To: GodGunsGuts
In what way were my questions deliberately misleading?
Yes, empirical observations indicate that we are on the spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy circling the galactic core.
261 posted on
05/07/2008 7:28:54 AM PDT by
allmendream
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To: allmendream
That's NOT what they mean by the Copernican principle. As already mentioned, according to Hawkings and Ellis, a crucial component of their Big Bang cosmology is based on an “ideology” that assumes the universe is “so democratic” that our position in space isn't “specially distinguished in any way.” This is what they mean by the (badly misnamed) Copernican principle. If they themselves admit their Big Bang cosmology is based on an "admixture" of ideology, why do you insist that said ideology is warranted by empirical observation?
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