Posted on 04/09/2006 2:51:35 PM PDT by truthfinder9
NEWS ADVISORY, April 7 /Christian Wire Service/-- “It blows my mind that we can now distinguish between different versions of what happened in the first trillionth of a second of the universe,” said Dr. Charles Bennett of Johns Hopkins in describing the latest WMAP findings.
What happened is called ‘inflation’ and, according to NASA researcher Dr. Gary Hinshaw, “now we can support it [inflation] with real observations.”
The WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anistropy Probe) recorded three years’ continuous observations of the “afterglow” from the cosmic origin event. That glow indicates the universe grew almost immediately and instantaneously from subatomic size to nearly golf-ball size (a many trillion-fold increase).
“The significance of these findings is huge.” says astrophysicist Dr. Hugh Ross, founder of the science-faith think tank called Reasons To Believe (RTB).
“This breakthrough goes a long way toward weeding out a particular set of big bang models designed to get around the need for a transcendent personal Creator,” Ross says.
“This hyper-expansion episode,” says UCLA astronomer and RTB staff scientist Dr. Jeff Zweerink, “is what set up conditions for the later formation of stars and galaxies.”
“As the WMAP continues to soak up light it will reveal even more about how the universe came to be,” Ross adds. “This data will be instrumental in verifying or falsifying the testable creation model my colleagues and I have been developing the last several years.”
The team of scientists at Reasons To Believe has assembled the first scientific model for creation. It is poised to propel a paradigm shift. After 20 years of research, there is finally a theory of creation that is anchored in the scientific method.
“The RTB theory of creation is testable, falsifiable, and successfully predicts future scientific discoveries, such as the most recent WMAP findings,” says Ross.
Dr. Hugh Ross studied distant galaxies and quasars while doing his post-doctoral research at Caltech. He sees the WMAP confirmation of cosmic inflation as further support for the RTB creation model.
“Scientific discoveries of this caliber add further evidence for the biblical account of creation—a continuously expanding universe exquisitely and deliberately fine-tuned for life. The ‘Big Bang’—the Bible taught it first.”
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