Accelerating Expansion. The redshift of distant starlight shows an expansion. Just as a ball thrown upward must slow (decelerate) as it moves away from the Earth, a big bang would have produced only a decelerating expansion, after the 10-32 second inflationary burst ended and the universe was the size of a basketball. But, in 1998 it was discovered that distant galaxies were accelerating away from us. Saying, without any experimental evidence or physical details, that “dark energy” produced this acceleration is simply a reflection of ignorance. [See “Dark Thoughts” on page 33 .]
Stretching, completed during the creation week (not in 10-32 of a second after time began), ended with a universe nearly the size of our present universe—not a universe the size of a basketball. We should not be surprised that we can detect distant accelerations produced during that stretching.
Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). The CMB is often given as evidence for the big bang theory. Actually, the absence of gravitational waves in the CMB, argues against the big bang and is evidence for the sudden creation of matter within a much smaller universe that was stretched out on Day 4. [For details, Figure 7 and pages 471–473.]