To the Editor:
"Finding Hashem in Nature - Losing Hashem in Science" (14
Tishrei) referred to the "heretical evidence" of the Big
Bang." Indeed, the Big Bang theory cannot be squared with the
Bereishis account.
According to the Torah, all the elements were made together,
the Earth was formed before the stars, plants were formed
before the sun, birds were created before reptiles, and the
sun, moon and stars were formed on the Fourth Day after the
Earth.
According to the Big Bang theory, the elements beyond
hydrogen and helium were formed after millions of years, the
Earth was formed long after the stars, plants evolved after
the sun, birds evolved from reptiles, and the sun was formed
before the Earth!
The Big Bang theory was originally conceived out of a desire
to have a godless naturalistic explanation for the origin of
the universe. A modified view has it that when the explosive
event happened, it was directed by G-d. This is called
"theistic evolution" and is an attempt to compromise the
Torah with vast-age evolutionary theories, currently in vogue
among some Orthodox writers including Rabbi Nosson Slifkin's
The Science of Torah that was condemned by the
rabbonim.
Among other things, this approach treats the Big Bang theory
as if it was an undisputed fact.
Yet many astronomers and physicists claim that the facts
belie it on pure scientific grounds, and more plausible
theories abound, e.g. a shrinking universe ("The Big
Crunch"), the transverse Doppler Effect, the decrease in the
speed of light, cosmic dust heating and others.
An explosion would have propelled all matter radially from
its center, and by the Law of Conservation of Angular
Momentum, could not have acquired the curving rotations and
orbits we see everywhere in the cosmos. Worse, the Big Bang
theory blatantly contradicts Newton's Law's of Motion and the
Laws of Thermodynamics that state that with the passing of
time there is an increase in entropy (disorder): there is a
deterioration as systems go from order to disorder.
Just like the Earth's undetectable translational velocity,
the Oort cometary cloud and the "missing mass" of the
universe, the Big Bang model requires belief in such arcane
notions as dark matter, dark energy, anti-matter, neutron
stars, curved space, black holes, superluminal jets,
"variously flavored" missing Neutrino, WIMP and MACHO
particles etc. etc., none of which have ever been observed,
photographed or measured — all theoretical entities
that only exist in some astronomers' minds!
It is intellectually dishonest to conjure up the existence of
unobservable entities in order to save a theory that
observation would otherwise disprove.
"The Big Bang Theory is simply preposterous. This is not
chochmah, but rather it is shtus!" (R.Shimon
Schwab, Rav Schwab on Prayer, p444)
At the time of Creation "He spoke and it was; He commanded
and it stood firm" (Tehillim 33)! The astronomical
data once claimed to be evidence for the Big Bang theory,
such as the Redshift and the Comic Background Radiation,
instead much better support a rapid fully formed Geocentric
creation only thousands of years ago
Yours Truly,
Amnon Goldberg
Tzefas
