Questions For Which Evolutionists Have No Answers

... and so far, I agree with them.

DARK MATTER HIDES, PHYSICISTS SEEK

for Stanford News Service
Stanford CA (SPX) Dec 01, 2006
Scientists don't know what dark matter is, but they know it's all over the universe. Everything humans observe in the heavens-galaxies, stars, planets and the rest-makes up only 4 percent of the universe, scientists say. The remaining 96 percent is composed of dark matter and its even more mysterious sibling, dark energy.
Scientists recently found direct evidence that dark matter exists by studying a distant galaxy cluster and observing different types of motion in luminous versus dark matter. Still, no one knows what dark matter is made of. Now, a pioneering international project co-led by Stanford physicist Blas Cabrera may finally crack the case and pin down the elusive particles that form dark matter.

"It's harder and harder to get away from the fact that there is a substance out there that's making up most of the universe that we can't see," says Cabrera. "The stars and galaxies themselves are like Christmas tree lights on this huge ship that's dark and neither absorbs nor emits light." ...

... "Dark matter permeates everything," Cabrera says. "It just never collapsed the way atoms did."

Since dark matter never formed stars and other familiar heavenly objects, for a long time scientists never knew it was there. The earliest indication of its existence came in the 1930s when Fritz Zwicky, a Swiss-American astronomer, observed clusters of galaxies. He added up the masses of galaxies and noticed that there was not enough mass to account for the gravity that must exist to hold the clusters together. Something else must provide the missing mass, he deduced.

Later in the 1970s, Vera Rubin, an American astronomer, measured the speeds of stars in the Milky Way and other nearby galaxies. As she looked farther out toward the edges of these galaxies, she found that the stars do not rotate more slowly as scientists expected. "That didn't make any sense," Cabrera says. "The only way you could understand it is if there was a lot more mass there than what you saw in the starlight."

Over the years, more and more evidence for dark matter has piled up. Although scientists don't yet know what it is, they have a better idea of where it is and how much of it there should be. "There's very little wiggle room left for having different quantities," Cabrera says ...

The idea of a big bang is bad physics and bad theology to boot. Having all the mass of the universe collapsed to a point would be the mother of all black holes. Nothing would ever "bang" its way out of that.

Moreover, having an omnipotent and omniscient God suddenly decide that creating a universe 17 billion years ago when the idea had never occurred to him aforehand is basically nonsensical. How could he be omniscient and not have figured that out 17 trillion or 17 quadrillion years ago??

Until somebody can show me a reason for believing otherwise, I am sticking with the idea that the universe is basically eternal.

The idea of a big bang is bad physics and bad theology to boot. Having all the mass of the universe collapsed to a point would be the mother of all black holes. Nothing would ever "bang" its way out of that.

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Until somebody can show me a reason for believing otherwise, I am sticking with the idea that the universe is basically eternal.

I can. Get a PhD in Physics, and I absolutely guarantee that you will find very elaborate, very detailed, very tight reasoning supporting that idea. I wouldn't attempt to critique a novel written in Pakistani without learning the language first. I truly don't mean to be mean, but who cares whether you believe it or not? You don't know anything about the subject.

Science doesn't have the answer to everything, and no good scientist claims that it does. The creationist response to science not explaining everything is to throw up ones hands and exclaim: "therefore, the answer must be god. And by all means let's not research the mystery away, lest we diminish the range of questions that god is the answer to." Good scientists will have a very different reaction. They will say, "let's do more research so we can answer more interesting questions!" The point of science isn't that it knows everything. It's to be curious about everything.

Tell me then, if I were to somehow be transported back in time to a time about ten minutes prior to the "Big Bang(TM)", would my wrist watch stop working (because time didn't exist yet...)??

." Good scientists will have a very different reaction. They will say, "let's do more research so we can answer more interesting questions!"

Until somebody can show me a reason for believing otherwise, I am sticking with the idea that the universe is basically eternal.

Fear can be rational or irrational. You pick.