Brian Beesley wrote:
> On Monday 02 October 2006 21:06, Mike McCarty wrote:
>
>>>In the sense of a mathematical proof, no. But according to the current
>>>generally accepted standard cosmological models (Big Bang, string theory)
>>>the assertion seems to be true.
>>
>>AIUI, string theory is currently extremely controversial, not generally
>>accepted.
>
>
> There are lots of fundamentalist Christians who vehemently dispute any
> cosmology which does not map precisely onto the text of the first chapter of
> Genesis.
[snip]
The objections I am aware of have nothing to do with
religion, but rather with philosophy of science. AIUI,
the theory is non-falsifiable due to the extreme energies
necessary to do so being beyond not only our currrent
technology to create, but beyond *imaginable* technology
to create. A non-falsifiable theory is not science, but
philosophy.
Mike
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