(January 8, 2016 at 1:12 pm)Stimbo Wrote:(January 8, 2016 at 12:56 pm)athrock Wrote: Was there ever a time when the Big Bang Theory was rejected by mainstream cosmology?
Yes; for the longest time.
Know what swayed the balance? Evidence. Evidence that withstood peer scrutiny and actually matched reality better than any other hypothesis. That's how it got to be a theory; the clue's in the name.
So, were all those who argued in favor of a Big Bang routinely mocked in Internet forums by the "establishment cosmologists" at one point?
Maybe Mahoney is just another insignificant patent clerk waiting for his big break.
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