{"id":149838,"date":"2022-11-09T21:24:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T03:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/no-the-james-webb-space-telescope-did-not-disprove-the-big-bang-eric-lerner-is-delusional"},"modified":"2022-11-09T21:24:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T03:24:03","slug":"no-the-james-webb-space-telescope-did-not-disprove-the-big-bang-eric-lerner-is-delusional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/no-the-james-webb-space-telescope-did-not-disprove-the-big-bang-eric-lerner-is-delusional","title":{"rendered":"No, The James Webb Space Telescope Did Not Disprove the Big Bang (Eric Lerner is Delusional)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-S-mg1LMOAo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Something strange has been happening lately. Lots of people are under the impression that images from the James Webb Space Telescope have somehow proven big bang cosmology wrong. This is very stupid and objectively wrong, but it has caused a confusion among even pro-science people, who have been asking me if there is any legitimacy to such claims. I decided a brief debunk was in order, to shine a spotlight on the fraud behind this frenzy, briefly explain why such a claim is so ridiculous, and link to other resources for further information. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>Lerner\u2019s dumb article: <a href=\"https:\/\/iai.tv\/articles\/the-big-bang-didnt-happen-auid-2215\">https:\/\/iai.tv\/articles\/the-big-bang-didnt-happen-auid-2215<\/a><br \/> Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel explains how Lerner is a crackpot: <a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/starts-with-a-bang\/has-jwst-disproven-big-bang\/\">https:\/\/bigthink.com\/starts-with-a-bang\/has-jwst-disproven-big-bang\/<\/a><br \/> Cosmologist Brian Keating debunks Lerner: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iPna7WUODuo\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iPna7WUODuo<\/a>.<br \/> Astronomer Ned Wright debunks Lerner: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astro.ucla.edu\/~wright\/lerner_errors.html\">https:\/\/www.astro.ucla.edu\/~wright\/lerner_errors.html<\/a>.<br \/> Real scientists use an entire appendix to debunk Lerner\u2019s mistakes: <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.1086\/529134\/pdf\">https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.1086\/529134\/pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wal Thornhill debunk: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KNTu_pqmq2E\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KNTu_pqmq2E<\/a><br \/> Electric Universe debunk: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T9q-v4lBGuw\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T9q-v4lBGuw<\/a>.<br \/> SAFIRE debunk: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vmVdPgkudC8\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vmVdPgkudC8<\/a><br \/> Sky Scholar debunk: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zi_mQ0sKOfo\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zi_mQ0sKOfo<\/a>.<br \/> Suspicious0bservers debunk: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3fTLZTEE7mU\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3fTLZTEE7mU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch my other debunks\/debates\/discussions: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ProfDaveDebunk\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/ProfDaveDebunk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>EMAIL\u25ba <a href=\"mailto:ProfessorDaveExplains@gmail.com.\">ProfessorDaveExplains@gmail.com.<\/a><br \/> PATREON\u25ba <a href=\"http:\/\/patreon.com\/ProfessorDaveExplains\">http:\/\/patreon.com\/ProfessorDaveExplains<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out \u201cIs This Wi-Fi Organic?\u201d, my book on disarming pseudoscience!<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/no-the-james-webb-space-telescope-did-not-disprove-the-big-bang-eric-lerner-is-delusional\">Continue reading \u201cNo, The James Webb Space Telescope Did Not Disprove the Big Bang (Eric Lerner is Delusional)\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something strange has been happening lately. Lots of people are under the impression that images from the James Webb Space Telescope have somehow proven big bang cosmology wrong. This is very stupid and objectively wrong, but it has caused a confusion among even pro-science people, who have been asking me if there is any legitimacy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}