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Entry: Hitchens' Hubris Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/hitchens_hubris#2629 Post contents: Thanks, Mr. Piatak, for exposing Mr. Christopher Hitchens for the swindler of truth and enemy of God that he is. What person in his right mind would want to buy his book and read his fraudulent claims? How is one advanced in knowledge and edification by his deceitful rantings? Can't publishers be held responsible for dumping such trash on society? Apropos the evolutionary thing: I reject the Big Bang Theory for several reasons. First, since it has never been observed in nature (observation being an integral part of the scientific method), the Big Bang boils down to nothing more than a speculative mathematical construct -- purely, theory. Second, advocates of this theory for the origin of the universe never explain where the super-dense matter/energy came from. Third, according to classical physics (non-relativistic physics) a super-dense concentration of matter would not explode, but would collapse under its own gravitation into a great "black hole". Fourth, supposing that such a concentration of matter could explode, it would simply expand as a homogeneous cloud. Sir Frederick Hoyle said, also, "Even though outward speeds are maintained in a free explosion, internal motions are not. Internal motions die away adiabatically and the expanding system becomes inert, which is exactly why the Big Bang cosmologies lead to a universe that is dead-and-done-with almost from the beginning....The notion that galaxies form, to be followed by an active astronomical history, is an illusion. Nothing forms. The thing is as dead as a doornail" (Hoyle, 1981, "New Scientist", 92:521-27). Fifth, modern exponents of the Big Bang are primarily atheists. Along the same lines, I reject macro-evolution, because there is absolutely no scientific evidence for it. Seventh, I whole-heartedly agree with Pope Benedict XVI's assertion that you quoted above. His words are true if God is the Creator of the universe and the Creator of mankind. And, of course, God does exist; even our reason can lead us to that intellectual acknowledgement, as St. Thomas Aquinas so cogently demonstrates in his Summa. Theologica. Sent at: 2008 07 06