Billions and billions and billions and billions of years ago, long before anything ever was, in the midst of absolute nothingness, where absolutely nothing dwelt, nothing suddenly began compacting, tighter, and tighter, and tighter, till finally, nothing blew up (BANG!); producing ~ space, time, matter, energy, all the laws of nature, you and me, and the birds and the bees / and the flowers and the trees / and the clouds up above / and a thing called love ~ all by mere accident.

Enough satire. "An Open Letter to the Scientific Community" came out in 2004 by 33 dissenting scientists ~ in which hundreds more have signed on to. I encourage all to type the title of the letter into their search engines and read the letter in its entirety. Here I give a few excerpts:

"The big bang today relies on a growing number of hypothetical entities, things that we have never observed inflation, dark matter and dark energy are the most prominent examples. Without them, there would be a fatal contradiction between the observations made by astronomers and the predictions of the big bang theory."

"the big bang theory can boast of no quantitative predictions that have subsequently been validated by observation."

"questions and alternatives cannot even now be freely discussed and examined. An open exchange of ideas is lacking in most mainstream conferences."

"in cosmology today doubt and dissent are not tolerated, and young scientists learn to remain silent if they have something negative to say about the standard big bang model. Those who doubt the big bang fear saying so will cost them their funding."

"Giving support only to projects within the big bang framework undermines a fundamental element of the scientific method the constant testing of a theory against observation."

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