Is the theory of relativity more accepted by people than the big bang theory?

Both theories have proven points. Both theories have points that arent proven.


Would you say that relativity more widely accepted?|||Yes, theory of relativity is accepted by most of scientifically thinking people.





Many accept (buy) the theory of Big Bang only because it is the "only available package presently in the shelf" in certain stores (books).





The facts that make theory of relativity much more acceptable, compared to the Big Bang myth, are:


- Experiments today allow to build evidence for theory of relativity.


- Theory of relativity does not contradict common sense.


- Theory of relativity is part of natural science (physics)


- Big Bang myth in itself is a religion because you have to believe it against scientific contradictions - and if you reject that belief, some people (Big Bang fundamentals) tell you that you are not educated.|||I think you may be looking at it the wrong way. There's nothing in the Big Bang theory or the theory of Relativity that "requires" proving.





These theories were created to explain phenomena that have *already* been observed. These theories exist because there was strong evidence for them to begin with, not because Einstein had a wild guess about the nature of space-time.





I'm fairly certain that any scientist that "accepts" Relativity also accepts that the Big Bang occurred.





Relativity per se shouldn't conflict with any religious beliefs, but the Big Bang certainly does, since it's estimated to have occurred 13.7 billion years ago, which is much older than the 6000 years that some (special) people postulate the Earth to be.|||Yes





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Not sure that I believe in the theory of gravity or the theory that the earth is round either..........|||its all relative :)|||There's not much difference between them. The Big Bang Theory IS Relativity. Or rather, a subset of Relativity. GR implies that the universe either had a beginning and is finitely old (Big Bang) or did not have a beginning and is infinitely old (Steady State). Since the observational evidence excludes Steady State, the universe must be Big Bang. In GR, there is no other choice. Since SS is already falsified, anything that falsified BB would exclude all possible free parameters of GR and therefore falsify Relativity as well.





So again, physicists make little distinction between the two theories. Big Bang is an application of GR.





There's no such thing as "proving" a theory.





Finally, scientists don't accept or reject theories on the basis of how challenging they are to religion. That is not a factor.|||it is all confusing but i think the theory of relativity is more accepted. the big bang theory is still kinda crappy.|||No, both are equally accepted by the people and the scientific community. You take it granted that Special theory of relativity is a real truth because it is supported by observations and is mathematically consistent.





General theory of relativity also supports big bang.It is also well supported by many experiments though many of them are still continuing. But, this theory is incompatible with Quantum mechanics. So, many theoretical physicists are still working to modify GR.





Big bang theory is also not a mere idea as it is well supported by the discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation (Discoverers were awarded Nobel Prize).