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Originally Posted by coldcreation

Nobody was prepared physically or emotionally, i.e., spiritually, to deal with the conclusions coming to surface in the late 90s. Before 1998, modern cosmology had already begun taking on water. Since 1998, modern cosmology has capsized. The new SNe Ia observational results were not the anticipated circumstances to encourage a direct confrontation with realities, least of all with the realities of the Friedmann or inflationary world-views. Modern cosmology has surrounded itself with myth, evaded the past, and thus eluded the future.

Except that this description of the history of cosmology is pure fantasy. Lemaitre came up with the mathematics to describe the current model in the 1920s. People had been analyzing the models involved for decades. The change to cosmology did not overturn the majority of previous work in the field and meshed with other empirical tests.