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Are there too few Supernova Remnants to support the Milky Way being billions of years old?
There are many reasons why this is wrong. The first one is the assumption of 1 supernova per 25 years. That was the value arrived at in Gustav Tammann's article published in 1970. Others got values up ...
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Is abiogenesis virtually impossible?
No, the article doesn't claim that probability of abiogenesis cannot be higher than 10-1018.
The only claim it makes it that even if the probability of an event is as low as 10-1018, it still can ...
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Do recent images from the JWST pose a major crisis for Big Bang cosmology?
No.
Mr. Lerner provides no evidence for the new JWST data causing a major crisis in cosmology, nor that "The Big Bang didn't happen"; other cosmologists disagree with his conclusions. The &...
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Do recent images from the JWST pose a major crisis for Big Bang cosmology?
Some of Lerner's previous complaints about the state of the art did and still do have validity, but his claims about the JWST are wildly out of proportion.
Lerner's ideas were presented in a 1991 book,...
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Is abiogenesis virtually impossible?
This is not a scientific theory, because when it was published in 2007, there were no testable assumptions associated with multiverse theories (citation). Therefore it relies entirely on non-...
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