Big Bang?

[Malignd]

<<... both arguments (Big Bang and Divine Creation)
take the form of a non sequitur, inferring the
existence of a cause from the manifestation of an
effect or effects.>>

No.  One infers that there is a universe because one
is in it.  One can see it.  One posits that there may
be a beginning to it because such is the way we're
doomed to think, time being, for us, inescapable.  It
might have no beginning, although there's no way for
me, at least, to do much with that idea.  But numerous
measurements and calculations, red shifts and all,
allow for the theory of an expanding universe and
rates of expansion allow for theories about age, age
implying a beginning.

None of this is faith. It's theory and it's science's
great merit that it uses, tests, and often tosses out
theories.  I suspect there are few scientists who
think there won't be major corrections in assumptions
about the big bang.  Still, it's a useful and workable
theory in the meantime.

Believing "God" created the universe on the assurances
of a collection of  primitive, idiotic, and
superstitious myths thousands of years old is not a
parallel case, however much you insist it is.




		
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