(September 11, 2014 at 10:14 pm)sswhateverlove Wrote: Ok, so your belief regarding public opinion may be different than mine. Not surprising, we probably have very different social circles.
I stand corrected if that's not the commonly held opinion here. How was I to know that without putting it out there and asking for feedback?
You have a remarkable ability to distance yourself from cuplability for your own statements. What difference does it make if some people believe that the BBT posits anything at all about a pre-expansion universe? Even that word 'pre-expansion' is a meaningless expression when discussing Big Bang cosmology.
The point is that you yourself were making this error, and it colored your entire post. You then proceeded to make incorrect statements about the gravitational constant, as has been pointed out previously. You then proceeded to apply a god of the gaps fallacy to the dark matter, dark energy, and unified theory unknowns.
So, I ask you, since the things we currently theorize about the physical properties of the universe cannot be trusted, what is your alternative to the idea of formulating theories based upon the current available evidence and continuing to re-evaluate the things we know when new information becomes available?
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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