re: Lerner got it wrong before...
An excellent Web site, Adam.
Hmm, Lerner's attitude reminds me of those who had trouble accepting the Big Bang concept after it first came out, because a beginning to the Universe implied a creator, as opposed to an eternal Universe that somehow kept producing matter on its own all the time.
This attitude included Albert Einstein.
I didn't realize that Marxists abhorred a finite Universe, or at least Lerner does. I'm trying to figure out exactly why that would be an ideological issue for them? The Universe is apolitical as far as I can tell - or is that the issue with him?