[kosta50]

Kosta: Either one [physical cosmology v cosmology] is as much religion as science.

A-G: LOLOL! The next time the National Academy of Science holds a Colloquium on Physical Cosmology, I'll be sure to count the theologians participating

LOLOL indeed! I didn't say theology, I said religion. There is essential difference. You can look it up since you seem to conflate the two.

[Alamo-Girl]

LOLOL indeed! I didn't say theology, I said religion. There is essential difference. You can look it up since you seem to conflate the two.

Your original statement:

Either one [physical cosmology v cosmology] is as much religion as science.

It does not help your case at all to count the secularists who study religion. My statement with the secularists added:

The next time the National Academy of Science holds a Colloquium on Physical Cosmology, I'll be sure to count the theologians and the “historians, sociologists, psychologists and philosophers of religion” in attendance.

The participants in the colloquium on physical cosmology are astronomers and physicists. Science writers attend. The inter-disciplinary aspects involved in exploring astronomical observations (e.g. COBE) are nuclear physics, plasma physics, particle physics, condensed matter physics, atomic physics, astrophysics, gravitational physics.

The history, sociology, psychology or philosophy of religion is not on the "physical cosmology" table.