how it all matches up
with scripture.
Scientist and believers alike.
Tryin to work on that...
Yup...
By My buddy Ethan Siegel :-)
Big Think May 21, 2026
And to all who have ever said
and it is correct BTW:
"God can do anything."
(Matthew 19:26)
and then turn around
and just flippantly
(WOD BTW)
dismiss the physical evidence we have
of the universe having a beginning:
So God can do anything?
but just not cause the Big Bang?
It contradicts scripture and
I just do not have the mental capacity
for that type of logic.
Just can not do
the mental gymnastics needed
to reach that conclusion.
Anyway(s)
"The original idea of the Big Bang was synonymous with a singularity: a point of zero volume. In this Universe, things never got that small."
"In the earliest known stages of cosmic history, a period of relentless exponential expansion known as cosmic inflation occurred, where inflation’s end corresponds with our initial hot Big Bang beginning: yielding a Universe of a finite size, rather than one that was infinitesimally (or singularly) small. The inflationary state lasted at least approximately ~10^-32 seconds, but could have lasted for far longer. Some other state, however, must have predated the inflationary one, and science has not, and possibly cannot, determine whether that state was singular or non-singular in origin."
(Gonna focus on:
"Some other state, however,
must have predated
the inflationary one..."
Friday, August 26, 2022
New International Encyclopedia
of Bible Words
"CREATE
"Bara"
To many of us, the word generally implies an action by something that has not existed before is brought into being. The biblical words do not necessarily mean "to create out of nothing."
"It’s only due to the expanding fabric of space that the most ancient light we can see corresponds to distances that exceed 13.8 billion light-years."
(Isaiah 42:5 –
“This is what God the LORD says—
the Creator of the heavens, who stretches them out . .
.”Isaiah 44:24 – “ . . .
I am the LORD, the Maker of all things,
who stretches out the heavens . . .”
Isaiah 45:12 –
“My own hands stretched out the heavens;
I marshaled their starry hosts.”
Jeremiah 10:12 –
“God . . . stretched out the heavens
by his understanding.”
Jeremiah 51:15 - –
“He founded the world by his wisdom
and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.”
Thousands of years before we ever knew it was true.
And people wanna say it was written by men, well it was...but it was INSPIRED by the almighty as there is now way possible Isaiah or Jeremiah
could have ever known any of that.)
"Nonetheless, at any given time,
there’s always a limit to how far away we can see:
a limit to the observable Universe."
(Job 38:4, 11
Where wast thou
when I laid the foundations of the earth?
declare, if thou hast understanding.
11 And said,
Hitherto shalt thou come,
but no further:
and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Ecclesiastes 3:11
He hath made every thing beautiful in his time:
also he hath set the world in their heart,
so that no man can find out the work
that God maketh from the beginning to the end.)
"This also means that if we went back to any point in the distant past, our Universe would also have a finite, quantifiable size: smaller than it is today, dependent on how much time has passed since the hot Big Bang."
(It had a beginning, the universe is not eternal.
People get "Eternal" mixed up with "Infinite."
Eternal means no beginning and no end.
(Providence of God alone,
unless he grants the same
to your soul he created and owns.
See: Genesis 2:7, Ez 18:3,4)
Something can be infinite (go on forever)
and still have a beginning.
Think of the number Pi.)
"...radiation: at 0.01% of the Universe today, it’s practically negligible. The fact that it drops in energy density faster than matter means it gets relatively less and less important as time goes on. But early on, for the first ~10,000 years after the Big Bang or so, radiation was the dominant component of the Universe,
and arguably,
the only one that mattered."
(Oh BTW?
"Light is a form of radiation.
And specifically, visible light is a small segment
of the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum"
Im sorry, what was
the very first thing
God ever said and thus created?
Genesis 1:3
And God said,
Let there be light:
and there was light.
And it was
the entire electromagnetic spectrum
as that is
what makes up
everything else.
Earlier on Ethan in his article
had stated:
"We can do this as long as the types of energy in the Universe remain constant: as long as you don’t convert one form of energy (like matter) into another form of energy (like radiation), as different forms of energy obey a different set of rules as the Universe expands."
(Light, energy, matter
it's all the same stuff
it is just a matter
of how it was encapsulated
by your creator
to serve his purpose(s).
)
"The stars and galaxies we see today didn’t always exist, and the farther back we go, the closer to an apparent singularity the Universe gets, as we go to hotter, denser, and more uniform states. However, there is a limit to that extrapolation, as going all the way back to a singularity creates puzzles we cannot resolve without invoking some type of different state early on in cosmic history."
"Bara:
CREATE
To many of us, the word generally implies an action by something that has not existed before is brought into being. The biblical words do not necessarily mean "to create out of nothing."
"The emphasis in bara is not on making something from nothing but on initiating an object or project. There are certain things that only God is capable of initiating and thus of giving being.")
