> the idea that the universe started from an arbitrarily small size and expanded was once considered stupidity. So was an idea that it was created by some supe

> the idea that the universe started from an arbitrarily small size and expanded was once considered stupidity. So was an idea that it was created by some supernatural being in 7 days. If you present theory without hard data - it's very rightly to call it stupidity. Scientific process isn't free pass to throw random theories, without data backing them.