"It’s there, but we just haven’t detected it yet..."

More dark matter nonsense:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/05/30/new-science-lab-turns-lead-into-solid-gold/

This is one of those news stories that just drives me crazy.

From the article: “They know it’s [dark matter] there by its gravitational pull but, unlike regular matter and antimatter, it’s so far undetectable.”

No, they don’t know it’s there by its gravitational pull. In actuality, observed matter in distant space is not moving as predicted by the standard theory of cosmology, namely the Big Bang theory. They assume it's there by the discrepancy between theory and observation. In regards to this discrepancy between theory and observation, scientists say, “Our theory is correct, therefore there must be something unseen causing matter to move against theoretical prediction. In other words, we know it's there by it's gravitation pull. Ergo, dark matter.”

But any scientist worthy of the moniker should say rather, “Observed matter in distant space is not moving as predicted by the standard theory. Is the standard theory thereby disproved?”

But no. The modern scientist assumes the correctness of his theory, and, in the face of observations which disprove his theory, attempts to save his theory by positing the existence of something that is, and I quote the article, “…so far undetectable.”

From the article: “‘It has to be there because of its effects through gravity, but it also has to have properties that make it very unusual — otherwise, we would have detected it already,’ Lesko said.”

Reading between the lines: “It has to be there, because our theory doesn’t work without it. It’s there, but we just haven’t detected it yet because it’s very unusual stuff.”

Absolutely ridiculous! Scientists have faith, pure and simple, that dark matter exists. They have nothing but faith! They have actual observational evidence that their standard model of cosmology is incorrect, yet they won’t let go of their precious theory because they have faith in the existence of something that has thus far eluded detection.

And yet they laugh at belief in God. Go figure.

Logical reasoning: Visible matter isn't moving according to prediction, therefore the theory used to make predictions may be incorrect. Develop new theory.

Illogical reasoning: Visible matter isn't moving according to prediction, therefore something heretofore undetected (dark matter) is affecting the movement of visible matter. Keep theory, build detectors to detect dark matter.

We know it's there, we just have to build detectors to detect it. Our theory is correct; we just have to find the proof that it's correct.

With dark matter, scientists are starting from the assumption that they're correct, and then going in search of proof of their correctness. Since when does science work this way?!

"It’s there, but we just haven’t detected it yet..." (exact quote from the above article). Funny. A Christian can give the exact same response to a scientist's demand for scientifically acceptable proof of God's existence. Do you think the scientist will accept such a response, or do you think the scientist will laugh the Christian out the door? We already know the answer to that question, don't we?

Why are we not laughing dark matter out the door?

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B.S.!