Is Cosmology Really a Science?
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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The Cosmology of the Universe
cosmology is one of those areas that seems to lend itself to a more mystical approach. I think you're prompting me to claim that my glove puppet, Second Century Roman, Snake God created the universe, but I'm not going to fall for that for I guess. There's a difference between cosmology, the science, and cosmology as in ancient worldviews. You can imagine the ancients looking up in the sky and seeing these pin points of light. And it's quite a natural thing to join the dots and make little pretty pictures and sort of come up with some ideas. We like to know what's going on. Even though there are things in modern cosmology that we don
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