Big Bang Cosmology—In The Beginning Part 2

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. – Revelation 22:13

1. Why did cosmologist Sir Fred Hoyle oppose the big bang theory by advancing the steady state

theory in which matter pops into existence countless times as the universe expands?

a. What discovery confirmed the big bang and disconfirmed the steady state theory?

2. How did the oscillation theory offer another way to avoid a cosmic beginning?

a. What evidence defeated this theory?

3. Read Hebrews 11:1-3 – How does this verse help us to explain the beginning?

Read the Arguments below - Which worldview, if true, would best explain our scientific

knowledge of the big bang event? Pantheism, Materialism, Deism or Theism

A Deductive Cosmological Argument

• Premise 1: Whatever begins to exist has a cause that is beyond itself.

• Premise 2: The universe (space-time and matter-energy) began to exist.

• Conclusion: Therefore, the universe has a cause that is beyond itself.

An Inductive or Abductive (multiple competing worldviews) Cosmological Argument

• P1: If a creator of the universe exists, then we would expect evidence of a cosmic beginning.

• P2: We have extensive scientific evidence of a cosmic beginning within big bang cosmology.

• Conclusion: Therefore, we have reason to think that a creator of the universe may exist.

(Materialism and pantheism each offer an inadequate cause for the big bang event).

Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host

one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not

one of them is missing. – Isaiah 40:26