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BreakPoint with Charles Colson
Commentary #010830 - 08/30/2001
According to Hoyle: Worldview and the Big Bang

The Big Bang theory says the universe had one
beginning. As an atheist, Sir Fred Hoyle preferred to
believe otherwise, and so he resisted the evidence
all of his life. He died last week at age eighty-six.

Instead of one big bang, Hoyle postulated a series of
"little pops." His "Steady State" theory included
"continuous creation." Matter always existed, he
said, and as it expands from the center of the
universe, new matter is continually created to fill
the void.

The Big Bang and Hoyle's Steady State were mere
abstractions, unable to be tested. Then, in 1964,
Drs. Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson of Bell Labs
encountered continuous static on certain microwave
frequencies. Rotating their antenna in a vain attempt
to remove the noise, they realized it was coming from
all directions -- permeating the universe. Physicists
hailed this as the first observational evidence of
the Big Bang known as "cosmic background radiation"
or "the radio echo of creation."

Penzias saw the philosophical significance in his
discovery. ". . . [T]he best data we have," he said,
"are exactly what I would have predicted, had I had
nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the
Psalms, the Bible as a whole. . . . [T]he creation of
the universe is supported by all the observable data
astronomy has produced so far."

Even as an atheist, Hoyle recognized an amazing
complexity and precision in the universe. In his
words, "A common sense interpretation of the facts
suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with
physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and
that there are no blind forces worth speaking about
in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts
seem so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost
beyond question."

In other words, the things that exist in the universe
are so complex and brilliantly made, that they look
as if an Intelligent Designer fine-tuned them. Mao
Zedong, by the way, recognized this as well -- which
is why he would never allow the Big Bang theory to be
taught in China.

Today, advocates of the Big Bang think that their
theory is a substitute for God. But it's just the
opposite. Hoyle rejected the Big Bang in spite of the
evidence because he knew that the Big Bang pointed
irresistibly to the existence of God.

Science historian Frederic B. Burnham observed that
scientists consider the idea that God created the
universe, "a more respectable hypothesis today than
at any time in the last hundred years." Dr. Geoffrey
Burbridge, of the University of California at San
Diego, complains that many astronomers are rushing
off to join what he calls "the First Church of Christ
of the Big Bang." That's a cynic's way of
acknowledging that many astronomers are being forced
by their data, to recognize the existence of a
Creator-God.

Whether God created the universe through the Big Bang
or some other way, the one who did the creating
demonstrated an amazing amount of power and wisdom as
he caused the formation of everything that has been
made!

As we read the obituaries about Sir Fred Hoyle, the
man who named the Big Bang, we might ask our
skeptical neighbors: If there was a Big Bang, isn't
it reasonable to recognize what Hoyle did -- that
there behind it a Big Brain. And might that not be
the God of the Bible and of all creation?

For further reference:

Bergman, Jerry. "Arno Penzias: Astrophysicist, Nobel
Laureate." Perspectives on Science and Christian
Faith, September 1994 (Ipswich, MA: American
Scientific Affiliation).

"'Big Bang' Astronomer Dies."
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1503000/1503721.stm>

Brian, Denis. Genius Talk: Conversations with Nobel
Scientists and Other Luminaries. New York: Plenum
Publishing, 1995.

"Fred Hoyle Dies at 86; Opposed 'Big Bang' but Named It."
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/22/obituaries/22HOYL.html>

Gingerich, Owen. "Dare a Scientist Believe in
Design?" Chapter in John Marks Templeton, ed.,
Evidence of Purpose. New York: Continuum Publishing,
1994.

Ross, Hugh. The Creator and the Cosmos.
<http://www.reasons.org>

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