What do "Scientists" who Snub the Big Bang Know?

   

            “Nothing,” is the correct answer of this specific context.  Although scientists as a whole are often lauded by the public as the “most trusted” societal subgroup; just like the rest of us they too are vulnerable to lapsing into error.  Was the scientific method compiled just for the fun of it?  Of course not!  What scientists actually “know” as the outcome of their research is the result of rigorous scientific scrutiny which sharpened over time by anticipating further potential investigative traps.  Indeed the more attuned a scientist is to avoid snares, the more likely they are to succeed in their research targets.

Confusion over this matter centers on the distinction between “science” as a disciplined research method and agents who pursue such endeavors.  The former in part specifies the very objects that science has the capacity to study.  The latter concerns questions of the integrity of the researcher in terms of competence, intellectual understanding, and commitment to parameters that science itself prescribes.  That stricture relevant to addressing my title entails phenomena that includes physical entities and interactions that can be detected by one or more of our five senses.  Science also acknowledges possible objects such as those too tiny to perceive with either our senses or our most advanced technical instruments for the reason that (for example) specifically force-fields were initially the only avenue  for surmising the existence of sub-atomic particles.

               The above examples, however, aren’t the problem that emboldens the “scientists” that trigger my title.  Instead it is out of their belief in a multiverse (m-v) that they are driven to deny creation - by the Big Bang (BB).  See the article, “10 Reasons the Multiverse is a Real Possibility,”  where every point falls short of a solid declaration.  The reason behind the hesitations is the impossibility of actually witnessing potential other universes.  Whatever you have either heard or read about “multiverses” is pure speculation void of substantial factual evidence.  This is not to belittle the competence of specialists who construct complex mathematical formulas, etc., but instead to recall that m-v conjectures have no possibility of being tested by alleged outer-space speculations that no earthly-speculator has access to.  Scientific American magazine states, “All parallel universes lie outside our horizon and remain beyond our capacity to see, now or ever, no matter how technology evolves…[so that] none of these claims…can be directly substantiated.”  So then, does the MV qualify as interesting fantasy?  Maybe.  But can they know it to be so?  The answer is emphatically No; Not ever!

               On the other hand the BB is solidly substantiated.   See Dr. Hugh Ross’s book, The Creator and the Cosmos, where he states that the resistance to the BB by certain astronomers “is based not on what observations and experiments they can test but what observations and experiments can never test…[They] engage in metaphysics rather than in physics” (boldface mine).

You may also read this article that includes footnotes at my website: www.christianityontheoffense.com/articles