Strongest evidence yet that universe exploded into existence 13.7 billion years ago

The scientists started with the Big Bang theory developed by Alan H. Guth of MIT that suggests that the Universe started from a very small point 13.7 years ago and exploded in a fraction of a second to become the Universe we currently know. The explosion was accompanied by heat and light that then faded as the Universe continued expanding to this very day.

The heat and light can be viewed at the edge of the Universe, but comes through with a great deal of dissipation. It has also been reduced to ‘a faint microwave "signature."’

A satellite sent up in 2001 has repeatedly measured this faint microwave signature so that a description of both its temperature and its polarization could be discerned through the fog of time and distance.

The result is a pattern of fluctuations that Hinshaw [a member of a NASA team monitoring data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe] compared to a ship bobbing in a short, choppy sea even as it rolls periodically with longer swells. The theory of inflation predicts what the ratio of chop to swell should be, he said, "and the astonishing thing is that it's doing exactly what was predicted."

This story was published in The Washington Post, March 16, 2006.

I’m waiting for the “scientists” at the Discovery Institute to provide a measurable theory that suggests that the Earth is only 10,000 years old and then is able to support it with experiments of this type.

Until they can do so, Biblical-based theories of creation do not belong in science classes.