re: No matter what direction we point a telescope, we always look toward the Big Bang - why?

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Not sure why there's such animosity toward that process nowadays.

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It's even worse than that. First, we've convinced ourselves that only science has value, anyone pursuing the arts is wasting their time. THEN we discount all of the fruits of science we don't like by saying, "It's just a theory".

hypothesis
experimental design
empirical observation
analysis
conclusion
theory

Theories are at the end of the scientific method, not the beginning. People give them short shrift.