How Did the Universe Begin? — Science and God
Was the universe always here, or did it have a beginning? If so, how did it start? Mankind has debated these questions for centuries and has only recently begun to find some answers. And those answers may point to some even more intriguing conclusions.
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Was the universe always here? Or did it have a beginning? If so, how did it start?
From ancient times, philosophers and theologians have debated these questions.
But it wasn’t until the 20th century that a series of stunning scientific discoveries finally enabled us to get some answers.
The story begins in 1912 when American astronomer Vesto Slipher observed that light coming from distant “nebulae” (clouds of dust and gas in outer space) appeared redder than expected.
Why was this important?
Here’s where your high school science pays off. Remember learning about the Doppler effect? The frequency of sound, light, or other waves changes as the source and observer move toward (or away from) each other. To demonstrate this, your science teacher likely played a recording of a train whistle: the pitch of the whistle lowers—that is, the sound wave stretches out—as the train recedes into the distance.
Well, the same thing happens with light.
If a distant star or galaxy is moving away from us, the light coming from that object will also stretch out. Since in the spectrum of visible light, red light corresponds to the longest wave lengths physicists say light that has been stretched out has been “red shifted.”
This evidence of “red-shift” suggested the nebulae were moving away from us.
In 1924 astronomer Edwin Hubble, working with a new 100-inch telescope on Mt. Wilson in California, showed that Slipher’s “nebulae” were not just clouds of gas around distant stars, but actually distant galaxies beyond our Milky Way.
Soon after that, the Belgian physicist George Lemaître correlated Slipher’s red-shift data with Hubble’s measurements of the distances to other galaxies. Lemaître showed that galaxies that were farther away were receding faster than those close at hand. That suggested a spherical expansion of the universe in all directions of space, as if the universe were expanding like a balloon from a singular explosive beginning—from a “big bang.”
Oddly, Albert Einstein had earlier tumbled to this idea but then dismissed it.
Einstein’s new theory of gravity known as general relativity envisioned massive bodies altering the curvature of space like a bowling ball making a depression on a trampoline.
Einstein’s concept of gravity implied that space would contract in on itself unless gravity was continually counteracted by the expansion of space. For this reason, Einstein posited a constantly acting repulsive force—known as the cosmological constant—to counter gravitational attraction. But that implied a dynamic and expanding universe. . . and also a beginning.
To avoid this conclusion, Einstein altered his own equations by arbitrarily assigning a precise value to the force of expansion to ensure that the strength of gravity and the repulsive force exactly balanced. Thus he depicted the universe in a perfectly poised, static state—neither expanding from a beginning, nor contracting toward a collapse.
But then with Slipher and Hubble’s discoveries, the heavens talked back. In 1927, Lemaître informed Einstein (in a taxi cab, no less) about the red shift evidence for an expanding universe. In 1931, Einstein visited Hubble at the Mt. Wilson observatory and viewed the evidence for himself. Later, he announced, to his great credit, that denying the evidence for the universe having had a beginning was “the greatest blunder of my scientific career.”
Throughout the 20th century, physicists proposed other theories that denied a cosmic beginning. One by one new evidence showed each to be inadequate. By the 1990s, the Big Bang theory had prevailed as the best explanation for multiple lines of astronomical evidence.
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Assigning definitive explanations to the unknown and/or unexplained is inherently unscientific. The Big Bang THEORY is just that, a theory, and attributing it to some unseen "god" for which there is no objectively verifiable evidence, is far from objective, and therefore totally unscientific. People like this should be ashamed to call themselves scientists.
Among all the creator gods, Yahweh is the only one behaves like a nasty voyeur who kept butting into people's family affairs and encouraged Abraham to dump his sex slave and her son into wildness after Sarah had Issac. Other creator gods are generally cool and chill, and never butt into this kind of stupid businesses, and the world they created are at least older than Egypt instead of younger.
In Genesis,
earth, darkness, air, water, were created BEFORE LIGHT!
Science has long ago FALSIFIED the ancient idea of elementals, by finding earth, water and air are compound substances, made with different elements.
Last century science also FALSIFIED the order in the Genesis' creation story,
by finding out those elements CANNOT be present in the beginning at all:
Big-Bang's temperature did not allow the formation of structured matter, but only photos were possible at first.
This means LIGHT was first.
So, the available evidence falsified the predictions from Genesis.
Stephen Meyer is an infamous propagandist and liar. PragerU, as the nest of deceptive creationists they are, are lying to you.
When asking “what created the universe” god isn’t a good answer. You come into a problem, “what created god”. You could say “god has been there since the beginning” but the same argument could be said for the universe. I believe in god but I don’t believe he created absolutely everything.
Bruh multiverse is a hypothesis
Do you know what the Quran said 1400 years ago???…Read this "the heavens and the earth were joined together as one unit, before We clove them asunder" (21 : 30). & "The heavens, We have built them with power. And verily, We are expanding it" (51 : 47)
Meyer tries to shoehorn religion into science. He is just another crank fundie who uses ID to peddle creationism. There is NO way to test for anything supernatural and that includes his arguments of irreducible complexity. I have no objection to religious beliefs but he tries to mix it in with science. ID is the Trojan Horse that he tries to use to get his religious opinions into the classroom.
