The 1st Generation of Stars

Andy_Howell writes "Astronomers may have found members of the first generation of stars in the universe. Using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck I telescope, they observed a faint red blob that had been magnified into a double image by a gravitational lens. The blob was found to be a cluster of stars 13.6 billion light years away, seen when the age of the universe was less than a billion years old. The clump appears to contain only about a million stars, and is less than a few million years old. It is thought that swarms of these clumps came together over the age of the universe to create the galaxies we see today."

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I'm amazed

[Inthewire]

...that this article did not mention the Big Bang.
If you are interested there is a spectacular book entitled _The_Big_Bang_Never_Happened_ that describes an alternate (and far more rational) cosmology...it posits that the universe is ruled by elecromagnetically active plasmas, and that the behaviors of our universe need not be explained by increasingly unlikely constructions.

Re:Ever thought of creation ?

[Black Parrot]

> We have COUNTLESS and i repeat COUNTLESS studies demonstrating that prayer to God...

> With this body of evidence demonstrate that prayer works... is it too much to inject into the creation of the universe debate the thought that PERHAPS God did create the universe like he claims to have done.

Even granting your prayer claims for the sake of argument... by what leap of logic do you invoke the (purported) medical efficacy of prayer to conclude that some particular diety created the universe?

Also, tell us more about prayer and bacteria. Are we praying for bacteria and then measuring the effect it has on them? Are we praying to the bacteria and getting good results? Or is it the bacteria that are doing the praying?

Finally, with prayer being so effective, what model of the system explains why people in one part of the world suffer drought while people in another part suffer flood, and they strave and drown simultaneously despite having prayed their saintly arses off?

Inquiring minds want to know.