It's fair to say that neither the BBT, nor Genesis can be falsified; and, therefore, neither are scientific theories. However, that says nothing about the truth of either story. Both are, essentially, part of different faith-based belief systems.
Put another way; from a "scientific" perspective, the BBT and Genesis carry equal claim to validity. If you're a believer in Genesis; next time you're facing sneering condensation from someone claiming to wear the mantle of "science" -- just point out that their position is amusingly naive, and unsophisticated.
You stand corrected.
The claim is not that the BBT cannot be falsified -- it can. The claim is that a specific mechanism attributed to solving some issues with the earliest moments after the BB may not constitute a falsifiable component of the theory.
That's a big difference.
Which, per the religious, should we interpret literally:
Ezek 28:11-13
11 The word of the Lord came to me: 12 "Son of man, take up a lament concerning the king of Tyre and say to him: 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says:
"'You were the model of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
13 You were in Eden, the garden of God;
NIV
Or:
Gen 3:23-24
23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east sidee of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
NIV
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After the religious chew on that - they can chew on how E=MC^2 relates, in both a General and Special sense, to the length of a day: Time being a derivative function of state-change that progresses relative to E within the inertial frame(s) in which it is observed. And finally - perhaps they can tell us all what the length of a day was in the context of the inertial frame occupied by a Creator by whom all the E in the Universe was breathed into existence in a single moment
Shouldn't that be part of the global cooling/global warming/climate change faith??