Is The "Big Bang Theory" On Solid Ground?

One of the strongest hypotheses accepted by most scientific experts who study the universe's origin is the Big Bang. However, is this acceptance really warranted? Click on the links below for historical and modern challenges to it:

"Sir Fred Hoyle, one of the leading astrophysicists of 20th century, was born on June 24, 1915. Most popular for rejecting the Big Bang Theory of the universe, Fred died in 2001, at the age of 86, but not without contributing significantly to the field of science." (link)

"Despite its widespread acceptance, the Big Bang theory is presently without any observational support. All of its quantitative predictions are contradicted by observation, and none are supported by the data. Its predictions of light element abundances are inconsistent with the latest data." (link)

"The Big Bang theory, in its current form, predicts that most matter in the universe is dark matter, unlike any that has been found on earth. Increasingly sensitive experiments on earth have failed to turn up any evidence of the dark matter particles that are firmly predicted by the Big Bang theory." (link)

Michio Kaku: "Time Does NOT EXIST! James Webb Telescope PROVED Us Wrong!" (link)

Science Daily reports in a recent publication that findings from the study of objects discovered by James Webb challenge the conventional theory of the universe’s origin. Last July, the James Webb Space Telescope released stunning images of the 'Web Nebula,' indicating its existence approximately 830 million years after the Big Bang. Scientists’ study of these objects suggests that these luminous entities do not easily fit into current theories about the universe’s origin, despite the success of the Big Bang theory in human understanding of cosmic origins. Science Daily quoted one of the researchers in this study as saying, 'Finding ancient stars in a very young universe was completely unexpected.' According to him, standard cosmology and galaxy formation models have been incredibly successful, yet these luminous entities do not easily fit into these theories." (link)

The Big Bang Debunked?: A Clarification

"I was rather surprised when I recently learned that the British science communicator and ex-particle physicist Brian Cox supposedly debunked the Big Bang with a creation story, no less than in a BBC documentary. I had a look at the clip and I think I know what happened."

Click on the link below for an example of how even science media can have communication issues:

Brian Cox debunked the Big Bang! Wait, what? 

The Universe Is Probably Eternal, No God Necessary

"- - - there was no when there was no Universe. There was never a time when the universe did not exist. The Universe is the SpaceTime Continuum so whenever there is time there is a universe, even if there was nothing but time. Time isn't an extension of the universe. The reason I don't believe that the Universe could have a cause is because to cause something to exist means to do something that results in a change from a time when that thing does not exist to a time when it does exist. Since there never was, or even coherently could be, a time when the SpaceTime Continuum didn't exist, the universe could not have had a cause."

Click on the link below for a strong rejection of the Cosmological Argument for a God. Actually, ALL arguments for a God are generated from the intuitive parts of the brain, which are unreliable for determining what is real. Also, they have NO way to test their validity/justification because they don't come from science:

Why the Big Bang Doesn't Point to God

How OUR Universe Began

" In the beginning, there was....what? Thankfully Physics can now help us answer that question! But during the 20th Century, there was a debate raging between whether the Universe started in a Big Bang or has existed forever. Thankfully that debate was eventually settled by radio astronomy..."

Click on the link below for the definitive answer to this fundamental question. Unfortunately, it doesn't mention what started it, or if our universe is the only one. THIS question may never be answered.

How did the Universe begin?

We Just Don't Know (Yet?)

"Physicists have many theories for the beginning of our universe: A big bang, a big bounce, a black hole, a network, a collision of membranes, a gas of strings, and the list goes on. What does this mean? It means we don't know how the universe began. And the reason isn't just that we're lacking data, the reason is that science is reaching its limits when we try to understand the initial condition of the entire universe."

Click on the link below for a fascinating presentation on "The Beginning.:

* Did the Big Bang Happen?  (* I have an issue with the terminology used in the video: I think that the everyday use of the term "Big Bang" to mean a single point where our universe began and expanded IS "settled science", but that every speculation "before" then is not. Sabine delves into the "before" issue in more detail here.)

The Universe May Have Had No Beginning?

"The universe may have existed forever, according to a new model that applies quantum correction terms to complement Einstein's theory of general relativity. The model may also account for dark matter and dark energy, resolving multiple problems at once."

No Big Bang? Quantum equation predicts universe has no beginning

The Big Bang Theory Is An Example Of How Science Works

"Like the slow, creeping heat death of the universe predicted by the Big Bang model, in which the Universe expands forever until what's left is too devoid of energy to sustain life, the Steady State theory gradually fizzled out in scientific circles. Hoyle, however, defended his theory until his dying day in 2001, never accepting the overwhelming evidence for the Big Bang."

The Idea That the Big Bang Destroyed

We Are Understanding The Universe More

"The idea is simple: that the Universe had a beginning. That it had a birthday. That there was a day without a “yesterday,” where matter, radiation and the expanding, cooling Universe we recognize did not exist before a certain moment in time."

Where Did The Big Bang Happen?

The Big Bang

The difference between how the religious and how scientists view the Big Bang:  the former posits a god to explain the unknown (God of the Gaps) and the latter says we don't know.  Which one shuts out further investigation?

What existed before the big bang?