Kreacjonizm młodej Ziemi a koncepcja Big Bangu. Poglądy Johna Hartnetta z konstruktywistycznej i eksternalistycznej perspektywy
Young-Earth Creationism vs. Big Bang Theory: John Hartnett’s Views from the Constructivist and Externalist Perspective

Summary/Abstract: Dr John G. Hartnett, a physicist with publications in mainstream science journals, is a young-Earth creationist who very fiercely opposes the Big Bang theory on a few levels. He claims that the expansion of space, needed by the theory, is not detectable in laboratories. He also expresses his doubts on the real nature of the cosmic background radiation, and is inclined to advocate that this radiation has a local source. Also, the ideas of dark matter and dark energy, so popular in the recent years, seem to him unreliable. For Hartnett, the abovementioned ideas have the same methodological status as the infamous idea of the planet Vulcan, created in the middle of the 19th century. Dark matter and dark energy are posited in order to save accepted theories that are incompatible with observational data. Hartnett claims that Carmeli’s theory of gravitation explains all the troublesome data without calling upon such fictitious entities as dark matter and dark energy. Dr Hartnett also presents all standard arguments against the idea of cosmic inflation in the beginning of the Universe: there is no mechanism of triggering and stopping the inflation.Hartnett’s views illustrate the author’s arguments for the constructivist and externalist understanding of science. A constructed entity, rather than the objective reality, is the subject of any scientific theory. Science need not be understood as a neutral research effort, because it is deeply dependent on various presuppositions and factors, including non-scientific ones. The so-called epistemic framework is the main presupposition here.

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