[campaignPete R-CT]

I am just too perplexed about the background radiation, etc. that only took 5000 years to get to us, which means it was in suspended animation at the beginning of the universe. Is it now a static universe again, or is it expanding?

[campaignPete R-CT]

Did the Hebrews think Yom was a twenty-four hour period?

evidences within the Bible for long days?

Other than Yom, there are clues in the Bible that indicate long days?

[GourmetDan]

"I am just too perplexed about the background radiation, etc. that only took 5000 years to get to us, which means it was in suspended animation at the beginning of the universe. Is it now a static universe again, or is it expanding?"

The 'background' radiation may be as simple as the temperature of a hydrogen cloud that is cosmologically 'local'. It is an assumption that it represents 'backgroung' radiation from the big bang.

This highlights a huge problem with philosophical naturalists. They are very poor at acknowledging alternative explanations, preferring to present the most commonly-accepted story as 'fact' until observations force the collapse of the theory and a new commonly-accepted story becomes a new 'fact', ad infinitum.

It's how science 'works', doncha know.

[Theophilus]

Is it now a static universe again, or is it expanding?

If we can't be certain about the position or momentum of a particle within an atom, how can we be so certain about the origin and history of background radiation?