re: America's Brutal Culture Wars Caused by 'The Return of the Gods'

All right, all right. That’s enough petty for me today. Would you care to discuss anything of substance? Perhaps This article from your favorite website?

What Did Secular Scientists Predict the JWST Would Find?

-No galaxies with a redshift value higher than roughly 14 (beginning around 300 million years after the big bang) and to find relatively few galaxies approaching that distance.

-The earliest stars in the process of forming and assembling into unstructured galaxies (irregularly shaped with very low mass).

-A steady decrease in heavy elements with increasing redshift, and the most distant (earliest) stars being population III stars (containing no elements heavier than lithium).


What Did Biblical Creationists Predict the JWST Would Find?

In January 2022—before any data were available from the JWST—Dr. Jason Lisle (Christian astrophysicist and founder of the Biblical Science Institute) successfully made the following three general predictions based on a biblical model—all nearly the direct opposite of the secular predictions:3

-Galaxies at higher redshifts than secularists were expecting, forcing them to conclude that galaxies formed earlier than their secular models had predicted.
-Massive symmetric galaxies that are fully formed—not in the process of assembly—like the spiral and elliptical galaxies found relatively close to us.

-Elements heavier than lithium in the most distant stars.


What Did JWST Find?

JWST continues to find distant galaxies that have caused secular scientists to scratch their heads. So far, the telescope has spotted:

-Fully formed galaxies at extreme distances, with an abundance of galaxies at redshifts greater than 10, and even some possibly at redshifts as high as 20 (if so, this would translate to less than 180 million years after the big bang, per the secular timeline).

-Massive, highly structured (spiral and elliptical) galaxies with no evidence of gradual mass accumulation.

-Distant galaxies that are enriched with oxygen and other heavy elements.

Biblical creationists are frequently accused of not having scientific models that can make accurate predictions. But based on these latest observations, secular scientists are being forced to revamp their galaxy formation models, now claiming that galaxies must have formed much earlier than previously thought—exactly the prediction Dr. Lisle made back in January 2022.

After the data from the JWST first started coming in, astronomer Allison Kirkpatrick said, “Right now I find myself lying awake at three in the morning wondering if everything I’ve ever done is wrong.”4 But will these baffled secular scientists truly reconsider their beliefs and worldview?

Dr. Lisle made another successful prediction back in January 2022:

I predict that the secular community (as a whole) will not be moved by these amazing results from the James Webb Space Telescope. Despite all evidence to the contrary, they will continue to believe in a big bang, and that stars and galaxies spontaneously formed over millions of years. They will simply push these stories to a much earlier time, so that they are beyond verification (or falsification) by our current technological limits. They will not give up the big bang or evolution—no matter what evidence is found. This confirms that the big bang is not really science at all, but a philosophical precommitment in light of which secularists interpret all data.

Don’t you find it interesting, that a biblical creationist made accurate predictions that fly in the face of secular science?

I have no doubt that you would convince yourself that the moon was made of cheese- if you thought it would alleviate you from the judgement of a righteous and just God.