Talk:Religious interpretations of the Big Bang theory/sandbox
Since the acceptance of the Big Bang theory as the dominant physical cosmological paradigm, there have been a variety of reactions by religious groups as to its implications for their respective religious cosmologies.
The Big Bang itself is a scientific theory, and as such stands or falls by its agreement with observations.[1] But as a theory which addresses the origins of reality it carries theological implications regarding the concept of creation ex nihilo (a Latin phrase meaning "out of nothing").[2][3][4] In the 1920s and 1930s almost every major cosmologist preferred an eternal steady state Universe, and several complained that the beginning of time implied by the Big Bang imported religious concepts into physics; this objection was later repeated by supporters of the steady state theory.[5]
Pope Pius XII declared, at the November 22, 1951 opening meeting of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, that the Big Bang theory does not conflict with the Catholic concept of creation.[6][7]
Notes
edit- ^ Kragh, Helge (1996). Cosmology and Controversy. Princeton University Press. p. [page needed]. ISBN 069100546X.
- ^ George F R Ellis (2007-08-08). "Issues in the philosophy of cosmology". Philosophy of Physics: 1183–1285. doi:10.1016/B978-044451560-5/50014-2.
- ^ Alexander, Vilenkin (1982-11-04). "Creation of universes from nothing". Physics Letters B. 117 (1–2): 25–28. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(82)90866-8. ISSN 0370-2693. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
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Manson, N.A. (1993). God and Design: The Teleological Argument and Modern Science. Routledge. ISBN 9780415263443.
The Big Bang theory strikes many people as having theological implications, as shown by those who do not welcome those implications.
- ^ Kragh, H. (1996). Cosmology and Controversy. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-02623-8.
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Ferris, T. (1988). Coming of age in the Milky Way. Morrow. pp. 274, 438. ISBN 978-0-688-05889-0.
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Pope Pius XII (1951-11-02). "Ai soci della Pontificia Accademia delle Scienze, 22 novembre 1951 - Pio XII, Discorsi" (in Italian). Tipografia Poliglotta Vaticana.
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References
edit- Leeming, David Adams, and Margaret Adams Leeming, A Dictionary of Creation Myths. Oxford University Press (1995), ISBN 0-19-510275-4.
- Pius XII (1952), "Modern Science and the Existence of God," The Catholic Mind 49:182–192.
- Ahmad, Mirza Tahir, Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth Islam International Publications Ltd (1987), ISBN 1-85372-640-0. The Quran and Cosmology
- Long, Barry, The Origins of Man And the Universe Barry Long Books (1998), ISBN 1-899324-12-7. The Origins of Man And the Universe
External links
edit- More universe theories
- Varg Vikernes' "Irminsûl" (Germanic paganism view)
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