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Puritan Board Doctor
I have just come to understand that the Big Bang Theory is not a causal theory but an effect theory. In other words, the BBT is not proposing how the universe was created, but simply that there was once nothing and then something happened [We would call this God creating the universe] that made time and space begin.
I had always understood the BBT to be the event that happened to cause the universe to exist (a bang), but it is not a description of that. It is asserting that there was once no matter, no energy, and out of nothing came the world. It is a theory that suggests that the world has not always existed, it is not infinite. That's why some scientists don't like it. They want to believe that the universe was once smaller and has now expanded, but it was always something. But really the BBT says that it was once nothing, something caused it, and then it expanded.
Can anyone help me understand this more?
I had always understood the BBT to be the event that happened to cause the universe to exist (a bang), but it is not a description of that. It is asserting that there was once no matter, no energy, and out of nothing came the world. It is a theory that suggests that the world has not always existed, it is not infinite. That's why some scientists don't like it. They want to believe that the universe was once smaller and has now expanded, but it was always something. But really the BBT says that it was once nothing, something caused it, and then it expanded.
Can anyone help me understand this more?