stingc

I find it hard to understand why people think they know physics better than professional physicists. To be blunt about it, the science presented in popular books and tv is designed solely to make people think "wow, that's cool." Those things do not properly explain very much at all, and make plenty of blatantly wrong statements so that they can be short and understandable. Finding inconsistencies in analogies is rather pointless. To be specific, entropy has little to do with 'disorder' and the big bang is not an explosion in any conventional sense. These concepts are much more complicated than that. They're also too complicated for me to attempt to explain in an online forum.

I'll mention one popular misunderstanding, though: the big bang is not about how the universe was "created" (if it was). It's about what happened "after" that. Every cosmologist admits that physics breaks down and they have no idea what they're talking about beyond a certain point. That point, however, goes very far back in time to very very extreme conditions. The "bang" itself is an extrapolation that is not meant to be taken seriously at this point.

Also, these ideas were not something that some guy just randomly thought up one day to pick on religious people (I don't even see how it really contradicts christianity anyway, but that's another story...). They follow rigorously from the mathematics of general relativity given very minimal assumptions. There is also now a huge amount of evidence for it.

All that said, why do people bring up the big bang in a thread on evolution? They're completely unrelated ideas.