Starts With A Bang! The Big Bang (Science & Faith)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Episode 206 - The Beginning of Time
In the 1920s there was an astronomical event known as the Great Debate about the structure of the universe. The debate ended pretty inconclusively and didn't really settle the question. A measurement taken by Edwin Hubble in 1924, he found a star in the Andromeda Nebula that he could measure the distance to. Later, it was discovered that the Andromeda Galaxy is around two and a half million light years away.
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In the 20th century, scientists began to theorize what Christians have long held: that the universe had a definite beginning. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli ask what is the Big Bang, what evidence points toward it, and what are its implications.
