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Originally Posted by bojan
Scientists are among the the most open minded people on Earth .. And if there is enough evidence against a theory, do not worry, they (the scientists) will be the ones who will come up with the new one which will explain the new data, not us amateurs.
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I hold some skepticism about that. Certainly scientific method, if adhered to, can give us some confidence of long-term evolution of ideas. But I have met plenty of scientists who are quite "definite" about what they think about certain things, nothwithstanding the lack of scientific method involved in arriving at their conclusion. I suspect human nature is not quite so capable of being tamed, and that complete objectivity is not something any of us are capable of.
A scientific theory is only as good as the validity of the base assumptions upon which they are based. As I understand the purpose of this thread, the question being asked is whether the base assumption of the Big Bang has been taken for granted for too long. I have no idea what the answer is, but it does seem like a good question to me.