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==And immediately after offering the “Olive branch” you sought to strike me with it.

Actually, in my view it's quit the other way around. But I will put that aside for the moment.

==Please expound upon how the current astrological model is in error and how what you subscribe to is “like geocentricism”

In “The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time,” Hawking and Ellis admit that a crucial component of their cosmological model is based on an “admixture of ideology,” which, as Dr. Humphreys points out, is another way of saying it “is not warranted by observations.” Hawking and Ellis call this ideology the Copernican principle, but in reality, it couldn't be further from what Copernicus actually believed. Copernicus did indeed posit that the earth was not the center of our solar system, but he also held that our solar system was either at or near the center of the universe. Hawking et al, on the other hand, put forward Bondi’s badly misnamed Copernican principle, which demotes our solar system (indeed our entire galaxy) to a position that is not “specially distinguished in any way”...and without a shred of evidence to back up such a momentous assumption. Thus, in the case of Big Bang cosmology, we find that Evo Big Bangers have inserted a principle that is based on their a priori faith commitments rather than empirical scientific observation. What Dr. Humphreys has done is turn the Copernican principle on its head based on biblical passages that suggest that God created the universe with a center. He then plugged this assumption into Einstein's theory of General Relativity, and found that gravitational time dilation allows for both extremely young and extremely old galaxies that owe their existence to the exact same creation event. Stephen Hawkings et al ASSUME that the universe has no center based on the observation that the universe appears spacially homogonous in every direction. But again, this is a massive assumption, for the universe would appear the exact same way if we occupied a spot at or near its center. I will leave which model makes superior predictions for another discussion.