This is such a lengthy comment on my blog “The Humbug Of Science“, I decided to post it here as a guest blog. My friend Eliezer has given permission: please comment on HIS comment!

Doc, you always astound me with the information you present and the questions that you bring up.  This ‘The Humbug Of Science’ especially on the study of cosmology truly hits home.  I have been working on a lecture on Cosmology leading to ‘the Battle for God in Science’.  I present here a few thoughts about cosmology that I think you might agree with, and I will certainly love to hear your comments.

There is a great misunderstanding and ignorance about the universe and how we fit in to this great cosmos.  The only cure for ignorance is knowledge, and knowledge takes effort.   Once you have knowledge what do you do with it?  “Self knowledge without self change is self abuse”.

There are two roads, two schools of thought in science before us, and we have a choice of which direction we choose, for it will affect all our lives in many ways.  Science has departed from the traditional aspects of empirical studies produced by an experiment or observation.  This is no more evident than in present studies in Cosmology.  We have the study of cosmology that has been high jacked by mathematicians. Continue reading →