Expansion: Big Bang or Stretching? 11
Helium-2 Nebulas. Clouds of glowing, blue gas, called helium-2
nebulas, have been set aglow by something hot enough to strip two
electrons from each helium atom. No known star=97young or old=97is hot
enough to do so (16), but compressed conditions before the heavens
were stretched out would do this.
Dark =93Science.=94 The big bang theory must invoke unscientific
concepts, such as =93dark matter=94 and =93dark energy,=94 to try to
explain=
the =93stretched out heavens.=94 What is dark matter and dark energy? Even
believers in those ideas don=92t know (17).
Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). The CMB is often given as evidence
for the big bang theory. Actually, that radiation, when studied
closely, is a strong argument against the big bang and evidence for
the sudden creation of matter within an immense universe.
16. =93Hotter stars =91are not predicted by normal stellar evolution, so
the presence of the He II nebulas is a bit of a mystery=92 comments
Garnett ...=94 Donald R. Garnett, as quoted by Ron Cowen, =93Gorgeous
Gas,=94 Science News, Vol. 163, 24 May 2003, p. 328.
17. =93No one knows what dark matter is, but they know what it is not.
It=92s not part of the =91standard model=92 of physics that weaves
together
everything that is known about ordinary matter and its interactions.=94
Jenny Hogan, =93Welcome to the Dark Side,=94 Nature, Vol. 448, 19 July
2007, p. 241.
=93We know little about that sea. The terms we use to describe its
components, =91dark matter=92 and =91dark energy,=92 serve mainly as
expressions of our ignorance.=94 David B. Cline, =93The Search for Dark
Matter,=94 Scientific American, Vol. 288, March 2003, p. 52.
Summary
With both the big bang and stretching explanations, it is difficult to
imagine time beginning, the sudden presence of matter and energy in a
small universe, a brief period when laws of physics did not operate,
and space expanding. The big bang theory says that space expanded for
a brief fraction of a second from a mathematical point=97trillions of
billions of times faster than the speed of light today. The stretching
theory says that a much smaller universe than we have today was
rapidly stretched out, along with the matter and light in that space.
Although no scientific explanation can be given for either form of
expansion, we can see which explanation fits the observable evidence.
We also can appreciate why at least eleven Bible passages, involving
five different writers, mention the =93stretched out heavens.=94 Another
verse, Psalm 19:1, takes on a new depth of meaning: =93The heavens are
telling of the glory of God, and their expanse is declaring the work
of His hands.=94
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