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• Taking back astronomy: the heavens declare "creation"!
• Taking Back Astronomy
• What Does the Bible Say About Astronomy
• Astronomy
• Toward a Creationist Astronomy (Creation Research Society Quarterly 28:27, 1991) (Semi-technical)
• The Current State of Creation Astronomy (4^th International Conference on Creationism, 1998) (Semi-technical)
• Cosmologists Can’t Agree and Are Still In Doubt! (Technical)
• Our solar system and its origin (PDF, The Biblical Creation Society)

What about the ‘water’ on Mars?

• ‘Fountains of the Deep’ on Mars? (Answers Daily program)
• Mission to Mars
• NASA announces evidence for water on Mars
• Water on Mars: A Creationist Response
• Water, water, where are you?

Is there evidence that the universe was created?

• Universe finely-tuned for life
• What is the Anthropic Principle?

Are any specific stars mentioned in the Bible?

• What was the Star of Bethlehem?

What historical examples are there of scientists who made astronomical discoveries based on their understanding of Biblical concepts?

• The Creation of Planetary Magnetic Fields (Technical, CRSQ21(3):140–149, December 1984)
• Beyond Neptune: Voyager II Supports Creation (Semi-technical, ICR Impact203, May 1990)
• Moving With The Planets

Can the message of the gospel be seen in the constellations?

• Is the gospel spelled out in the stars? (Christian Answers Network)

How did our sun and moon form and how long ago? Is there evidence for design?

• The Moon: The light that rules the night (available in Spanish)
• The Angular Size of the Moon and Other Planetary Satellites: An Argument For Design (Semi-Technical, CRSQ)
• The Greater Light to Rule the Day - Ladies and Gentlemen - The Sun! ( ICR Impact article)
• See also Design, Astronomical

What are stars and do evolutionists really know how they formed?

• Are Stars Forming Today?
• Do Stars Evolve?
• The Role of Stellar Population Types in the Discussion of Stellar Evolution
  (Creation Research Society Quarterly30:8–11, 1993)
• Counting the Stars
• Were stars created?

How can we see light from stars millions of light years away?

• Light-travel time: a problem for the big bang
• A new cosmology: solution to the starlight travel time problem
• Seven years of Starlight and Time (ICR Impact 338)
• Review of Starlight and Time (Semi-Technical)
• Starlight Wars: Dr Russell Humphreys answers the critics of his cosmological model proposed in Starlight and Time (contains links to articles from the Technical Journal, posted on the True Origins site. See also his earlier rebuttal to Hugh Ross)

What astronomical evidence supports a young age for the universe?

• See Young age evidence, Astronomy

What are red-shifts and do they really support the ‘big bang’ evolutionary idea for the origin of the Universe where red-shifts are supposedly due to stars moving away from us at great speed?

• Galaxy-Quasar Connection Defies Explanation (Technical — non-cosmological red shifts)
• How is Red Shift Explained?
• Doppler Toppler?

What are some problems with the nebular hypothesis?

• Comets—portents of doom or indicators of youth?
• The existence and origin of extrasolar planets (semi-technical)
• James Clerk Maxwell
• Mercury—the tiny planet that causes big problems for evolution
• Neptune: monument to creation
• Pièrre Simon Laplace: The nebular hypothesis
• Revelations in the solar system
• Venus: Cauldron of Fire

What are some of the problems with the big bang hypothesis?

• The Big Bang
• Astronomical Problems (Hubble constant)
• Big bang certainty…
• Big Bang Cosmology
• Different view of the universe (book review)
• ‘Early’ galaxies don't fit!
• Exploding the big bang!
• Galaxy games
• Heavens declare a different story!
• The Hubble Law
• Jupiter origin mystery
• Light-travel time: a problem for the big bang
• Missing antimatter challenges the big bang theory
• More on the ‘Rotating Cosmos’ (Semi-Technical)
• No Dark Matter Found in the Milky Way Galaxy (Semi-Technical)
• Quasar with enormous redshift found embedded in nearby spiral galaxy with far lower redshift: unsolvable riddle for big bang astronomy (Technical)
• Recent Cosmic Microwave Background data supports creationist cosmologies (Technical)
• ‘Ripples’ of galaxies—another blow to the big bang
• Scientist modifies big bang theory
• Surprise? NASA ‘confirms’ the big bang
• Was there a big bang?
• What about the big bang?
• Young galaxies too old for the big bang

What about black holes?

• Black holes in space don’t support evolution

Where is the center of the universe?

• Is the Earth at the Center of the Universe?
• More on the ‘Rotating Cosmos’!
• New evidence for a rotating cosmos
• Our galaxy is the centre of the universe, ‘quantized’ redshifts show (Technical)

What is light? Is it slowing down?

• What is Light?
• What about the slowing and stopping of light? (Technical)
• Have fundamental constants changed, and what would it prove? (Technical)