Cosmology

I am undeniably obsessed with understanding the universe and I feel passionately about things I could not possibly understand.

For instance determining the age of the earth. Well, to me it seems a group passing a theory off as a fact. It is what it is, afterall. Shakespeare put it best when he wrote, "a rose by any other name would smell so sweet." But, for this idea to be a fact it assumes the big bang theory is correct, but I do not know why, but I do not feel it is. It is a lot like Mormonism being dependant on the book of Mormon being true or not. It is called a keystone. Likewise dating the earth by an asteroid bit assumes you ascribe to the big bang THEORY.   I just do not know enough yet, so the question is am I willing to do what it takes to find out? Everything suggests I ought to be.