[Lonesome in Massachussets]

It is exciting also because it runs counter to a core secular assumption about the origin of the universe.

That's the difference between faith and science: When the evidence contradicts beliefs, science changes and adapts. The cosmological principle is not necessarily "central" to the Big Bang theory. (BTW, there are no longer any Quasars and there haven't been any in a billion years. We are observing light emitted from a distant point in the universe, billions of years ago. Nowadays, that part of the universe has changed and no longer has any quasars there.)

But why the hostility towards science? Faith in God, and wonder about His Creation need not be in conflict. Who are you (or I) to tell God how he should have made the Universe, so that we can comprehend it? Why should looking at the stars shake one's faith in their Creator?

[ArGee]

Faith in God, and wonder about His Creation need not be in conflict.

Actually, Faith in God and wonder at His Creation are intended to be in concert. (I changed the word because scientific curiosity is not the same as wonder.)

What's at issue is trying to define God by His creation rather than understanding Him through it.

[Kozak]

Unpossible. The universe is only 6016 years old.....
/ sarc

[Kozak]

Unpossible. The universe is only 6016 years old.....
/ sarc

[Iron Munro]

That's the difference between faith and science: When the evidence contradicts beliefs, science changes and adapts.

Unless it has something to do with Global Warming, some other politically correct issue, or could cause loss of a federal research grant.