A great period for science.

A few great discoveries for science have been made recently, specifically ones that back up the Big Bang Theory and Evolution, ergo disproving the Judeo-Christian and Islam explanations for the origins of the universe.

For one, a Giant Blob was discovered, essentially a galaxy sized nebula. I am going to quote from the blog and give my own annotations.

"A newly found primordial blob may represent the most massive object ever discovered in the early universe, researchers announced today.

The gas cloud, spotted from 12.9 billion light-years away, could signal the earliest stages of galaxy formation back when the universe was just 800 million years old.

"I have never heard about any [similar] objects that could be resolved at this distance," said Masami Ouchi, a researcher at the Carnegie Institution in Pasadena, Calif. "It's kind of record-breaking."

A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers). An object 12.9 billion light-years away is seen as it existed 12.9 billion years ago, and the light is just now arriving."

What it is saying is, that since we are able to see things this great of a distance away, meaning that the light has traveled that long... That shows that the universe is billions of years old. The further away we see objects, the more young we are seeing them. That "Space blob" is probably now a thriving galaxy with thousands of middle ages stars and planets. Now, some purist followers of the Abrahamic faiths' explanations believe that the universe is only between 5,000 and 6,000 years old. They believe this by believing the fairy tales of the people in Genesis living hundreds of years and add up the ages to trace back to Adam and Eve, and conclude that it must be how old the Earth and Universe are. While many Christian books have been written on how science proves christianity, most of it is picking apart C-14 Carbon Dating (which IS inaccurate but it's not used to show how old the earth is, it's used to show how old a rock is from when it was formed from magma or whatnot, or how old a fossil is)

Now, many Christians deny the big bang theory or that the earth was a hot blob of magma once upon a time. They have various arguments that attempt to use science on their side, or to debunk science itself. The way they write their arguments are very well written and convincing often, but all those books are doing is "nitpicking" on minor innacuracies, disrepancies, and so forth. We KNOW Planets form from planetary nebula. We KNOW they are hot and molten in their young stages. We KNOW thats stars come from nebula. We have pictures of planets and stars forming in nebula. Nitpicking minor innacuracies in science does not make what we can observe in the sky and know FOR A FACT invalid, no matter how badly Christians want it too, or Jews and Muslims that are purists for that matter (Some Muslims still think the world is flat because of the Koran, EVEN THE BIBLE indicates the world is round).

For the full article on the space blob, visit here .

Also recently, the "missing link" was discovered.. Or rather, the news of it leaked out. It had been kept secret for a couple of years. It was discovered in Germany, and the fossil looks to be an inbetween phase between early primates and early humans. Evolution goes on every day. Just look at white people in America today, they are taller than 50 years ago! Thats evolution right there: change in genetics which causes a change in a population. It's not that hard of a concept to understand. But no, some christians still say the dinosaurs lived with humans side by side, or that dinosaur fossils are a trick of the devil. This is what was taught to me as child in sunday school. We know from paintings that the facial structure was different in people eve back in the middle ages. It has changed, which is evolution. It's not a difficult concept to understand at all. People say, well how can life develop so perfectly? First of all, the biological structure of humans is far from perfect. Look at the useless organs we have, which do nothing that is neccessary for survival. Obviously, those are remnants of past organs in older human species. Wisdom teeth are nothing but trouble too, but those are a leftover element from Neanderthals who had to eat thick shrubbery and tough meat because of their hunter-gatherer life style. Once again, if humans were created in God's image, and he is perfect, why are there imperfections in our bodies? Would a perfect god not design us better? Perhaps he was drunk.

Here is the full link on the fossil.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=7603618&page=1