Re: Big Bang: How widely accepted?

Roelof Ruules (ruules@fys.ruu.nl)
Mon, 28 Aug 1995 09:27:14 GMT

In <DE0AnD.Aq7@crash.cts.com> roosen@crash.cts.com (Robert Roosen) writes:

> Cosmology in the anthropological sense is the creation myth that
>a society promotes.
> For instance, in the Norse legends, two brothers killed the frost
>giant and built the earth out of his body.
> The Big Bang cosmology is the creation myth of the
>Military/Industrial Complex.
?????
Can you explain to me what the military has to do with it? Certainly,
they do a lot of funding for scientific research. But as far as they
are concerned, it could be Big Bang, it could be Steady State, it could
be anything. They don't care. Nor does industry. Scientists care.
None other. What are you trying to say?

Roelof