Everything You Wanted to Know about the Big Bang

In this wide-ranging interview released as part of the Science Uprising series, Discovery Institute physicist Brian Miller fields 20 questions about the big bang and evidence for the existence of God.

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Catch up with all the episodes of season 1 of Science Uprising, along with more in-depth interviews with the scientists featured, at https://scienceuprising.com/.

Questions addressed by Dr. Miller include:

• What is the big bang theory?
• Why did scientists initially dispute the big bang?
• What did scientists believe before the big bang?
• What models have been proposed to maintain the idea of an eternal universe?
• Why did scientists come to accept the big bang? Who is Georges Lemaitre?
• How did the scientific community receive Lemaitre’s idea?
• How did Edwin Hubble contribute to the big bang theory?
• What is the most compelling evidence for the big bang?
• What does the big bang imply about belief in God?
• Are there current critics of the big bang model?
• Why is an eternal universe so important to atheists?
• Why is the big bang theory still being challenged?
• Did the universe have a beginning?
• What are the arguments against a beginning to the universe?
• What is a singularity? Does the universe need a creator?
• What about the idea of a multiverse?
• Lawrence Krauss thinks the universe possibly came from “nothing.” How would you respond?
• What does Lawrence Krauss mean by nothing?