(October 24, 2015 at 2:59 am)heatiosrs Wrote: @Title.
There are many scientific theories, many that fit within the parameters of physics, yet they just aren't backed by any evidence.
The only way I think we will ever get evidence to prove any one persons theory on the universe's origin is if we get observable/testable scientific data. For example Newton's laws of gravity, even though it was just a theory, we were able to see the planets, and see this actually work. We can't observe anything outside of this universe, if there is anything, so I don't really think we will ever have anything more than theories.
What are your thoughts though? I know it's a common question in physics, and astronomy, or whatever, just curious to hear different answers.
I think you are right in principle, (though I also disagree with your use of theory when you actually mean hypothesis or conjecture.)
It also depends on what exactly you mean. It is quite plausible that we will somehow discover things about the mechanisms of the big bang which will push back the frontier a bit further conceptually, if not in time (it is not clear that the concept as you know it still is applicable). But here's the thing, I can't imagine a scientific breakthrough after which you can't still ask "and why is *that* there?".
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
