Cosmology: Latest theories of everything (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, August 08, 2017, 18:39 (2663 days ago) @ dhw

reblak: A last point: the Big Bang, contrary to your suggestion, is – consciously or unconsciously – a product of the religious tendency imbued into the Royal Society by Sir Isaac Newton during his 20 years reign as President. […]

dhw: There are now thousands of scientists who believe in the Big Bang theory, and you know as well as I do that they are not all theists! Just like evolution, the theory is open to theistic and to atheistic interpretation, and both sets of proponents twist it to their liking.

May I drop in to comment, the Big Bang Theory, is the result of running the expanding universe backward, according to Einstein's general relativity theory, and he was agnostic, not theistic. If the universe had a starting point, we still cannot have any idea what came before the BB as a first cause, but it must be something, and not quantum fluctuations, because that just takes us back to one further preceding step.