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Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
25-Nov-13 - 08:13 AM
Thread Name: BS: Militant atheism has become a religion p
Subject: RE: BS: Militant atheism has become a religion p
The Big Bang
Timeline of the universe - big bang expansion over 13.7 billion years. © NASA / WMAP Science Team
By Marcus Chown, cosmology consultant for New Scientist
What was the Big Bang?
About 13.7 billion years ago, the Universe burst into being in a titanic explosion called the Big Bang. Out of the expanding and cooling debris eventually congealed the galaxies, great islands of stars of which our own Milky Way is one.
How do we know there was a Big Bang?
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http://royalsociety.org/news/metro/the-big-bang/