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The Universe Is Created From Non-Existence 21

ments are thrown off reaching far and wide as a very hot shining dust
cloud is blown out into space.
When these claims by Hoyle and his team were backed up by obser-
vations, scientific circles imagined for a moment that they supported the
idea of the infinite universe. The fact is, however, that there was an impor-
tant question that could not be answered by Hoyle's concept, which said
that all the elements came in a cycle from hydrogen. The question con-
cerned how hydrogen, the basis of all the elements and that gave rise to
stars, first appeared. That is because an extraordinarily high-temperature
explosion would be needed to produce hydrogen. The scientific answer to
that question, which Hoyle ignored, once again came as a disappointment
to materialists.

New Evidence for the Big Bang: Cosmic Background Radiation

In a radio program in 1940s, Hoyle said, "If the universe began with a
hot Big Bang, then such an explosion would have left a relic. Find me a fos-
sil of this Big Bang." 14 The fossil that Hoyle and materialists never imag-
ined would ever be discovered was in fact found soon after.
In 1948, the physicist George Gamow launched a new theory in order
to find the traces of the Big Bang. The formation of the hydrogen necessary
for the first stars to emerge could be explained by the Big Bang setting up
extraordinarily high temperatures. In fact, findings from the traces of the
earliest galaxies showed that a cosmic makeup of 80% hydrogen and 20%
helium formed at the moment of the great explosion. That being the case,
the radiation caused by the high temperatures that
gave rise to those elements should still be in exis-
tence, despite the passage of billions of years. Since
the universe was expanding in all directions, like a
balloon being inflated, low-level background radi-
ation should have radiated out in all directions,
and that now needed to be detected. Those traces
were soon after identified, and the fossil that Hoyle
was so certain would never be found was in fact
discovered.
In 1965, two researchers by the name of Arno
Penzias and Robert Wilson discovered these waves,
George Gamow