Many atheists claim that evolution is a proven scientific fact. If you disagree, they usually laugh, and go on to say things like:
“You’re one of those Bible thumpers aren’t you? You believe Noah and the arc too, right?”
But what if I told you that evolution was such a bad theory, that if an 8th grader presented it for his final project, he would get expelled from school for how irrational it was? Well, that’s true, and I’m going to show you why in the next few posts.
Today, we’re going to see that, on the Big Bang’s own terms, it refutes itself.
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The Dilemma
We must ask our secular friends, did the universe have a beginning? Well, how many answers do we have?
Yes, the Universe had a beginning
No, the Universe is eternal
If you are trying to construct a secular (non-Christian) model of the history of the universe, where there is no creator, both answers violate the laws of thermodynamics.
Yes, It Had a Beginning, with No Creator!
If you hold that the universe had a beginning, and there was no creator, that means everything came from nothing.
So what existed before the beginning? Well the answer has to be nothing, because if everything began, and there was something before that beginning, whatever began wasn’t really the beginning, because some other type of matter existed before it.
So if you hold that the universe began in a secular model, you have to hold that before the universe, there was absolutely nothing. And then, for some reason, there was something.
Nothing 101
Before moving forward, I wanted to do a quick lesson on “nothing” just so we’re all on the same page.
Nothing can only create nothing
Nothing can do nothing
From nothing, comes…nothing
Not only can you not go from nothing to everything, you can’t even go from nothing to something.
People like Lawrence Krauss have made books claiming they have a theory about how a universe came from nothing.1
The problem is, they define nothing very differently than, well, what its definition is.2
Krauss even admits this problem at the beginning of his book. When Krauss says the word “nothing”, he really means the universe came from:
an empty vacuum of space permeated with quantum fields that were capable of producing particles.
Well, that’s not nothing, is it? That’s what we layman people call “something.”
No, It’s Eternal, with No Creator!
As previously mentioned in part 2, the 2nd law of thermodynamics blows this theory out of the water. If the universe was eternal, we wouldn’t see stars.
Think about this for a minute, there are very hot stars surrounded by cold space. The heat in the universe is still very uneven.
However, the 2LOT shows us that the universe wants to even itself out equally. If the universe was eternal…all stars would have cooled off or blown up forever ago.
Since the universe hasn’t done that yet, by definition, it couldn’t have been here forever.
Back to the Future?
Some people argue the “Oscillating Universe” model. Basically, the theory states that there was the Big Bang, which expanded the universe. Then eventually, the universe will constrict in the opposite direction until it hits a single point. This process continues forever.
This entire idea doesn’t work at the foundation. Thermodynamics shows us that, if you go from a Big Bang, and everything is expanding, and entropy is increasing…
That means the later condition (expanded universe) had more entropy than its original condition (the bang).
To go from where we are today (expanded), to a constricted universe, would require a reversal of entropy, or basically, time moving backward.
This is not possible and violates thermodynamics. The universe could not have been present forever. It is not eternal.
No Options?
Well, in secular models, a universe with a beginning is quite problematic. But even worse, an eternal universe doesn’t work either.
With no secular options left, is there a third option?
Yes: The universe had a beginning, but a supernatural creator (the Triune God of scripture) brought it into being.
God is in control of space, time and matter, so he is not constrained to the laws of thermodynamics. This allows the initial creation to form without violating these laws.
Any atheistic theories of the history of the universe are simply not allowed due to their repeated violation of the LOT.
Let’s Be Generous
But let’s be generous for a minute. Let’s grant that the Big Bang happened just for a moment and see where it takes us.
Using the 2LOT, we can calculate the probability of how matter and energy is arranged.
A low entropy system is less probable
A high entropy system is more probable
So we can measure the entropy of a system, and that corresponds to the probability of that particular system actually existing.
Guess which one of these options the universe has today?
Low entropy
Mathematically Improbable
With such low entropy, our universe is mathematically improbable.
So even if something could create itself from nothing (which we already reviewed is impossible)…
Our universe is still extremely unlikely to be the result of a random unguided event like that.
If you’re proposing a model of the entire universe coming from random processes, we would see a universe that looks, well, quite random.
So with the Big Bang model, the universe is 14 billion years old. This means that, not only is entropy low today, but in the BB model, it was extremely low 14 billion years ago.
The Boltzmann Brain Paradox
Imagine someone came up to you and said “I was trying to think about where New York City came from, and I think I figured out how it came into existence. I think it popped into existence from nothing.”
You reply “Cities don’t pop into existence from nothing”
They reply “Well I think they can, I think it’s a great explanation”
So to illustrate to your friend how silly the proposal is, you reply
“NYC has buildings, cars, people, highways…you’re saying that the city with everything in it popped into existence. It would be much easier for, say, someone's wallet, complete with the leather back, credit cards etc. to have popped into existence.”
That is far more probable to have popped into existence vs the entire city…and even then, it’s still a ridiculous claim.
So how do we apply this to the Big Bang?
To put it simply, the Big Bang is so mathematically improbable based on the 2LOT, that it’s far more probable that the only thing that popped into existence is your brain.
You are just a floating brain with the right molecules in place to make it feel like you actually had a childhood and are a complete human.
Alan Guth, a cosmologist at MIT, pointed out that some calculations with this paradox result in an infinite number of free-floating brains for every normal brain, making it ‘infinitely unlikely for us to be normal brains’3
This also holds true for the multiverse theory. If you grant infinite universes, you grant you’re a floating brain just by probability.
The Nail in the Coffin
The conclusion of the Big Bang, as it holds to its own standards, is that the universe doesn’t exist and that the Big Bang did not happen.
Can you imagine bringing forward a theory about the history of the universe that, on its own standards, denies the existence of the universe?
We’re Not Done
So the theory of evolution rests on the idea that we’ve had millions and billions of years, starting from the Big Bang. But as we’ve seen today, even if we grant that the Big Bang happened, it didn’t happen.
But that’s not the only problem with evolution. Next week, we’re going to talk about the problem of abiogenesis.
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The Big Bang Refutes Itself: Devolved Part 3