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Author	Credential	Quote
Brooks, Jim	Geochemist Former Vice-President, Geological Society	Before the Big Bang of creation, there was not even empty space. Brooks, Jim - ORIGINS OF LIFE (Bellville, Mi: Lion, 1985) p. 1O
Davies, Paul	Mathematical Physicist Professor of Natural Philosophy Macquarie University	...all nature is ultimately controlled by the activities of a single superforce. The superforce would have the power to bring the universe into being and to furnish it with light, energy, matter and structure. Davies, Paul - SUPERFORCE (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1984) p. 5
Davies, Paul	Mathematical Physicist Professor of Natural Philosophy Macquarie University	The big bang...was not an event which occurred within the universe, it was the coming-into-being of the universe, in its entirety from literally nothing. Davies, Paul - SUPERFORCE (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1984) p. 16
Davies, Paul	Mathematical Physicist Professor of Natural Philosophy Macquarie University	...the present highly structured cosmos could not have arisen unless the universe was set up in just the right way at the outset. Davies, Paul - SUPERFORCE (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1984) p. 186
Jastrow, Robert	Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Columbia Chief of the theoretical division of the Goddard Space Flight Center Professor of earth sciences at Dartmouth	Many details of the scientific account differ from those in the Bible...but the essential feature is the same in both stories: There was a beginning. Jastrow, Robert - THE ENCHANTED LOOM (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1981) p. 16
Jastrow, Robert	Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Columbia Chief of the theoretical division of the Goddard Space Flight Center Professor of earth sciences at Dartmouth	...the chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy. Jastrow, Robert - GOD AND THE ASTRONOMERS (NY: W.W. Norton, 1978) p. 14
Jastrow, Robert	Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Columbia Chief of the theoretical division of the Goddard Space Flight Center Professor of earth sciences at Dartmouth	Theologians generally are delighted that the Universe had a beginning, but astronomers are curiously upset. Jastrow, Robert - GOD AND THE ASTRONOMERS (NY: W.W. Norton, 1978) p. 16
Davies, Paul	Mathematical Physicist Professor of Natural Philosophy Macquarie University	The universe evidently began, 'wound up' and is currently still busy unwinding. Davies, Paul - THE MIND OF GOD, (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1992) p. 47
Davies, Paul	Mathematical Physicist Professor of Natural Philosophy Macquarie University	Some popular accounts give the impression that it was the explosion of a concentrated lump of matter...This is badly misleading. Davies, Paul - THE MIND OF GOD, (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1992) p. 48
Davies, Paul	Mathematical Physicist Professor of Natural Philosophy Macquarie University	The coming-into-being of the universe is therefore not only represented by the abrupt appearance of matter, but of space and time as well. Davies, Paul - THE MIND OF GOD, (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1992) p. 5O
Davies, Paul	Mathematical Physicist Professor of Natural Philosophy Macquarie University	The bang did not occur at a point in space at all. Space itself came into existence with the big bang...What happened before the big bang? The answer is, there was no '"before." Time itself began at the big bang. Davies, Paul - THE MIND OF GOD, (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1992) p. 5O
Davies, Paul	Mathematical Physicist Professor of Natural Philosophy Macquarie University	...if one insists on a reason for the big bang, then this reason must lie beyond physics. Davies, Paul - THE MIND OF GOD, (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1992) p. 57
Boslough, John	Author	More than a few scientists think that the facts of the Big Bang...could at the very least suggest the work of a creator or creative force. Boslough, John - in, Boslough, John - STEPHEN HAWKING'S UNIVERSE (NY: Avon Books, 1985)p. 1O9
Hawking, Stephen	Ph.D Cambridge British physicist and mathematician	...time had a beginning at the big bang. Hawking, Stephen - A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME (NY: Bantam Books, 1988) p. 46
Davies, Paul	Mathematical Physicist Professor of Natural Philosophy Macquarie University	Though the universe is big, if life formed solely by random agitation in a molecular junkyard, there is scant chance it has happened twice. Davies, Paul - THE FIFTH MIRACLE, (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1999) p. 95
Kerr, Richard A.	Science Magazine	Talk about a major embarrassment for planetary scientists. There, blazing away in the late evening sky, are Jupiter and Saturn—the gas giants that account for 93% of the solar system’s planetary mass—and no one has a satisfying explanation of how they were made. Richard A. Kerr, “A Quickie Birth for Jupiters and Saturns,” Science, Vol. 298, 29 November 2002, p. 1698.
