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Thread #153942   Message #3611773
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
22-Mar-14 - 06:48 AM
Thread Name: BS: Cosmos
Subject: RE: BS: Cosmic Closure
Pete - I just posted this on another thread, I'll repost it here least you get the impression I'm in anyway sympathetic to your hideously noxious & woefully reactionary cause. Creationism is the mindset of the retarded. That it persists in any shape for form into the 21st century is only evidence of the very worst sort of shit humanity is capable of and the means it uses to justify it. The true wonder of the Cosmos is entirely Godless. You can prove that much by going out and looking at nature.

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Theories only exist until the available evidence, or understanding of that evidence, changes. It's a process, a tradition if you like, ongoing, born of peer-reviewed dialogue within the rigours of the scientific community. Evidence & understanding of evidence for the 'Big Bang' is evolving all the time & there are many models for how the 'Big Bang' fits into an over-all scheme of universe expansion, single, multiple, but all these models are mutable and must be answerable to reality. It is not a 'belief' - is is born from what is real and known and observable.

This is us, humanity, out there, looking at ourselves in the context of infinity, not pondering a load of fairy stories we dreamt up in the darkness to come to terms with our ignorance. We are embarked. We've been embarked for some time now.

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/space/stories/new-big-bang-evidence-also-hints-that-we-may-exist-in-a-multiverse