Genesis 1:1-10 NIV In the beginning God created the sky and the earth. The earth was empty and had no form. Darkness covered the ocean, and God’s Spirit was moving over the water. Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, so he divided the light from the darkness. God named the light “day” and the darkness “night.” Evening passed, and morning came. This was the first day. Then God said, “Let there be something to divide the water in two.” So God made the air and placed some of the water above the air and some below it. God named the air “sky.” Evening passed, and morning came. This was the second day. Then God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered together so the dry land will appear.” And it happened. God named the dry land “earth” and the water that was gathered together “seas.” God saw that this was good.
They did it with nowhere near the fanfare of their first announcement, but scientists who last year announced they had proven the “Big Bang” theory for the universe have now admitted they were wrong.
Last March, astronomers using the BICEP2 telescope at the South Pole claimed they had found “primordial gravitational waves” that proved the Big Bang. They called the evidence the “smoking gun” that disproved the Biblical account of creation.
A year after calling it a “genuine breakthrough” and something that would “represent a new era in cosmology and physics”, researcher Jean-Loup Puget confirmed the lack of proof.
“Unfortunately, we have not been able to confirm that the signal is an imprint of cosmic inflation,” Puget said in the statement.
“We are effectively retracting the claim,” BICEP2 researcher Brian Keating told the Associated Press.
“It is the announcement no one wanted to hear,” Space.com reported. “The most exciting astronomical discovery of 2014 has vanished. Two groups of scientists announced today that a tantalizing signal—which some scientists claimed was ‘smoking gun’ evidence of dramatic cosmic expansion just after the birth of the universe—was actually caused by something much more mundane: interstellar dust.”
