Posted on 04/21/2014 1:08:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In a new national poll on America's scientific acumen, more than half of respondents said they were "not too confident" or "not at all confident" that "the universe began 13.8 billion years ago with a big bang." The poll was conducted by GfK Public Affairs & Corporate Communications.
Scientists were apparently dismayed by this news, which arrives only a few weeks after astrophysicists located the first hard evidence of cosmic inflation.
But when compared to results from other science knowledge surveys, 51 percent isn't too shameful -- or surprising.
Other polls on America's scientific beliefs have arrived at similar findings. The "Science and Engineering Indicators" survey -- which the National Science Foundation has conducted every year since the early 1980s -- has consistently found only about a third of Americans believe that "the universe began with a huge explosion."
In 2010, the NSF poll rephrased the question, asking whether the following statement was true: "According to astronomers, the universe began with a big explosion." When reworded, more Americans agreed, suggesting more respondents are aware of the science than originally suggested -- they just don't believe the science.
(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...
A further hint is the photon, as a packet of space, a pinch of time and energy, crossing the Universe always in the present of its creation, such thsat it remains in planar time.
Oh wow, auto correct is on a rampage! Pointing should read pointing, and aprton should read parton. ... I should know better than to try and type while on the phone!
Pointing should read ‘poynting’
Precisely my point.
That’s the problem with “nothing”..... its just highly unstable and likely to explode at the drop of a hat....
Are you suggesting the entire universe, and everything in it, is simply a holographic projection emitted by R2D2?
Funny, I don't remember any of that.
Seriously, scientists haven't abandoned the Big Bang Theory and they aren't worried that it gives credence to Creationism. There's more to Creationism than having a begining to the universe.
And his contemporaries derided the theory as nuts, because it conformed to the Genesis story. I love the Big Bang Theory for this reason.
Dang, Amy looking good there.
Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
The secret things belong unto the Lord our God,.... Respecting the people of Israel, and the providential dealings of God with them, and especially the final rejection of them; with respect to which, the apostle’s exclamation agrees with this, Romans 11:33; and though the Lord had revealed many things which should befall them, there were others still secret with him, and the reasons of others; and particularly the times and seasons of their accomplishment, which he retains in his own power, Acts 1:6. There are many secret things in nature, which cannot be found out and accounted for by men, which the Lord only knows; and there are many things in Providence, which are unsearchable, and past finding out by finite minds, especially the true causes and reasons of them; and there are many things relating to God himself, which remain secret with him; notwithstanding the revelation he has made of himself; for not only some of his perfections, as eternity, immensity, &c. are beyond our comprehension; but the mode of subsistence of the three divine Persons in the Godhead, the paternity of the one, the generation of the other, and the procession of the Spirit from them both; the union of the two natures, divine and human, in the person of Christ; the thoughts, purposes, and decrees of God within himself, until brought into execution; and so there are many things relating to his creatures, as the particular persons predestinated unto eternal life, what becomes of such who die in infancy, what will befall us in life, when we shall die, where and in what manner, and also the day and hour of the last judgment. The Jews generally interpret this and what follows of the sins of men, and punishment for them, and, particularly, idolatry; take Aben Ezra’s sense instead of many,”he that commits idolatry secretly, his punishment is by the hand of heaven (from God immediately); he that commits it openly, it lies upon us and upon our children to do as is written in the law:”
but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children for ever; the things of nature and Providence, which are plain and manifest, are for our use and instruction; and especially the word and ordinances of God, which are the revelation of his will, the doctrines and promises contained in the Scriptures, each of the duties of religion, and the commandments of God, such as are of eternal obligation, which may be chiefly designed, because it follows:
that we may do all the words of this law: for the end of this revelation is practice; hearing and reading the word will be of no avail, unless what is heard and read is practised. Some render the words (i),”the secret things of the Lord our God are revealed to us and to our children;’’but neither the construction of the words in the original, nor the Hebrew accents, will admit of such a version; otherwise it would furnish out a very great truth: for the secrets of God’s love, of his council and covenant, are revealed unto his people, as well as many of his providences, and the mysteries of his grace; see Psalm 25:14. There are some extraordinary pricks in the Hebrew text on the words “to us and to our children”: which are designed to point out the remarkable and wonderful condescension and goodness of God, in making a revelation of his mind and will, both with respect to doctrine and duty, to the sons of men.
Too funny. The #1 google return for “big bang theory” is the sitcom’s website. The #2 return is the Wiki page for the sitcom.
My kitties say it’s all to do about string theory!
I know that in real life Penny would not go for the geek.
There are blue shifted galaxies... Google it.
No. Inflation when things were moving faster than the speed of light is thought to have started when the universe was 10^-36 seconds old and ended at 10^-33 seconds, at which point it was about 1 mm in diameter (per the theory). Since then the universe has been expanding and the speed of light has been the speed limit.
And as well they should. They have allowed science to be politicized by tards like algore and the Obama to the point that science is now about as believable as your typical liberal politician.Excellent point. The global warming religion -- fueled by the global crackdown on grant money for anything threatening that religion -- has made scientists look like court jesters dancing, miming and slap-sticking for their collective supper.
It's really sickening what the wide-spread acceptance of -- and knuckling under to -- the religion of global warming has done to the entire establishment of science in the world today.
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