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- PropCulture, on 03/06/2008, -2/+246In the beginning, the Universe was created. This made a lot of people angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.
- Taciturn, on 03/06/2008, -29/+241Inaccurate. The Universe is 6000 years old, as is the Earth, and Man. God filled space with photons possessing specific wavelengths and traveling from specific directions to trick us, because He's a wild and crazy guy.
- DelayedEraser, on 03/06/2008, -9/+138this is a blog definitely worth following... this is important scientific news, and his summary of the big bang theory is excellent.
- giantnegro, on 03/06/2008, -21/+126Give an age of 13.73 billion years, people who claim the universe is only 5000 years old should also claim that the distance from New York to Los Angeles is only 4.7 feet.
- reuscel, on 03/06/2008, -13/+109FTA: "The age of the Universe is 13.73 billion years, plus or minus 120 million years. Some people might say it doesn’t look a day over 6000 years. They’re wrong."
Dugg for that alone. - EdmontonEh, on 03/06/2008, -1/+96The Universe is flat? {brain explodes}
- pbaehr, on 03/06/2008, -0/+78Damn, astrophysicists get a nice margin of error. I wish I could get away with that in my accounting.
- dperren, on 03/06/2008, -10/+85It's not anti-religious, it's anti-idiotic. It just happens that a lot of idiots are religious.
- WolverineBlue, on 03/06/2008, -0/+65I find your lower bound of 10 million diggs improbable.
- BadAstronomer, on 03/06/2008, -3/+67Thanks! That's nice of you to say.
- stonebone4, on 03/06/2008, -2/+59Incorrect, LRH says it's 4 quadrillion years old. Science? Pffffff!
- Fergy, on 03/06/2008, -4/+61badastronomy.com brings the child-like wonder back into adults.
- sockpuppets, on 03/06/2008, -0/+47Inflation was rampant in the early universe.
- sockpuppets, on 03/06/2008, -1/+48My guess is you can't, because space is constantly inflating. Then again I just printed an envelope upside down so I'm not exactly a super genius.
- BadAstronomer, on 03/06/2008, -2/+44Actually, there are.Objects at high redshift are assumed to be moving away from us rapidly, and at great distance. We see them being fainter, as you might think, and they are fainter by the amount you expect from the math. Also there is time dilation because of their relative motion; objects like exploding stars evolve more slowly than they would if they were not moving away from us.
- dperren, on 03/06/2008, -3/+44Exactly. You have every right to think whatever you like about the age of the Universe. You have every right to tell anyone you want about it, should you desire. Of course, this doesn't make you correct...
- sockpuppets, on 03/06/2008, -2/+42Dogs and cats lived together. Mass Hysteria.
- chrisaug18, on 03/06/2008, -4/+42Actually there wasn't anything uniformed in his rant that I, with my free thinking mind, could see.
- sockpuppets, on 03/06/2008, -6/+42Steve Martin, Omnipotent God.
- sockpuppets, on 03/06/2008, -0/+31The ends curl a little though, because they have flair.
- Defuser, on 03/06/2008, -4/+33Subby apparently has no idea what the word "literally" means.
- sockpuppets, on 03/06/2008, -4/+33Yeah we should just go back to swinging from the trees, I mean what good has science done humanity so far?
- phybere, on 03/06/2008, -6/+34I think this is all very obvious. I've measured the distance between NY and LA, and the distance IS actually 4.7 feet. Therefore, we can conclude that the universe is 5000 years old.
Geez, you evolutionists will never get your facts straight. - sockpuppets, on 03/06/2008, -0/+27So you accept their word on the speed of light and the number of suns in our galaxy but somehow find this unacceptable?
You're funny. - 10lbhammer, on 03/06/2008, -0/+27seriously, cawpin. don't be a dick. unless you can make it humorous...
- BadAstronomer, on 03/06/2008, -2/+28Speak for your self! http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/07/01/what ...
:-) - sockpuppets, on 03/06/2008, -0/+25On the envelope or the universe? Because I can't help you out if it's an envelope.
- fragilemachine, on 03/06/2008, -1/+24Not to put to fine a point on it but you're *looking* at the experiment that proves the big bang and its subsequent expansion. Short of the big bang, there's no reason for there to be microwave radiation of almost perfectly uniform temperature blanketing the entire universe. But, on a less abstract level, there's the observations that caused Hubble (yes, the guy with the telescope named after him) to advance the Big Bang theory in the first place. If you look at objects outside of our own galaxy, no matter where they are in the sky and no matter how far away, they are ALL moving away from us. What's more, the further away something is, the *faster* it's moving away from us. The only possible explanation for those two endlessly duplicated and double-checked results is that the very fabric of the universe is expanding, and it's carrying the galaxies along with it like markings on an inflating balloon. If you follow that logic backward, you realize that, some time in the past, all the matter in the universe must have been in the same spot, namely, the singularity that exploded in the Big Bang.
- lineweight, on 03/06/2008, -3/+26Maybe if stopped wasting $4bn USD a month in the middle of a desert we could actually afford to send someone to Mars. ...Or maybe China will do it for us.
- cookeaj1, on 03/06/2008, -6/+28Almost as old as John McCain.
- sockpuppets, on 03/06/2008, -2/+24Irony cat finds your name ironic.
- InfiniteNothing, on 03/06/2008, -5/+27I thought your comment was funny. Tough crowd
- qwerter, on 03/06/2008, -0/+21"Cool" stuff. As in temperature wise. As in what the universe does as it expands. Don't pass judgement on use of expressions if you can't RTFA properly.
- MidnightRealism, on 03/06/2008, -2/+22They have the right to make idiotic, outmoded, verifiably incorrect claims, and we have the right to declare them stupid.
- davidrools, on 03/06/2008, -1/+21No, it's like an old atari video game and you end up coming "up" from the "bottom" after you hit the edge.
- SirFragsMore, on 03/06/2008, -3/+23This makes Xenu how old?
- inactive, on 03/06/2008, -9/+28No religion is idiotic and continues to limit the potential of mankind.
- sockpuppets, on 03/06/2008, -3/+22That kind of snide passive-aggressiveness is always present with you God-squad types.
- kingmanic, on 03/06/2008, -8/+27There is no science in the bible as the concept and philosophy of science did not exist in it's current form when it was written. The link you provided is a backwards rationalization of concept in the bible. That isn't how science works.
- sockpuppets, on 03/06/2008, -3/+21Sounds like you're a member of the Super Adventure Club.
- impei, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1813.72 billion years = 5.01 trillion days
- GeorgeStone2, on 03/06/2008, -1/+19You just wait till the large hadron collider powers up.
Then you're gonna see some serious *****. - 1jaxstate1, on 03/06/2008, -7/+24Wow. So Warren Buffett could have spent a buck everyday since the earth has been spinning, and would still have billions to spare.
- Bhatch514, on 03/06/2008, -5/+2113.73 billion.....................***** 360 million years ago it must have been pretty leet.
- TheDarkstarter, on 03/06/2008, -4/+20Well, John McCain would know, isn't he like 12billion (+/- 0.045billion) years old?
- chrisaug18, on 03/06/2008, -2/+18Age of universe != age of earth
- ironrex, on 03/06/2008, -0/+15That was nothing at all like a zero-punctuation review and I will jam FORKS into my eyes if you ever draw that comparison again.
- StaticThunder, on 03/06/2008, -1/+16And how great are the egos of people who sit back and mock the ones that are actually trying from the luxury of their armchairs.
Some people can't be happy unless they are ripping down greater men, bringing them down to their own mediocrity. Your personal bias proves nothing about their correctness. - ostracize, on 03/06/2008, -3/+18But not all religious are idiots.
- UnglueD, on 03/06/2008, -0/+15Anyone care to explain what happens if you theoretically travel "up" far enough? You reach the edge?
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