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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: GodGunsGuts

I don’t understand the point behind the ramblings continually posted from this author.

If the point is to simply attempt discrediting a theory it would make sense. To use such a conclusion to insist that science must be wrong and that creation and the belief in the almighty hence must be the only alternative explanation makes sense only to those who are terminally delusional, IMO.


21 posted on 01/30/2009 11:13:01 AM PST by Pox
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To: Bosh Flimshaw

==The fact that you think this principle is a *weakness* as opposed to the defining *strength* of science speaks to your fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose of science itself.

It does indeed reflect the strenght of the scientific method. Whereas it reflects the weakness of Big Bang cosmology. Which should come as no surprise—as Stephen Hawkings et al admit—one of the core assumptions of Big Bang cosmology rests on an ideology-based (as opposed to a scientific) foundation.


22 posted on 01/30/2009 11:15:36 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: Pox

Are you saying that if the Universe is more in line with young-earth/biblical cosmology, it should be hidden from the public?


23 posted on 01/30/2009 11:18:49 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: Maceman

LOL!


24 posted on 01/30/2009 11:19:35 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

Not at all. That conclusion is a singular viewpoint shared by those with a specific agenda, IMO.

I cannot see it as “choose a or b” situation.


25 posted on 01/30/2009 11:21:19 AM PST by Pox
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To: RaceBannon
The Earth was never flat in the Bible, only in the Roman Church’s definition for 2 or 300 years.

Hmmmmmmm. Who [cough] assembled the Canon [cough] of Scripture known also as the Bible [cough].

Yeah, I know, it was brought to earth by "tachyons" into the hands of Luther.

Sorry, no cigar!

;-o)

26 posted on 01/30/2009 11:22:18 AM PST by Frank Sheed (Fr. V. R. Capodanno, Lt, USN, Catholic Chaplain. 3rd/5th, 1st Marine Div., FMF. MOH, posthumously.)
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To: Pox

==Not at all. That conclusion is a singular viewpoint shared by those with a specific agenda, IMO.

Young earth creationists are no more agenda-driven than Big Bang cosmologists. The main difference being that YEC cosmologies are being strengthened by new evidence, whereas the Big Bang is being steadily weakened.


27 posted on 01/30/2009 11:25:22 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

The author doesn’t understand the subject.


28 posted on 01/30/2009 11:26:07 AM PST by texmexis best (uency)
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged
I’m amazed at the arrogance of some scientists who actually are convinced that they can understand the Universe! I don’t, and they certainly don’t!

NO scientist says that they understand the universe. It is you that is the arrogant one.

29 posted on 01/30/2009 11:26:34 AM PST by ColdWater
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To: texmexis best

Well, don’t hide your superior knowledge under a bushel...share it with the rest of us!


30 posted on 01/30/2009 11:27:39 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: texmexis best
The author doesn’t understand the subject.

Wrong. You are misunderstanding hte subject. The subject is to make money off of gullible fools and they are doing just that with their propaganda.

31 posted on 01/30/2009 11:27:40 AM PST by ColdWater
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To: Psycho_Bunny
For instance, he cites that inflation seems impossible given limitations such as the speed of light but fails to mention that inflation is theorized to have occurred in the instant prior to the solidifying of the physical laws of the universe.

Inflation doesn't involve changes to the speed of light.

32 posted on 01/30/2009 11:30:32 AM PST by js1138
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To: Bosh Flimshaw

The Big Bandaid is dogma.

It fails completely to fit observation, but fits the feelings of its authors.


33 posted on 01/30/2009 11:32:55 AM PST by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: Psycho_Bunny
For instance, he cites that inflation seems impossible given limitations such as the speed of light but fails to mention that inflation is theorized to have occurred in the instant prior to the solidifying of the physical laws of the universe.

Right. So inserting a period of time where the normal laws don't apply, because the normal laws can't explain something, is good solid science.

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. What are the odds of that? Would you not perhaps think it more likely that if a large super-crunch of matter were going to explode, that it would do so at some point before it all came together? Perhaps when 100 billion galaxies came together and not 500 billion? And that would rip through pre-existing matter.

If there was a big bang, I find it highly unlikely that there was only one. In fact, could the expansion not be increasing because there is a lot more matter out there? In effect, the now visible universe is but one kernel in a pot of popping popcorn. The difference being that matter is thrown back and forth.

34 posted on 01/30/2009 11:34:14 AM PST by SampleMan (Community Organizer: What liberals do when they run out of college, before they run out of Marxism.)
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To: Maceman

You actually have a photograph of those men creating the Big Bandaid, wow!


35 posted on 01/30/2009 11:35:05 AM PST by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: GodGunsGuts

YEC cosmology is a “fringe group” with almost absolute zero credibility, IMO.

The BB theory hasn’t been weakened at all, and in fact has been strengthened overall at a regular clip. In the end there remains the possibility that it is wrong, but at this point and time in the maturation cycle of our civilization it remains the most credible theory available given our level of knowledge.


36 posted on 01/30/2009 11:35:06 AM PST by Pox
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To: editor-surveyor
It fails completely to fit observation, but fits the feelings of its authors.



Bonus points if you can identify the science in question.
37 posted on 01/30/2009 11:38:03 AM PST by UndauntedR
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To: Psycho_Bunny
" but fails to mention that inflation is theorized to have occurred in the instant prior to the solidifying of the physical laws of the universe."

That is "step two" Here. :o)

38 posted on 01/30/2009 11:38:12 AM PST by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: RaceBannon
The Earth was never flat in the Bible, only in the Roman Church’s definition for 2 or 300 years.

Only flat in the minds of the writers and readers of the Bible.

39 posted on 01/30/2009 11:41:02 AM PST by ColdWater
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To: UndauntedR

Too easy. Google energy desnsity 160.4 ghz


40 posted on 01/30/2009 11:42:39 AM PST by ColdWater
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