Posted on 06/02/2014 10:34:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The astronomers who this spring announced that they had evidence of primordial gravitational waves jumped the gun because they did not take into proper account a confounding effect of galactic dust, two new analyses suggest.
Although further observations may yet find the signal to emerge from the noise, independent experts now say they no longer believe that the original data constituted significant evidence.
Researchers said in March that they had found a faint twisting pattern in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the Big Bangs afterglow, using a South Pole-based radio telescope called BICEP2. This pattern, they said, was evidence for primordial gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space-time generated in the early Universe (see 'Telescope captures view of gravitational waves'). The announcement caused a sensation because it seemed to confirm the theory of cosmic inflation, which holds that the cosmos mushroomed in size during the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang.
However two independent analyses now suggest that those twisting patterns in the CMB polarization could just as easily be accounted for by dust in the Milky Way Galaxy
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I think where we agree is that the existence of a Big Bang does not necessarily imply that a “god” is required.
Further, I think we agree that the potentials, for the formation of everything that exists, always existed. Or, more precisely, that the potentials at least preceded the formation.
None of them created life and they can't talk light bulbs into existence, any more than evolution can produce one.
Just look at the gyrations this evolutionist has to go through to explain the lowly fire fly. And then he ends up admitting that they can't reproduce it. Must have been a "random accident" that someone repeated itself until it was selected for. ROFLMAO
Seriously. A rabbi has a better chance of talking a light bulb into existence than evolution creating one.
Not being able to explain something does not mean it isn’t natural. There is a heck of a lot of things science is still working through. And, of course, you still can’t plug ID into a wall socket.
The Theory of Gravity is one of the least understood (and most explored) areas of scientific study. But we see its effects.
Your strawman fails (as have all your previous ones).
I beg to differ. The light bulb was intelligently designed and is pluggable into a wall socket. It was intelligently designed by man.
You are surrounded by intelligent design. You drive a vehicle built by intelligent design, and type on a computer that was built by intelligent design.
A single cell is far more advanced than any of that, but you refuse to recognize it was designed. You need to put yourself under the microscope.
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