(July 13, 2024 at 2:56 pm)Sheldon Wrote:Quote:SaintPeterI would still dispute the notion it was a beginning, since by definition time must exist before something can begin.
The Big Bang Theory was first proposed by a Belgian Catholic Priest named Fr. Georges Lemaitre. At the time, it was attacked by some Atheists, who disliked its implications of a temporal beginning of the Universe, as smacking too much and being reminiscent of Divine Creation; but today, it is the most widely accepted theory in Cosmology.
It isn't. The Big Bang Theory states that the universe existed in an extremely energetic, dense state during the earliest moments of its existence that we can currently observe. It tells us what the universe was like in its first few moments some 13.8 billion years ago. It doesn't tell us anything about what, if anything came before that or what caused it. If we attempt to model the beginning of the universe by running physics backwards we get the wrong answers, and worse, relativity and quantum mechanics yield different wrong answers.
So what happened before the Big Bang nobody knows, least of all a religion that had the Sun orbiting the Earth for 1600 years and persecuted anybody who said otherwise.
