Wednesday, May 18, 2005

School Boards Want to 'Teach the Controversy.' What Controversy? - New York Times

This is a good argument by a cosmologist that discusses the history of the Big Bang theory, and why many theologians believe that the idea of creation falls outside the boundaries of science.

School Boards Want to 'Teach the Controversy.' What Controversy? - New York Times: "While this argument may seem strange, LemaƮtre was grasping something that is missed in the current public debates about evolution. The Big Bang is not a metaphysical theory, but a scientific one: namely one that derives from equations that have been measured to describe the universe, and that makes predictions that one can test.

It is certainly true that one can reflect on the existence of the Big Bang to validate the notion of creation, and with that the notion of God. But such a metaphysical speculation lies outside of the theory itself."

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