Questions on the Big Bang and Beginnings

Recently I published an article on the science of the beginning of our universe including the history of that idea and some recent efforts to dislodge the necessity of a beginning and the Big Bang. My favorite Medium interlocutor, Graham Pemberton, published an article to refute my ideas and conclusions. As Graham and I agree on far more than we disagree on, I’m a bit hesitant to dig too deep into areas where we might not agree. However, he poses some interesting questions and some gentle suggestions that my presuppositions or dogma may be getting in the way of understanding the truth. So, that prompted a response. Again, I will address my comments directly to Graham.

You believe I am exhibiting unquestioning advocacy of the big bang in order to support my theory.

I believe the Big Bang theory is current cosmological orthodoxy, even if one accepts inflation, eternal inflation, oscillating universe, or other theories. I don’t know of any serious objection to the idea that our particular universe started with a superhot expansion, maybe preceded by a supercold inflation. So even among those working to reestablish a steady state or eternal universe, almost always their ideas require a beginning for this particular one.

Should it be shown that there was no beginning and therefore no creation event, it would be a very significant conclusion and one that would most certainly call into question the biblical account of a beginning. However, as Paul Davies has pointed out in the video I referenced…