James Webb and the Crisis of the Big Bang Theory
Spectre of Communism
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Copernicus and the Cosmos
I can imagine some people right now hammering away with angry comments saying, ah, where do you mark this get off? All you do is grab anti-during and dialects of nature and slam them on the table. Engels Marx said in the 1800s that the universe is infinite in space and time and that's all there is to it. What do you say to those people who have a bit of a dismissive aptitude of our right to comment on questions of science? Well, I would refer to Copernicus, who when he published his book on the revolutions of the heavenly spheres,. which really laid down the gauntlet to the Catholic church and to the old cosmology.
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