"In a paper entitled 'The Impossibility of a Bouncing Universe,' Marc Sher and Alan Guth argued that the universe is not mechanically efficient enough to bounce."
That was very interesting and well reasoned right up until the final paragraph. Erich von Daniken is more reasonable. Dah! Bollocks! Crap! The whole "Gods from Space" malarkey suffers from exactly the same logical flaws that, up until then, he had been very cogently arguing against. One can only hope that he was being sarcastic. Sadly his penultimate paragraph makes this unlikely: We can't rule out the possibility that a natural explanation will be found, no matter how incredible the event. That's an untestable hypothesis! Dick! You just brought your own argument crashing to the ground!
Elsewhere on the site there's a good argument against the ID folk; they say that the creator of life isn't neccessarily a god, but could be a superintelligent alien. But they're then left regressing to the problem of how those creatures could have come to exist. At some point, they're going to have to say that either something evolved of its own accord, or that a god (an uncreated entity) created them. As a major tenet of ID is that complexity doesn't arise through evolution, they're unlikely to admit the former, and the latter just chucks them straight back into the creationism boat.
The author of the linked-to page should take note and employ similar reasoning.
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We can't rule out the possibility that a natural explanation will be found, no matter how incredible the event.
That's an untestable hypothesis! Dick! You just brought your own argument crashing to the ground!
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Elsewhere on the site there's a good argument against the ID folk; they say that the creator of life isn't neccessarily a god, but could be a superintelligent alien. But they're then left regressing to the problem of how those creatures could have come to exist. At some point, they're going to have to say that either something evolved of its own accord, or that a god (an uncreated entity) created them. As a major tenet of ID is that complexity doesn't arise through evolution, they're unlikely to admit the former, and the latter just chucks them straight back into the creationism boat.
The author of the linked-to page should take note and employ similar reasoning.