Is there definitive evidence for an expanding universe?

Creation Ministries International ^ | 8-19-14 | John G. Hartnett

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Is there definitive evidence for an expanding universe?

by John Hartnett

The spectral lines for this element still show the same distinctive pattern, but all have been shifted towards the red end of the spectrum. Expansion of the universe is fundamental to the big bang cosmology. No expansion means no big bang. By projecting cosmological expansion backwards in time, they assert, one will, hypothetically, come to a time where all points are the same. Since these points are all there is, then it logically follows that there is no space or time ‘before’ this moment. It is the singularity, and we cannot use language couched in concepts of time when no time (or space) exists.

[Red Badger]

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[Boogieman]

Well, if that’s all you got, I guess you didn’t bother to read the rest of the article.

[ctdonath2]

I did, and it’s just a more complicated version of the same point: rejecting anything that doesn’t fit the “10,000 year” axiom by harping on “but _this_ isn’t completely explained”. At best, alternate theories are half-baked and easily dismantled by pointing at indisputable physical phenomena.

Brings me back to my default counter-argument asserting “the universe is only 20 minutes old; refute that”.

[Boogieman]

“I did, and it’s just a more complicated version of the same point: rejecting anything that doesn’t fit the “10,000 year” axiom by harping on “but _this_ isn’t completely explained”.”

Well, the article doesn’t say anything like that, so I can only surmise you just have this notion in your head, regardless of the content.