> On Aug 22, 2019, at 11:04 PM, John F Sowa <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 8/21/2019 1:18 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt wrote: >> I suggest that [Peirce] could have offered an argument against >> [the Big Bang] -- in fact, against any theory that posits a finite >> age and definite beginning of the universe... > > No. Peirce insisted on following the evidence. An amazing event > occurred around 13.8 billion years ago. There are many hypotheses > about what it might have been, but no physicist or astronomer > seriously claims that it didn't happen.
This claim is not true. One issue is the nature of time. The postulate of the cyclic nature of cosmological events is equally valid, according to many. Cheers Jerry
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