Vsekhsvyatsky, S. K.	Astrophysicist Founder of Astronomy Department in 1939 Kyiv University Kyiv, Ukraine	Saturn’s rings (as well as the recently discovered ring system around Uranus) are unstable, therefore recent formations. S. K. Vsekhsvyatsky, “Comets and the Cosmogony of the Solar System,” Comets, Asteroids, Meteorites, editor A. H. Delsemme (Toledo, Ohio: The University of Toledo, 1977), p. 473.
Cuzzi, Jeffrey N.	Physicist Ames Research Center NASA	Yet nonstop erosion poses a difficult problem for the very existence of Saturn’s opaque rings—the expected bombardment rate would pulverize the entire system in only 10,000 years! Most of this material is merely redeposited elsewhere in the rings, but even if only a tiny fraction is truly lost (as ionized vapor, for example), it becomes a real trick to maintain the rings since the formation of the solar system [as imagined by evolutionists]. Jeffrey N. Cuzzi, “Ringed Planets: Still Mysterious—II,” Sky & Telescope, Vol. 69, January 1985, p. 22.
Hughes, David W.	Professor Aoolied Mathematics Department of Applied Mathematics UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS	In astronomical terms, therefore, the Moon must be classed as a well-known object, but astronomers still have to admit shamefacedly that they have little idea as to where it came from. This is particularly embarrassing, because the solution of the mystery was billed as one of the main goals of the US lunar exploration programme. David W. Hughes, “The Open Question in Selenology,” Nature, Vol. 327, 28 May 1987, p. 291.
Coles, Peter	Ph.D in Theoretical Astronomy Sussex Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Nottingham	Observations only recently made possible by improvements in astronomical instrumentation have put theoretical models of the Universe [the big bang] under intense pressure. The standard ideas of the 1980s about the shape and history of the Universe have now been abandoned—and cosmologists are now taking seriously the possibility that the Universe is pervaded by some sort of vacuum energy, whose origin is not at all understood. Peter Coles, “The End of the Old Model Universe,” Nature, Vol. 393, 25 June 1998, p. 741.
Burbidge, Margaret	Past director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory Univ of Cal at San Diego	The evidence is accumulating that redshift is a shaky measuring rod.” Margaret Burbidge (former director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory and past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science), as quoted by Govert Schilling, “Radical Theory Takes a Test,” Science, Vol. 291, 26 January 2001, p. 579.
Van Flandern, Tom	Ph.D. in Astronomy -Yale University Present: Founder and President, Meta Research, Inc	Despite the widespread acceptance of the big bang theory as a working model for interpreting new findings, not a single important prediction of the theory has yet been confirmed, and substantial evidence has accumulated against it. Tom Van Flandern, “Did the Universe Have a Beginning?” Meta Research Bulletin, Vol. 3, No. 3, 15 September 1994, p. 25.
Cline, David B.	Professor of Physics and Astronomy UCLA	We know little about that sea. The terms we use to describe its components, ‘dark matter’ and ‘dark energy’ serve mainly as expressions of our ignorance. David B. Cline, “The Search for Dark Matter,” Scientific American, Vol. 288, No. 3, March 2003, p. 52.
Cook, William J.	Professor at Rice University Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics	It’s clear to most people that you can’t be older than your mother. Astronomers understand this, too, which is why they’re so uncomfortable these days. The oldest stars in globular clusters seem to date back 15 billion years. The universe appears to be only 9 billion to 12 billion years old. At least one of those conclusions is wrong. William J. Cook, “How Old Is the Universe?” U.S. News & World Report, 18–25 August 1997, p. 34.
Milgrom, Mordehai	Weizmann Institute of Science Professor Department of Condensed Matter Physics	Of all the many mysteries of modern astronomy, none is more vexing than the nature of dark matter. Most astronomers believe that large quantities of some unidentified material pervade the universe. ... Yet this dark matter has eluded every effort by astronomers and physicists to bring it out of the shadows. A handful of us suspect that it might not really exist, and others are beginning to consider this possibility seriously. Milgrom, Mordehai - “Does Dark Matter Really Exist?” Scientific American, Vol. 287, No. 2, August 2002, p. 43.
Harwit, Martin	Ph.D MIT Professor Emeritus of Astronomy Cornell	The universe we see when we look out to its furthest horizons contains a hundred billion galaxies. Each of these galaxies contains another hundred billion stars. That’s 10 22 stars all told. The silent embarrassment of modern astrophysics is that we do not know how even a single one of these stars managed to form. Martin Harwit, Book Reviews, Science, Vol. 231, 7 March 1986, pp. 1201–1202.
