No, I choose the third option: if you can’t determine it using proper science, it’s better just to say “I don’t know” than to bend the rules just to try to come up with an answer.
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There are no bending of rules.
There’s what cosmologists say, and then there’s what you say.
You have admitted to ignorance. They haven’t, in this particular subject. I will believe them and their work, thanks. Especially since they don’t have a vested interest in the conclusion they came to.
“There are no bending of rules.”
Of course there is. They abandon uniformitarianism when it comes to their big bang models. That is bending the rules.
If you assumptions are correct, you don’t abandon them just because they are inconvenient. Either the assumptions are correct or they are incorrect, they can’t just be correct until they prevent you from drawing the conclusions that you want to draw. That’s not logical.
“Especially since they don’t have a vested interest in the conclusion they came to.”
If you believe that, you’re just being gullible.