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The Age Of The Universe
After several debates, astronomers have determined the age of the universe by using a Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe. By examining the microwave background radiation that WMAP provided, astronomers were able to pin down the age of the universe, accurate to 1%, to 13.7 billion years old.
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Regarding WMAP:
Cosmologists now regularly take data from very different experiments and combine them into a single result, though press results rarely discuss the input of the disparate data. An example of this was the February 2003 announcement of the latest 13.7 billion year age estimate of the universe, along with estimates of the percentages of mass distributed amongst lighted and dark matter and “dark energy.” Also left unsaid is how extremely model-dependent the conclusions are. That is, if we change the model slightly, the conclusions change as well. The recent claim of the discovery of evidence for inflation builds upon the earlier WMAP work, among others, and, like the others, is very model-dependent. For instance, how the observed E-mode polarization constrains the amount of inflation energy is model-dependent. The model dependence amounts to a type of circular reasoning—cosmologists interpret the data assuming inflation, and then used the data to support inflation.
And just exactly how small does all this size and distance discussion make you?
There has been plenty of people who can validate their reasons for what they believe to be the age of the universe.
Fossils are the perfect example for explaining this. Fossils only say 2 things - "It existed and died" The age of fossils are guessed too. Carbon Dating doesn't work. Radioisotope decay tests doesn't work. And when they date the fossils by the strata layers, little do people know that strata layers are dated by the fossils (Circular Reasoning)