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05-17-2016 05:43 PM |
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Originally Posted by sundialsvcs
(Post 5546733)
"Big Bang" is easy to understand: it is a "scientific" version of a creation mythos. Nothing more or less. It's perfectly understandable that "scientific" humans – being human, after all – would invent one, as their searchings (in their own way) focused in on the same Great Kahuna Question.™
The "scientific™" basis for this mythos is that some people think that the Universe(!) is expanding from a single point. In what, to me, is certainly nothing more than "a grand leap of faith," if not a wild-haired guess, someone decided that "life, the Universe, and everything" must have exploded, in a single "big bang," from that point. :study:
And they're teaching that in schools now, even as they vehemently oppose the teaching of another well-known "creation mythos." <snip>
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It puzzles me a bit that you seem so well read in so many areas and posses a considerable knowledge and facility with language, yet seem to equate "Turtles all the way down", and "God did it" with hard evidence. Much of what formed the Big Bang Theory was discovered quite by accident, which tends to rule out agenda. Red Shift was a shocker to Science and scientists and massive work was done to falsify it to no avail. Then a biggy occurred again completely by accident as I'd think you'd be quite aware in the form of the Bell Labs discovery of Cosmic Background Radiation, coincidentally shifted in the precise amount it would were Red Shift correctly figured.
For anyone unfamiliar with this huge breakthrough see Discovery of CMBR by the Horn Antenna
After the Horn Antenna WMAP was created and put into a heliocentric orbit gathering data for 9 years. While it raised some minor questions needing further investigation. the data was consistent with and expanded upon Hubble's Red Shift and the Bell Labs data. WMAP was retired and the job was expanded by the Planck Spacecraft which was orders of magnitude more powerful and operated at a vastly wider range of frequencies. Compare WMAP and Planck Data
Anyone who has seen a distant workman swinging a hammer and noticed the sound is out of sync with vision has an intuitive understanding of the time it takes sound versus light to travel distances which provides the basis for understanding that when we look at much MUCH larger distances we are looking back in time. This is borne out in every test and is consistent with Red Shift and CMBR. Furthermore, the high energy conditions seen and measured with telescopes have been recreated in colliders on Earth and have been so consistent that every major prediction has borne out including the important Higgs Boson whose confidence level is 5 Sigma. It's tempting to quote the 99.999999999 % certainty figure, and while that has some meaning, it is not the way that hard Science expresses statistical probability. The bottom line is that it is far more certain than most people require for confidence, requiring 3,500,000 tests with only one deviation.
In short The Big Bang (and remember it was not an explosion in any sense we can relate to) has stood up for `100 years and countless man/hours (not to mentions tons of money) spent in effort to falsify it, and yet it stands with every new discovery just adding to it's confidence level.
Please demonstrate any "mythos" that has anything to compare with such consistency of objective evidence, or are you just being generous and conciliatory?
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