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Despite the shortcomings of the modern BB theory, it's been an extremely accurate model, even predicting the distribution of light elements and fluctuations in the CMBR long before they were confirmed by observation
. Things like "Inflation", singularities, and "dark MAtter" are all afterthoughts created in concept to make the BB more workable in fact. So it is a theory, but, like all theories, it must be robust enough to withstand challenges of evidence, thats why "Membrane theory" is appealing. It adapts to the basic evidence of BB, but doesnt require as much twisting of events at the very beginning.
real lifeQuote:It's just too bad that mankind had to wait until the 19th century for the evolutionary hypothesis to be formulated, so that this prediction could benefit us.
When we suffer from centuries of wrong-headed dogma as an explanation of life on earth, the proposal of Darwin would naturally appear to be iconoclastic. ,but since science isnt democratic, the gradual "acceptance" of "descent with modification" had to occur only as evidence began piling up.
Scientists who were bold enough to admit that Biblical legend doesnt cut it , especiallyfor scholarly research into the biology of species, were slowly researching the obscure evidence and noticing that everything fit DArwin and nothing fit Genesis.
Its also too bad that we had to wait for Phylo Farnsworth so we could have "Seinfeld". The Egyptian Middle Kingdom would have enjoyed some good TV also, and all those Roman roads would have been neat all covered up with MiniCoopers.
