RE: Evolution
March 23, 2012 at 10:40 pm
(This post was last modified: March 23, 2012 at 10:49 pm by Jackalope.)
(March 23, 2012 at 9:47 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: What kind of light bulb would you like an explanation for incandescent, florescent, HID or LED? Not that it really matters as they all required stars to exist first in order for the elements they are composed of to be created by nuclear fusion.
And no I don’t believe gravity, the creator of stars, is capable of producing a light bulbs....
Put another way, after the initial formation of matter and prior to the birth of the first stars, the universe was composed almost entirely of hydrogen, with trace amounts of helium and lithium. In the conditions present at the time, the only means that light could be produced is via nuclear fusion of hydrogen. Therefore, under those conditions, no stars = no light. The elements needed to produce light by chemical or other means (e.g. via oxidation / combustion) were not present at all until the youngest stars died as supernovas, and even longer until they were present in significant amounts. (Even today, the universe has vastly more hydrogen and helium than all of the other baryonic matter combined by a large margin).
An open question I do not know the answer to is whether or not light was emitted during the period of matter/anti-matter annihilation when the energy budget of the universe was primarily from photons. As this occurred when the universe was ~10^-6 seconds young and was over in the blink of an eye (on human timescales, much less cosmological ones). Somehow, I doubt this is what Genesis is talking about.

Additionally, from my perspective, while there are still unanswered questions as to the nature of the universe prior to the BB, and the cause thereof, the answer 'goddidit' is wholly unsatisfying until such time as a) all avenues of inquiry are exhausted and/or b) the existence of a creator deity is demonstrable. In the figuring-shit-out department, science speaks to me louder and clearer than any preacher ever could.
And to the OP, who I have long since given up any hope of presenting anything resembling evidence, your pet hypothesis lacks anything resembling credibility because you've made no attempt to demonstrate that it might be so, much less that it's the most likely explanation. The burden of proof is firmly on your shoulders. Science has show it's work, now it's your turn if you want to be considered anything more than a joke.
Until then, "Nice story, bro."