So What’s the Big Deal? The best data we have (concerning the Big Bang ) are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, and the Bible as a

to General Relativity and Cosmology ." George Ellis and Bill Stoeger present the standard model of our universe, the Friedmann- Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) or Big Bang model, including its foundations in special relativity and

Big Bang Cosmology and Theology... (14 topics) Quantum Physics and Theology... (14 topics) Cosmos and Creator... (Polkinghorne et al, 6 topics)

the Universe began with a big bang, exploding into being out of nothing, and evolving from there by natural laws into billions of galaxies. The theoretical basis for the big bang came from the general theory of relativity, developed by Albert

as described by the standard Big Bang model. According to the inflationary (or "hot") Big Bang models, we cannot be certain whether the universe began at a ‘t=0-like’ event or whether it emerged out of a prior megauniverse,

Section D: Modern cosmology and universal history (3.15-3.18) 3.15 The beginnings of scientific cosmology - 3.16 The Big Bang - 3.16.1 Evidence for a Big Bang? - 3.17 The shape of things to come - 3.18 Is the Big Bang the

The first is to extend the Big Bang model to permit an endless series of expansions and contractions: the so-called cyclic Big Bang (see is the Big Bang a moment of creation? ). Each passage through a singularity is supposed to randomize the

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is complex in respect of Big Bang cosmology (see Big Bang cosmology and theology ). He finds a more rewarding consonance in respect of the physical world being shaped by an interplay between chance and physical law (see law and chance ).

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