300,000 years sounds like a big time span compared to human's and society's lifespans, but when the two competing scientific theories for Hubble's observed redshift expansion of the universe are

1. The universe is historical (had a history) with an origin billions of years ago.

or

2. The universe is eternal, steady state, with matter and space being continually created.

300,000 years is nothing. The discovery of the 3-K black-body cosmic background radiation by Penzias and Wilson convinced the scientific community that the first theory, some version of the Big Bang, was correct. Exactly how the Big Bang occurred (what happened prior to the production of the CBR, for example) had yet to be determined.

The fact that the CBR does not correspond to the first seconds or minutes of creation, but corresponds to something that happened 300,000 years after the Big Bang is noted, but does not invalidate the basic Big Bang idea or give theists any reason to hope that God can be found somewhere lurking in the creation of the universe.

• More than two creation theories - yanniru - April 17, 2001 - 17:19 UTC
  • Theistic scientists hope science will support them - johnpowell - April 17, 2001 - 20:25 UTC
    • Science is more trustworthy - yanniru - April 18, 2001 - 12:34 UTC
      • Do you believe in God because of fields? - johnpowell - April 19, 2001 - 20:15 UTC
        • God is just a possibility - yanniru - April 19, 2001 - 23:33 UTC