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Asked by lavamonster to Hywel, Joseph, Patience, Poonam, Rachael on 21 Jun 2010 in Categories: General. This question was also asked by walthamalinur, ardelyn07, megantingley96, elliebob.
Question: What convincing proof is there to the big bang therory and the therory of evoloution
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Joseph Cook answered on 16 Jun 2010:
I think probably the best evidence for the big bang is the fact that all the stars and planets in the universe are moving away from each other now in a way that suggests they were all previously in the same place about 13-14 billion years ago.
There is tons of evidence for evolution, probably the best evidence is fossils that can be dated from different points in time over millions of years. I suggest you visit a museum to see some, as they are fascinating. The Natural History Museum in London is great, if you can get there.
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Dr Hywel Jones answered on 18 Jun 2010:
There are literally thousands of scientists who have worked for many tens of thousands of person hours on the theories and experimental evidence for both the big bang and the existence of evolution. Their work has been published, examined, modified, adapted and re-published and this is still happening. All the conclusions show that both some form of singular event (the big bang) actually happened and that evolution is a real phenomenon and is happening all around us.
The big bang evidence comes from many complex astronomical experiments where scientists measure things that happened many billions of years ago, while for evolution the evidence is based mainly on the fossil record and partly on the study of creatures alive today. -
Poonam Kaushik answered on 21 Jun 2010:
Following are the evidences for big bang theory:
First of all, we are reasonably certain that the universe had a beginning.
Second, galaxies appear to be moving away from us at speeds proportional to their distance. This is called “Hubble’s Law,” named after Edwin Hubble (1889-1953) who discovered this phenomenon in 1929. This observation supports the expansion of the universe and suggests that the universe was once compacted.
Third, if the universe was initially very, very hot as the Big Bang suggests, we should be able to find some remnant of this heat. In 1965, Radioastronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discovered a 2.725 degree Kelvin (-454.765 degree Fahrenheit, -270.425 degree Celsius) Cosmic Microwave Background radiation (CMB) which pervades the observable universe. This is thought to be the remnant which scientists were looking for. Penzias and Wilson shared in the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physics for their discovery.
Finally, the abundance of the “light elements” Hydrogen and Helium found in the observable universe are thought to support the Big Bang model of origins.
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lavamonster commented on :
but surely a bang destroys stuff how can i create life and planets
Hywel commented on :
A “bang” is simply changing things from one form in to another, nothing is actually destroyed. The explosive is converted in to light, heat and sound for example ( a blast is just a powerful sound wave).
The big bang was the event that changed some very basic forms of matter in to the more normal matter that exists around us today.
lavamonster commented on :
Since a blast is as powerful as a sound wave then if a really loud sound wave happened then would it kill you because it a really big blast happened and you were near then it would kill you?