"Astronomers See the Big Bang in Action"

Submitted by matt on Mon, 2006-04-24 17:53.

My comment on Astronomers see the Big Bang in action (as posted on a Geek news site):

So basically we still don't understand the impetus, composition, or exact characteristics of this supposed event, BUT we claim to have delved yet deeper into the never ending minutiae of theories upon theories which attempt to explain, in ever-increasing complexity and unverifiable speculation, an occurance that is contradictory to the very belief system which created it. And yet all of this is still taken as Gospel truth (pardon the pun) by "enlightened" people everywhere, who pat themselves on the back for coming up with, or at least adhering to, such clever ideas, even though absolutely nothing has been or can ever be proven in such a matter.

In the end this stuff is so improbable, so outlandish and unprovable, that timeframes have to be continually increased or decreased (whichever is most convenient), mass and energy constantly adjusted, and theories heaped up ad infinitum so as to create an ever-moving target. In this manner even this most absurd of ideas is strung along and its proponents, adhering by faith to that which they cannot prove or even fathom, have become what they set out to avoid in the first place: religious. Sure, they may have scientists instead of prophets, and knowledge and human achievement rather than gods, but it still takes nothing short of a generous helping of religious-style faith to believe a Big Bang genesis.

At least we "fundies" are up front about our faith...

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