Scientific Find Challenges Scientific Dogma

It is interesting how powerful presupposition can be. Depending on a person’s worldview, there is a lot of evidence that can be interpreted to mean anything. Take into account the fact that it has been proven snakes once had legs. The Evolutionist would tell an individual this is proof that the species evolved through mutation and natural selection whereas the Creationist would tell an individual this is proof of the Genesis account of the Fall and God’s judgment.

However, even the strongest presuppositions can be dislodged by objective science. A good example of this is found in astronomy, as the Big Bang Theory holds dominance on the issue of the evolution of the Universe. Anything found almost automatically becomes evidence that this great explosion took place. So one has to wonder what proponents were thinking when in 2004 a new discovery was found that denied the widely-accepted model of the Universe’s origins.

A link to that find is located here. Below are some tantalizing excerpts:

“Austin, Texas— Wide-field telescope observations of the remote and therefore early universe, looking back to a time when it was a fifth of its present age, have revealed an enormous string of galaxies about 300 million light-years long. This new structure defies current models of how the universe evolved, which can't explain how a string this big could have formed so early.”

“The string was discovered by Dr. Povilas Palunas (The University of Texas at Austin), Dr. Paul Francis (Australian National University, Canberra, Australia), Dr. Harry Teplitz (California Institute of Technology in Pasadena), Dr. Gerard Williger (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.), and Dr. Bruce E. Woodgate (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.). The initial observations were made with the 4-meter (159-inch) Blanco Telescope at the National Science Foundation's Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, and confirmed with the 3.9-meter (154-inch) Anglo-Australian Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory in eastern Australia.”

“The team compared their observations to supercomputer simulations of the early universe, which could not reproduce strings this large. ‘The simulations tell us that you cannot take the matter in the early universe and line it up in strings this large,’ Francis said. ‘There simply hasn't been enough time since the Big Bang for it to form structures this colossal.’”

“’To explain our results,’ Francis said, ‘the dark matter clouds that lie in strings must have formed galaxies, while the dark matter clouds elsewhere have not done so. We've no idea why this happened - it's not what the models predict.’”