Most Distant Galaxy Gives Clues to Early Universe

NinjaT writes "From CNN, 'Scientists said on Wednesday that they have found the most distant galaxy yet, nearly 13 billion light-years away, in a discovery that could help explain how stars were formed at the dawn of time. The galaxy, named IOK-1, is so far away that the light waves that reached Earth depict it as the system of stars existed shortly after the Big Bang created the universe 13.66 billion years ago. That period, known to astronomers as the Dark Ages, saw the formation of the first stars and galaxies from elementary particles. Scientists had been unable to directly observe that time period until now.'"

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Re:What I find difficult to understand

[allfunandgames]

What I find difficult to understand is how you know all of this? Were you there? If not, then your argument is really just some kind of religion based on a set of beliefs that some guy thought up after some extrapolation from other OBSERVABLE phenomena commonly know as variations in species. I have a question: If evolution were true, how do you explain that some of the planets and moons are rotating backwards? How do you explain that some of the moons are going backwards around their planets?

a little flaw in their logic

[Desolator144]

First of all, I read the title and say "hey, we've known that for hundreds of years." Far away = old in the universe, duh! But really, it's not quite right. Surely I'm not the only one that realizes that when this supposed big bang happened, the things they're looking at weren't 13 billion light-years away. They started at the origin point and moved that far away now. The way they have it stated, it seems like they instantly teleported 13 billion light-years away during the big bang 13 billion years ago and the light is just getting to us now. Then there's the whole our position relative to the origin point relative to the galaxies they're looking at problem.