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Originally Posted by EnoughDarkStuff
This analogy is tenuous at best, as no one is claiming the BB is evil! The religious motives behind the Big Bang, however, cannot be denied.
The alleged expansion of the universe is based on a tenuous interpretation of red shift, which has been conclusively falsified. See recent threads on this board.
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Are you for real?
Are you trolling?
There are no religious motives behind the Big Bang cosmology. You are invited to submit evidence if you differ. The "motives" behind BB cosmology is the investigation of the physical reality of the Universe. The "alledged" expansion of the Universe is quite easily demonstrated and rests on several almost irrefutable pillars of evidence:
1. cosmological redshift - the fainter the galaxy, the higer the redshift, implying greater speeds of recession for galaxies further away; this is confirmed by other distance markers on the cosmic distance ladder. There is no other intrepretation for the redshift/distance/expansion relationship. It is not tenuous and it has not been falsified. You are invited to provide evidence of this "falsification" from the peer reviewed literature.
2. The observed ratio of hydrogen to helium (75:25) in the Universe is consistent with a big bang nucleosynthesis. This was worked out by Gamow et al (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang_nucleosynthesis).
3. the cosmic background radiation at 2.7 degrees K, exactly matching predictions of a black body cooling from the primeaval fireball. This evidence killed the Steady State Theory back in the 1960's. This powerful evidence is everywhere you look, and has been throughly investigated by COBE and WMAP.
4. In the deep Universe, galaxies appear younger, or at least how you would expect young galaxies to look. The fainter the galaxy, the more young stars constitute its population, the more warped and distorted it appears due to tidal interactions with other galaxies in a smaller universe. (see Hubble ultra deep field
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/arc...eases/1996/01/
5. Finally, the big one, the irrefutable darkness of the night sky. No other cosmology explains why the sky is dark at night. Either the universe is finite, and had a definite beginning not too long ago, or there is lots of gas and dust out there that have yet to turn into stars and light up the night sky - this too implies a finite age. (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers_paradox)
6. Also Einstein predicted the expansion of the Universe in his field equations, but stuffed it up (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%27s_big_blunder)