"There must have been a cutoff to how far back we can extrapolate that our Universe was filled with matter-and-radiation,
(From above:
Job 38:4, 11
Where wast thou
when I laid the foundations of the earth?
declare, if thou hast understanding.
11 And said,
Hitherto shalt thou come,
but no further:
and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Ecclesiastes 3:11
He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.)
"and instead
there must have been
a phase of the Universe
that preceded and set up
the hot Big Bang."
("The emphasis in bara is not on making something from nothing
but on initiating an object or project.)
"That phase was theorized back in the early 1980s, before these details of the cosmic microwave background were ever measured, and is known as cosmic inflation."
I used to drink that Kool-Aid so to speak, sure don't anymore.
Variety of reasons, Holographic Universe being among them.
Thats strike one...
See : Saturday, September 14, 2024
"Inflation was proposed more than 35 years ago, among others, by Paul Steinhardt. But Steinhardt has become one of the theory’s most fervent critics."
(Thats strike two...)
"Presently, it is therefore utterly pointless to twiddle with the details of inflation because there are literally infinitely many models that one can think up, giving rise to infinitely many different “predictions.”
(And thats strike three...
And there's at least
three more strikes as well:
Problems that aint problems:
Flatness.
Homogenous
Lack Monopole relics
being among them,
but I digress
Back to the piece at hand:)
"According to the theory of inflation, the Universe:...
to the inflationary field,..."
(1)There is no evidence of it.
2) They never ever try to explain
what was responsible for it
(See all the notes above about
"Bara" Create.)
3) Without it
"the inflationary field"
if you don't have it?
(Inflationary cosmology?)
Then the Multiverse
doesn't come into play at all.
An astute individual
just might be able
to figure out something there,
just sayin...
"Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite."
Excerpt from
Eisenhower's
Farewell Address 1/17/61.
Its just really just not to hard to figure out
what is going on here and why
its just really not:
)"...when the Universe was merely ~1 second old, it was actually too hot for nuclear fusion to occur, since any heavy nuclei created would immediately be blasted apart by an energetic collision, and the Universe would have only been about 10 light-years in any direction from you: enough to enclose just the 9 nearest known star systems to our own."
Thursday, June 11, 2026
"and are we
11:3811 minutes, 38 seconds
living in a holographic universe
is the fundamental question
this pulls the rug out
from most of what we think
about astronomy
and elsewhere
is space and
11:4711 minutes, 47 seconds
time grainy in a sense
is that it's quantum noise
and space-time is the point
that means
that distant galaxies
11:5411 minutes, 54 seconds
may be nothing more
than an illusion.
(Jumping units of analysis from "star systems"
to galaxies but I think you get the concept
and at least I try and tell you when I do so.)
"And yet, there’s a cutoff to how far back we can go in time, which corresponds to the highest temperature the Universe could have ever reached."
(Again From above:
Job 38:4, 11
Where wast thou
when I laid the foundations of the earth?
declare, if thou hast understanding.
11 And said,
Hitherto shalt thou come,
but no further:
and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Ecclesiastes 3:11
He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.)
"Today, we can say that the Universe got no hotter, at the hottest part of the hot Big Bang, than about 10¹⁵ GeV in terms of energy. That places a cutoff on how far you can extrapolate the hot Big Bang backward: to a time of ~10-35 seconds and a distance scale of around 1.5 meters. The Universe, at the earliest stages we can ascribe a “size” to it, could have been no smaller than roughly the size of a human being. This is a tremendous and recent improvement by about a factor of ten over a decade ago, when we would have said “no smaller than a soccer ball” instead."
"No matter how tempting it may be to think that the Universe arose from a singular point of infinite temperature and density, and that all of space and time emerged from that starting point,
we cannot responsibly make that extrapolation
and still be consistent with
the observations that we’ve made.
We can only run the clock back a certain, finite amount until the story changes, with today’s observable Universe — and all the matter and energy within it — allowed to be no smaller than the wingspan of a typical human teenager. Any smaller than that, and we’d see fluctuations in the Big Bang’s leftover glow that simply aren’t there."
"Before the hot Big Bang, our Universe was dominated by energy inherent to space, or to the field that drives cosmic inflation, and we have no idea how long inflation lasted for or what set up and caused it, if anything."
(Causeless effects is bad logic
and bad logic
never results in good science
and results in even worse
theology...yup...)
"By its very nature, inflation wipes our Universe clean of any information that came before it, imprinting only the signals from inflation’s final fractions-of-a-second onto our observable Universe today."
("Ecc 3:11
...so that no man can find out
the work that God maketh
from the beginning to the end."
Buddha just aint got that shit,
nor Muhammad
nor the Vedas
nor Confucius
nor anybody else
but the author of history himself.
I just wish the scientist
knew the theology
because certain theologians
sure do know the science:
And thanks Ethan.
Love ya buddy.
Get that bike.
Lets go ride.
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