During a high profile news conference in March 2014, the BICEP2 radio astronomy team announced purported direct evidence for inflation— an important part of the modern Big Bang model.¹

by Jake Hebert, Ph.D., and Brian Thomas, M.S.*

In March 2014, a team of radio astronomers using the BICEP2 telescope announced purported direct evidence for inflation, an important part of the Big Bang model.¹ But only two months after this “discovery” a number of secular scientists have become increasingly skeptical.²