Web Telescope challenges the Big Bang

13/9/2024

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The Big Bang was a derogatory name given by Fred Hoyle to a theory he disliked because it was too similar to Genesis. He countered with the theory of Continuous Creation which was debunked by McCrea in a famous lecture for the Victoria Institute (now Faith & Thought - see https://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/jtvi/1951_105.pdf).
New findings from the Web Telescope are reviving an even older counter to the Big Bang: the “Tired Light Theory”. This proposes that light slows down as it travels. This doesn’t overturn the Big Bang, as Hoyle wanted - but it would mean that it was much longer ago.

Paper at: https://www.mdpi.com/2571-712X/7/3/41
Article at: https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2024/09/the-tired-light-theory-and-james-webb-telescope-observations-challenge-the-validity-of-the-big-bang/

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Bob Allaway

13/9/2024 08:55:50 am

Even if the universe was not expanding from an initial start, but was in a state of 'continuous creation' (which it is not), one could still ask 'Whence did this continuous creation process come? How? Why?' God would still be the creator!

Todd Kantchev

17/10/2024 07:42:06 am

Quite so. I agree. And the universe can still have a beginning and end even if it is infinite. Time does not have meaning outside the material world. Regardless of whether the universe is finite or not, the infinity and eternity of God has a higher cardinality than that of the material world. Some ask, but how come? If the universe is infinite, how can God be 'more infinite'? I will make an analogy of infinite series in maths. If the numbers in a series 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, etc., grow with the addition of a constant number, then when their number in the series increases infinitely, the value of each number will also tend to infinity. Mathematicians say that the series tends to infinity according to a linear law. But another series, on which the members are obtained by multiplication with a constant number, will grow faster: 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc., i.e. according to a geometrical law. In this situation, when the two series tend to infinity, the corresponding members of the geometric series will be infinitely larger than those in the linear series, because their difference will not remain constant, but will also grow and tend to infinity. The geometric series is of an infinity of a higher rank.

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