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Today’s APOD (https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2604/noirlab2610c.jpg)
gives a computation by astronomers showing the density of constellations as seen from our vantage point. The possible conclusions of this description of the picture they post is to me silly. First of course I am not an astronomer, but I think I have enough sense to realize that the Milky Way is not the center of the universe, the big bang if it happened did not happen in our neighborhood. No, this observation just shows our inability to see, especially to see the smaller, less bright constellations the farther away they are to eventually not even being able to see large bright constellations that are more than 14 billion light years away. Every new more powerful telescope we sent into space allows us to see farther and farther out away from us. The concept that the universe as we know it is 14 billion years old to me, absurd. We simply can’t see farther back than that. When the Webb telescope was put on line some of the first deep field images came back with constellations, very large, developed and bright constellations over a billion light years farther away than we thought possible.

I’m just an old man, astronomy is just a little hobby but seeing the density near us and postulating that there is no way we are at the center of the densest part of the universe I suspect that the universe is just as dense 14 billion years away as it is in our own neighborhood.

Now perhaps this will ruin my credibility but I believe in the Christian God who has created worlds without end, not in a God who only created a lot of worlds near us.