Glazebrook, Karl	Professor Physics and Astronomy Johns Hopkins University	"Up until now, we assumed that galaxies were just beginning to form between 8 and 11 billion years ago, but what we found suggests that that is not the case..."It seems that an unexpectedly large fraction of stars in big galaxies were already in place early in the universe's formation, and that challenges what we've believed. We thought massive galaxies came much later." Karl Glazebrook, http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home04/jul04/earlyuni.html July 1, 2004
Glazebrook, Karl	Professor Physics and Astronomy Johns Hopkins University	"We expected to find basically zero massive galaxies beyond about 9 billion years ago, because theoretical models predict that massive galaxies form last. Instead, we found highly developed galaxies that just shouldn't have been there, but are." Karl Glazebrook, (Associate professor of physics and astronomy in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at The Johns Hopkins University) July 7, 2004 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=14524
Cowen, Ron	Science News Author	In 1998, however, scientists reported that a group of distant supernovas were dimmer, and therefore farther from Earth, than the standard theory indicated. It was as if, in the billion or so years it took for the light from these exploded stars to arrive at Earth, the space between the stars and our planet had stretched out more than expected. That would mean that cosmic expansion has somehow sped up, not slowed down. Recent evidence has only firmed up that bizarre result. Cowen, Ron - “A Dark Force in the Universe,” Science News, Vol. 159, 7 April 2001, p. 218.
Kane, Gordon	Victor Weisskopf Collegiate Professor of Physics Universtity of Michigan	The expansion of the universe was long believed to be slowing down because of the mutual gravitational attraction of all the matter in the universe. We now know that the expansion is accelerating and that whatever caused the acceleration (dubbed “dark energy”) cannot be Standard Model physics.” Kane, Gordon - “The Dawn of Physics Beyond the Standard Model,” Scientific American, Vol. 288, June 2003, p. 73.
Baugh, Carlton	Astronomer - Physicist Institute of Computational Cosmology University of Durham, U.K.	... dark matter has not been detected in the laboratory, and there is no convincing theoretical explanation of dark energy. Baugh, Carlton - “Universal Building Blocks,” Nature, Vol. 421, 20 February 2003, p. 792.
Van Flandern, Tom	Ph.D. in Astronomy -Yale University Present: Founder and President, Meta Research, Inc	And no element abundance prediction of the big bang was successful without some ad hoc parameterization to ‘adjust’ predictions that otherwise would have been judged as failures. Tom Van Flandern, “Did the Universe Have a Beginning?” Meta Research Bulletin, Vol. 3, No. 3, 15 September 1994, p. 33
Matthews, Robert	Department of Information Engineering Aston University Chartered Physicist, Fellow of Royal Astronomical Society	Even the most enthusiastic cosmologist will admit that current theories of the nature of the universe have some big holes. One such gap is that the universe seems to be younger than some of the objects contained within it.. Matthews, Robert - “Spoiling a Universal ‘Fudge Factor,’” Science, Vol. 265, 5 August 1994, pp. 740–741
Svitil, Kathy A.	Science Writer Discover Magazine	According to standard models [all based on the big bang theory], the first stars needed at least 500 million years to begin lighting up and another 700 million to 1 billion years to manufacture heavy elements such as iron and spread them through space. [Wolfram] Freudling therefore expected that gas around the quasars, which were shining when the universe was just 900 million years old, would be metal-free. [Astronomers call the hundred or so heavier chemical elements “metals.”] Instead, he and his colleagues found the quasars are surrounded by copious amounts of iron. Svitil, Kathy A. - “Signs of Primordial Star Ignition Detected,” Discover, January 2004, p. 66.
Cowan, John	Professor of Astrophysics Oklahoma University Norman, Ok	The presence of these [25] elements, particularly those heavier than iron, in such a young [distant] galaxy is striking. Fundamentally, it seems to indicate that in the galaxies (or at least in this galaxy) that formed relatively shortly after the Big Bang, the onset of star formation and related element production was very rapid. Cowan, John - “Elements of Surprise,” Nature, Vol. 423, 1 May 2003, p. 29.
Cowen, Ron	Science News Author	But the standard model [the big bang theory] still can’t easily account for a large number of mature or massive galaxies in the early universe. Cowen, Ron - “Mature Before Their Time,” Science News, Vol. 163, 1 March 2003, p. 139.