Is The Big Bang A Cosmic Blunder?
For years scientists have been telling us how the universe began. Do we really know? Or do we need another six billions years to figure it out?
To date, our space explorations, manned and unmanned, have uncovered a world of intriguing, perplexing, puzzling, fascinating, and even awe-inspiring phenomena. Whether we understand it or not, the universe we live in seems to be a highly organized system or set of smaller systems functioning in harmony. All of its components work within a framework of very structured, precise, and clearly defined laws of nature. If this were not so, the universe could not possibly have survived in its present state of complexity for any long period of time, certainly not for thousands of years. If the laws of gravity were to cease functioning for only one moment, all orbiting bodies throughout the universe would move into different orbits. For life on earth, this would be catastrophic. If the “strong force” which holds together sub-atomic particles were to cease functioning, all matter in the universe would disintegrate. Obviously, the laws of nature function every moment of every day, with utmost precision.
Our universe contains atomic and sub-atomic particles not visible to the naked eye and sometimes not even visible with sophisticated instruments. It also contains интернет магазины planets, stars, huge galaxies spanning hundreds of thousands of lightyears across space — some of which are so far from earth that they appear as mere specks in the sky — and galaxies billions of lightyears apart. The laws of nature are so complex that they support millions of forms of life on our planet while maintaining the integrity of the cosmos as a whole. It would be difficult, if Антикризисная программа! Экскаваторы Hyundai на 10% дешевле. not impossible, for the most intelligent human being to even imagine a more complex system, let alone come up with a functioning design of anything nearly as complex.
And as much as набор кухонных ножей modern man has already learned, we’re just beginning to see the tip of the iceberg concerning the complexities of the laws of nature. There have been people who have devoted virtually their entire lives to discovering and studying the laws of nature. Doctors have studied medicine. Astronomers have studied the skies. Biologists have studied vast numbers of life forms. Physicists have studied the laws of nature governing the cosmos right down to those governing events on the quantum level. And the list goes on. Yet, not one of these endeavors has thus far resulted in the complete knowledge of even one subject. I’m not talking about knowing everything about every subject. I’m talking about knowing everything about only one subject. It hasn’t happened yet. And you’d think that after all the scientific discoveries, achievements, and sophistication of the twenty-first century, such knowledge might at least lie in the foreseeable future. But that doesn’t seem to be the case either. In many instances, it’s quite the contrary. Some branches of science seem to become increasingly elusive in direct proportion to our easygo 245 sophistication. For the “cut and dried” physical world this is supposed to be, this kind of complexity almost rivals spiritualism itself.
Now, an intelligent person would ask himself, “Where did all this complex ingenuity come from?”
A ‘BIG BANG?’
There is a theory generally referred to by scientists as the “big bang.” No, it has nothing to do with the fourth of July. When the fourth of July ends, we’re usually left with a lot of exploded shreds of garbage. When this purported “big bang” ended, it allegedly left us with debris which somehow evolved into a highly complex and organized universe. How? Beats the heck out me. Let’s see if it beats the heck out of you.
Big-bang theorists hold that the universe roughly fifteen or twenty billion years ago. There was this “something or other” which exploded. Since then the universe has been expanding. Everything in it evolved from the stuff of that explosion.
Let’s see if we understand this. In spite of the fact that just about any kind of an explosion we could cause would result in nothing but chaos and destruction, we’re being told, against all logic, that an explosion is what began the process of building the inconceivably complex system we now call our universe. Isn’t that a bit like saying that if you blew up a Rubik’s cube the little pieces could conceivably become more complex than the original cube? It is common sense that an explosion will create a general state of fragmentation and disarray. After ripping a system apart, isn’t it rather absurd to expect the resulting chaos to become more intricate and organized than the original system? When you think about it, after an explosion, it is unrealistic to expect a system to even maintain its previous level of complexity, let alone evolve into something more complex.
An example: If you took every nut, bolt, and part necessary for the construction of a car, piled them up on top of a bomb, and blew them up, would you ever expect the parts to fall down into a functioning car by mere chance? How many times would you say you’d have to blow the pieces up to get a functioning car? Fifteen million? Seventeen billion? Or do you think it could never happen? Sure the pieces would fall into different configurations and shapes after each explosion — configurations which may be pleasant to look at with an abstract, artistic eye. Configurations which may even inspire you with thoughts like, “Where’s the broom?” But to think that you could eventually get into a car and drive off is confusing the laws of probability with intelligent design. If you blow up the pieces of a car, all you will ever
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