ESE - ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE AND THE SOLAR SYSTEM

Religious Cosmology

History/origin of the universe based on the creation mythology of a specific tradition

Christian Cosmology, Mormon Cosmology, Buddhist Cosmology, Islamic Cosmology, Hindu Cosmology

What are the 5 types of religious cosmology?

Christian Cosmology

The opening of the bible begins with "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth."

Christian Cosmology

Biblical creation story that tells that God is the author of creation

Mormon Cosmology

Human spirits are literal children of the heavenly parents

Mormon Cosmology

These spirits created an eternal & beginningless intelligence

Buddhist Cosmology

The universe exists because of the karma (bad and good) of its being. Without them, it ceases to exist

Buddhist Cosmology

The universe has no beginning, nor end

Islamic Cosmology

God created the universe, including physical environment and human beings

Islamic Cosmology

Teaches to visualize cosmos as a book of symbols for meditation and contemplation to be used for spiritual upliftment

Hindu Cosmology

Timeless and no beginning

Hindu Cosmology

The universe is created, destroyed, and reverted in an eternally repetitive series of cycles.

Big Bang Theory, Oscillating Universe Theory, Multiverse Theory, Inflation Theory, String Theory, Steady State Theory

What are the 6 scientific theories?

Big Bang Theory

Most widely accepted scientific explanation for the universe's origin

Big Bang Theory

The universe rapidly expanded approximately 13.7 billion years ago

Singularity

A single compact, extremely hot, and dense point that rapidly expanded causing space itself to stretch and cool that hurls matter, energy, space, and time in all directions

Big Bang Theory

This theory states that the expansion of the singularity lead to the creation of galaxies, stars, and planets

Georges Lemaitre (1927)

the Big Bang Theory was proposed by -- in the year --

Primeval Atom or Cosmic Egg Hypothesis

Lemaitre originally called the Big Bang Theory as? (2)

Cosmic Microwave Background, Galaxies moving away, Abundance of light elements

What are the 3 pieces of evidence that were found from the Big Bang Theory?

Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson (1964)

They provided the evidence for the cosmic microwave background radiation (+year)

Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

A piece of evidence from the Big Bang Theory that provided a strong evidence of a hot, dense origin where radiation was speculated to be the leftover energy from the universe's formation

Edwin Hubble

He noticed that the galaxies were moving away (+year)