From the Big Bang to Race and IQ
My new Taki's column explains a lot about where I'm coming from.
My new column in Taki’s Magazine covers a lot of ground (and/or space):
Steve Sailer
August 27, 2025
Way back in the 1970s, I was fascinated by cosmology, the study of the origin of the universe.
It had been discovered by Edwin Hubble in the 1920s at the Mt. Wilson observatory, which I can see from the end of my block, that the universe consists of uncounted numbers of separate galaxies, like our Milky Way. Next, Hubble found that the galaxies were flying farther apart.
In the late 1920s, a brilliant Belgian priest and physicist named Father Georges Lemaître propounded the “hypothesis of the primeval atom,” or what we now call the Big Bang: The universe as we know it had been created a finite amount of time ago.
Lemaître’s theory, which was highly reminiscent of St. Thomas Aquinas’ “Prime Mover” proof for the existence of God—everything moving in the universe must have been set into motion by an Unmoved Mover, namely God—elicited suspicion among scientists that it was all just a Catholic plot to win believers in a Creator.
So, physicist and science fiction author Fred Hoyle, among others, proposed an alternative Steady State model in which the universe is infinitely old yet, while expanding, is otherwise stable. The empty space left behind by the receding galaxies hatches new matter through some process that is currently unimagined but is definitely natural, not supernatural.
Read the whole thing there. It’s explains something about where I’m coming from.
You've shown plenty of talent, courage and honesty so it's normal that those who sold themselves in the service of lies hate you.