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The Bible starts with the bold, unambiguous declaration that, "In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth." This statement is ridiculed by the majority today and God the Creator has been replaced by the Big Bang theory. According to this popular theory, some 15 billion years ago a nugget or 'kernel' of mass energy exploded spreading energetic radiation outwards. As the temperature dropped, hydrogen and helium atoms formed, providing the basic ingredients for the formation of the Universe. The incredible world around us is therefore the chance product of this distant Big Bang. It classifies therefore as the one and only explosion that has ever produced beauty and order!
Ask the man in the Street what he understands by the Big Bang and it will soon become evident that he considers it to have been an explosion in space billions of years ago. This is a false concept as Paul Davies, Professor of Theoretical Physics points out in his article 'The Day Time Began' (New Scientist - 27 April 1996). He writes,
"the origin of the physical Universe must involve the origin of space and time too ... there was no such epoch as 'before the big bang' because time began with the big bang .... as I have been at pains to point out, space did not exist either prior to the big bang." (emphasis added)
Consider that last clause well, 'space did not exist'. That being the case we are left with an immense problem, for if space did not exist, where did the explosion take place?
"The first, and main, problem is the very existence of the big bang. One may wonder, What came before? If Space-time did not exist then, how could everything appear from nothing? What arose first: the universe or the laws determining its evolution? Explaining this initial Singularity -- where and when it all began -- still remains the most intractable problem of modern cosmology."
André Linde - 'The Self-Producing Inflationary Universe' - Scientific American Vol. 271 p.48 (Nov. 1994)
David Darling, astronomer and author, writing in The New Scientist (14 Sept. 1996) said …. "...the biggest deal of all - is how do you get something out of nothing. Don't let the cosmologists kid you on this one. They have not got a clue either …. 'In the beginning', they will say, 'there was nothing - no time, space, matter, or energy. Then there was a quantum fluctuation from which…' Whoa! Stop right there. You see what I mean? First there was nothing then there was something … and before you know it they have pulled a hundred billion galaxies out of their quantum hats …. but there is a very real problem in explaining how it got started in the first place. You can't fudge this by appealing to quantum mechanics. Either there was nothing to begin with, in which case there is no quantum vacuum, no pre-geometric dust, no time in which anything can happen, no physical laws that can effect a change from nothingness into somethingness: or there is something, in which case that needs explaining … No, I'm sorry, I may not have been born in Yorkshire but I'm a firm believer that you cannot get owt for nowt. Not a Universe from a nothing-verse…"
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