“. 93.9% of Icelanders younger than 25 believed the world was created in the big bang, “
Dear religionists,
Don’t feel bad. The kids don’t understand science, either.
True. According to physics, after the Big Bang, it took 400 million years or so for enough hydrogen atoms to collect together to make the first stars. Before that the whole Universe was an expanding, hot, hydrogen "soup".
Then it took billions of years of stars growing, exploding into supernovas, and then being born again, over and over again, for enough heavy elements to make rocky world solar systems. That took about 9 billion years, with the Sun and Earth only coming into existence 4 billion years ago or so.