Dark Matter Needed but Still Elusive

Michael Crichton said, “There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period." Really, it is a way around doing actual science and fitting in with the crowd. Seems to this child that mavericks were the ones who impacted science the most.

There has been consensuses about atoms-to-astronomer evolution (although adherents frequently slap leather over many aspects of it) and also about dark matter. Because of the way galaxies act, dark matter is supposedly an important part of the universe.

Hubble image of galaxies, NASA, ESA, & J. Lotz & HFF Team (STScI) (usage does not imply endorsement of site contents)

Cosmologists agree that most of the universe is comprised of this stuff that nobody has seen or can detect. (There seems to be no consensus about what percentage of dark matter makes up the universe.) But yee haw boy howdy, it must exist because dark matter is presupposed and inferred, and it is needed for cosmic evolution.

It must get depressing. Seekers of dark matter share the lonely stagecoach to nowhere with SETI enthusiasts. Those folks are certain there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. Both groups try numerous ways to obtain evidence but continually fail. They keep changing the way they they do their fruitless research. Consider the waste of time, resources, money, intellect, and more to foolishly deny the Creator.

To read the article that inspired this post and see several examples (with interesting commentary), click on "Dark Matter Searches Continue to Fail." You may also like "Increasing Dark Matter Desperation."