Although Eric Lerner published The Big Bang Never Happened 30 years ago in 1991, I only recently heard about his work through the Cosmology Group. I have been a dedicated reader of popular science and mathematics for more than 60 years, and I have generally trusted the scientific method to define the creation, existence, and extent of our observable universe. In his book, Lerner tells us how things went awry when the Newtonian “clock” was mathematically rewound 13.8 billion years back to creation in a “big bang,” and he reveals how this erroneous theory continues to dominate scientific research and computer modelling, despite repeated observational discoveries that conclusively disprove it. A trained researcher and prolific science writer, Lerner describes how and why most professionals in all fields of math and science continue to adhere to a disproven theory. Appallingly, the scholarly search for truth or falsity has fallen victim to the scramble for research funding and telescope observation time amidst the fear of academic “peer” disrespect and censure of publication. Billions in government and foundation funding continue to be fraudulently wasted, worldwide, on research based on a demonstrably flawed theory. The scandal has been denied and suppressed by academia for more than 30 years since the truth was so clearly revealed by Lerner and others, including Nobel laureate Hannes Alfvén. Several generations of students studying in every field of science and mathematics have been deprived of the chance to learn from those who challenge the big bang, and whose work continues to be suppressed in scholarly publications and the deprivation of observatory time. Lerner skillfully documents a more plausible alternative–a believable universe of plasma growing from subatomic electron-ion plasmoids into massive streams of raw energy that chaotically flow and twist across the empty cosmos. The filaments of the dynamic plasma vortex generate ions from electrons, spinning photons into the stardust and light of galaxies, and ultimately evolving rare planetary gardens capable of supporting life, intelligence, and mind. This undeniable fact was conclusively proven by Lerner: recent imaging of the sky, using our most powerful and advanced telescopes, has enabled us to look “farther” back in time, way beyond the 13.8 billion light years of the mainstream “creation” myth, to photograph ancient massive galactic formations stretching across vast cosmic distances, in every direction, far exceeding any conception of “time” we can presently imagine to gravitationally evolve to such sizes. Misled as we are by an initial error in applying Hubble’s constant, our way forward is blocked by self-imposed ignorance until we correct the false theory of cosmological creation and focus our collective thinking on the imminent threats to human existence. After reading his book, I watched Eric Lerner’s current lectures (YouTube.com/llfusion). Freed from the constraint of having to imagine everything beginning with a single spark and gifted to witness the lovely vista (such as the image of the veil nebula) displayed by our best telescopes, we can comprehend an elegantly infinite universe, as we spin about on our island of massified plasma, in the eternal cosmic emptiness. Liberated by the truth, we can free our thinking from the gloomy birth and death cycle of Victorian creationism and permit observational research of a boundless universe of freedom and promise to guide our future. United, our minds have the collective strength to confront and reverse the human-caused collapse of the global environment, world economy, and democratic self-governments resulting from latent brainstem intolerance, deception, and violence. If allowed to continue, these deadly threats will surely cause the extinction of our species by the end of this century. Should we choose to arm ourselves with the tools of creative truth instead of the weapons of barbaric self-destruction, however, we have the inherent, collective mental ability to avoid imminent destruction and agonizing deaths, freeing our children to joyfully fly away from our earthly nest in the eternal quest for the rare planetary gardens of life and mind. The choice is ours; the future is theirs. The Big Bang Never Happened: A Startling Refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origin of the Universe may be one of the most significant books of the century. Lerner writes for an informed public, and his lectures reveal for everyone the visual evidence of an infinitely glorious universe–without a created beginning or a judged ending. ~wm