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Major Breakthrough Upholds Big Bang Models

September 4, 2023

A significant problem has troubled cosmologists—and the big bang model—for at least the past two decades, ever since astronomers first made precision measurements of...

Astronomy

by Hugh Ross Read

Taking the Big Bang’s Temperature

April 4, 2022

During my teens and twenties, the lead into a frequent summer joke punchline was as follows: "It sure was hot today." "How hot was...

Astronomy

by Hugh Ross Read

Dating the Cosmic Dawn and Testing Creation

September 13, 2021

Beginnings tell us a lot about children. A child's "firsts" inform us about his or her personality, development, and adult future. For these reasons...

Astronomy

by Hugh Ross Read

Resolving Hubble Constant and Creation Tension

August 2, 2021

Ever since it was proposed a century ago, the big bang creation model has been under scrutiny and ongoing refinement. Discordance between a measurement...

Astronomy

by Hugh Ross Read

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations Boost Case for Cosmic Creation

July 26, 2021

My colleague Fazale (Fuz) Rana has been full-time with me at Reasons to Believe (RTB) for the past 22 years. As a biochemist, he...

Astronomy

by Hugh Ross Read

Chilean Telescope Find Affirms Big Bang Creation Model

August 10, 2020

Many Christians affirm that God has given us two “books” in which he reveals himself the book of Scripture and the book of nature....

Astronomy

by Hugh Ross Read

Resolving the Cosmic Expansion Rate Anomaly

April 6, 2020

Breakthroughs in astronomy in the early part of the twentieth century were the first of many scientific confirmations of the biblical cosmic creation model....

Astronomy

by Hugh Ross Read

Cosmic Inflation Confirmed and Why We Need It

February 24, 2020

Advancing science continues to reveal that we live in a just-right universe. Our universe exhibits three truly astounding features: it is presently extremely large,...

Astronomy

by Hugh Ross Read

Discovery of Missing Atomic Matter Boosts Cosmic Creation Model

November 12, 2018

During my graduate school days at the University of Toronto I had the privilege of taking a short course from Princeton University astronomer and...

Astronomy

by Hugh Ross Read

Cosmological Consequences of Massive Photons

July 17, 2017

We all learned in our junior high science classes that photons are massless. This statement has resulted in a lot of confusion for laypeople....

Astronomy

by Hugh Ross Read