Hello, JazzLover.
Actually, I did look at the links. They are articles on bona fide scientific websites. The first link brings us to a
NASA website (I suspect the other pages are legitimate science, too, but I couldn't quickly figure out to whom they belonged). I suspect the relevant quote, from the NASA site, is:
This new structure defies current models of how the Universe evolved, which can't explain how a string this big could have formed so early.
Now, first of all, supposedly there is a conspiracy among evolutionist scientists to suppress data fatal to the evolutionary religion. Yet here we have, an official scientific organization, run by actual "evolutionary" scientists, admitting to the public that there is some very interesting data.
The second link contains the following quote:
Just like the previous HDFs, the new data are expected to galvanize the astronomical community and lead to dozens of research papers that will offer new insights into the birth and evolution of galaxies.
You see, this is how science works. We, today, do not entirely understand the early universe, what it was like, how it evolved, what exactly the conditions were. Scientists admit that. There are some models based on our current understanding, but there aren't a lot of constraints on those models. More data is good, to be able to tell which models are good and which are bad. And scientists
love data that contradict the models; it presents exciting problems to be resolved. Trying to understand mysteries is why people go into science. Trying to understand mysteries is why scientists get paid.
Here's the scoop: the universe is old. It has been expanding for a very very long time. The observational evidence, and the scientific theories are very consistent and very definite about that.
The question is not whether the universe is old. The question is this: seeing how the universe is expanding, the early universe must have been a very different place than now; what was the universe like? How did the galaxies form?
Scientists have now found interesting puzzles about the early universe. But all the evidence points to the fact that the universe is very, very ancient, and these observations do not make that evidence disappear.
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