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Inflation Hypothesis Doesn't Measure Up to New Data (growing body of evidence contradicts Big Bang)
ICR ^ | January 30, 2009 | Brian Thomas, M.S.

Posted on 01/30/2009 10:54:50 AM PST by GodGunsGuts

Since the Big Bang story of the origin of the universe has been refuted by a host of external observations and internal contradictions,1 secular science has been forced to postulate additional, exceedingly improbable events to keep it afloat. One of these is “inflation,” which attempts to explain the apparent uniformity of the universe.2 But new observations by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe are forcing cosmologists to revamp inflation, at the cost of inventing yet another miraculous event to prop it up...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: anisotropy; bigbang; bob152; cmbr; creation; evolution; hartnett; humphreys; inflation; intelligentdesign; microwave; probe; seancarroll; theonion; wilkinson
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To: texmexis best
I agree, but I would add that I believe whether or not science contradicts a person's religion is entirely dependent on that person's religious beliefs.

If a person believes that infection is caused by evil spirits, and not microscopic organisms, then yes, science very much contradicts their religion. What bothers me is when the people that believe in the evil spirit theory of disease insist that germ theory is atheistic because it contradicts their own religious beliefs, and insist that evil spirit theory is just as scientifically valid as germ theory.

141 posted on 01/30/2009 3:10:28 PM PST by Bosh Flimshaw
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To: Bosh Flimshaw; GourmetDan

Bosh Flimshaw wrote:
You must have mistaken my post for an invitation to converse. It was not.

Good day.


Soooo GourmetDan, are you going to share your secrets/techniques, and just as important, does it work for other liberals as well? ;)


142 posted on 01/30/2009 3:11:52 PM PST by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
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To: DallasMike; texmexis best

I believe the phrase “you can’t vaudeville Vaudeville” applies.


143 posted on 01/30/2009 3:12:12 PM PST by Bosh Flimshaw
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To: DallasMike

PS You just encouraged me to step up my attacks on the Big Bang fizzle and the already crumbling Temple of Darwin. Thanks for helping me find my second wind. LOL


144 posted on 01/30/2009 3:15:28 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: SampleMan
Personally, I'm in wonder at the prospect that there is exactly the right amount of matter in the universe to create a "big bang" and not a bit more.
I'm sorry, but you don't understand the Big Bang theory at all. There was no universe before the Big Bang. There was no matter, there was no space, there was no time. There was absolutely nothing.

Sounds a lot like the Bible, doesn't it?


145 posted on 01/30/2009 3:15:34 PM PST by DallasMike
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To: tpanther

tpanther, you inserted yourself into an exchange I was having with another poster. If you do not with to converse with me, please do not post to me.

Good day.


146 posted on 01/30/2009 3:15:41 PM PST by Bosh Flimshaw
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To: mvpel

>>Indeed - how can you talk about the “speed of light” before light itself even exists?<<

Yeah, the phrase “speed of light” is meaningless when light has not been created yet and all you have in your hand is speed, and no water to wash it down.


147 posted on 01/30/2009 3:16:13 PM PST by RobRoy (Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in the 1930's.)
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To: DallasMike
The first sentence is a flat-out lie.

Is it? Perhaps you can substantiate your calumnious assertion. Here is the footnote to the first sentence:

1. See “An Open Letter to the Scientific Community” on cosmologystatement.org, in which hundreds of scientist express their agreement with the statement “The big bang today relies on a growing number of hypothetical entities, things that we have never observed—inflation, dark matter and dark energy are the most prominent examples.”

148 posted on 01/30/2009 3:18:12 PM PST by Maximilian
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To: XeniaSt; ColdWater; RaceBannon; GodGunsGuts
"He stretches out the north over empty space And hangs the earth on nothing."

Hmmm, stretching of space. That is exactly what the Big Bang theory describes. Hanging the earth on nothing is pointedly obvious of reality.

I can't understand why these wacko Young Earth Creationists believe that the Big Bang theory conflicts with the Bible>

149 posted on 01/30/2009 3:21:58 PM PST by DallasMike
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To: DallasMike

The Big Bang CREATED time.

One cannot in ANY scientific sense speak of “before the Big Bang;” it’s a nonsense phrase like “sucked into a vacuum,” or “letting the cold out.”

That’s why the Bible had to begin “In principio...”

There is—by definition—no time before that.


150 posted on 01/30/2009 3:22:44 PM PST by Philo-Junius (One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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To: Maximilian

Then take a look at the budding universe model. There are lots of others out there.

The Big Bang is just a theory that may have outlived it usefulness.


151 posted on 01/30/2009 3:24:12 PM PST by texmexis best (uency)
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To: GodGunsGuts
...not to mention over 50% of the US population...

Over 50% of the US population voted for Obama, too. Do you think that they were right to do so?

Counting hands has nothing to with truth.

152 posted on 01/30/2009 3:24:25 PM PST by DallasMike
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To: DallasMike; SampleMan

==Sounds a lot like the Bible, doesn’t it?

When you read the fine print, no it doesn’t sound at all like the Bible. It’s sounds like a theory that was hatched by a bunch of God-haters hellbent on duping the masses into believing that the Earth is not a special place created by God.


153 posted on 01/30/2009 3:25:11 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: Philo-Junius

I don’t know why this is not obvious to so many.

The void. Nothingness. Describing it assumes that there is something there to describe, a fallacy.


154 posted on 01/30/2009 3:26:25 PM PST by texmexis best (uency)
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To: DallasMike

Speaking of Wackos. Augustine calls your arguments pagan. How do you respond?

PS Is it your contention that creationist cosmologies do not involve the stretching of space? You are even more ignorant than I thought.


155 posted on 01/30/2009 3:27:47 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

“In the meantime, people like GodGunsGuts make it very difficult for we Christians who happen to be scientists to witness to others in our field.”

We knew, we just knew someone was to blame for Darwinism amongst scientists. ‘Fess and you get to leave with just bruises.


156 posted on 01/30/2009 3:29:10 PM PST by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: tpanther
"Soooo GourmetDan, are you going to share your secrets/techniques, and just as important, does it work for other liberals as well? ;)"

Mine is not the technique, but the anti-technique.

The technique is to publicly request no contact and then start using veiled references to try and make a point against the better argument without inviting a direct response. This insulates the lesser argument from direct refutation and gives it an excuse to complain if a violation is perceived (P=1).

It's the new evo tactic of completely removing the goalposts, rather than the usual tactic of just shifting them around.

Watch for it.

157 posted on 01/30/2009 3:31:05 PM PST by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: count-your-change

LOL. I know you are probably more in agreement with DallasMike. But at least you’re not an idiot about it.


158 posted on 01/30/2009 3:32:02 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: editor-surveyor

Does someone maintain that all observed galaxies are no longer rushing away from ours?


159 posted on 01/30/2009 3:39:11 PM PST by Philo-Junius (One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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To: texmexis best
I find no problems with this statement [Adam and Eve were real people, evolution happens].

Thanks. I see no conflict either. I do believe that Adam and Eve were specially created by God. I believe that evolution is an observable fact. Howewever, I have problems with the theory of evolution as it currently stands. My prolems with it are scientific, not religious -- it just does not answer all the questions satifactorily.

Evolution is an observable fact. One only has to follow the stories on how the Bird Flu virus is changing to see that. One can argue about the extent of evolution, but not about whether it exists.

All truth is God's truth, and there is no reason for Christians to fear or deny the truth.


160 posted on 01/30/2009 3:39:39 PM PST by DallasMike
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