Index to Creationist Claims,  edited by Mark Isaak,    Copyright © 2004

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Claim CE441:

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1. The total entropy of the universe at the start of the big bang was minimal, perhaps almost zero. Because it was so compact, it had considerably more order than the universe we are in now. The complexity we observe around us today can be produced from the ultimate order of the hot but cooling gas of the big bang.
   
   
2. The big bang was not an explosion. It was an expansion. Besides the fact that it got bigger over time, the big bang has almost nothing in common with an explosion.
   
   
3. Explosions do produce some order amidst their other effects:
   
   
   • Large surface explosions, such as nuclear bombs, produce the familiar mushroom clouds. There are not very highly ordered, but they are not purely random, either.
   • Supernovae produce heavy elements, and the shock waves from them compress interstellar gases, which begins the formation of new stars.
   • Powerful explosions can compress carbon into diamond crystals, the most ordered arrangement.
   • Explosions of atomized gasoline produce compressed gas, which is harnessed in internal combustion engines to power automobiles and other equipment.