Astronomy and Astrophysics Questions and Answers

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• Astronomy (chapter 7 of Refuting Evolution)
  
• Toward a Creationist Astronomy (Creation Research Society Quarterly 28:27, 1991) (Semi-technical)
• The Current State of Creation Astronomy (4^th International Conference on Creationism, 1998) (Semi-technical)
• Cosmologists Can’t Agree and Are Still In Doubt! (Technical)
• Baby universes
• The heavens declare … (interview with Dr Don DeYoung)

What about the ‘water’ on Mars?

• ‘Fountains of the Deep’ on Mars?
• Mission to Mars
• NASA announces evidence for water on Mars
• Water on Mars: A Creationist Response

Is there evidence that the universe was created?

• Universe finely-tuned for life
• What is the Anthropic Principle?
• Evidence of a watery origin for the solar system

Are any specific stars mentioned in the Bible?

• How Did the Wise Men Know? or Is Astrology Valid? [and what was the Star of
  Bethlehem?] (Arnold Fruchtenbaum, Ariel Ministries)
• What was the Star of Bethlehem?

What historical examples are there of scientists who made astronomical discoveries based on their understanding of Biblical concepts?

• The Creation of Planetary Magnetic Fields (Technical, CRSQ21(3):140–149, December 1984)
• Beyond Neptune: Voyager II Supports Creation (Semi-technical, ICR Impact203, May 1990)
• Moving With The Planets

Can the message of the gospel be seen in the constellations?

• Is the gospel spelled out in the stars? (Christian Answers Network)

How did our Sun and Moon form, and how long ago? Is there evidence for design?

• The Moon: The light that rules the night (available in Spanish)
• The Angular Size of the Moon and Other Planetary Satellites: An Argument For Design (Semi-Technical, CRSQ)
• The sun: our special star (available in Spanish)
• Our steady sun: a problem for billions of years
• The young faint Sun paradox and the age of the solar system (Semi-Technical)
• See also Design, Astronomical

How do the planets in our solar system point to design?

• Mercury—the tiny planet that causes big problems for evolution (available in Spanish)
• Venus: cauldron of Fire
• Earth is ‘too special’?
• Uranus: The strange planet
• Neptune: monument to creation
• Revelations in the solar system

What are stars and do evolutionists really know how they formed?

• Are Stars Forming Today?
• Do Stars Evolve?
• Stars could not have come from the Big Bang
• The Role of Stellar Population Types in the Discussion of Stellar Evolution
  (Creation Research Society Quarterly30:8–11, 1993)
• Counting the Stars
• Were stars created?

How can we see light from stars millions of light years away?

• Light-travel time: a problem for the big bang
• How can we see distant stars in a young Universe? (from The Creation Answers Book)
• A new cosmology: solution to the starlight travel time problem
• Evolutionist science journal gives exciting support to creationist cosmology!
• Seven years of Starlight and Time (ICR Impact 338)
• Review of Starlight and Time (Semi-Technical)
• Starlight Wars: Dr Russell Humphreys answers the critics of his cosmological model proposed in Starlight and Time (contains links to articles from the Technical Journal, posted on the True Origins site. See also his earlier rebuttal to Hugh Ross)
• How do spiral galaxies and supernova remnants fit in with Dr Humphreys’ cosmological model? Dr Russell Humphreys himself explains … (Semi-Technical)

What astronomical evidence supports a young age for the universe?

• See Young age evidence, Astronomy

What are red-shifts and do they really support the ‘big bang’ evolutionary idea for the origin of the Universe where red-shifts are supposedly due to stars moving away from us at great speed?

• Galaxy-Quasar Connection Defies Explanation (Technical — non-cosmological red shifts)
• How is Red Shift Explained?
• Doppler Toppler?

What are some of the problems with the ‘big bang’ hypothesis?

• Secular scientists blast the big bang
• What about the ‘big bang’? (available in Russian)
• Astronomical Problems (Hubble constant)
• Big bang certainty…
• Big Bang Cosmology
• The Big Bang fails another test (CMB casts no shadow)
• Have cosmologists discovered evidence of inflation?
• Different view of the universe (book review)
• ‘Early’ galaxies don’t fit!
• Exploding the big bang!
• Evolutionist science journal gives exciting support to creationist cosmology!
• String theory unstrung
• Heavens declare a different story!
• Hubble, hubble, ‘big bang’ in trouble?
• The Hubble Law
• Jupiter origin mystery
• Light-travel time: a problem for the big bang
• The mind of God and the big bang
• Missing antimatter challenges the big bang theory
• More on the ‘Rotating Cosmos’ (Semi-Technical)
• Quasar with enormous redshift found embedded in nearby spiral galaxy with far lower redshift: unsolvable riddle for big bang astronomy (Technical)
• Recent Cosmic Microwave Background data supports creationist cosmologies (Technical)
• ‘Ripples’ of galaxies—another blow to the big bang
• Scientist modifies big bang theory
• Surprise? NASA ‘confirms’ the big bang
• Was there a big bang?
• Young galaxies too old for the big bang
• Nobel Prize for alleged big bang proof

What is ‘dark matter’, and why do big bangers need it?

• No Dark Matter Found in the Milky Way Galaxy (Semi-Technical)
• Has ‘dark matter’ really been proven? Clarifying the clamour of claims from colliding clusters (Technical)
• Dark matter and a cosmological constant in a creationist cosmology? (Technical)
• MOND over dark matter?

Are there planets outside our solar system? What are the difficulties for evolutionary theories of planet origin?

• The existence and origin of extrasolar planets (Semi-Technical)
• Other solar systems challenge evolution
• First light from extrasolar planets (Semi-Technical)
• Extrasolar planets suggest our solar system is unique and young (Semi-Technical)
• New Planet Challenges Evolutionary Models
• Planets and migrating theories
• Could an asteroid have tilted Earth's axis?

What about ‘black holes’?

• Black holes in space don’t support evolution

Where is the centre of the universe?

• Is the Earth at the Center of the Universe?
• In the middle of the action
• New evidence for a rotating cosmos
• More on the ‘Rotating Cosmos’!
• Our galaxy is the centre of the universe, ‘quantized’ redshifts show

What is light? Is it slowing down?

• Is there any evidence for a change in c?
• What is Light?
• What about the slowing, stopping and reversing of light? (Technical)
• Have fundamental constants changed, and what would it prove? (Technical)
• Speed of light slowing down after all? Famous physicist makes headlines (Semi-technical)