The Big Bang Theory is a Theory

The Big Bang Theory is considered truth by most people in the West. It has been defended as unquestionable truth by the vast majority of cosmological theorists for decades. Leading scientists, no, nearly all known scientists, believe it. Devised in 1931, the Big Bang Theory tells us that the entire universe was once a single point and 14 billion years ago it exploded for some reason, and matter is still shooting outward from that massive explosion. This explains why our scientific instruments detected a red shift when viewing astronomical bodies far away.

The problem with the Big Bang Theory is that it is not certain truth. It is a theory. It cannot be proven nor disproven by observation or experiment. We cannot reproduce the big bang. But if the theory is true, then certain observations should follow. And many have. But other observations have contradicted the theory’s predictions, and scientists have had to patch up the theory. This isn’t true science but rather attempts to salvage long-held speculative ideas. Eventually, these conjectures collapse, only to be replaced by new, equally unprovable notions.

Logically, most theories are just as valid as a belief in God, aliens or reincarnation. We can use the existence of God, aliens or reincarnation to explain various things we have experienced in the world. But just like the Big Bang Theory, we have been unable to prove their existence using observation and experiment. Just because something is a good explanation does not mean that it is truth. Yet, we have been taught by society that it is truth; and most of us passively believed it, as we do all scientific pronouncements.