While SDSS J102915+172927 is not the giant, shorter lived, population III stars expected by the model it is acknowledged to be ancient due to its lack of metals and in that sense it does confirm the ideas involved with the evolution of the universe which is what I meant by my previous post. That I understood it wasn't the population III stars of the model is why I provided the link to the James Webb Space Telescope that may provide the first views of these stars.
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SDSS J102915+172927 might fall into the transition region between the first generation of stars (sometimes referred to as Population III) and the second generation, or Population II; halo, EMP and CEMP stars belong to the latter group.
http://nhn.nhn.ou.edu/~cowan/488288a.pdfAnyhow the purpose of this post is to expose the spin put on this star by creationists. Contrast it with how science plods forward by resolving such puzzles with further research. Here is the official party line:
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Lead author Elisabetta Caffau said in a European Southern Observatory press release, "A widely accepted theory predicts that stars like this, with low mass and extremely low quantities of metals, shouldn't exist because the clouds of material from which they formed could never have condensed."1But physics clearly shows that stars cannot form from clouds without miraculously fortuitous events.2 In order for a cloud of hot gas to condense into a star, heat must somehow escape. The denser the cloud particles become, the hotter they get, thus repelling one another so strongly that they would never condense into a star on their own.
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Remarkably, it also had no detectable lithium, which is thought to have been the third most abundant element present in the cloud from which this star supposedly formed. To rescue naturalistic formation theories of this star's birth, the study authors had to speculate that the star was at one time super-heated enough to burn off all the lithium, but the physical "reasons for this meltdown are not understood."3
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When all options inside the realm of physics fail to explain a phenomenon, then options outside of physics should be considered. And in this case, the Word from the One who exists outside of physical space specifically states "[God] made the stars."4 It stands to reason, then, that these stars "declare the glory of God" by confounding man's attempts to replace God with physics.5
http://www.icr.org/article/6378/If God exists and created everything is not physics a description of the operation of that creation? Are creationists really this stupid?
"When all options inside the realm of physics fail to explain a phenomenon, then options outside of physics should be considered."
Apply this technique to discovery at any point along the history of physics and it would have been stopped cold in its progress. A more blatantly anti-science stance on the part of creationists could not have been made. Maybe they should be required by law to live apart from the rest of society without any of the benefits of scientific discovery over the past 200 years. They stand side by side with the priests that opposed Galileo calling his telescope "demon possessed."
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