I use theologians to provide amusement, but it's not funny when i think that you may teach your children this garbage of a pre-school understanding.
By "reliable" cosmology i suppose you mean anything that doesn't contradict the Bible because that is "known truth" and if reality is different then reality is wrong.
It's hard not to insult you, i'm doing my very best but your understanding of these things relies on your understanding of the bible and nothing else and that makes you utterly misinformed about reality.
Well, i think i did it, i didn't insult you once in this post... yay me for this incredible show of restraint.
I have as metis example the other day set the tone, resolved not to argue with people who use sarcasm and arrogance as a crutch. However you have packed so much wrong into a few sentences I can't help myself.
1. I really do not give a crap about what you think of theologians. It says more about you than them and so does the arrogance required to claim what you did.
2. By reliable cosmology. I mean reliable cosmology. The BBT is the most accepted model in cosmology by a huge margin, and BGV is one of the most excepted theorems coming out of modern cosmology. Both are reliable and both are consistent in countless ways with the Bible. Every single scrap of "cosmological science" used to contend with the Bible is contained in the most unreliable end of the most unreliable section of science, (Theoretical cosmology). Since I expect an emotionally based response to this because it is inconvenient I will give you a way to show me wrong. I will supply at least 10 pieces of reliable cosmological evidence consistent with the Bible or what can easily be inferred from it, for every piece of even unreliable (but rational and reasonable) cosmological evidence you can find that is inconsistent with it. No games, just evidence. If I see the first game or the first sign of insincerity, I will end that offer and discussion. Deal?
3. Personal commentary that is not true but even if it was can't possibly be known by you is not worth responding to.
4. You were not overt but if you do not see any derision in your post you are not looking.
Anyway one last offer and way to show your right and I am wrong. It's go, time. What are you going to do?
BTW just based on probability I would bet I have had at least twice as many hours in advanced science and mathematics than you. I work in military avionics. I go to seminars at my college on cosmology and read the latest views of RELIABLE cosmology. That is where my claims come from. My grandfather was one of the first 100 engineers to work on space flight at the local arsenal. My father is an Apollo engineer, my younger brother is a national merit scholarship winner (top .5% in the US) and works in space flight communication. The college I graduated from was where Von Braun recruited and I live in the rocket city (you know the ones that built space stations, rockets, and shuttles). I was trained in aeronautics (or some specific applications of it) by the military. So that wild speculation about me is out.