[AJames]

Originally Posted by xelasnave

But I think if you had a google there are probably a few who disagree with the big bang approach.

Alex,
Actually, this bloke is disagreeing without any necessary "balanced" views. But if you discount theory and observation. then follow what Lerner says;

"Unfortunately, the accumulation of evidence hasn’t yet sparked a general debate in cosmology over whether the Big Bang model is a valid one. But there are a few small sings that there is beginning to be a greater openness to questioning at lest some aspects of the “convergence cosmology” and its ever-growing grab-bag of hypothetical constructs, like inflation, dark matter, dark energy, and quintessence. As conventional cosmologists leap ever higher into the realms of fantasy, even the popular press is starting, ever-so tentatively, to wonder if the Emperor really is naked."

The universe is expanding, which immediately yells out to us finite origins of a finite age. This discovery ranks as one of the greatest achievements of astronomy and cosmology - it is a much a fact as scientific culvert ever held.

Well if you disagree with this, then you should not only have enough evidence to support it, and you also need a alternative explanation of the observed phenomena. Cosmology is less than perfect, but current theory of the Big Bang (and its variants) is better than none.
He doesn't do this - and very probably because he already has an agenda!

Andrew

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