Big Bang Theory

• How old does scientific evidence suggest the earth is?

  4.5 billion years old
• How old do young earth creationists see the earth to be?

  5,700 to 10,000 years old
• Why do young earth creationists believe the earth is so young?

  They read Genesis literally and believe God created the earth in six, 24 hour days
• What did Henry Morris write?

  A series of books in the 20th century
• What did Henry Morris promote?

  "Creation science" which defends young earth creationism
• When does Ken Ham believe Noah's flood happened?

  2348 BC
• What does Ken Ham believe about the dinosaurs?

  They co-existed with genetically modern humans
• What does Ken Ham believe about dating the earth?

  All scientific methods are wrong, only God's account can be trusted
• How old do old earth creationists see the earth to be?

  4.5 billion years old
• What does creative epoch mean?

  God had bursts of creative activity followed by long periods of equilibrium
• Why do old earth creationists reject Darwinism?

  They believe God created species uniquely, so there was no evolution from other species
• How are the pre-human hominid species different to modern humans?

  They did not have souls, Adam was the first man to be given an eternal soul
• Why does intelligent design reject natural selection?

  Certain features of the universe and living things are best explained by an intelligent cause
• What does Michael Behe claim?

  Many biological systems are "irreducibly complex" at the molecular level
• What does Behe believe about Darwinism?

  Irreducible complexity cannot be produced by successive modifications
• What argument links/challenges Behe's?

  Process theology- God impacts the world on a molecular level
• What does the scientific community think of intelligent design?

  Reject it as pseudoscience
• What does intelligent design attempt to do?

  Make creationism respectable
• Where did the universe originate from?

  A singularity of infinite density that expanded rapidly 13.8 billion years ago
• What is the evidence for the Big Bang theory?

  Red shift theory and cosmic background radiation
• What happens to laws of physics when we approach the singularity?

  They break down- supports Ham's idea that natural laws changed and the belief that the singularity is God
• What did Einstein call his "biggest blunder"?

  Adding a cosmological constant to an equation to make it so the universe was not expanding
• Why did Einstein add the cosmological constant?

  He assumed the universe was stable and constant
• Who originally proposed the Big Bang Theory?

  George Lemaitre
• Who is George Lemaitre

  A belgian physicist and Roman Catholic priest
• What was George Lemaitre's hypothesis?

  Hypothesis of the primeval atom
• What did the Pope say about the Big Bang?

  "The Big Bang, which we hold to be the origin of the world, does not contradict the intervention of a divine creator but rather requires it"
• What do fundamentalists claim about science?

  It attacks God