Page 174 - Confessions of the Evolutionists

172 CONFESSIONS OF THE EVOLUTIONISTS

Hoimar Von Ditfurth is a German professor of neurology and a

well-known evolutionist science writer:
To put it another way, scientists encountered phenomena suggesting that
the universe had a beginning.

This idea seemed so revolutionary, or unscientific to put it in other terms,
or odd, a word beloved of many scientists, that a number of concepts and
opinions were put forward in order to avoid the striking conclusion that
would be reminiscent of those in ancient myths and religions. We are not
going to discuss these often complex concepts and universal models here.
Because as stated at the beginning, we consider that the American Penzias
and Wilson's (scientists who put forward the Big Bang theory)discoveries
represent a final answer to this question. The universe did indeed have a
beginning. 443
Anthony Flew is a British philosopher known for several decades
as an atheist but who later acknowledged that atheism is an empty phi-
losophy and stated that he believed in Allah. He expressed his views

about how the Big Bang proved Creation as follows:
Notoriously, confession is good for the soul. I will therefore begin by con-
fessing that the Stratonician atheist has to be embarrassed by the contem-
porary cosmological consensus. For it seems that the cosmologists are
providing a scientific proof, that the 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 easy to urge that its brute exis-
tence, and whatever are found to be its most fundamental features,
should be accepted as the explanatory ultimates. Although I believe that
it remains still correct, it certainly is neither easy nor comfortable to main-
tain this position in the face of the Big Bang story. 444

Dennis Sciama is a scientist who, together with Fred Hoyle (who
came up with the steady-state theory), spent many years defending the
fixed universe theory. In Stephen Hawking's words:
Defending the steady-state theory alongside Fred Hoyle for years, Dennis
Sciama described the final position they had reached after all the evidence
for the Big Bang theory was revealed. Sciama stated that he had taken part
in the heated debate between the defenders of the steady-state theory and
those who tested that theory with the hope of refuting it. He added that
he had defended the steady-state theory, not because he deemed it