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Starlight and Time

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Astronomy and Astrophysics Questions and Answers

Key articles

• Astronomy (chapter 7 of Refuting Evolution)
• Cosmologists can’t agree and are still in doubt! (see also Refutation of critic)
• Exploring the heavens: interview with astronomer Dr David King
• The mind of God and the big bang
• How can we see distant stars in a young Universe? (from The Creation Answers Book)
• Christian apologists should abandon the big bang

Galileo-what’s the real story?

• The Galileo ‘twist’
• The Galileo affair: history or heroic hagiography
• Galileo Quadricentennial

Is there evidence that the universe was created?

• Universe finely-tuned for life
• What is the Anthropic Principle?
• Multiverse theory—unknown science or illogical raison d’être
• Evidence of a watery origin for the solar system
• Heavens declare a different story!
• A 5D spherically symmetric expanding universe is young

What are some of the problems with the ‘big bang’ hypothesis?

• Do creationists have to resort to secular ideas to explain geology and astronomy?
• Secular scientists blast the big bang
• What about the ‘big bang’? (available in Russian)
• Doom and gloom from the BBC: Comment on Wonders of the Universe: Destiny
• Have cosmologists discovered evidence of inflation?
• Exploding the big bang!
• Hubble, hubble, ‘big bang’ in trouble?
• Missing antimatter challenges the big bang theory
• Did chemical elements come from the big bang or supernovae? Critique of nucleosynthesis theory
• The Universe is nothingness! The latest cosmological wild ‘guess’?!
• Discovery Channel program: How the Universe Works

Does the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Radiation prove the big bang?

• The Big Bang fails another test (CMB casts no shadow)
• Nobel Prize for alleged big bang proof
• WMAP ‘proof’ of big bang fails normal radiological standards
• Recent Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data supports creationist cosmologies
• Planck sees the Big Bang—or not?

Can the big bang explain the origin of galaxies?

• Young galaxies too old for the big bang
• Quasar with enormous redshift in nearby galaxy with far lower redshift: unsolvable riddle for big bang
• ‘Ripples’ of galaxies—another blow to the big bang

What is ‘dark matter’, and why does the big bang need it?

• No dark matter found in the Milky Way galaxy
• Has ‘dark matter’ really been proven? Clarifying the clamour of claims from colliding clusters
• Dark matter and a cosmological constant in a creationist cosmology?
• MOND over dark matter?

Where is the centre of the universe?

• A creationist cosmology in a galactocentric universe
• Where are we in the universe?
• Is Earth at the center of the Universe?
• In the middle of the action
• New evidence for a rotating cosmos
• More on the ‘Rotating Cosmos’!
• Our galaxy is the centre of the universe, ‘quantized’ redshifts show
• New evidence: we really are at the centre of the universe

What are stars and could they form naturally?

• Were stars created?
• Are stars forming today?
• Do stars evolve?
• Stars could not have come from the big bang
• Counting the Stars

What is light? Is it slowing down?

• Is there any evidence for a change in c?
• What is Light?
• What about the slowing, stopping and reversing of light?
• Have fundamental constants changed, and what would it prove?
• Speed of light slowing down after all? Famous physicist makes headlines

How can we see light from stars millions of light years away?

• Do creationists have to resort to secular ideas to explain geology and astronomy?
• A new cosmology: solution to the starlight travel time problem
• Review of Starlight and Time
• Starlight Wars: Dr Russell Humphreys answers the critics of his cosmological model proposed in Starlight and Time
• How do spiral galaxies and supernova remnants fit in with Dr Humphreys’ cosmological model? Dr Russell Humphreys himself explains …
• New time dilation helps creation cosmology
• Explaining a misunderstanding about a YEC cosmology: Was the fourth day an ‘ordinary’ day?
• Light-travel time: a problem for the big bang

What are red-shifts and do they really support the ‘big bang’ evolutionary idea for the origin of the Universe?

• Galaxy-Quasar Connection Defies Explanation
• How is Red Shift Explained?
• Doppler Toppler?

What about ‘black holes’?

• The evidence for black holes
• Black holes in space don’t support evolution
• The large hadron collider: will a black hole swallow us?

Related Q&A pages

• Solar System and Extra-solar planets Q&A
• Young age evidence, Astronomy