  A straight-forward interpretation of standard
Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) cosmologies is that objects move
apart due to the expansion of space, and that sufficiently distant galaxies
must be receding at velocities exceeding the speed of light. Recently, however,
it has been suggested that a simple transformation into conformal coordinates
can remove superluminal recession velocities, and hence the concept of the
expansion of space should be abandoned. This work demonstrates that such
conformal transformations do not eliminate superluminal recession velocities
for open or flat matter-only FRLW cosmologies, and all possess superluminal
expansion. Hence, the attack on the concept of the expansion of space based on
this is poorly founded. This work concludes by emphasizing that the expansion
of space is perfectly valid in the general relativistic framework, however,
asking the question of whether space really expands is a futile exercise.
