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Studies of aluminum (26Al) production in the Milky Way Galaxy provide additional support for RTB’s creation model and the fine-tuning it predicts. Aluminum is one of many life-essential heavy elements produced by nucleosynthesis, the process by which elements are built up from protons and neutrons. 26Al decays with a half-life around 100,000 thousand years, so it serves as a good measure of nucleosynthesis in our galaxy. A team of scientists measuring the gamma-rays emitted when 26Al decays demonstrated that the sources of 26Al are distributed throughout the Milky Way Galaxy. From the abundance of aluminum astronomers also measured the number of core collapse supernovae (death explosions of massive stars) to be about two events per century. This rate exhibits fine-tuning because if it were smaller, not enough heavy elements would be distributed throughout our galaxy and incorporated into future stars. If the rate were larger, too many supernovae would occur close to the solar system, causing mass extinctions on Earth. RTB’s creation model predicts such fine-tuning as the work of a supernatural Creator who prepares a fit habitat for humanity.

A British astronomer demonstrated how a new radio telescope, once its construction is completed, will give astronomers the tools to develop powerful new tests for the biblical creation model. Specifically, this telescope, the Square-Kilometer-Array, will allow astronomers to detect 1) a dense array of distant precision clocks (extragalactic pulsars), which can be used to make precise measures of the cosmic expansion rates throughout cosmic history; 2) pulsars orbiting black holes, which can be used to subject general relativity and its theorems—theorems that prove a transcendent cosmic Beginner—to even more rigorous tests; and 3) the properties of gravity wave propagation in the universe, which will determine what big bang creation model is correct. While observational verification for the biblically predicted cosmic creation model already is pervasive and very strong, this new instrument has the potential to yield dramatically stronger proofs.

Detailed analyses of the latest astrophysical observations continue to provide evidence buttressing the immense fine-tuning exhibited by the universe. Type Ia supernovae (exploding stars) provided the first evidence for the exquisitely fine-tuned dark energy (a.k.a. space-energy density or vacuum energy), but correlations of the galaxy clustering with the cosmic microwave background radiation fluctuations provide some of the strongest evidence for its existence. Recently, a team of Spanish scientists studied these correlations as a function of redshift and found their behavior to match the predictions derived from a case where the dark energy is constant over time. Not only do these results confirm the presence of dark energy, but they also confirm the fine-tuning required to match theoretical calculations with the observed value. Such fine-tuning comports well with the idea of a supernatural Designer fashioning a universe capable of supporting life.