Finiter, I agree that it is important to discuss alternative views. If it was automatically assumed that an idea was wrong, simply because it didn't agree with current thinking there would be no scientific progress.

I think it is also important that people who have ideas that are not main stream should persist in arguing their points until, either they change scientific thinking, or are themselves convinced that their ideas are not viable. Of course, in order to bring about change you have to be able to convince the scientific community that your ideas actually displace the current ones.

There are some good examples on this forum of people who seem to think that just repeating assertions will convince others that they are true. That approach is more likely to work in politics than in science.

There never was nothing.