Which of the following resulted from the growing consensus within the scientific community as to the accuracy of the big bang theory?
a.) new scientific laws were created
b.) an older theory was supported
c.) older theories were disproved
d.) new problems were considered untestable

The correct answer is c.) Older theories were disproved. This meant that many of the older theories were dissproved, starting with the basic one that God created the universe as it is, up to the modern ones like the steady state theory that claimed that density remains the same because new matter is created all the time.

It turns into vapor and goes into the atmosphere