I will offer this: dragons will not give up their gold without a fight; and always remember that even when you win what you thought was so important, it may turn out to have been of little value after all. The Way requires both commitment and agility.
Theory of Everything: Atheism virtually from the first sentence. “Cosmology is a religion for those who don’t believe in God.” And quantum physics SUPPORTS God better than General Relativity Theory did (it has been cast on the waste bin of intellectual history as a final explanation of what is “really real”).
Then they go and insert liberal socialism in there. Oi.
Being a somewhat proud contrarian, I will conclude by posting a paper posted some years ago doubting the Big Bang Theory. I have not studied up on this topic in detail–cosmology is not one of my topics, other than a basic familiarity with the ideas and problems–but it is my HUNCH that something closer to Thomas Gold’s Steady State Theory will win in the end, if intellectual diversity prevails over dogma.
I was reading another article the other day with yet ONE MORE way to finesse a materialistic universe out of the math of quantum physics, but I fail to see how being a clever mathematician merely making internally consistent but unverifiable faith claims constitutes science at all. String Theory is not science, and neither is the new version of it.
At the end of the day, people operate within the context of cultural paradigms. “Science” is both a theoretical ideal for work, AND, more practically, a concrete set of personal relations which can color everything with unperceived subjectivity and error. Scientists astray are fish who do not believe in water.