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So what did science do? Rather than face embarrassment by having to modify the foundation of its theory, it changed the "expanding" universe into an "exploding" universe, and thus the Big Bang concept was born - that primeval "point of singularity" infinitesimally smaller than the dot of the i on this page that, holding all the material of the universe, decided to explode about 13.5 billion years ago in a fraction of a second, and is still exploding, producing all that we see in the starry universe today and the recessional speeds to go along with them. (And they call Special Creationists "dreamers"!) This is one of the best examples of science pulling the proverbial rabbit out of the hat. The emperor really is wearing no clothes but Scientism keeps dressing him up in more and more make-believe garments, and no one is the wiser.

You can imagine how delighted the science community was in 1964 when, in search of evidence for the new "exploding" universe, two astronomers, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, discovered from their radio telescopes a very faint microwave radiation coming from all directions in the universe. Penzias and Wilson concluded that the radiation, a mere 3 degrees Kelvin, just had to be remnants of the Big Bang explosion! The scientific community entertained no other possibilities for the origin of this radiation. The radiation could have merely been from vibrations in cosmic particles, but obviously that postulation wouldn't have given any evidence for evolution.(81) Accordingly, Penzias and Wilson were awarded the Nobel Prize for their "discovery," and evolutionary theory advanced one more step.

But there were pesky little facts that were always throwing a monkey wrench into the works. For instance, once one claims that the universe is "exploding," not only is one forced to say that galaxies are receding faster than the speed of light, but basic laws of science stipulate that there must be a certain amount of matter in the universe in order for it to "explode" at the rate it is said to be exploding. As it stands, when science adds up all the matter in the universe, the best estimates show that they have less then 5% of what is needed to account for the Big Bang universe!

Now, with such an anomaly facing them we would expect these scientists, who pride themselves on being so objective with scientific facts, to go back to the drawing board and reason that the foundation of their theory has serious problems. But just as they covered over the contradiction between Einstein's expanding universe and the constancy of the speed of light, so science is in the process of covering over the fact that there is not enough matter in the universe to support the Big Bang.

Scientism's latest attempt to pull the wool over our eyes is "Dark Matter," which, they claim, constitutes 95% of the matter in the universe. You can read about this in all the major textbooks on astronomy and physics. Newsweek, Time, USA Today, Discover, Nature and many other periodicals have also carried articles on it.

There is one problem, however. They all admit we can't see it and have no way of detecting it (hence, it is called "Dark" matter). The mathematics of Relativity and Big Bangism demands that the "Dark Matter" be there and thus, to the gods of scientism, it indeed must be there. Perhaps someday, they say, we will invent instruments to detect it, but for now they are content to let mere theory be assumed as fact, all in an effort to save appearances and save Scientism from having to admit that its foundational theories are totally baseless.

For example, astrophysicist David Spergel of Princeton University, member of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe launched by NASA June 30, 2001, states in an interview with Discover correspondent Tim Folger:

The thing I'm most excited about is the precision. We now know the age of the universe - 13.7 billion years - to an accuracy of 1 percent. We know that ordinary matter accounts for only 4% of the mass of the universe. The rest consists of dark matter. It confirms many of the predictions we've been making.

Later in the interview when Folger asks: "Have we answered all the big questions," Spergel replies:

There are still a bunch of them. What is dark matter? What is dark energy, the unseen thing that seems to be driving the universe to speed up? Those are fundamental questions. Another big one is understanding what caused inflation, the extremely rapid expansion that occurred in the universe's first moment of existence. WMAP and other experiments are just beginning to probe the physics of the early universe. And right now we have a model in which 4 percent of the universe is atoms and 96 percent is something else unidentified. I think it's hard to claim that we know it all!(82)

Notice how Spergel admits that he doesn't even know what "dark" matter is, but he's positive it is out there, and he even knows that "dark energy" (which he also can't detect) is propelling it! He also admits that science is "just beginning to probe the physics of the early universe," and doesn't know what caused the so-called "rapid expansion," but he is positive that there was a Big Bang and that the universe is expanding. Like a magician waving a wand, the gods of scientism can create their own universe at will and preserve another day for the theory of evolution.

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