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Big Bust Cosmology

On January 29, 2010, In Cosmology, Debates, Religious Arguments, Science, By The Armchair Antichrist

In most or all of the God debates that I have seen there is a common use by the theist side of the Kalam argument reinforced by a reference to the Big Bang Theory. I will not be debunking the Kalam argument here. That can be found in an earlier post. With this post I will be showing you how theist debaters have been misusing science, specifically the Big Bang Theory.

Most erroneously, these theist debaters claim that the Big Bang has been scientifically proven to be an act of creation or at least was the moment of creation. This is not true. What we know conclusively through science is only that the universe was once in a much denser and hotter state and expanded into its current form. The farthest we can get to the ‘beginning’ is the Plank epoch up to 10^–43 seconds after the Big Bang, a period which is still very fuzzy.

All theories about the early universe are speculative at best. This is because without empirical evidence (that will hopefully be found by particle accelerators) the only measure of validity for these theories is internal mathematical consistency. Basically, if the math behind the theory works out then it is a possible explanation of the universe’s cosmogony or ‘beginning’.

There are many of these kinds of theories which are all theoretically possible. Some of them include self-creating universes, universes created from the collision of branes, finite spherical universes with no beginning, the list goes on.

So the question is why do these theist debaters only hold onto an account which allows for a beginning (if only they had the same level of confidence for evolution). Well, this is so that they can argue for a ‘creation’ event and therefore, the existence of God. They will even go as far as to quote mine physicists who believe in opposing theories. This is a perfect example of confirmation bias and the overall close-mindedness of the religious.

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What Evolution Does Explain

On August 24, 2009, In Evolution, Science, By The Armchair Antichrist

A quick one. Evolution has nothing to do with where life came from. Abiogenesis is the study of how life could have arisen from non-living matter. Also, evolution does not explain how the universe came into existence. The cosmology deals with that.

What evolution does deal with is the change in genetic material of populations of organisms over generations. So, it explains how complex organisms like humans evolved from simpler life forms. It explains how populations of organisms develop new traits in order to adapt to their environment. And it explains how vestigial structures like the wings of ostriches fall out of use among other things. Overall, evolution explains speciation and the diversity of life on this planet very well.