Big Bang
Confirming Cosmic Expansion, Part 2 (of 4)
Continual cosmic expansion under fixed physical laws from an actual beginning of matter, energy, space, and time is the key to the biblical cosmic creation model. Efforts to further confirm continual … more
Confirming Cosmic Expansion, Part 1 (of 4)
Important decisions in life—who to marry, which job to take, what house to buy—are best made in the context of multiple independent confirmations. When every possible confirming source … more
Translating Genesis 1:1: Aristotle or the Big Bang? Part 2 (of 2)
Acceptance of the big bang theory in the latter half of the twentieth century provided scientific justification for the traditional translation of Genesis 1:1. But certain new translations potentially … more
Locating the Ordinary Dark Matter
For centuries, science students were taught that darkness was not some kind of stuff but rather simply the absence of light. Thanks to recent astronomical discoveries, we now know that the oldest book … more
Translating Genesis 1:1: Aristotle or the Big Bang? Part 1 (of 2)
What role should scientific theories play in translating the Bible? That’s a complex question. However, to the extent that science is allowed to play any role at all, one would suppose that … more
Temperature of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
For thousands of years the Bible stood alone among all theological, philosophical, and scientific texts in making the claim we live in a big bang universe. Bible authors described all the fundamental … more
Direct Distance Measurements to Center of the Milky Way
A team of four astronomers from the United States, Germany, and China have placed the biblically predicted big bang creation model1 on a more secure footing by producing the first-ever direct distance … more
Hottest Temperature Ever Heads Science to Big Bang
Reuters, “Hottest Temperature Ever Heads Science to Big Bang,” by Maggie Fox, February 15, 2010 ; http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61E3OB20100215 more
Creation of the First Stars
Scientific evidence for the biblically predicted big bang creation model1 is both overwhelming and compelling. In fact, astronomers have been able to identify a very specific big bang creation model … more
Latest Research Beats Out the Mixmaster Model
During my graduate school days, when evidence for a big bang universe was growing exponentially, “mixmaster” models for the universe gained popularity as a potential escape, a loophole for … more
Is the Big Bang Biblical?
Hugh Ross proclaims in the lead article (“Latest Research Beats out the Mixmaster Model”) that the big bang creation model was first described in the Bible thousands of years ago. … more
Hadron Collider: 'Big Bang Machine' Smashes World Record
Huffington Post, “Hadron Collider: 'Big Bang Machine' Smashes World Record,” by Alexander G. Higgins, November 30, 2009 ; … more
More Accurate Measures of Creation: Shoring Up the Distance Ladder Method
Opponents of the big bang creation model, both atheists and young-earth creationists, often attempt to blow past it by picking apart the least understood and least well-determined components of the … more
Andromeda strained with houseguests, Universal Multiplicity, Inflation, Big Bang or no bang?
Andromeda a habitable candidate?, Multiple Multiverses, Inflation a one-time event, Is the Big Bang as solid as RTB claims? more
Testing Creation Using the Proton to Electron Mass Ratio
For thousands of years the Bible has been on record stating that the laws governing the heavens and earth do not vary.1 If the constancy of the laws of physics is proven, it would not only establish … more
First Simulation of Type Ia Supernova
How can scientists use violent stellar explosions occurring outside the Milky Way Galaxy to determine the characteristics of the universe? Aren't the many variations in these explosions so extreme as … more
Evolution quandary, Hawking's Big Bang rebuttal, Time delusions, Gospel choice
Wide acceptance of evolution, Hawking's BHT, Did God create w/ some appearance of age?, Gospels: why some and not others? more
New Lower Limit for Gravitational Wave Energy Density
For lay people, gravity is the most familiar of the fundamental forces of physics. Not a moment goes by where one does not feel the strong pull of gravity toward the center of the earth. Nor is there … more
Big Bang or Big Fizzle? Young, hot Jupiter, Heavenly GPS
Disagreement over big bang, Jupiter too warm to be old, Where is heaven? more
More Rigorous Test of General Relativity
Prior to twentieth century developments in physics, scientists and philosophers had come to believe that the universe had been static for infinite time. Then the theory of general relativity affirmed … more
