The year 1992 was a very important one for astronomers who support the “Big Bang” theory as the explanation for how everything came to be in the universe. Recently a local newspaper ran an article from the Associate Press in Phoenix, Arizona that I’m sure was carried by thousands of other newspapers around the country. The title of that article was “New Information Found Supporting the Big Bang.” In the article John C. Mather, a NASA astronomer interpreting data collected from an instrument on the COBE satellite called the Far Infrared Absolute Spectrophotomer, said, “The Big Bang is still a winner.”
The atheistic Big Bang theory was first put forth in 1929 by astronomer Edwin Hubble after he observed that all galaxies were moving away from each other at a constant rate, as if an explosion had occurred. One of many problems that remain in this theory is where the material came from that supposedly exploded.
Mr. Mather is quoted later in the article as saying, “The Big Bang is still the simplest explanation we have.” It may be the most accepted explanation we have, if we assume that we have to be able to explain everything in terms of human wisdom, but is it the simplest? Does this data have any other interpretations? Yes, it does! Does it prove there is no God who created in the beginning? Certainly it does not!! The Big Bang is not the simplest explanation we have– “In the beginning God created . . .” is!
