How are Dark Mtter and Consciousness different from Spirit?

[Alex K]

The 25% dark matter is already taken into account in the equations of cosmic expansion in most calculations, leaving it out would not only not provide an explanation for the expansion, it would also give you the wrong numbers for it.

I don't understand what you mean - you would literally have to  believe that there is no cosmic history and everything was created just now as it is including the light from the far past coming towards us looking as if all that history had played out, because without dark matter or an alternative, there is not enough gravity and galaxies and galaxy clusters would have all been torn apart by their rotation within several millions of years.

But there are enough independed lines of evidence for dark matter now anyways.They just should have called it differently. If it were called "Non-Baryonic pressureless component" or something similarly boring,  people at least wouldn't think that it must be something terribly mysterious all the time. Imagine the press had called the Higgs Boson the God Particle or something stupid like that, we wouldn't hear the end if it! ... oh wait...

What I’m saying is that after the Big Bang, the time of the galaxies’ formation was minimal compared to the entire existence of the universe. And now they are moving apart. Otherwise the whole universe would be one big galaxy with all matter being held together by gravity.

But like you and CD said, there is a balance of forces at work and dark matter is needed for both gravity and expansion.

Maybe there's a misunderstanding there. The problem we're referring to is not that far away galaxies fly away from each other, but that without dark matter, the way they are observed to be rotating now, the galaxies themselves would come apart almost instantaneously on geological time scales