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To: norwaypinesavage
My original point was that a singularity is a mathematical concept, not a physical reality.

As a lay person, I understand that. I also understand that the singularity referred to as the Big Bang is a mathematical concept from which our physical reality arose. But the mathematical concept was the result of attempts to explain observation data suggesting a single point of origin for the expanding universe.

There is no evidence that singularities can even exist in the physical world.

Yet, there is observable evidence that our physical world arose from a singularity... a singularity which occurred in a state we are unable to adequately describe.

Accepting the big bang as a singularity makes a whole lot of assumptions that are just that - assumptions.

True but what better explanations are there for known observations such as red shifts and background microwave radiation?

97 posted on 09/06/2019 7:28:14 AM PDT by fso301
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To: fso301
"Yet, there is observable evidence that our physical world arose from a singularity... a singularity which occurred in a state we are unable to adequately describe."

Since "we are unable to adequately describe" your singularity, how can you call it "observable evidence"? You are making my point. The mathematical "singularity" does not adequately describe observable reality - unless you also say that "the laws of physics don't apply".

98 posted on 09/06/2019 7:49:44 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Calm down and enjoy the ride, great things are happening for our country)
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