It's technically God who gets compared to "pink unicorns", not Jesus or Muhammed.

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Well whatever...I'm amazed some folks deny God, but truly believe "little green Martians"
are visiting the Planet and the Military has a massive Cover up....

or even that 9/11 was a conspiracy by Israel...

I'm amazed really.

I think it's called faith, Herk. Haven't you lectured me on this topic before? Just because you can't see it or touch it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

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If only you would be altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom.

If it was inconsistent with either theory, said theory would be dead. I have not heard this is the case, and I'm fairly sure the press would report such an astonishing result.

Again, please get a clue.

A theory is not dead just because it is very slightly different than reality. If that was the case, we would have no theories, and no way to do anything.

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We can propose anything we want, but if the propositions can't be tested, even in principle, they are of no more relevance than any other ravings.

The general progression of theories is this:
1.) There is an inconsistency with the currently used model.
2.) The inconsistencies are documented over a range of different situations.
3.) The nature of the inconsistency is studied.
4.) A new theory, which is usually just a modification of the original one, is proposed that includes
a. a more accurate explanation of where the inconsistency is observed.
b. and a mathematical prediction of things that would be true if the inconsistency is accounted for.
5.) the mathematical predictions of the theory are usually proved to be real.
6.) New inconsistencies are found, which are less significant than the ones the theory fixed.

This predictive power is based in the mathematics, and is one of the defining features of theories in general. For example, the Theory of Relativity predicted black holes, which no sane person at the time could possibly believe in, but they were proven to exist later on.

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But none are probable. There is no reason to suspect any of the infinite number of preposterous notions I or any raving loony could think up, is true. Same goes for any religion. There is no evidence.
This is ridiculous. Since I cannot prove that a teapot doesn't orbit Jupiter, or pink unicorns abound inside the sun, or giant frogs cause earthquakes, therefore it is a reasonable idea that all these things are true?
Yes, if you are willing to believe that anything my or anyone elses imagination conjures is as likely to exist as not to exist, than can I help you no further.

That's wrong. The Big Bang has nothing to do with dark energy, which is the term for the unknown "stuff" which cause the Universe to not only expand but to accelerate its expansion. The Big Bang has been shown experimentaly to be correct and dark energy doesn't change that. What dark energy does change, is our ability to predict the far future of the expansion. We currently don't know what causes the acceleration, and it is exciting what Science will turn up in that regard. It could also be that once the nature of dark energy is understood, it could contribute to our understanding of what caused the Big Bang.

Or even by the United States and their tyrannical dictator, His excellency, George "dubya" Bush II.

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