@FBM,
FBM wrote: a) EFL tip of the day: The word "evidence" isn't countable. Try "pieces of evidence.
By the time I was learning English it was
evidences. BTW when somebody has neither
evidences nor
pieces of evidence about whatsoever he starts dealing with the etiology of the syntax and the interpretation of the linguistic constructs ... instead of dealing with the
etiology of the Big Bang and the
etiology of the Hyperspace ... for example.
FBM wrote: b) No, you only presented rhetorical handwaving, which I ignored to the extent that it deserved to be
You are a free man on a free net and have the right to ignore whatever doesn't suit your 'scientific' bias, but the contradiction in the self and the contradiction with the laws of physics and math logic, and the detection of gaps of missing information (that S. Hawking proved with math formulas, which most of the physical community simply ignored) may be everything else but 'rhetorical handwaving' - proving feasibility of logical inference and proving the existence of physical interpretation of a math formula are not 'rhetorical handwaving'. They may seem handwaving only to the old generation scientists who are tin-hat and oil drills biased.
Haven't you paid attention that most of the math formulas have negative or irrational solutions, that are ignored as a rule at the process of interpretation ... and nobody even tries to make any quantum interpretation of these, for example, because they are perceived as 'rhetorical handwaving'.
The whole new science of Big Data is based on 'rhetorical handwaving' - analysis of statistical data for feasibility and plausibility, and for making predictions, etc. The cyberanalysis of the activities on the Internet is also based entirely on logical inferences and logical pieces of evidence ... you may call it 'rhetorical handwaving', you may call it as you wish, but such 'rhetorical handwaving' can ruin your life for decades on end. Anyway.
Further, speaking what you really think and in what you are convinced on one hand, and speaking what is most convenient to the
status quo on the other hand are very different things - and attitude to the world (that we are supposed to study) ... and BTW can be proved beyond any doubt by the methods of 'rhetorical handwaving'. I had the suspicion that you don't accept as evidence anything else besides the direct observations (from the radio telescope that you cannot even tell how much direct they actually are, and how 'direct' the Big Bang biased physical interpretation of the data might be), and that is why I asked you what do you accept as evidence ... unfortunately without any serious answer.