• Question: Do you believe in the big bang theory and if not what do you believe

    Asked by tully on 17 Jan 2020.
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      Fiona Macfarlane answered on 17 Jan 2020:

      I’m not really sure if I believe in the big bang theory, I need to do a bit more research/reading up on it. As a Christian though I believe that God made the universe, and he may have used the big bang to do that..

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      Maja Popovic answered on 17 Jan 2020:

      I believe.
      However, how it exactly happened and why, I don’t know if we’ll ever know.
      I’m agnostic (I think we don’t know whether there is God or not, maybe there is, maybe there isn’t), so I think that it is possible that God did it, but we’ll never know.

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      Andrew Harrison answered on 23 Jan 2020:

      I think believe is the wrong word. The big bang is the best scientific theory for explaining the origin of the universe. Science is based on the notion of a falsifiable hypothesis, i.e. something you could prove is wrong. That means you can never prove that a scientific theory is right, only that you have not proved it’s wrong and lots of evidence to suggest it’s right.

      All scientific theories are an approximation and are refined or replaced over time. Newton’s gravity was superseded by Einstein’s relativity. Inflation, dark energy etc. suggest the concept of the big bang will need to be refined or replaced.

      Belief is different from science and not necessarily incompatible. Personally I have no belief. If pressed I’d say I don’t believe there is a God but I resist saying I’m an atheist as that word has been tarnished in recent years and it implies I have an opinion.

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