[Advanced Creation Science]

I had accepted the Big Bang all of my life until a physics student at UVa in 2002 told me many in the community are now privately expressing doubts (in addition to those who openly do like Halton Arp who was Hubble’s associate). When a prestigious organization like Sigma Xi has an article in its magazine that is critical of the Big Bang, perhaps it would be good to review the current state of affairs.

The YEC model would have no reason for existing if the Big Bang were on solid ground. Thus the demise of the Big Bang might be important for YEC to succeed. We will see.

In any case, YEC aside, it’s astonishing the Big Bang could be likened to a folktale in the Sigma Xi magazine. I have a feeling it represents a growing dissatisfaction with the model.

The Sigma Xi society boast many Nobel Laureates and I was impressed with their latest anti-Big Bang article:
“Modern Cosmology: Science or Folktale?”

In its original form, an expanding Einstein model had an attractive, economic elegance. Alas, it has since run into serious difficulties, which have been cured only by sticking on some ugly bandages: inflation to cover horizon and flatness problems; overwhelming amounts of dark matter to provide internal structure; and dark energy, whatever that might be, to explain the seemingly recent acceleration. A skeptic is entitled to feel that a negative significance, after so much time, effort and trimming, is nothing more than one would expect of a folktale constantly re-edited to fit inconvenient new observations.

I commend the valor of those who conceived of the Big Bang theory. I have even gone so far to say it is a creationist-friendly theory if one is willing to have a not-so-literal reading of Genesis or if one is willing to invoke the fact time flows differently in different contexts.

But aside from philosophical and metaphysical considerations, I think there are empirical and theoretical challenges which I think are telling us the Big Bang model is simply wrong.

My quest for an alternate solution began with what I perceived as a collapse of the Big Bang model. I would not be here today if secular cosmologists with no metaphysical axe to grind were not coming out of the closet like those in this article.

This in no ways means YEC is automatically true. Far from it, as YEC has it’s own set of difficulties as I hope is apparent to the readers of the fine critiques of YEC cited or written by the various participants here.

I’m merely pointing out that if science should value skepticism, is it too hard to say that maybe endorsement of the Big Bang is a bit premature given the contrary physical evidence?