Originally Posted by Nereid

rcglinsk, this is the Q&A section of BAUT, where questions about contemporary astronomy, astrophysics, etc can be asked, and BAUT members free to provide answers from the perspective of contemporary astronomy, astrophysics, etc.

If you'd like to discuss the extent to which cosmology is a science in the same way linguistics, chemistry, geology, economics, ecology, ... etc are sciences, please say so.

If you'd like to know something about cosmology, within the framework of that field of research as a science, then please ask.

However, if your questions about cosmology turn out to be (almost entirely) about the nature of science (and not about the specifics of particular observations, theories, models, etc in cosmology), the sooner we all get clear about this, the shorter this thread will be (and the less confusion generated thereby).

For avoidance of doubt, Nereid has no "burden of proof", not least because science doesn't do "proof" (as we discussed earlier in a different BAUT thread ...).