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Dismantling the Big Bang: God's Universe Rediscovered

Alex Williams,

John Hartnett

3.81 · Rating details · 31 ratings · 7 reviews

The errors of the big bang exposed scientifically in layman's language. This powerful resource answers the age old cosmology debate and includes with its pages: A brief history of scientific cosmology The big band model, including origins of stars, planets, and life The creation model, including the views of Moses and Jesus Other cosmological models, including future trend ...more

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Published July 1st 2005 by Master Books

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May 30, 2011 Debbie rated it it was amazing

"Dismantling the Big Bang" is an excellent book about the big bang, its problems, and other cosmological origins models (including young-age ones). Of the books I've read on this topic, these authors have done the best job at clearly explaining what can be complicated ideas. The book was very readable (written in a conversational tone) and easy to follow. It included black and white photographs and illustrations. I'd highly recommend it for high school students and adults.

Chapter 1 gave a histor "Dismantling the Big Bang" is an excellent book about the big bang, its problems, and other cosmological origins models (including young-age ones). Of the books I've read on this topic, these authors have done the best job at clearly explaining what can be complicated ideas. The book was very readable (written in a conversational tone) and easy to follow. It included black and white photographs and illustrations. I'd highly recommend it for high school students and adults.

Chapter 1 gave a historical overview of cosmological ideas throughout recorded history. Chapter 2 explained the basic assumptions that everyone has to make in the study of origins. Chapter 3 explained what chance and physics can account for in cosmology. Chapter 4 explained the Big Bang model (including the variations that are commonly held), what it can't and doesn't explain, and other problems. Chapter 5 explained how people try to measure age when they don't actually know the starting date and the assumptions made in these methods. It also covered some of the different young-age creationist origin models for the universe and how they deal with the "distant starlight" problem.

Chapter 6 covered what the Bible says about the origin of and in general about the universe and how that compares to what we obverse in the universe today. It briefly covered the theological and linguistic problems with several of the compromise positions (which say God created, but the universe is billions of years old). Chapter 7 compared the Big Bang model to the biblical model to see which best fit the evidence. There's also a comparison chart in Appendix C. Chapter 8 took a brief look at the current trends in cosmology to see where future study will probably be concentrated.

The appendixes included a brief look at other naturalistic models for the origin of the universe, an explanation of the theological consequences of compromise, a chart comparing the Big Bang model to the biblical explanation for the origin of the universe, and an open letter by (naturalistic) cosmologists stating that the Big Bang model has fatal flaws and that funding and scientific magazine space should also be given to alternative models.

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Apr 21, 2021 Maria rated it it was amazing

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Reading this book was a real joy to me!
Not only did I learn about many physics related stuff (I finally understand what quantum mechanics' basics are about!), but I also learned about Big Bang theory and why it is at best inadequate to explain the origin of the universe. My inner nerd has been recharged with something I could really bite my teeth in! :)

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone willing to learn about physics, astronomy and cosmology, because this book is relatively easy to ...more

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Jun 30, 2012 Rob rated it it was ok

It started out pretty good with the history of man's understanding of space and the universe, but it became much less interesting and more technical as the authors got into the discrediting of the big bang theory. In the end, they did a thorough job of showing support more for the biblical view of creation. ...more

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Jan 10, 2015 Stan rated it did not like it

A Bible-based argument against the Big Bang model. Author's credentials not easily found in the book. To the choir this probably sounds like pretty good preaching, but I'd prefer something less obviously biased. ...more

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Jan 12, 2015 Jacob rated it did not like it

Holy mother of mothers, this book was bad. Poor science, poor logic, unashamedly biased prose. Stay away if ye wish to maintain a brain.

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Jul 06, 2012 Tim rated it really liked it

"... so it is logically absurd for Christians to worship God as Creator, but then refuse to believe what he says on the subject of creation." (p. 15)

Hard to argue with that.

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Really good! A pragmatic and realistic look at the problems confronting the Big Bang.

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