Re: Big Bang: How widely accepted?

Lloyd Paul Verhage (lver@ksu.ksu.edu)
11 Sep 1995 07:18:11 -0500

max@alcyone.darkside.com (Erik Max Francis) writes:

>roosen@crash.cts.com (Robert Roosen) writes:

>> Erik Max Francis (max@alcyone.darkside.com) wrote:
>>
>> : It is also presently the most successful at explaining observations.
>>
>> This is due to the limiting assumptions that the high energy
>> physicists use when they promote their own world view as a "universal" one.
>> In fact, Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis is a much more popular view
>> of the origin of life and is a far more satisfactory basis for a globally
>> acceptable cosmology.

Funny, I didn't know that Gaia replaced abiotic origins and evolution.
Also, what does Gaia have to do with origins of the universe?

>Strange, but I notice you don't say, "No, the big bang is poor at
>explaining observations."

>Whether it's applicable to the average person (which you later appear
>to tout) is irrelevant, because (right or wrong) that's not what
>science is about.

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