I love science and I love Science Friday. This week 3/21/14, Ira Flatow discussed the new theory of Inflation and how the big bang expanded so quickly. This is an important theory for evolution because evolution and its “big bang” explosion has several problems. (But you are not going to read about their problems in any text book, are you?)
The biggest Cosmic Question for evolution theory is where did all of the energy we see in the universe come from? And we have discussed this question on this site many times… something coming from nothing is a conflict in logic and the Law of Non-Contradiction. Setting this aside, what other cosmic problems does the theory of evolution have and is evolution a theory?
- One of the problem with evolution is the question, “What propulsions system drove the universe into the phenomenal expanse that we see?”
- Another problem is why does the universe have so much similarity? One of these evolution dilemmas is why the cosmic background radiation temperature vary less than 1-degree C?
To accommodate these problems, the Theory of Instantaneous Inflation has been inserted to take care of the apparent exponential expansion of the universe and the reason for the common background temperature.
Let me give you Science Friday’s introduction paragraph:
Researchers have detected a nearly 14-billion-year-old signal that helps to confirm the idea of inflation, which theorizes that the universe quickly expanded right after the Big Bang. Physicists Lawrence Krauss, John Kovac, and Alan Guth—the father of inflation—discuss what this discovery can tell us about the early universe and what it might mean for the future of physics.
You can read the entire comments and listen at Science Friday, Detecting the Bang of the Big Bang.
So, what is the truth? Could their “Repulsive Gravitational Force” cause the rapid expansion of a small dense universe into our present expanded universe? And a bigger question, is evolution a theory?
I cannot answer the above question because they are not scientific questions. They are historical questions about cosmology. But we can produce evidence and come to some conclusion. Unfortunately, your and my bias shows up in our conclusions on historical questions; thus our conclusions are different.
But the fact remains, there is evidence, facts, laws, reason, and theories that can help us answer the question is evolution a theory. That evidence is all around us. But back to Science Friday and Inflation…
What started inflation? What ended inflation? How did gravitation reverse from as we know it now, to reverse and repulse the universe, to reverse again to what we know now? (That is two gravitational reversals.)
While I cannot argue with these highly educated men nor their findings or observations, I can ask some questions about their conclusions. Physics is exciting and this new theory is exciting but please , let us separate historical speculation (and maybe historical science) from observational science.
The facts, please, just the facts.