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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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