Reply #39

of a native people conquered and assimilated by European imperialist culture, calling cultural relativism crap sounds like justification for Western imperial universalism and 'might makes right' . Which from the point of evolution is similar to putting all your eggs in a same basket, which is not very adaptive evolutionary strategy in this constantly changing world.

In the Paul Davies book (Goldilocks) I'm reading, there was just talk about quantum cosmologies and how they change the notion of Big Bang. There are also theories with same of wider explanatory scope that are not based on the inflation model. By this I mean that theories are not truths set in stone, but rather, science is a process of dialogue. Which dialogue includes also the view that there is a final theory to be found, if we keep looking hard enough.