Dismantling the Big Bang [Paperback]

Alex Williams (Author), John Hartnett (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 20, 2005

This powerful resource answers the age old cosmology debate and includes within its pages: • A brief history of scientific cosmology • The big bang model, including origins of stars, planets, and life • The creation model, including the views of Moses and Jesus • Other cosmological models, including future trends • The errors in evolutionary time scales, time indicators, and ages • Appendixes and comprehensive index In modern times, the Bible has become increasingly disconnected from most Christians’ understanding of the real world. Cosmology — the way we think about the universe — has come to be totally dominated by secular beliefs, such as the big bang. Many Christians, including prominent leaders, have therefore felt compelled to “reinterpret” the Bible in the light of big bang thinking. To its credit, the big bang is an interesting and worthwhile scientific theory, and it is the best candidate that materialists have been able to put forward to this point to try to explain the universe without God, but it is demonstrably inadequate, to say the least. Big bang theory cannot explain the origin of the universe or of the significant objects within it (i.e. galaxies, stars, planets, and people). Big bang theory contains no credible or consistent naturalistic cause to explain what we see. Dismantling the Big Bang reveals these scientific and philosophical weaknesses at the core of big-bang thinking and the contradictions to which they lead. Written on a level that laypeople can understand, it comparatively shows the intellectual superiority of the history of the universe given in the Bible as a basis for our thinking about the cosmos. We need to rediscover how to think about the universe in the only way that makes sense — from God’s perspective, in the light of the history given in His Word.

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About the Author

Dr. John Hartnett received both his B.Sc. and his Ph.D. with distinction from the University of Western Australia. He currently works as an ARC QE II post-doctoral research fellow with the frequency standards and metrology research group there. He has published more than 98 scientific papers in secular journals and has two patents. Alex Williams is a part-time science writer for Answers in Genesis. With a master of science degree in radioecology and a licentiate in theology, his career spans 26 years as a government botanist and 7 years in missionary work. He is married to Barbara and they reside in Beeliar, Western Australia.

Product Details

• Paperback: 330 pages
• Publisher: Master Books (July 20, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0890514372
• ISBN-13: 978-0890514375
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #348,479 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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143 of 190 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book is based on superstition, not science., March 22, 2007

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Brian Khairullah (Redlands, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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I recieved this book as a gift from a "born again" friend who thought it would convince me that the universe was created by the Christian god. My friend had not read the book previously - if he had he would have been too embarrased to let anyone else read it.

There is no science in this book, the authors merely mock science as they attempt to convince the reader that the words of Bronze Age, tent dwelling, nomadic, goat herders have more authority in the subject of scientific inquiry than all the scientists who have contributed to the knowledge and understanding that we have accumulated up to the present.

At one point while attacking a statement about gods made by the late Carl Sagan, the authors write: "we believe Dr. Sagan is aware of his error now". This superstitious drivel is reminiscent of the commonly repeated Evangelical saying: "Darwin is now a creationist in hell".

The book is a joke. Far from convincing the reader that any credibility exists in Creationism it shows how far removed from reality the ideas of Creationism are.

If you have some time to kill, reading this book will open your eyes to the self deception and dishonesty that are required for believers to swallow this garbage. You will be amazed.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Like evolution, big bang is full of holes, December 25, 2009

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R. Lee (Huntington Beach, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dismantling the Big Bang (Paperback)

The text is fairly accessible, thought it helps to have some college level physics. It is not as some reviewers have said biased toward Christianity. Yes, the creation perspective is presented but the discussion is on big bang theory, evidence for and against the theory. As a Christian, I actually thought the Big Bang was in effect how creation occur, but not quite as this book clearly explains. Like evolution, any time some new facts or experimental results cast doubt on Big Bang, the dogmatic believers in Big Bang (as in Evolution) dismisses it. Anyway, read the book and decide for yourself.

32 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Williams/Hartnett Big Bang Agenda, June 18, 2007

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R. W. Fone (Wellington, New Zealand) - See all my reviews
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I bought this book believing it to be a critique of the Big Bang model, done with scientific rigour. The book is useful in presenting and reviewing work by others (notably H. Arp) that seriously questions the Big Bang (and by extension, current cosmological wisdom).
However, the authors' sole purpose - agenda - was to promote a religious paradigm with primary reference to the Big Bang theory.
There is no effort to review work being done by scholars on alternative models to the current gravity-based cosmology.
For those who wish to persue scholarly discussion, I would not recommend this book.