re: #92 dholmes32

Just a reminder that we have the Big Bang theory (not the TV show) because Georges Lemaitre, an astronomer and Catholic priest, proposed it after studying the expansion of the universe. There was great resistance from other astronomers (e.g., Sir Fred Hoyle) and physicists because the theory seemed to be too “Genesis-like,” but based on the evidence we have now, it appears to be how things started.

The Vatican also has an astronomical observatory located in southeastern Arizona on Mount Graham (it’s part of a larger consortium of observatories). They’re doing serious research out there, not whatever Ken Ham thinks he’s doing out at the Creation “Museum.”

The competing theory to the Big Bang model was a steady state model for the cosmos that would have no beginning and no end. en.wikipedia.org

One peculiar feature of steady state cosmology was that its main hypothesis was continual creation of matter in the universe from nothing.

Discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation was pretty much the death blow for steady state cosmology.