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I believe that it remains still correct, it certainly is
neither easy nor comfortable to maintain this position
8 3 0 in the face of the Big Bang story. 1
Dennis Sciama (Together with Fred Hoyle
4 / 3 3 defended steady-state theory):
Defending the steady-state theory alongside Fred
Hoyle for years, Dennis Sciama described the final
Until the beginning of the 20 century, the prevailing position they had reached after all the evidence for
th
view was that the universe was of infinite dimensions, the Big Bang theory was revealed. Sciama stated
and that it had always existed, and would continue to that he had taken part in the heated debate between
exist for ever. According to this view, known as the the defenders of the steady-state theory and those
Static Universe Model, there was no question of the who tested that theory with the hope of refuting it.
universe having any beginning or an end. He added that he had defended the steady-state
This perspective, which represents the basis of ma- theory, not because he deemed it valid, but because
terialist philosophy, regarded the universe as being a he wished that it were valid.
stable, fixed and unchanging accumulation of matter, Fred Hoyle stood out against all objections as
while denying the existence of any Creator. This view evidence against this theory began to unfold. Sciama
is still accepted, in various forms, by evolutionists for goes on to say that he had first taken a stand along
ideological reasons. They espouse their claims by ma- with Hoyle but, as evidence began to pile up, he had
intaining that the universe is eternal end without end. to admit that the game was over and that the ste-
This view, refuted by science, is used by its supporters ady-state theory had to be dismissed. 2
to keep the false religion of Darwinism alive, in the face Stephen W. Hawking:
of all the scientific evidence. Why should the Universe be in a state of high order
Today, modern physics has proven with a certainty at one end of time, the end that we call the past?
that does not permit any hesitations or objections, Why is it not in a state of complete disorder at all
through many experiments, observations and calculations, times? After all, this might seem more probable. And
that the universe had a beginning and was created in a why is the direction of time in which disorder increases
single moment with an explosion known as the Big the same as that in which the Universe expands?
Bang. This utterly repudiated all evolutionists’ accounts, One possible view is that God simply chose that the
claims and statements to the effect that matter and the Universe should be in a smooth and ordered state at
universe are without beginning or end. the beginning of the expansion phase. We should
not try to understand why, or question His
Anthony Flew (British philosopher known for reasons because the beginning of the Universe was
several decades as an atheist but who later the work of God. But the whole history of the Universe
acknowledged that atheism is an empty could be said to be the work of God. 3
philosophy and stated that he believed in God. Prof. Fred Hoyle (British astronomer and
He expressed his views about how the Big Bang mathematician):
proved Creation as follows): The Big Bang theory holds that the universe began
Notoriously, confession is good for the soul. I will with a single explosion. Yet as can be seen below,
therefore begin by confessing that the Stratonician an explosion merely throws matter apart, while the
atheist has to be embarrassed by the contemporary Big Bang has mysteriously produced the opposite
cosmological consensus. For it seems that the cos- effect-with matter clumping together in the form of
mologists are providing a scientific proof, that the galaxies. 4
universe had a beginning. So long as the universe
can be comfortably thought of as being not only
without end but also without beginning, it remains 1- Henry Margenau, Roy Abraham Vargesse, Cosmos, Bios, Theos, La Salle II: Open
Court Publishing, 1992, s.241
easy to urge that its brute existence, and whatever 2- Stephan Hawking, Evreni Kucaklayan Karınca, Alkım Kitapçılık ve Yayıncılık,
1993, s.62-63
are found to be its most fundamental features, should 3- Stephen W. Hawking, "The Direction of Time", New Scientist, vol. 115, 9 Temmuz
1987, s.47
be accepted as the explanatory ultimates. Although 4- Fred Hoyle, The Intelligent Universe, London, 1984, s. 184-185
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