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To: MtnClimber

Most elements heavier than iron are formed from exploding stars.


2 posted on 04/11/2016 6:27:47 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
I would vote for the Hubble Space Telescope's Ultra Deep Field (UDF), which is is one of the strongest empirical 'tells' that the Universe is in fact created.

Why? Because it shouldn't be visible, not like that. That image should be a fog or completely black, nothing in between. To see that amount of detail, that amount of fine structure, those beautiful delicate rotating pinwheels, to see galaxies billions of light years away across almost an entire universe is absurd. It is more mathematically improbable than hitting the Power Ball Jackpot lottery five times in a row. That mind-blowing image is impossible without a super-finely tuned matter density gradient and alpha opacity function that is absolutely perfect.

The UDF is one of the many wildly improbable aspects of the physical Universe. It is unique in that it does not fall prey to a rebuttal based on the Anthropic Principle. (I believe that AP is the last, desperate, refuge of the cornered atheist.)

See the YouTube video The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D by Deep Astronomy. (Or just look out your window.)

God designed the universe very carefully because I think that He wants us to marvel at the sheer majesty of His creation and see what He hath wrought. He wants us to see it. And in doing so we cannot help but be forever humbled by it.

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands. (Ps 19:1)

56 posted on 04/11/2016 9:34:05 PM PDT by Gideon7
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