Growing up in today’s modern society, like most people I just accepted the big bang theory as fact, without really looking into it closely.

But when I did look into the facts of this theory, I was shocked to find it was held together by a number of invented elements that scientists have never seen or measured. For example, for the big bang theory to work there has to be things such as dark matter, dark energy, and population III stars (just to name a few examples), but these things have never been found.

Perhaps that’s why in 2004 an open letter to the scientific community was published in the New Scientist and signed by 33 scientists (now signed by over 200 scientists), saying that the big bang theory was no longer defensible and had serious problems. In part the letter said:

The big bang today relies on a growing number of hypothetical entities, things that we have never observed—inflation, dark matter and dark energy are the most prominent examples. Without them, there would be a fatal contradiction between the observations made by astronomers and the predictions of the big bang theory…

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In no other field of physics would this continual recourse to new hypothetical objects be accepted as a way of bridging the gap between theory and observation. It would, at the least, raise serious questions about the validity of the underlying theory…

For me this is another reminder that although man sometimes confidently struts around like he knows it all, in fact we know very little. We’re taking guesses at what has happened in the past, using flawed methods, and there are in fact many things the world tells us are true which just aren’t.

“But the basic reality of God is plain enough. Open your eyes and there it is! By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, people have always been able to see what their eyes as such can’t see: eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of his divine being…”
The Apostle Paul, ~57AD