Arguments

Creationist Argument #2


Argument

"How can something come from nothing, as per Big Bang theory?"

Rebuttal

There are two possible rebuttals:

The latter approach is simpler, but more difficult because they will often fight tooth and nail to change the subject from evolution to cosmology. And it is difficult to stop them because if you try to stay on the original subject, they will generally make a public spectacle of their victory dances when they declare that you are afraid to debate the new subject. It may help to ask why they're so determined to avoid discussing evolution theory directly, and turn their own tactics against them by accusing them of running from a fight, but their simple-minded distortions of cosmology are so infuriatingly ignorant that it is difficult to resist defending the scientific community on the subject.

Of course, it's rather obvious that their objective is to "prove" that the universe cannot be old enough for evolution to work, but the interesting thing is that even if you could somehow refute the idea of universal expansion, this would not prove that the universe is too young for evolution to be feasible. The sheer scale of the universe and the speed of light necessitates an ancient universe even without Big Bang theory, so this really is a wild goose chase on their part. Even the potential energy released by the gravitational collapse of a proto-planetary matter into the Earth (an amount equal to roughly 3,800,000,000,000,000,000 times the Hiroshima bomb) is so great that the time required simply to cool to a solid state would handily exceed the creationist timeframe by orders of magnitude.

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