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Primordial Helium Abundance

August 1, 2003
By Dr. Hugh Ross

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Through a more accurate determination of collisional contributions to spectral line intensities an astronomy research team adjusted the measured primordial helium abundance upward by 0.0035 to 0.2391 ± 0.0020. This upward adjustment placed helium abundance measurements into an even closer match with the predictions of the big bang creation model.

V. Luridiana, et al, “The Effect of Collisional Enhancement of Balmer Lines on the Determination of the Primordial Helium Abundance,” Astrophysical Journal, 592 (20030, pp. 846-865.

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0304152

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Dr. Hugh Ross

Reasons to Believe emerged from my passion to research, develop, and proclaim the most powerful new reasons to believe in Christ as Creator, Lord, and Savior and to use those new reasons to reach people for Christ. Read more about Dr. Hugh Ross.