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| | |title=The deniable Darwin | | |title=The deniable Darwin |
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| | |location=Seattle, USA | | |location=Seattle, USA |
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| | |chapter=Was there a Big Bang? | | |chapter=Was there a Big Bang? |
| | |isbn=978-0-9790141-2-3 | | |isbn=978-0-9790141-2-3 |
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| | |chapter = The Cause | | |chapter = The Cause |
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| − | | quote = }}</ref> He further asserts that a state of infinite density is completely unacceptable as a physical description of the universe.<ref name="DeniableDarwin"/> According to [[Alan Guth]], "In spite of the fact that we call it the Big Bang [[theory]] it really says absolutely nothing about the Big Bang. It doesn't tell us what banged, why it banged, what caused it to bang. It doesn't even describe, doesn't really allow us to predict what the conditions are immediately after this bang." {{#tag:ref|Scientific organizations dominated by [[atheistic]] scientists who usurp the right to call themselves "mainstream" routinely describe this 'bang' as following: "A huge explosion, known as the Big Bang, then sent matter and energy expanding in all directions."<ref name="NAS">{{cite web |author=National Academy of Sciences(NAS)|title=Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences|chapter=The Origin of the Universe, Earth, and Life|publisher=The Nationals Academies Press|year=1999|pages=48|url=http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=6024&page=3|quote=}}</ref>|group=note}} Michio Kaku from City University of New York adds that "at the instant of the Big Bang ... we have the centrepiece of the Universe itself, a missing piece beyond physical law".<ref name="BBC">{{cite web | + | | quote = }}</ref> He further asserts that a state of infinite density is completely unacceptable as a physical description of the universe.<ref name="DeniableDarwin"/> According to [[Alan Guth]], "In spite of the fact that we call it the Big Bang [[theory]] it really says absolutely nothing about the Big Bang. It doesn't tell us what banged, why it banged, what caused it to bang. It doesn't even describe, doesn't really allow us to predict what the conditions are immediately after this bang." {{#tag:ref|Scientific organizations dominated by [[atheistic]] scientists who usurp the right to call themselves "mainstream" routinely describe this 'bang' as following: "A huge explosion, known as the Big Bang, then sent matter and energy expanding in all directions."<ref name="NAS">{{cite web |author=National Academy of Sciences(NAS)|title=Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences|chapter=The Origin of the Universe, Earth, and Life|publisher=The Nationals Academies Press|year=1999|pages=48|url=http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=6024&page=3|quote=Hubble's hypothesis of an expanding universe leads to certain deductions. One is that the universe was more condensed at a previous time. From this deduction came the suggestion that all the currently observed matter and energy in the universe were initially condensed in a very small and ''infinitely hot'' mass.}}</ref>|group=note}} Michio Kaku from City University of New York adds that "at the instant of the Big Bang ... we have the centrepiece of the Universe itself, a missing piece beyond physical law".<ref name="BBC">{{cite web |
| | |title=Parallel Universes | | |title=Parallel Universes |
| | |series=Science & Nature; TV Program Horizon | | |series=Science & Nature; TV Program Horizon |
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| | == The hot big bang singularity == | | == The hot big bang singularity == |
| − | The big bang singularity is sometimes named '''the ''hot'' big bang singularity''' to emphasize the fact <ref name="WhomadeGod"/> that while going back in the time towards the origin of the universe, all matter and ''energy'' in the universe gets squeezed together into a "pinhead" - a process that would make it "very, very, very ''hot''".<ref name="WhomadeGod"/> Hot Big Bang singularity appears to be in violation of [[The First Law of Thermodynamics|the first law of thermodynamics]] since the global energy needed to run universe has come from nowhere and the principles of nineteenth-century physics require that energy is neither created nor destroyed. Thus, the hot Big Bang singularity remains beyond any [[cause and effect|causal]] scheme and the creation of the universe is still unexplained by any force, field, power, potency, influence or instrumentality known to physics or humankind.<ref name="DeniableDarwin"/> The [hot] big bang singularity does not represent a physical concept, because it cannot be accommodated by a physical theory. It is a point at which physical theories give the way.<ref name="Devils"/> | + | The big bang singularity is sometimes named '''the ''hot'' big bang singularity''' to emphasize the fact <ref name="WhomadeGod"/> that while going back in the time towards the origin of the universe, all matter and ''energy'' in the universe gets squeezed together into a "pinhead" - a process that would make it "very, very, very ''hot''".<ref name="WhomadeGod"/><ref name="NAS"/> Hot Big Bang singularity appears to be in violation of [[The First Law of Thermodynamics|the first law of thermodynamics]] since the global energy needed to run universe has come from nowhere and the principles of nineteenth-century physics require that energy is neither created nor destroyed. Thus, the hot Big Bang singularity remains beyond any [[cause and effect|causal]] scheme and the creation of the universe is still unexplained by any force, field, power, potency, influence or instrumentality known to physics or humankind.<ref name="DeniableDarwin"/> The [hot] big bang singularity does not represent a physical concept, because it cannot be accommodated by a physical theory. It is a point at which physical theories give the way.<ref name="Devils"/> |
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| | == Antipathy to the idea of beginning == | | == Antipathy to the idea of beginning == |