February 14, 2016
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Gravitational Waves, and Big Bang Theory...
Most secular scientists believe in the (naturalistic) Big Bang theory (BBT) of the origin of the universe. However, this theory has huge scientific problems.
This weekend I watched "Our Created Universe", DVD 3 of this series http://www.creationastronomy.com/store/ . I highly recommend it. Its production is rather low-budget, and it is aimed at the scientific layman, but the information it presents is accurate, thorough, and even humorous in its exposing of the vacuity of the BBT.Producer Spike Psarris explains the BBT, and also the reasons why scientists keep trying to desperately patch it up, with unobserved/unobservable entities like "inflation", "dark matter", "dark energy", and "multiverses". He shows how the BBT is very unscientific, in that it contradicts known science such as the conservation of matter/energy, it postulates unobservable entities and 'miracles', and sweeps away the philosophical foundation of science: the assumption of an orderly, cause-and-effect universe. He includes a hilarious (and well-documented) discussion of "Boltzmann Brains", another aspect of the self-refuting nature of the BBT. He concludes with a brief explanation and celebration of the main alternative theory - the Genesis 1 story, that God created the heavens. He did not get into the starlight-time-travel problem in this DVD but said it would come in his next DVD. (There are good articles explaining this at creation.com and elsewhere, via time-dilation or space-stretching hypotheses.)
He nicely distinguishes the scientific, measureable facts observed in the skies (redshifts, blueshifts, spectral signatures, gravity waves, etc) from the interpretations people make about those facts. Last week's announcement about LIGO's discovery of gravitational waves is an example of real science (measureable, testable, repeatable), in contrast to the practically-unfalsifiable continually-patched-up LCDM BBT.
It's worth buying a copy of the DVD and watching it... Let me know if you'd like to borrow a copy from me...
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