Big Bang Theory And Cosmological Argument

Where do we come from? Around the world, there are numerous religions and scientific theories that attempt to explain how our universe began. The information contained below will attempt to outline the Big Bang theory and the Cosmological Argument. In 1929 an astronomer named Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is expanding the same in all directions and from this conceived the Big Bang Theory (Craig 30). Everything in the universe is expanding outward. This implies that at some point in the past the entire known universe was contracted down to a single mathematical point. The further back one goes in the past, the denser the universe becomes, so that one finally reaches a point of infinite density. From this point of infinite density,
Grünbaum’s first objection was we use the word “cause” to mean something that transforms previously existing materials from one state to another. But when we infer the universe has a cause, we mean by “cause” something that creates its effect out of nothing. Since these two meanings of “cause” are not the same, the argument is guilty of equivocation and is therefore invalid. But Craig responds stating the univocal concept of “cause” employed throughout the argument is the concept of something which brings about or produces its effects. Whether this production involves transformation of already existing materials or creation out of nothing is an incidental question. Thus the charge of equivocation is groundless. Another objection is that it is logically fallacious to infer that there is a single conscious agent who created the universe. This objection seems reasonable. Why couldn’t there be someone who made the Creator? But Craig refutes this idea saying that the inference to a single cause of the origin of the universe seems justified in light of the principle, commonly accepted in science, that one should not multiply causes beyond necessity. One is justified in inferring only causes such as are necessary to explain the effect in question; positing any more would be gratuitous. Since the universe is a single
The Big Bang looks like a very plausible beginning for the universe. Whatever begins to exists has a cause. The universe began to exist therefore the universe had a cause, which would seem to lie outside the physical universe. This coheres well with the Christian claim that God is a non-physical being who created the physical universe. Although Craig’s argument does not specifically determine that the Christian God exists, but rather just a Creator. Scientifically, there is still a lot about the Big Bang that is a mystery. We just don’t understand it. The evidence shows that it happened, but not why it happened. We have very little clue about that scientifically—and there may well be no scientific answer. It may be that God just did it, and did it in a way not susceptible to scientific study. For now, the Big Bang looks like the beginning of the Universe, and it has a legitimate place in discussions of God's