Big bang Theory

[Agent51]

According to big-bang theories, at the beginning of time, all of the matter and energy in the universe was concentrated in a very dense state, from which it “exploded,” with the resulting expansion continuing until the present. This “big bang” is dated between 10 and 20 billion years ago. In this initial state, the universe was very hot and contained a thermal soup of quarks, electrons, photons, and other elementary particles. The temperature rapidly decreased, falling from 1013 degrees Kelvin after the first microsecond to about one billion degrees after three minutes. As the universe cooled, the quarks condensed into protons and neutrons, the building blocks of atomic nuclei. Some of these were converted into helium nuclei by fusion; the relative abundance of hydrogen and helium is used as a test of the theory. After many millions of years the expanding universe, at first a very hot gas, thinned and cooled enough to condense into individual galaxies and then stars.

Several spectacular discoveries since 1950 have shed new light on the problem. Optical and radio astronomy complemented each other in the discovery of the quasars and the radio galaxies. It is believed that the energy reaching us now from some of these objects was emitted not long after the creation of the universe. Further evidence for the big-bang theory was the discovery in 1965 that a cosmic background noise is received from every part of the sky. This background radiation has the same intensity and distribution of frequencies in all directions and is not associated with any individual celestial object. This radiation filling space has a black body temperature of 2.7K (-270°C) and is interpreted as the electromagnetic remnant of the primordial fireball, stretched to long wavelengths by the expansion of the universe. More recently, the analysis of radiation from distant celestial objects detected by artificial satellites has given additional evidence for the big-bang theory.
But I also believe God made the BIG BANG happen
;)

[Voodoo Child]

You should add in the source or atleast acknowledge the cut and paste.

Why believe God did it*? What possible evidence is there for such a belief? Is this going to be one of those super-lame first cause arguments that involve an ugly and inappropriate synthesis of cosmology and theology?

* possibly the most annoying and intellectually lazy three words ever.

[thed]

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/9704/9704062.pdf

[6061-T6]

As per the idea of the Big Bang theory. I do agree with what you have said, as well as others, even going as far as to discussing the red & blue shift of stars as they move to and away from one another. These ideas have placed the Big Bang theory at the forefront of discussions numerous times.
I would be interrested to hear your thoughts the idea of an expanding and collapsing universe? This idea has been explored by such authors as Michio Kaku and Paul Davies. In a nut shell the universe will expand to such a limit to where the inertia will decrease and then the whole ball of wax will then start to collapse back in toward its center. Once again recreating itself i.e. another Big Bang.