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padib said:
Dr.Grass said:
FaRmLaNd said:
The big bang isn't a who. With that minor quibble aside, I certainly think the big bang is the most credible explanation that currently exists. Its actually supported by data!


There are too many people spewing their hateful comments here to reply to them all so I'll just comment on your rather neutral and common viewpoint...

As possibly the ONLY real physicist/mathematician on this site I have to tell you that:

1) The big-bang theory arose out of necessety, NOT BECAUSE IT WAS SUPPORTED BY DATA. The red-shift observed in light is NOT fully understood.

2) There are unsolvable problems in the model including; Singularity, origin of "Lumpiness", high-energy interactions etc.

3) THERE IS NO THEORY OF THE NUCLEUS. Read those words. There exists NO theory for the interaction between sub-nuclear particles. Models are built with data. We know next to nothing.

4) Modern Cosmology has WAY more assumptions and approximations than any of you seem to believe. The current model of the universe is certainly on shaky ground, and while it may prove to represent reality to some extent, it is not taken very seriously by many of the world's biggest brains.

So in short, STOP believing everything you see on BBC just because its made by someone with a PhD, and for heaven's sake LEAVE people alone who believe in a divine creator - ESPECIALLY if they aren't fanatic.

Wow, I really appreciate hearing that.

Life's greatest irony is that people often accuse others of what they themselves are guilty of... In this case, its fanatacism. SO many science fanatics who can't even explain Newton's laws and Special Relativity, what to speak of really tricky things like Quantum Mechanics and high energy physics. 

Let me spread the truth: If you can't solve the infinite square well then you know nothing about quantum mechanics. If you don't know about Hilbert Space then you know less than 10% (at most).

So Padib, I'm trying to say that you should not be intimitated because these people 'stand behind science', since they hardly know what real science is.

BTW. It's important you know right now that I do not believe in the young earth model.