Let me point out what is going on here. Yes, people like Marke claim to have a coherent story about origins, but a little thinking - just a little - shows they are in the same boat as everyone else. To say that "God did it" is a coherent explanation of origins is vulnerable to the obvious...
From Scientific American:
One-time astronomical events like the big bang, however, are of great value since they allow reproducible scientific studies of their consequences. For example, conditions in the early universe resulted in the brightness patterns of the cosmic microwave background that...
This is one of the many corners of the internet where people come to advance crackpot ideas, sheltered from the sunlight that is the overwhelming consensus of appropriately qualified experts.
Hence the wacky theories about vaccines and pedophilloic presidents, just for starters.
The Big Bang...
Nice try. Let's recap lest anyone be duped:
- Someone erroneously attributed belief a connection between the lives of stars and the theory of evolution to Lawrence Krauss.
- I explained the error of such an attribution
- No you move the goalposts by merely denying - with no supporting argument...
Re your first point: Hardly an argument that helps your position - you have cited a definition that few experts would agree with and yet expect us to believe it is a legitimate characterization of what science is?=.
Re your second point: Obvious moving the goalposts - I never claimed that truth...
Again: The theory of evolution has nothing to do with stars. Nothing Krauss says here connects the content of the theory of evolution to stellar processes. The fact that we come from star stuff has nothing whatsoever to do with the theory of evolution by natural selection
I do not think most experts would agree with this "high- schooly" definition. The big Bang is considered to be a "scientific" theory even if it cannot be repeated - it makes falsifiable predictions that are supported by observations. Even though we are "observing" the past.
Indeed. And we both know that the creationists here are seizing on an overly simplistic definition of "science" and abusing that definition to try to exclude certain categories of evidence a priori. More specifically, if they can get away with tricking readers into believing you need direct...