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In reply to the discussion: No Big Bang? Quantum equation predicts universe has no beginning [View all]AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)29. You are only dependent on scientists/experts because you choose to be.
The only analog between the discoverability of science, and religion, would be the ages when the bible was only available in languages the illiterate followers couldn't translate, and couldn't read, and relied upon the priests to interpret it and read it to them.
It has NO correlation to whether or not religion is real, and it is a FULLY surmountable problem if you apply yourself.
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I hope the graphic is wrong, because a theory predicting stars first formed 400 million years ago
struggle4progress
Feb 2015
#1
Relgion and Cosmology are two major sources of theories about the origin of the univese.
Agnosticsherbet
Feb 2015
#18
The degree to which a layperson can really understand this is questionable, imo.
cbayer
Feb 2015
#23
Seeing as how both Time and Space were a function of the BB, there was no "before" it
Vincardog
Feb 2015
#54