Ethan Siegel offers an opinion at Forbes:
No matter how tempting it may be to think that the Universe arose from a singular point of infinite temperature and density, and that all of space and time emerged from that starting point, we cannot responsibly make that extrapolation and still be consistent with the observations that we’ve made. We can only run the clock back a certain, finite amount until the story changes, with today’s observable Universe — and all the matter and energy within it — allowed to be no smaller than the wingspan of a typical human teenager. Any smaller than that, and we’d see fluctuations in the Big Bang’s leftover glow that simply aren’t there.
Ethan Siegel, “How Small Was The Universe At The Start Of The Big Bang?” at Forbes (August 25, 2021)
So intelligent design is correct, right?
Read The Return of the God Hypothesis to understand what is happening.
It definitely may be, but I don’t see how you get this out of that?
Red shift was observed by Hubble in 1929 so we have about 100 years of relevant observations. From that astronomers extrapolate 14 billion years. Any possibility of error?
The age of the universe, Earth, early life forms, etc., have all been SWAGed. SWAG is a scientific wild a** guess. With the limited information we have, it is all guess work when it comes to ages of anything.
As to; “Any smaller than that, and we’d see fluctuations in the Big Bang’s leftover glow that simply aren’t there.”
On top of that, it is (very) interesting to note what the ‘fluctuations’ in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) do reveal to us.
One of the most fascinating, even exciting, lines of evidence that we now have, (that overturns the Copernican Principle and/or the Principle of Mediocrity), are the anomalies that are now found in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR).
Specifically, anomalies in the CMBR, (anomalies that were recently discovered by both the WMAP and Planck telescopes), ‘strangely’ line up with the earth and solar system,
Here is an excellent clip from “The Principle” that explains these ‘anomalies’ in the CMBR, that ‘unexpectedly and surprisingly’ line up with the earth and solar system, in an easy to understand manner.
Moreover, as the following paper highlights, we also find that Radio Astronomy now reveals a surprising rotational coincidence for Earth in relation to the quasar and radio galaxy distributions in the universe, “implying an apparent breakdown of the Copernican principle or its more generalization, cosmological principle, upon which the standard cosmological model is based upon”,,,
And it is these large scale structures of the universe, combined on top of the CMBR anomalies, (via supplying us with proper x, y, and z coordinates), which overturn the Copernican principle and support the antiquated, and quaint, ‘medieval’ Theistic belief that the earth should be considered ‘central’ in the universe.
As the following article, (with a illustration) explains,
Thus, directly contrary to what atheists, and others, have erroneously presupposed with the Copernican principle, the observational evidence that we now have in hand from cosmology, (and even from our best scientific theories of General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics), now reveals teleology, i.e. a goal directed purpose, a plan, that specifically included the earth from the beginning of the universe. The earth and the solar system, from what our best science can now tell us, is not the result of some random quantum fluctuation at the beginning of the universe as atheists have erroneously presupposed within their (ad hoc) ‘inflation’ model(s) (that were proposed to ‘explain away’ why the universe is as flat and uniform as it is).
Verses:
A quote from The Great Courses first lecture on the Big Bang.
Some more quotes
Question: do the equinox positions precess around the ecliptic over time?
If so, then presumably they would only align with the CMBR axis at certain points in cosmological history. If that is the case, then half the argument for the “axis of evil” is a mere coincidence, unless you also align it with the existence in time of creatures able to ascertain and characterize the CMBR.
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