While Wayne and Dan are certainly no professional cosmologists, they believe that scientists who study the universe need a bigger conceptual boat. There are "monsters" out there in the deep that don't seem to fit the current Big Bang dingy models of how the universe came into existence and slowly developed over 13.8 billion years.
One astrophysicist has suggested the universe is more like 26 billion years old. Others believe there is no need to change the current age. What is the average person walking down the street to think of all this?
As we learned last week, there was that curious star named Methuselah which seems to be older than the universe itself. But how could that be? One thing Methuselah tells us is that the ways in which astronomers and cosmologists measure the age and distance of objects in the universe is somewhat elastic and subjective. And now, with new images coming down from the James Webb Space Telescope, it seems that the problems with measurements in the sciences of the heavens are once again coming into focus. Just how old is everything? Does anyone really know? Are explanations for how the universe came to be about to be overturned?
Come and see!
Dan's article on Naturalism
https://www.watchman.org/Naturalism/ProfileNaturalism.pdf
Article by Luke Barnes and Daniel Ray on Scientism
https://www.watchman.org/scientism/ProfileScientism.pdf
Is the universe 13.8 or 26.7 Billion Years old?
An article from the cosmologist who believes the universe is over 26 billion years old
Wayne's article on the James Webb Space Telescope (with pictures)
https://creationanswers.net/answersblog/2022/08/25/images-from-the-james-webb-space-telescope/
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Wonderful Things From Saturn's Rings! Part Two
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Wonderful Things From Saturn's Rings! Part One
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Too Big for the Big Bang 2 (Part One) Cosmic Superstructures (stereo)
Too Big for the Big Bang 2 (Part Two) Cosmic Superstructures that Challenge Einstein's Assumptions
Too Big for the Big Bang 2 (Part One) Cosmic Superstructures that Challenge Einstein's Assumptions
The 25th Anniversary of The Design Inference with Dr. William Dembski Part2
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