The idea that there was a definite beginning to the universe as we know it, at a time we can calculate, is well established in the public imagination. It may therefore come as a shock to be reminded ...

Everybody enjoys a good mystery. And boy, right now there’s a doozie of a mystery in cosmology. Cosmology is the “big picture” of astronomy. Cosmology attempts to understand the creation on the ...

In 2016, scientists documented the existence of gravitational waves in the universe, a phenomenon Einstein postulated 100 years before. With this discovery, they said, they could look back to the ...

In 1946, anthropologist Loren Eiseley exposed the hypocrisy of scientists who dismissed the Biblical story of creation as mythical and unprovable and then proceeded to replace the poetic metaphor with ...

The Saint Benedict Institute will host physicist Dr. Stephen Barr, who is president of the Society of Catholic Scientists and retired from the University of Delaware faculty, for a talk titled “The ...

What is the Big Bang? Simply put, it’s our modern understanding of the history and evolution of the universe. It is not, however, a theory of the creation of our cosmos, because we do not understand ...

As a scientist with a doctorate in chemistry let me expand on Bill Tinsley’s recent column [Sept. 25] on the theological implications of the so-called Big Bang origin of the universe. As a theory, the ...

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The mid-20th century featured a substantial scientific and public debate between the Big Bang theory and the Steady State model, with the former proposing a universe with a definitive beginning and ...

In 2016 scientists documented the existence of gravitational waves in the universe, a phenomenon Einstein postulated 100 years before. With this discovery, they said, they could look back to the ...