Gandelf wrote:So, until that happens, the scales are tipped in favour of Creationism because there may not be any dark matter out there!
That doesn't make any sense because just the same there may not be a creator out there either so at very least taking that point of view the scales are balanced.
More to the point however, the existence or non-existence of dark matter doesn't threaten the possibility of the existence of a creator regardless, because there's nothing to say the creator didn't create the dark matter, so quite why you feel the need to suggest the two are mutually exclusive I don't know.
The idea of dark matter arises because we can observe effects on objects far off in space such that they appear to be being pulled, or acted on by some other force in some way yet there is no other object there to pull them (i.e. via gravity). The argument is then that there is some other form of matter out there that is simply not visible or detectable to us but is still capable of enacting forces such as gravity upon other objects that are visible. Ironically, someone with a religious mind might even argue that dark matter is their deity at work, moving things around the universe with his hands invisibly.
This is simply what I don't understand about you Gandelf, you're so insecure and closed off in your beliefs that even your own beliefs don't make any sense, you believe in a god that contradicts his very own existence. Science has proven that something exists out there in the universe that we can't explain, so rather than apply your belief of the way the universe was created you instead seek to suggest it doesn't exist, which is contrary to reality as we know it, it's like the person that sits curled up in a ball, with their hands over their ears screaming "LALALALA I'M NOT LISTENING".
Gandelf, I'm not sure what sort of Christian you are, but I do wonder if you realise that even the Vatican not only accept the existence of dark matter, but also have their very own observatory to further research in such areas? If any set of religious beliefs are correct then surely it's those that fit in with the universe as we know it, than a belief like yours that simply runs contradictory to reality?
