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I have never heard creationists or young earth/universe people discuss this. what is it?
 
Check here:

http://www.astro.ubc.ca/people/scott/cmb.html

It is of no interest to "evolutionists", since it doesn't matter at all to evolutionary theory. But it should be of considerable interest to creationists, since it provides evidence for the beginning of the universe.

However, it is not inconsistent with God creating all matter in one event. In fact, the Big Bang is the closest theory to what Genesis says.

Essentially, the CMB is a faint microwave radiation that is the same no matter where you look. It is the remaining radiation from the Big Bang.
 
oh I know what it is personallt, it's just I have never heard young earthers explain it.
 
Hello,

However, it is not inconsistent with God creating all matter in one event. In fact, the Big Bang is the closest theory to what Genesis says.

Didn't Genesis say that God created the Universe in 6 days and rested on the 7th *It ment day as in 24 hr period? This doesn't comply with the Big Bang Theory, which states that there was a primordial explosion which the universe began to expand. The Sun is estimated to be about 10 - 20 million years older then the Earth, and by radioactive dating, the Earth is about 4.75 billion years old, so that the Sun is therefore around 4.76 billion years. There are uncertainties inherent in radioactive dating so ages from 4.6 to 4.8 billion years are probably reasonable. Note, some of the oldest meteorites are 4.8 - 4.9 billion years, but the trapped dust grains can be much older than the Sun because dust grains are often formed in old stars 10's to 100's of millions of years before they got to the cloud out of which the Sun and planets formed. The earth formed after the sun formed as you can see. But Genesis says vice versa. Can you please explain this? Thanks.
 
The WMAP shows the universe to be roughly 13.2 billion years old with an error of a few million years(or a few hundred can't remember.)
Here's a link:
A dressed link, is it not nifty?

Genesis is not comprable to the Big Bang theory Barbarian, they differ on several points. Most being that what is depicted in Genesis violates numerous laws of physics, namely thermodynamics and conservation of matter/energy.
 
He didn't say they were the same, he said its the closest one. Which isn't really saying much.
 
dose the microwave come with an alarm clock lol
 
Virtually everything is a clock if you know how to read it. :biggrin
 
Salam1 said:
Hello,

However, it is not inconsistent with God creating all matter in one event. In fact, the Big Bang is the closest theory to what Genesis says.

Didn't Genesis say that God created the Universe in 6 days and rested on the 7th *It ment day as in 24 hr period? This doesn't comply with the Big Bang Theory, which states that there was a primordial explosion which the universe began to expand. The Sun is estimated to be about 10 - 20 million years older then the Earth, and by radioactive dating, the Earth is about 4.75 billion years old, so that the Sun is therefore around 4.76 billion years. There are uncertainties inherent in radioactive dating so ages from 4.6 to 4.8 billion years are probably reasonable. Note, some of the oldest meteorites are 4.8 - 4.9 billion years, but the trapped dust grains can be much older than the Sun because dust grains are often formed in old stars 10's to 100's of millions of years before they got to the cloud out of which the Sun and planets formed. The earth formed after the sun formed as you can see. But Genesis says vice versa. Can you please explain this? Thanks.

Simple, most Christians take Genesis with a grain of salt. It's merely meant as a metaphorical interpretation of how the Universe came into being, not a literal example of what actually happened.
 
Yep. In fact, some of the earliest Christian theologians had this view. Augustine, for example, wrote that the act of creation was instantaneous, and that the rest of creation was developted from there.

Not a bad fit.
 
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