Kevin

Particle physicist Victor Stenger has written a review of this argument (where it appears in The Science of God) on the Internet Infidels site: http://www.infidels.org/library/mode...er/schrev.html

Jesus Tap-Dancin' Christ

In his case, yes.

Density based time dialtion would occur, but there is a slight problem with this: namely, in the early universe (during it's ultra-fast expansion), it contained ZERO matter. No time dilation could therefore have occured due to density until much later (as in on the order of 10^3 seconds after the fact--all things considered, a long time for then).

There is a "point" in space that is the center of the Big Bang (more or less)--this would be the center of the universe. Since there isn't much in the way of matter there though, his argument is utter crap in a hat. He knows it too, or is deliberately ignorant of this. Either way, it's a lie.

Lobstrosity

On top of this, the universe is known to be homogenous and isotropic. This means that on large enough scales (but still quite small with respect to the size of the universe), the universe has uniform density, which precludes the idea of density-based time dialation at any one preferential point. Given the uniformity of the CMB, the early universe must have been exceedingly homogenous and isotropic. Even if it wasn't homogenous, one would still expect there to be no net gravitational force at the origin of the big bang. Think about it, what's the gravitional acceleration at the center of any isotropic sphere (i.e. density can be a function of radius but not theta or phi)?