This galaxy is so large, so fully-formed, astronomers say it shouldn’t exist at all. It’s called a “grand-design” spiral galaxy, and unlike most galaxies of its kind, this one is old. Like, really, really old. According to a new study conducted by researchers using NASA’s Hubble Telescope, it dates back roughly 10.7-billion years — and that makes it the most ancient spiral galaxy we’ve ever discovered.
via Hubble has spotted an ancient galaxy that shouldn’t exist.
Not only because it is just a tad bit older than 6000 years… but because the mechanics of it doesn’t make sense – except maybe the way real scientists explain it.
Thinking to myself, I had to laugh. Do you think that if there is life in this galaxy, seeing that it would have been organized only 3 billion years after the Big Bang, that Young Xulon Creationists look at our galaxy and say that we don’t exist?
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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