(August 7, 2013 at 9:01 pm)ManMachine Wrote:(August 7, 2013 at 8:38 pm)Terr Wrote: The Big Bang theory simply describes an expanding, cooling universe. As has been demonstrated to be the case.
It sayes NOTHING about what what caused it, or the state before (if there was one). Without evidence this would be utterly un-scientific. However there are a number of competeing hypotheses, time and evidence will tell.
I think you've understated the 'unscientific' argument. Karl Popper spent a large part of his academic life trying to establish demarcation.
I wouldn't like to mislead the OP. The only generally accepted requirement for scientific theory is that it is falsifiable. Even that has problems, I could put forward the theory that the spots on the Sun indicate it will explode in a thousand years, it's falsifiable in principle but not by you or anyone else alive today.
MM
Fair comment, but without some observational evidence my view is that you are would be presenting a hypotheses, not a fully fledged theory.