Chorus of Big Bangs

Over the last century or so, there has been a significant trend away from traditional religions to atheism.This trend has been led by a string of scientific discoveries, some aspects of which are in direct contradiction to the many and various religious beliefs of creation and the purpose of our existence.

It seems that science has worked everything out. Countless books and documentaries feed us the Big Bang hypothesis. Scientists are apparently able to go back to the first trillionth of a second after the Big Bang and work their way scientifically to where we are today.

Science believes there is nothing mysterious about our universe or our creation. It's all a matter and chance and Darwin's theory of evolution.

Most scientists these days are atheists, and generally regard people who believe in God as at best naive and at worst deluded. The word "creationists" has started to be used as a byword for people who are uneducated and believe in magic and fairies.This book provides a counterpoint to this scientific position. It argues that there are big gaps in the scientific understanding of the big bang hypothesis. And that the Standard Model of Cosmology and the Standard Model of Particle Physics are as full of holes as any religious text. These are big gaping holes that scientists themselves have uncovered like the fact that 95% of the universe is made out of somethings scientists know nothing about.

In addition to the gaps in the models there is the question of how finely tuned our universe is. There is no clear understanding as to why the numerous laws of nature, like the force of gravity, have been set as they are. Scientists just accept they have been set at the beginning of the universe in a such a, way as to allow the universe and us to exist. If any of these laws were to be set even fractionally different then we and the universe would not exist.

Scientists have no clear understanding of why this is so. The discoveries are pointing to a designed universe. But this is something that scientists simply cannot accept. So they have come up with a theory to address the fine tuning. However, the theory requires a leap of faith that is as big as any taken by believers of traditional religions.

The book's premise is not to argue for or against atheism but to argue that atheism itself is a form of religion as it relies on faith as much as any other.

This argument is presented in a simple, easy to follow narrative format using freely available quotes of physicists, cosmologists, astronomers, and scientists like Max Tegmark, Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, Nobel prize winner Saul Perlmutter, Carlos Frenk, Alan Guth, Roger Penrose, Lee Smolin, Bob Nicholl, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Paul Davies, Leonard Susskind, David Deutsche, Arnos Penzias and many others.

The aim of the book is to provide a greater understanding of the gaps in scientific discoveries and the leaps of faith science has taken for the belief in atheism. Hopefully it will help readers make a more informed decision on how they feel about the creation of the universe and our place in it.