re: Big Bang theory wrong? Star older than Universe discovered - threat of ‘scientific crisis’

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Analysis of the star showed that it contained very little iron content, which would suggest that it formed during a period when the iron element was not abundant in the Universe. This in turn led to the discovery the star is 14.5 billion years old, some 0.7 billion years older than the Universe.

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This reads like made up nonsense. First of all, how TF could we possibly know the iron content of a star 200 million light years away, and second, how could that lead to the conclusion that it is 14.5 billion years old?

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Atheists are actually more anti-religion than anti-God. Many atheists are more than likely “spiritual” meaning that they believe in a creative intelligence which created the Universe and therefore man. And “God” is every culture’s attempt to describe that intelligence.

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This is exactly right, but i think that is more of an agnostic belief. (what I am)

We will literally never know when the universe was created.

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This is exactly right, but i think that is more of an agnostic belief

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This more where I actually fall. While I don't believe any religion is right as I find them to be just early man's way of justifying stuff they didn't understand and later an excuse for empires and churches to enforce insane shite.

The thought of a creator certainly has crossed my mind, but proving he exists is virtually impossible

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something cannot come from nothing 

so, while GOD could have made it happen, I feel the big bang is BS. 

why? study law of conservation of angular momentum along with some laws of thermodynamics

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And you're a dumbass who doesn't even understand the basics of either of the things you mention... the big bang 100% happened, now if a God created the big bang is up for question but dont act like you know what the frick you are talking about because you obviously dont.

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It takes just as much faith to believe in most scientific theories as religion maybe even more.

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This is a commonly uttered and very stupid phrase

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It takes just as much faith to believe in most scientific theories as religion maybe even more.

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Dear God no... dude there is literally no proof of a God, despite what a fictional story book written 2000 years ago says that has been through an unknown amount of translations, let alone the crusades when it could have been/probably was completely rewritten.
Scientific theories are all backed by facts, the big bang 10000% happened and you're a idiot if you dont agree with that. Also this story literally disproves no theories, just that we were off on the possible creation of the universe.

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NO one, no scientist or anyone else for that matter, really truly knows WTF happened before about 5,000 years ago. It’s ALL theories based on very, very limited information.

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This is factually incorrect, we know pretty much what has happened since the creation of earth through carbon dating.

God will never be proved or disproved by science. That’s not how it works. It’s still based on faith. I’ve got no problem with science and scientific theory. You’d have to be ignorant to have a problem with scientists trying to figure out how the world around us works. And to crow about theories that are called in to question is pretty immature. Developing theories is just how science works.

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If they say time doesn't exist, yeah.

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What you are thinking of as time is simply a perception of the nervous system formed into a social construct for measuring various relationships. We associate 12 noon with the sun being at its highest point in the sky. The sun doesn’t make sure that it is there at 12, and the Earth doesn’t decide to rotate to the correct position at that time.

Our basis for time is formed upon observed patterns of daylight and the angle of the Sun in the sky as the Earth orbits the Sun.

We then use this same measurement, subdivide it, and apply it to something like the rate of a biological function. That function isn’t on a timer. We are in fact looking at the rate of energy transfer to achieve that function and defining it based our perception of time.

When you start thinking about physics and time, activation energy can be changed by a catalyst. Pressure, heat, friction, and other variables alter the rate at which materials change based on how energy is transferred. This is why basic physics is taught under “standard conditions” to eliminate variables. Unfortunately, we don’t fully understand how to apply variables like “dark energy.” Therefore it is difficult to accurately account for “time” throughout the known Universe.