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Biblical Value (X1)
According to Genesis creation story, light was created by the utterance of the

Divine “let there be light,” on the first day of creation. Therefore:

X 1 = 1 day

22.3.3 Formation of First Large-scale Celestial Structures
Cosmologic value (Y2)
The question of when were first celestial structures been formed has drawn the

attention and research efforts of astronomers and cosmologists for the better part
of the twentieth century and to this day. We base our estimate on various sources
that seem to converge.
In the abstract of their paper, Gratton et al. (1997) present as their fifth result

that “The age of the bona fide old globular clusters (Oosterhoff II and BHB),

based on the absolute magnitude of the turnoff (a theoretically robust indicator)
is:

Age = 11.8 Gyr

with errors +2.1 and -2.5 Gyr as the 95% confidence range.”
A references-based account is a web-site maintained by Wright of UCLA (at
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/age.html). Regarding the age of the oldest
globular clusters, Wright writes: “Chaboyer et al. (1998) give 11.5 ± 1.3 Gyr for
the mean age.” Regarding the age of the oldest white dwarfs, Wright writes: “In
2004 Hansen et al. gave an age for globular cluster M4 of 12.1 ± 0.9 Gyr, which is
very consistent with the age of globular clusters from the main sequence turnoff.”
Inspection of the quoted paper reveals that in fact the number given is 12.1 Gyr,
with a 95% lower limit of 10.3 Gyr.
In a paper from 2005, Peloso et al. report the determination of the age of the
Galactic thin disk by means of Th/Eu nucleo-cosmo-chronology. They claim that
“This method is only weakly dependent on stellar evolutions models, therefore
allowing an important verification of the most used dating techniques, which are

the fitting of isochrones to the oldest Galactic open clusters, and the calculation

of white dwarf cooling sequences.” Furthermore, their result, “(8.8 ± 1.7) Gyr,
corroborates the most recent white dwarf ages determined via cooling sequence
calculations.”
Another source is NASA web-page from January, 2006 (http://www.nasa.gov/
vision/universe/starsgalaxies/fuse_fossil_galaxies.html). This page states: “After