A conundrum is a confusing and difficult problem. It’s also defined as a problem for which there is only conjecture. Both definitions fit the current state of cosmology. No secular scientist really has a clue about how or why the universe was created.
I could compare secular cosmology to swiss cheese, but that would be unfair to swiss cheese. Swiss cheese is mostly cheese, secular cosmology is mostly holes.
One could write books on this, but let’s jump right to evidence from the James Webb Space Telescope. That’s the new telescope in space that’s more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope and more sensitive to infrared light, so it can see very distant galaxies.
Secular scientists believe the universe was created billions of years ago in some sort of “Big Bang” (they haven’t a clue how or why) and that stars and galaxies have “evolved” (there’s that vague word that hides a multitude of scientific sins) into the universe we see today. According to that theory, when we look at very distant galaxies we are looking back in time to a few hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang, and the galaxies should be small, mostly shapeless blobs.
Guess what? That’s NOT what the James Webb Space Telescope sees! The very distant galaxies are fully formed, with just as much structure and complexity as the galaxies close to us. Let me say that again. The distant galaxies are huge and fully formed.
Secular scientists are aghast. Two physicists wrote in the New York Times that the Big Bang theory “may be starting to unravel.” May? The new evidence destroys the Big Bang theory. The distant galaxies have billions of bright stars, and secular scientists are unable to explain how they could have formed so soon after their imagined “Big Bang.” Some now say that the universe must be much older than previously thought, but that contradicts their own models.
There’s more. It has now been discovered, both by the James Webb telescope and by telescopes on Earth, that these super distant galaxies contain large amounts of oxygen and other heavy elements. That also doesn’t fit the secular models. The Big Bang theory requires generations of stars and billions of years to create the measured levels of oxygen and heavy elements.
The Bible tells us eleven times that God made the heavens and stretched them out. A good example is Isaiah 45:12: “My own hands stretched out the heavens. “
The evidence from science is that the Bible is correct. My advice to secular scientists – deal with it.
There’s so much more on this. Secular scientists can’t explain how the first stars formed; it requires outside force to compress gas to form a star. Secular scientists can’t explain how elements heavier than iron were created, even in a supernova the pressures are insufficient. They have invented concepts of inflation, dark matter, dark energy, and dark radiation to try to get their models to match the scientific evidence.
The Bible is correct. Deal with it. As was once told me, “govern yourself accordingly.”
Don’t let anyone tell you that science is contrary to God.
Thanks for reading.
Doug Ell