Cosmology

Media headlines make people think that some astounding scientific ‘proof’ has been discovered. The reality is far less spectacular.

Unexpected features of the Cosmic Background Radiation are hard to explain in a big bang framework.

As biblical creationists, can we know what God did when he created this vast universe?

Creationists have often claimed that biblical texts talking about the stretching of the heavens describe the cosmological expansion of space, but they read modern creationist ideas into the text.

What would we expect the universe to look like if we were near the centre?

Is Stephen Hawking right in claiming a universe could create itself?

Gravity provides a stunning example of the limits of current scientific knowledge.

A reader misunderstands time dilation on the fourth day of creation week. Russ Humphreys explains that it really is an ordinary length day according to Earth clocks.

Dr Humphreys

The Horizon problem: the big banger

The Bible’s ‘birth certificate’ for the universe trumps concepts of ‘deep time’.

An Australian physics professor shows how light would have reached Earth from the most distant stars in an extremely short time, demolishing one of the major objections to biblical creation.

CMI speaker and respected physics professor John Hartnett, who represented his university, gives his impressions.

This new cosmological model does away with the need for dark energy or dark matter to explain the movement of stars in galaxies.

Does the Bible teach a mythological cosmology?