Currently, the Big Bang Theory is the most logical scientific explanation of how the universe began. The majority of cosmologists favor the Big Bang theory and the idea that the expanding universe had an incredibly hot and dense initial beginning (Peterson 232). According to the Big Bang Theory, at some point more than 12 billion years ago, matter condensed in one place and a huge explosion scattered the matter in all directions ("Big Bang Theory » 403). At the time of its origin, the universe was infinitely dense and hot, but as expansion continued, the universe cooled and became less dense (Narlikar 12). The debris thrown off by the initial explosion became the building blocks of matter, forming planets, stars, and galaxies (Narlikar 12). Officially, the Big Bang model is called the Standard Cosmological Model (SCH) and has been the most widely accepted theory of the origin of the universe since the 1960s (Rich and Stingl 1). Most astronomers agree that the beginning of the universe was 10 to 15 billion years ago, following a type of explosive start (Narlikar 12). Big Bang theorists have estimated that the real bang occurred 13.7 billion years ago and was followed by an inflationary period that created time, matter, and space (Rich and Stingl 1). Although the 1930s were not a tremendous period of cosmological and scientific progress, they were the era of the theory that the universe began with an explosion of a singularity of matter. In 1927, George Lemaître, an astronomer and Roman Catholic priest, was the first to propose the theory that the universe was generated by the explosion of a primitive atom (Rich and Stingl 1). Lemaître's findings were published in the 1931 scientific journal......middle of the article...the 1930s were indeed older” (“Big Bang” 1). Throughout the mid-20th century, the Big Bang theory and constant-state theory dominated scientific thinking about the origin of the universe; however, discoveries in the 1960s dealt a serious blow to the steady-state model. The discovery of radiation in microwaves undermined the steady state theory. After World War II, Martin Ryle conducted a study at Cambridge in which he tested over 2,000 different radio sources from outside the Milky Way, and he concluded that the different radio sources had a different distribution, thus supporting the theory of the Big Bang (“Big Bang” 1). In the early 1960s, Robert Dicke of Princeton University verified Gamow's idea that there was a background of microwaves in the sky corresponding to an initial explosion (Cowen, "Journey" 394). The Big Bang model was supported in 1963 when two scientists