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Israel Trip 2016: Biblical creation lectures

On Saturday 4th June we returned from our 2½ week tour of Israel where my wife, Christina and I teamed up with 14 others from Australia, USA, NZ, Japan and Finland. The trip combined a biblical creation ministry with a 10 day tour of the sites around Israel, with a focus of relevant Bible history […]

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Why is the night sky black?

Why does the night sky appear black? Why isn’t it white-hot? This is an important question. When we look up on a moonless night, except for the small number of stars we can see with our unaided eyes (about 2500 at any one time), why is it so pitch black?  The answer may not be as […]

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Piercing the ‘Darkness’

—The bankruptcy of big-bang thinking and its ‘dark’ fudge factors Six important questions are asked in regards to the alleged big bang origin of the Universe? These questions highlight the bankruptcy of big bang thinking, about the origin of the universe that needs numerous fudge factors. Embracing the ‘darkness’ has led man to develop unprovable fudge […]

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On metal abundances versus redshift in creationist cosmologies

Abstract: In creationist cosmologies do we expect to find a systematic trend of decreased metallicity in stars as a function of redshift?  Some may claim such a systematic decrease is a ‘lay down misere’1 in favour of the standard big bang model. Here I show that that is not the case, and when the assumptions are changed […]

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Starlight and time: Is it a brick wall for biblical creation?

Notes of a lecture on starlight and time. Do they present an insurmountable problem for biblical creationists? The lecture was given August 1st, 2015. See Age and Reason Seminar Adelaide for details. Here is the problem. The universe is truly vast in size, in fact, tens of billions of light-years in size.  One light-year is about […]

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Cosmology’s Achilles’ heel

Exposing the big bang’s Fatal Flaw Evolution, in the cosmic sense, from the nothingness of the universe before the big bang and the alleged initial singularity, from which all energy, and hence all matter (i.e hydrogen gas), is alleged to have arisen, to the formation of our solar system, to the origin of life itself, […]

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Seminar: Age and Reason

Why is a 6,000-year-old universe so hard to believe? One Day Seminar (9 am to 5 pm) Saturday 1st August 2015 Happened in Adelaide South Australia AGE AND REASON poster PDF Sponsored by Creation Ministries International Speakers: A/Prof. John Gideon Hartnett (Australian, physicist, cosmologist) Dr Jim Mason (Canadian, nuclear physicist) Topics Covered: Worldviews of naturalism, uniformitarianism and biblical creation; age […]

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Is the Universe expanding?

I am often asked this question: Is the Universe expanding? Previously I have challenged the notion expansion of space or expansion of the Universe as an interpretation of cosmic redshifts. The whole notion is integrally linked with the standard big bang model for the origin and history of the Universe. Also I have written that […]

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Speculation on Redshift in a Created Universe

—sequel to ‘A biblical creationist cosmogony’1 Abstract: I speculate on a new cosmological redshift mechanism due to ‘tired light’ in a created static-yet-unstable 6000-year-old finite-size universe. This utilises Lisle’s ASC model, but I show a one-to-one correspondence with the Hartnett-Carmeli model that was so successful when tested against type Ia supernova measurements. This gives a theoretical […]

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An update: Correspondence on cosmology

This is my reply to a friend from the same university that I left two years ago to give him an update to my cosmology related research. I hope you don’t mind but I thought I would take this opportunity to answer your questions but also post this on my blog so that others who might […]

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