Years ago a team of scientists announced what they think may be the first evidence for cosmic inflation. According to the theory of cosmic inflation, 10-34 seconds after the Big Bang the universe briefly and rapidly expanded, or inflated, to a much larger size with a velocity far faster than the speed of light. Like blowing up a balloon. Cosmologists came to embrace cosmic inflation, although there has been no evidence for inflation.
The website “Answers In Genesis” gives this explanation: “This announcement undoubtedly will be welcomed as the long-sought proof of cosmic inflation so necessary to the Big Bang model. Biblical creationists know from Scripture that the universe did not begin in a big bang billions of years ago. For instance, from God’s Word we understand that the world is far younger than this. Furthermore, we know from Genesis 1 that God made the earth before He made the stars, but the Big Bang requires that many stars existed for billions of years before the earth did. So how do we respond to this announcement?
“First, this announcement may be improperly understood and reported. For instance, in 2003 proof for cosmic inflation was incorrectly reported and a similar erroneous claim was made last year. Second, the predictions that are being supposedly confirmed are very model-dependent: if the model changes, then the predictions change. Inflation is just one of many free parameters that cosmologists have at their disposal within the Big Bang model, so they can alter these parameters at will to get the intended result. Third, other mechanisms could mimic the signal being claimed today. So, even if the data are confirmed, there may be some other physical mechanism at play rather than cosmic inflation.”
In other words, they do not know really what they have discovered. But they will use that discovery to help them prove the Big Bang theory, even though it has nothing to do with the Big Bang theory.
Dr. Robert Jastrow, a famous scientist and agnostic, once turned the evolutionist’s world upside down when he said, “Now we see how astronomical evidence leads to a biblical view of the origin of the world.”
He concluded with this incredible and monumental statement: “For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak. As he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries!”
How correct he was. With all of our so-called new evidence, new discoveries and increasing knowledge it will all come back to Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
Isaiah 42:5: “Thus saith God the Lord, He that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein.”
Jack Ward is the pastor of Tomahawk Missionary Baptist Church. Check out the Tomahawk Missionary Baptist church Facebook page and website: tomahawkmbc.com.