Science, the crisis in cosmology and the big bang

Men and women have looked up at the night sky and speculated about the nature of the universe since prehistoric times. Those speculations were the first In this discussion, Ben Curry, leading member of the Revolutionary Communist International, will look at how the philosophical thought of an age impinges on this science where a clear philosophy is above all necessary if we are to relate the finite sphere of our observations to the infinite cosmos beyond, and the little sliver of time we are able to study its magnificent unfolding to the whole eternity that stretches behind us and ahead of us. Men and women have looked up at the night sky and speculated about the nature of the universe since prehistoric times. Those speculations were the first groping towards science. But science was bound up with myth; cosmology with cosmogeny; astronomy ... [846 chars]