A new picture of the early universe; Microwave Imager Probes Universe "First Light" to Answer...

Royal astronomical Society and the National Science Foundation ^ | 05.23.02 | University of Manchester, UK;; and the NSF

[Daniel_in_Babylon]

The details of the origin of the universe cannot be determined by the natural laws of science. To most people, that seems quite obvious. All the matter and energy and information in the universe created out of nothing. Not many natural laws at work there, are there?! By definition, the creation of the universe is outside of the natural - it was supernatural. Your so-called "book of Nature" provides you with no information on this point. So if we want to know what really happened, our only source would be an eye-witness. And we have One. Jesus Christ, the eternal Creator, tells us in His book that He created the known universe out of nothing and that He spoke it into existence over the course of six days. That's what He says. Now you must decide whether or not you believe Him.

[Physicist]

All the matter and energy and information in the universe created out of nothing. Not many natural laws at work there, are there?!

Sure there are. It all still adds up to zero.

I'm not sure why you insist that at some level the numbers don't add up perfectly, that there must be seams in creation. Try having a little more faith in God.

He spoke it into existence over the course of six days.

Yeah, you said that. But how?

[PatrickHenry]

By definition, the creation of the universe is outside of the natural - it was supernatural.

I'm not sure this is known with any certainty.

Your so-called "book of Nature" provides you with no information on this point.

We've only just begun to study these matters. The information may very well be out there. If it is, it's there for us to discover. Wouldn't you like to know more about how the universe came into being?

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Is it safe to characterize this result as another successful prediction of the Big Bang theory? I don't have the stats on the Universe at its 300,000th birthday, but if the splotches match projections of galactic clusters backward in time from the present, then this is another remarkable success for Big Bang theorists.

[AndrewC]

Any opinions?

Gee, to think that all of this time I have awakened in the early morning to the image of the primordial universe on my TV.