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How Old is the Universe?
One of the biggest points of tension is that the Bible seems to say the world was made in six days, and the scientific evidence says it took fourteen billion years. In this video we ask how they solve this difficulty. How old is the universe?
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8:33
The Contributors
Dr. Peter Bussey is a particle physicist working on the search for the Higgs Boson; Gerald Gabrielse is Leverett Professor of Physics at Harvard University; Owen Gingerich is emeritus Professor of Astronomy and History of Science at Harvard University; Dr. Nick Saunders is a theologian and physicist who designed some of the instruments on the Large...
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8:06
Christians and the Big Bang
The current scientific understanding of how the Universe began points to a definite moment of creation – a beginning of space and time. The Big Bang wasn’t just a random explosion, but had to be finely adjusted to make our lives possible. In this video, we're talking to scientists who believe in the Big Bang, and believe that God created the...
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4:36
Unsolved Mysteries of the Universe
Although scientists are confident in the general framework of the Big Bang, many mysteries remain unsolved. One of these is the nature of the ‘dark energy’. Not only is its nature a mystery, its strength is also a mystery. Scientists believe it should be about 10120 times more powerful than it is. Yet if it was much more powerful than it actually...
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3:35
Dark Matters: How Did We Get Here?
The Big Bang had to happen in a very precise way so that we could be here today. Most kinds of Big Bang would only have produced a Universe filled with clouds of hydrogen, or with black holes. Astronomers and physicists are confident that the Big Bang happened. But there are still many questions that remain unanswered - for example, questions about...
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8:10
Science and Faith
For many people today, whether they’re atheists or religious believers, science is locked in conflict with faith, and believing in the Big Bang contradicts the idea that God created the Universe. The current scientific view of how the Universe began points to a definite moment of creation. Perhaps it even hints at the reality of a Creator outside...
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5:16
God and the Big Bang: The Evidence
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Arno Penzias said, “Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to support life. In the absence of an absurdly improbable accident, the observations of modern science seem to suggest an underlying, one might say,...
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