"The most advanced telescope ever launched": Has science made religion obsolete?
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 27 December 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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The James Webb Space Telescope was launched on Christmas Day. It will examine billions of years of cosmic history using sensors designed to capture light emitted more than 13.6 billion years ago by primordial stars. In The Daily Article for December 27, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison gives us three reasons why God is still relevant in our quest for scientific knowledge.
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| 0:59.2 | The James Webb Space Telescope launched on Christmas Day. |
| 1:03.7 | It is by far the most advanced telescope ever launched into space. |
| 1:08.7 | Named for the NASA administrator who led the Space Agency through |
| 1:12.4 | the early years of the Apollo program, its mission is to seek out the earliest, most distant |
| 1:17.9 | stars and galaxies in the universe. Astronomers say the web will examine billions of years of cosmic |
| 1:24.9 | history, using ultrasensitive infrared sensors designed to capture |
| 1:29.5 | light emitted more than 13.6 billion years ago by primordial stars, 100 times as powerful |
| 1:37.3 | as the Hubble telescope. It was described by a NASA administrator as one of the most amazing |
| 1:43.8 | missions that humanity has ever conceived. |
| 1:47.0 | It is an interesting paradox that the Webb Telescope launched on the day billions of Christians were celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. |
| 1:58.0 | According to NASA administrator Bill Nelson, the telescope will open up |
| 2:03.1 | secrets of the universe. He expects to enable a quantum leap of understanding of who we are, |
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