He that created the heavens,
and stretched them out;'
Isaiah 42:5
"Not all scientists agree with the concept of the ‘big bang’; in fact, many have never supported it.
[Ed. note, 2010: see Secular scientists blast the big bang, about ‘Big
bang theory busted by 33 top scientists’ (2005), with many more signing this statement.]
There have been other non-Biblical theories about the origin of the universe put forward in modern times—the main ones being the ‘steady state’ theory and the ‘plasma’ theory.
Suggested by Fred Hoyle, Thomas Gold, and Hermann Bondi in 1948, the ‘steady state’ theory assumes that the universe never had a beginning. To fill the gaps left by the expansion of the universe—to ensure that it remained in a ‘steady state’—Hoyle and his colleagues proposed the continuous creation of hydrogen atoms.
[Ed. note, 2023: in December 2022, a Belgian national broadcaster recovered a 1964 interview with Lemaître that had thought to have been lost. Lemaître said he had “the greatest admiration for Hoyle’s work”, but dismissed this idea as “ghostly” or “phantom” hydrogen. Hoyle later became a famous critic of chemical evolution (life from non-living chemicals, ‘abiogenesis’) and Darwinian evolution—see Big bang critic dies (Fred Hoyle, 1915–2001).]."
Suggested by Fred Hoyle, Thomas Gold, and Hermann Bondi in 1948, the ‘steady state’ theory assumes that the universe never had a beginning. To fill the gaps left by the expansion of the universe—to ensure that it remained in a ‘steady state’—Hoyle and his colleagues proposed the continuous creation of hydrogen atoms.
[Ed. note, 2023: in December 2022, a Belgian national broadcaster recovered a 1964 interview with Lemaître that had thought to have been lost. Lemaître said he had “the greatest admiration for Hoyle’s work”, but dismissed this idea as “ghostly” or “phantom” hydrogen. Hoyle later became a famous critic of chemical evolution (life from non-living chemicals, ‘abiogenesis’) and Darwinian evolution—see Big bang critic dies (Fred Hoyle, 1915–2001).]."
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