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Posted on 04/21/2014 1:08:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In a new national poll on America's scientific acumen, more than half of respondents said they were "not too confident" or "not at all confident" that "the universe began 13.8 billion years ago with a big bang." The poll was conducted by GfK Public Affairs & Corporate Communications.
Scientists were apparently dismayed by this news, which arrives only a few weeks after astrophysicists located the first hard evidence of cosmic inflation.
But when compared to results from other science knowledge surveys, 51 percent isn't too shameful -- or surprising.
Other polls on America's scientific beliefs have arrived at similar findings. The "Science and Engineering Indicators" survey -- which the National Science Foundation has conducted every year since the early 1980s -- has consistently found only about a third of Americans believe that "the universe began with a huge explosion."
In 2010, the NSF poll rephrased the question, asking whether the following statement was true: "According to astronomers, the universe began with a big explosion." When reworded, more Americans agreed, suggesting more respondents are aware of the science than originally suggested -- they just don't believe the science.
(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...
Monseigneur Georges Lemaître was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Université catholique de Louvain. He was the first known academic to propose the theory of the expansion of the Universe, widely misattributed to Edwin Hubble. Lemaître also proposed what became known as the Big Bang theory of the origin of the Universe, which he called his ‘hypothesis of the primeval atom or the “Cosmic Egg”.
Yeah, I’m sure it...what? Not the TV Series?
Nevermind...
~ Obama Girl
Personally I think most people prefer to be ignorant because its easier that way.
“Cosmic Egg” sounds a lot like something that Gary Larson would’ve referenced in “The Far Side”... along with the obligatory “Cosmic Chicken”.
“Most Americans can’t do basic Algebra or describe a single law of Thermodynamics.”
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I know NOTHING about the laws of Thermodynamics.
Am I a failure?
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“Scientists were apparently dismayed by this news”
And as well they should. They have allowed science to be
politicized by tards like algore and the Obama to the
point that science is now about as believable as your
typical liberal politician.
Yep...
And their physics is stood on it’s head when it comes to explaining -.0001 second prior to the event.
...didn't take long to catch up with all the reruns on cable.
This and Last Man Standing (Tim Allen) are the only two network sitcoms I watch.
I always wonder where did the “stuff” come from, and from whence the energy without a creator. I mean “stuff” does not just appear, at least as we think we understand matter. Neither does energy.
What are the mainstream theories on where energy and matter originated?
OK, in the beginning, there was Nothing, then it
“rapidly expanded like an inflating balloon”.
Did it make a sound?
Am I a failure?
That's for you to decide, but your ability to critically assess the validity of cosmological origin theories might be a little suspect.
“Scientists” have shot themselves in the foot selling “global warming”. You can’t trust politicians either. It is really a trust issue more than science.
There’s going to be a lot of mouths dropping and people falling on their knees one day.
There’s compelling evidence that the Steady State Theory is a better explanation.
So I’m a doubter in the Big Bang Theory myself. Quite frankly anyone who doesn’t doubt ANY scientific theory of the creation of the universe is a fool, as such theories reach into the realms of cosmology and have no more certainty than Biblical explanations.
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By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. “that what is seen was not made out of what was visible,” in other words, ex nihilo, from nothing.
lol...Like I said, it’s as easy to believe as believing the universe has always existed. That alone creates many questions which cannot be answered.
Actually, if I think hard about it, an expansion from near nothing is easier to believe...Except for where was it -.0001 second prior to the event and what caused the expansion.
It sure is... Originally developed by a Catholic Priest.
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