A Reading From The Big Bang Revolutionaries

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 29 April 2024

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While the West reeled from America's stock market crash of 1929, another crisis was brewing in the field of cosmology. One of the most ambitious scientific theories in history--that the universe had a beginning--was beginning to take shape, ushering in a new cosmological paradigm. But the real heroes of the Big Bang revolution have been largely forgotten. A new book from Discovery Institute Press amends the record and tells the remarkable story. On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid reads an excerpt from The Big Bang Revolutionaries, by distinguished astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet.

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0:00.0	ID the future,
0:05.0	the future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Welcome to ID the future. I'm Andrew McDermott. Today I'd like to read for you an excerpt from the new book The Big Bang Revolutionaries,
0:21.0	the untold story of three scientists who re-enchanted cosmology, by Jean-Pierre
0:26.2	Loomine.
0:27.2	The book is published by Discovery Institute Press.
0:30.5	Loomine is a French astrophysicist specializing in black holes in cosmology.
0:36.0	He is Emeritus Research Director at the French National Center for Scientific Research.
0:41.0	He is a member of the Astrophysics Laboratory of Marseille and the
0:45.2	Universe and The theories Laboratory in Paris.
0:48.3	Lumine has been awarded several prizes, including the George Le Matra Prize for his work in cosmology, the UNESCO
0:55.7	Kalinga Prize, and the Einstein Medal for the Popularization of Science.
1:01.2	He has published more than 20 science books, 8 historical novels, and 8 poetry
1:06.5	collections. The asteroid 5523 Lumine was named in his honor.
1:13.0	Many widely read scientific writers of our day mistakenly attribute the concepts of the
1:18.0	expanding universe and the Big Bang to Edwin Hubble and Albert Einstein.
1:23.0	Hubble did provide evidence of an expanding universe,
1:26.0	but he neither discovered such evidence
1:28.0	nor accepted the radical idea that space itself was expanding.
1:32.0	As for Einstein, he held out against the idea of an expanding
1:36.0	universe for more than a decade and ceased working in the field as soon as he had to amend his view.
1:42.4	The real heroes of the Big Bang Revolution
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