Posted by cougar on Feb 18, 2002 at 14:52
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Re: The universe is 13.7 billion years old -- Perhaps (Sparrow)
Sparrow, the data from WMAP brings into sharp focus the seeds that generated the cosmic structure we see today. These patterns are tiny temperature differences within an extraordinarily evenly dispersed microwave light bathing the Universe, which now averages a frigid 2.73 degrees above absolute zero temperature. WMAP resolves slight temperature fluctuations, which vary by only millionths of a degree. The new data support and strenghten the Big Bang and Inflation Theories.
If an all-powerful creator caused the cosmos to come into existence all at once, as you suggest, already "fully formed", with light from objects billions of light years away already completely en route, why would such a creator create within the microwave background radiation the appearance of "seeds" -- extremely small fluctuations that generated the cosmic structure we see today?
As I've said before, I could claim that an all-powerful creator caused the cosmos to come into existence all at once, already "fully formed", exactly as it is today, with everyone's memories in place two and a half hours ago, and no one could prove me wrong. That's because it's a nonfalsifiable assertion. It's clearly not science. And it's also pretty silly.
Re: The universe is 13.7 billion years old Mike Kremer 18/2 20:22
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