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It's Complicated -Exploring Life's Difficuties......

The author takes a hard look at everyday problems, and their impact on human lives; and offers possible solutions.

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It’s <strong>Complicated</strong>: <strong>Exploring</strong> Life Difficulties and Finding Divine Serendipity<br />

background radiation. Its wavelength and<br />

uniformity fit nicely with other astronomers'<br />

mathematical calculations about the Big Bang.<br />

The Steady State Theory<br />

In the 1940s a competing hypothesis arose,<br />

called the Steady State theory. British<br />

astrophysicist Fred Hoyle and others argued that<br />

the universe was not only uniform in space—an idea<br />

called the cosmological principle—but also<br />

unchanging in time, a concept called the perfect<br />

cosmological principle.<br />

This theory didn't depend on a specific event<br />

like the Big Bang. Under the Steady State theory,<br />

stars and galaxies may change, but on the whole<br />

the universe has always looked the way it does now,<br />

and it always will. The Steady State theory fails,<br />

however, in one important way. If matter is<br />

continuously created everywhere, then the<br />

average age of stars in any section of the universe<br />

should be the same. But astronomers have found<br />

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