Because Galaxies Are Billions of Light-Years Away, Isn't the Universe
Billions of Years Old? 7
As stated in Scientific American, "the formation of 'ordinary' spiral
and elliptical galaxies is apparently still out of reach of most
redshift surveys (16)." Moreover, fully formed clusters of galaxies,
not just galaxies, are seen at the greatest distances visible to the
Hubble Space Telescope (17). In 1998 and 2004, similar pictures-with
similar results-were taken.
Think about this. There is not enough time in the age of the universe
(even as evolutionists imagine it, times a billion) for gravity to
pull together all the particles comprising clusters of galaxies (18).
Because the most current studies show fully-formed galaxies even
farther away than those shown above (19), creation becomes the logical
and obvious alternative. We may be seeing galaxies as they looked
months after they were created. Vast amounts of time are no longer
needed.
16 . F. Duccio Macchetto and Mark Dickerson, "Galaxies in the Young
Universe," Scientific American, Vol. 276, May 1997, p. 95.
17 . Govert Schilling, "Early Start for Lumpy Universe," Science, Vol.
281, 11 September 1998, p. 1593. [See also E. J. Ostrander et al.,
"The Hubble Space Telescope Medium Deep Survey Cluster Sample:
Methodology and Data," The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 116, December
1998, pp. 2644-2658.]
18 . This problem for conventional astronomy has been quietly
recognized for several decades. Having a photograph of so many
galaxies so far away simply makes the public more aware of it.
"Gravity can't, over the age of the universe, amplify these
irregularities enough [to form huge clusters of galaxies]." Margaret
Geller, as quoted by John Travis, "Cosmic Structures Fill Southern
Sky," Science, Vol. 263, 25 March 1994, p. 1684.
"The theorists know of no way such a monster could have condensed in
the time available since the Big Bang, especially considering that the
2.7 K background radiation reveals a universe that was very
homogeneous in the beginning." M. Mitchell Waldrop, "The Large-Scale
Structure of the Universe Gets Larger-Maybe," Science, Vol. 238, 13
November 1987, p. 894.
"But this uniformity [in the cosmic microwave background radiation]
is difficult to reconcile with the obvious clumping of matter into
galaxies, clusters of galaxies and even larger features extending
across vast regions of the universe, such as 'walls' and 'bubbles'."
Ivars Peterson, "Seeding the Universe," Science News, Vol. 137, 24
March 1990, p. 184.
19 . J. A. Stevens et al., "The Formation of Cluster Elliptical
Galaxies as Revealed by Extensive Star Formation," Nature, Vol. 425,
18 September 2003, pp. 264-267.
"The discovery of massive, evolved galaxies at much greater
distances than expected-and hence at earlier times in the history of
the Universe-is a challenge to our understanding of how galaxies
form." Gregory D. Wirth, "Old before Their Time," Nature, Vol. 430, 8
July 2004, p. 149.
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