Weaknesses of the Big Bang Theory

Weaknesses of the Big Bang Theory

The big bang theory was first suggested by a Belgian priest named Georges Lemaitre in the 1920s, when he suggested that the universe began from a single primordial atom. However the big bang theory was born from the observations which were made by Edwin Hubble that other galaxies were moving from earth at a high speed in different directions. This theory was further boosted by the Arno and Penzias Wilson’s discovery of cosmic microwave radiation, which is believed to be the tangible remnant leftover light from the big bang. According to this theory the universe, all of its matter and radiation was compressed into a hot, dense mass, which was very small. However, the theory states that there was a blast which enabled all of universe’s matter and energy to spring from this small dense hot mass. After the matter had cooled down new atoms were formed. The big bang theory has three main types of evidence as its foundation and these are: the big bang theory assumes that the universe is expanding and this is supported by the interpretation of the red-shifts of remote galaxies and other systems as the Doppler shifts. The big bang theory predicts the cosmic abundance of some light elements helium-4, deuterium, lithium-7, whereby the predictions are confirmed by the abundances of cosmic light. In 1948 Alpher, Bethe and Gamow used the big bang to predict the existence of a low temperature background radiation throughout the universe at a relic of about 25K.

The hugest weakness of the big bang theory is the fact that it is a product of a person’s imagination, that is to say that the big bang theory has no substantial evidence that actually proves that such an event happened. In most logical cases, explo...

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...eaves so many unanswered questions, infact it fails to give a satisfying account of the origin of the earth. The big bang theory has loopholes in the sense that there are observations which it cannot explain like the abundance production of light element. The big bang theory contradicts with the Bible, which has over time proven its reliability and this makes the whole theory questionable. To make matters worse the theory is a production of human imagination, it has substantial evidence.

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The Holy Bible

H. Arp, 1987 Quasars, Red-shifts and Controversies

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A. Dressler 1989 “In the Gap of the Great Attractor”

C. Sibanda