Why did the universe begin?
Have any answer, Mr. Science?
These are so good!!! Thanks!
Brilliant as usual from Meyer. Impeccable logic, especially as compared to the artfully contrived stories one often hears from those seemingly desperate to cling to "scientific materialism," but unable to confute rather obvious logic. Bravo Dr Meyer!
Space mysteries and almighty God.s majestic creations definitely
Go together thanks sir for your logical statements
Big bang, big word, no body witness it. Just a theory.
Hamare vedo me lakho salo se jo likha hai ushka ye 30% hai jabki mujhe inglish nahi aati fir bhi me samajh raha hun
How silly! We are all a part of a computer simulation (well, I am. you guys are just programs written for my personal benefit). On the crazy off chance I am wrong about the computer simulation, then we are all here because space aliens seeded our planet. I saw this in the movie. If neither of those turn out to be true, we most likely are a bleed over from the multiverse where our universe kinda fell outta another universe which fell outta another universe etc. etc. etc.
Please, anything but God. Whatever the reason, please do not let me be a creation of a God who holds people accountable to those super hard commandments like to love God and to love my neighbors. Sure, I know that my parents raised me and expected me to respect them and to treat other people with respect and that God is really asking no different from me by being my ultimate creator. But God is just asking toooooo much.
/sarc
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Me gustaría con subtítulos en español para entender por favor
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I’m doing this for school and it sucks
PragerU: teaching people how to lead the evidence since 2011.
this guy be like hi i'm saul goodman
god of the gaps fallacy + special pleading
religion/cults are a myth and gods dont exist lol
The sheer irony of him saying that the big bang corroborates the Bible when it says "In the beginning, God created the heavens AND THE EARTH". The earth didn't exist for another 10 billion years after the big bang, so even if the universe had a creator, that verse is still demonstrably wrong.
Okay, the universe has a beginning. But, doesn’t that mean we now need to find the beginning of God? Why is it dismissible to say God is eternal, but not the universe?
" …And one more thing: this big bang theory is not totally accepted, there are many other theories. These are all guesses; they are not proved yet, nothing is proved. In fact I don’t think that it can ever be proved how the world came into existence. It is impossible, because nobody was there to witness it, you cannot find an eyewitness, so all that they can do will be just guesswork.
And it happened fifteen or twenty billion years ago. You cannot even be certain whether Krishna ever existed or not, just five thousand years ago. You cannot be certain even about Jesus, whether he was really an historical person or is just a myth – and he was only two thousand years ago. Do you think you can be certain about something that happened twenty billion years ago? All guesses.
And still I say the world was never created, there was no beginning.
Why do I say that there was no beginning? It is so simple. Even if you believe in the big bang theory, there must have been something that exploded. Do you think nothing exploded? If there was something, x, y, z, – any name, I am not much interested in such nonsense things, x, y, z, whatsoever it was that exploded – if something was there before the explosion then the explosion is not the beginning. It may be a beginning but it is not the beginning.
And when I say there has never been any beginning, I mean the beginning. Something was always there – whether it exploded or whether it grew slowly, in one day or in six days or in one single moment, doesn’t matter. There must have been something before it, because only something can come out of something. Even if you say there was nothing, and it came out of nothing, then your nothing is full of something, it is not really nothing.
Hence I say there has never been any beginning and there will never be any end. Maybe a beginning, maybe many beginnings and maybe many ends, but never the first and never the last. We are always in the middle. Existence is not a creation but a creativity. It is not that it begins one day and ends one day. It goes on and on; it is an ongoing process.
That’s why I say that all these guesses are useless and there is no need for them and they serve no purpose. This was Buddha’s approach too. Whenever somebody would ask a question like, “Who created the world?” – whether the world was ever created or is uncreated – Buddha would answer by other questions. He would ask, “If who created the world is decided, is it going to help your enlightenment? Is it going to help you become more silent, more meditative, more aware?”
Certainly the person would answer, “It is not going to help. Who created the world doesn’t matter. It will not help my enlightenment and it will not make me more meditative.”
Then Buddha said, “Then why bother about all this? Think of things which can help you to become more meditative, think of things which can help you become free of all the ego-clinging, think of things which can ultimately lead you into the state of samadhi.”
My approach is also the same: these are all irrelevant questions. And because of these irrelevant questions there has been so much controversy down the ages and thousands of people have wasted their lives discussing who created the world, when exactly, what was the date – and so on, and so forth.
I think these people were neurotics. I don’t think them healthy, normal, sane people. Who cares? For what? It does not matter at all, it is immaterial."
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There is no big bang in your bible so what victory are you claiming for Christians, your religion did not give an accurate account of how the universe formed.
The bg bang does not prove or suggest the existence of god. Sorry you got it wrong.