Big Bang theory gains acceptance

March 26, 2014

The Morning Call carried a story March 18 about there being further proof of the Big Bang, which, the story claimed, was proposed by Albert Einstein.

Actually, when someone told Einstein that the mathematics behind his theories implied that the universe was expanding, he ignored that because if the universe grew from a single point that implied that some outside force had something to do with it.

But then the Jesuit astronomer Georges Lemaitre pointed out that the blue shift in starlight indicated that the universe was indeed expanding. As a Catholic, Lemaitre had no bias against indications that God had something to do with starting up the universe. At first Einstein doubted what Lemaitre called "the primal atom," and atheist Fred Hoyle mocked by calling it "the Big Bang." But eventually Einstein had to admit that the Big Bang was one of the "most beautiful theories" he had ever heard.

Like the seeming fine-tuning of nature's laws and the intricate complexity of cells, the Big Bang may not prove to atheists that God exists, but they have to admit that they're ignoring what science seems to indicate.

Donald J. Schenk


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