[Strategerist]

Spitzer Clusters: JPL issued a press release stating that the Spitzer Space Telescope, on a “cosmic safari,” found evidence for clusters of galaxies 9 billion years old. In the standard dating scheme, this was when the universe was a “mere” 4.5 billion years old.

And Creation-Evolution Headlines pulls back into the lead in the "Most idiotic crap regularly posted to FR" category.

They either misunderstood the article they link to or are deliberately misrepresenting it.

[jimbergin]

and what did the article mean since you seem to understand it?

[Doctor Stochastic]

Most likely they cannot subtract either.

[bondserv]

They either misunderstood the article they link to or are deliberately misrepresenting it.

This information has been unraveling for six months or so. It has admittedly confounded all of the astronomers who are examining the evidence.

As I have been saying, it is conceptually feaseable to consider that an eternal Creator who is outside of time -- as the scripture teaches throughout by calling God eternal, and revealing prophetic accuracy regarding events that are yet future (unlike any other Holy Book) -- can manifest physical reality like billions of light years like a painter laying paint on a canvas. The scripture describes this reality specifically. Who would have known it would be consistant with Einsteinian relativity theories.

Isa 40:22 [It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof [are] as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: