Whenever I read articles like this one, I can’t help wondering how a thinking person, like me who believes in a conventional faith based explanation of the cosmos, connects scientific cosmology with creation cosmology or the universe defined by the Bible and biblical interpretation.
Do they care? I guess most of them aren’t bothered by any contradictions or contra-indications coming from science because they simply ignore them.
Having faith must mean that such contradictions can’t, or shouldn’t, bother them since they live with a fixed explanation about how things are and always have been since God put them in place.
Since I care a lot about these kinds of contradictions then I must not be a faith based thinker! I am just an ordinary contrarian, who struggles to understand the latest explanations from cosmologists.
9 Billion-Year-Old ‘Dark Energy’ Reported – New York Times
A strange thing happened to the universe five billion years ago. As if God had turned on an antigravity machine, the expansion of the cosmos speeded up, and galaxies began moving away from one another at an ever faster pace.
Now a group of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that billions of years before this mysterious antigravity overcame cosmic gravity and sent the galaxies scooting apart like muscle cars departing a tollbooth, it was already present in space, affecting the evolution of the cosmos.
“We see it doing its thing, starting to fight against ordinary gravity,” Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute said about the antigravity force, known as dark energy. He is the leader of a team of “dark energy prospectors,” as he calls them, who peered back nine billion years with the Hubble and were able to discern the nascent effects of antigravity. The group reported their observations at a news conference yesterday and in a paper to be published in The Astrophysical Journal.
The results, Dr. Riess and others said, provide clues and place new limits on the nature of dark energy, a mystery that has thrown physics and cosmology into turmoil over the last decade.
