=198
|url=http://www.creationbookpublishers.com/products/Without-Excuse.html
|isbn=978-1-921643-41-5
|quote=The commonly accepted beginning to the universe is a modern theory referred to as the Big Bang. …The Big Bang was formulated to account for evidence of universal expansion (which the Bible states (twelve times) happened when God says He stretched out the heavens). While the concept of an expansion is not a problem, the idea that everything started with this ‘singularity’ which unaccountably brought the entire universe into existence, is worth challenging. …The Big Bang is the secular Materialist’s hypothesis of how the (purely material) universe came into existence.}}</ref> While the concept of expansion itself is not a problem, the notion of Big Bang as the secular materialistic hypothesis of how the purely material universe came into existence is according to creationist community or biblical literalists, respectively, worth of challenging. For scientific objections to Big Bang theory cf.''the cosmology statement''<ref>{{cite web
|title=An Open Letter to the Scientific Community
|author=Group of signers
|publisher=New Scientist
|date = May 22, 2004
|url= http://www.cosmologystatement.org/
|access date=27.09.2012
}}</ref>, the objections of [[YEC]] community might be reviewed, in paper ‘Christian apologists should abandon
the big bang’ <ref>{{cite web
|title= Christian apologists should abandon
the big bang
|author=Jonathan F. Henry
|publisher= JOURNAL OF CREATION 23(3) creation.com
|date = 2009
|url= http://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j23_3/j23_3_103-109.pdf
|access date=27.09.2012
}}</ref> or in 'An interview with creationist physicist/cosmologist John Hartnett'.<ref>{{cite web
|title= An interview with creationist physicist/cosmologist John Hartnett
|author= Gary Bates
|publisher= Creation 25(4):37–39
|date = September 2003
|url= http://creation.com/exploding-the-big-bang
|access date=27.09.2012
}}</ref>|group=note}}
) are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the Bible as a whole."<ref name="WhomadeGod"/> The [[New Atheism|New Atheists]] object to God as a final explanation for ''ultimate cause'', yet they themselves have no explanation for the existence of the mass/energy of which the universe is formed and thus must regard it essentially as a ''brute fact''. Due to [[law of causality]], [[explanation in science]], if it is to avoid [[infinite regress]], always leads to certain things that are regarded as ''ultimate''.<ref name="LENNOX"/> American astronomer, physicist and cosmologist Robert Jastrow closes his book ''God and the Astronomers'' with these words: "At this moment it seems as though science will never be able to raise the curtain on the mystery of creation. For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the ''power of reason'', the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."<ref>{{cite book
|author=Robert Jastrow
|author=Robert Jastrow
|title=God and the Astronomers
|title=God and the Astronomers