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Atheists and Darwinians build their views on faith, not scientifically verifiable evidence. Dark energy and dark matter are leaps of faith, for there is no scientific evidence that these actually exist. Now we are to believe that what we thought that we were seeing and measuring were not real, but only illusions. There goes the whole theory of verificationism. It turns out that empiricalism is an illusion. Maybe Hume was right in that cause and effect are illusions, too. If so, then science is a religion based upon unverifiable faith.

Yes Dark Energy and Dark Matter are, at this point, leaps of faith. But the search continues and may bare fruit. Who knows. But it is the reason that I don't like DM an DE. But that would change if someone can put meat on the bones.

OTOH, the wave theory in no way destroys the scientific method. It makes predictions that are verifiable and it can be proven wrong by experiment. That satisfies the basic elements of a scientific theory. In fact it makes it superior to string "theory" which can do neither. Empiricism is not an illusion and this theory isn't going to make it so. Nice try but you are just dead wrong on this one.

I don't believe that I am wrong. The entire article deals with the basis of such theories concerning the expanding universe on hypotheses that have not proven to be true. Dark matter and dark energy are hypotheses that are driven by what astrophysicists have observed, namely, that the universe is not behaving as it should from their presuppositions or assumptions. It is similar to Einstein's coefficient which he “created” to make his equation fit. It doesn't add up, so we have to “create” something that makes our assumptions fit. The wave theory is well known, and it is a very useful model, but mathematics is a creation that is not bound to reality. You can prove things in mathematics that can't exist in the real world. The wave theory may turn out to explain what appears to be irrational behavior, but that at least to this date has not been proven. It is a matter of faith, an hypothesis, which is based upon the faith that current scientific presuppositions or ideologies are true.