In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood

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Conclusion

Is the CMB left over from the hot big bang, or was radiation emitted following the creation of matter in a much smaller universe? Both choices place the CMB at the beginning of time and attribute the radiation’s current low effective temperature (2.73 kelvins, or - 454.76°F) to an expansion of space.

However, the big bang’s explanation for the CMB has several widely recognized problems.

The CMB, when viewed over the entire sky, is thousands of times too evenly distributed to have produced the galaxies we see today, even after billions of years.

The most distant galaxies seen are tight clusters of stars—too tightly clustered to have formed so quickly after the rapid expansion of a big bang.

The CMB radiation from matter on opposite sides of the universe is identical. However, that matter, according to the big bang theory, was never close enough to have reached thermal equilibrium. But, if the CMB is a natural consequence of the creation of matter within a very compact universe that was later stretched out, identical radiation would be expected.

Furthermore, if one considers the many other problems with the big bang theory, a discussion that begins on page 31, the two choices described here—creation or the big bang—are reduced to one.

One thing is clear: on Day 1, three days before the Sun and all stars were made—or before the creation of all stars was completed⁷—a temporary light source illuminated the spinning Earth and provided day-night cycles.