Christopher wrote:

But in the past 20 years, improved telescopes have given us enough hard data to overwhelmingly verify the Big Bang.
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"I think you've got it reversed, Mr. Krako." Every new observation creates another problem for the Big Bang.
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Heck, a generation of string theorists have built careers writing papers about untestable new interpretations of physics.
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Untestable theories are not science.
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Science is about observing the universe and figuring out how it works.
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And how does that differ from an explanation? I never said "why." And you're right, that is for philosophers. Newton did not explain gravity, he only quantified it. Einstein didn't explain gravity either, he added another layer that pushes us one step further from the answer.