Sep 08 2006
Challenging the Big Bang
As a firm believer in Old Earth (i.e., multi-bazillion years ago) Creation of the earth and the heavens by a loving creator God, I find it interesting that there is growing rancor in secular cosmological circles as to the exact mechanism and timing of creation. The Big Bang is no longer a given. The only thing I can say for certain is that all evidence points to a long ago Creative Act - well before the 4000 years that Young-Earthers preach.
Bullet Cluster Shoots Down Big Bang
(From Thunderbolts) Optical and x-ray images of the galaxy cluster named 1E0657-56 have provided direct proof that these clumps of disturbed galaxies are small, faint, and nearby. These and many similar observations directly contradict the foundational assumptions of the Big Bang, which place the objects far away.
What we have stated in the headline and abstract above is, of course, an interpretation, not a fact. But the distinction between interpretation and fact has become so muddled in the sciences that we felt obliged to underscore the point rhetorically. Unbending theoretical assumptions have wrought havoc on popular astronomy, which could not recognize our interpretation of the Bullet Cluster based on the known electrical behavior of plasma.
According to the authors of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory website, the galactic cluster imaged above “was formed after the collision of two large clusters of galaxies, the most energetic event known in the universe since the Big Bang.” Though the announcement by the Chandra team never uses the words “theory,” “hypothesis,” or “interpretation,” its every sentence rests on a jumble of assumptions, from supposed galactic “collisions” to wildly conjectural “gravitational lensing,” all wrapped around the discredited notion that redshift is a reliable measure of velocity and distance. The capper is the announcement appearing in numerous scientific media that the image “proves the existence of dark matter.”
In electrical terms, the Hubble optical image shows the many distorted galaxies and filaments of plasma that have been identified by the astronomer Halton Arp as the fragments of a quasar (QSO, or quasi-stellar object) after it has moved through an evolving, highly redshifted and unstable “BL Lac” phase. The BL Lac transition breaks up the increasingly massive plasma of the quasar as it progresses toward becoming a companion galaxy.
From an electrical vantage point, the Chandra x-ray image (pink) clearly shows the bell-shaped terminus and following arc of a plasma discharge “jet.” The strong magnetic field of the current causes electrons to emit the x-ray synchrotron (non-thermal) radiation captured in the image. Synchrotron radiation is a normal electrical discharge effect.
But popular astronomy, oblivious to electrical phenomena, sees only “hot gases colliding.”
September 13th, 2006 at 17:12 pm
Just a small plug for young earth creationists: God can easily create something new that has the *appearance* of age. Witness, for example, Jesus at Cana, turning water into wine. He didn’t just turn it into grape juice, but some lip smackin’ stuff, likely AGED, so to speak. Obviously, much of our universe has the appearance of age, but it’s not necessarily old. And, btw, most YEC hold to a 7-11,000yo earth, not 4K.
I am not a rabid YEC, but I tend in that direction.
September 13th, 2006 at 19:45 pm
I agree that it is certainly within His power to do so, but He is the one who established the physical laws of the universe. I don’t think He bends those laws on a whim. It it looks old, maybe it is old.
October 1st, 2006 at 06:08 am
Very fitting I think: “God is the inner principle of all movement, the only identity which already fulfils and illuminates the universe. Everything is incorporated in this one principle, because it encloses infinity, it includes everything, and there is nothing that could be outside of it. ” Giordano Bruno