Today’s New Reason To Believe

More Evidence for Big Bang Universe
Air date: 5-22-07
Dave Rogstad, Jeff Zweerink, and Joe Aguirre

• Discoveries
  • Does a dark matter ring discovery validate creation?
  • “Astronomers Find Ring of Dark Matter with Hubble Space Telescope,” NASA news release, May 15, 2007.
    • Resource:
      • The Creator and the Cosmos, 3rd ed., by Hugh Ross
  • Just how old is the universe?
    • G. Fritz Benedict et al., “Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor Parallaxes of Galactic Cepheid Variable Stars: Period-Luminosity Relations, Astronomical Journal 133 (April 2007): 1810-27.
      • Resources:
        • The Creator and the Cosmos, 3rd ed., by Hugh Ross
        • Creation as Science, by Hugh Ross
        • Fine-tuning the cosmic distance scale.
        • Saurabh Jha, Adam G. Riess, and Robert P. Kirshner, “Improved Distances to Type Ia Supernovae with Multicolor Light-Curve Shapes; MLCS2k2,” Astrophysical Journal 659 (April 10, 2007): 122-48.
• Call-in questions
  • Ed from Des Moines, IA:
    • He asks several questions on what scientists mean by standard or multiverse models and how they point to a singularity. The questions come in response to reading Frank Tipler’s book, The Physics of Christianity.
    • See Max Tegmark’s website for understanding multiverse explanations
  • Roger from Portland, ME:
    • Does the coin-flipping version of the gambler’s fallacy refute multiverse theory?
  • Joe from Bismarck, ND:
    • What does RTB think of the apparent new evidence (silica) for water on Mars?
      • Resource:
        • See RTB’s Mars overview
• Email questions
  • Dave asks:
    • Since diamonds are supposedly the oldest rocks on Earth and contain Carbon-14, does that discount old-Earth arguments for dating methods?
  • Rob Gibson:
    • Is there a new cyclic universe model? Why, since the old one seemed more straightforward?
  • A couple of emailers ask what RTB thinks about Guillermo Gonzalez having been denied tenure at Iowa State University.
    • Resource:
      • The Privileged Planet, by Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay Richards