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Despite anticreationists using the Starlight Problem in arguing against young-Earth creationism, the [[Big Bang Theory]] has its own light travel problem.

Despite anticreationists using the Starlight Problem in arguing against young-Earth creationism, the [[Big Bang Theory]] has its own light travel problem.

The Big Bang model proposes that the temperature of the [[Cosmic Microwave Background]] (CMB) would have varied considerably from place to place early in the universe, yet because the speed at which this radiation can disperse from hotter to colder parts of the universe is limited by the speed of light, there has not been enough time for the radiation to even out, yet observations today show it to be extremely uniform.<ref name="Lisle">Lisle, 2003</ref> However according to the big bang model, the universe was significantly smaller shortly after its creation. The cosmic microwave background itself was generated merely some 300,000 years after the big bang(about 13 billion years ago)<ref name="http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101age.html">WMAP Cosmology 101: Age of the Universe</ref> as the universe cooled enough to allow electrons to be captured by protons to form the first atoms.  This released an enormous amount of energy in every direction.  According to the principle of randomness, this would have evened the intensity of the radiation which has since dispersed and dropped to lower frequencies (called redshift) on the electromagnetic scale as the universe has expanded to its present size.

The Big Bang model proposes that the temperature of the [[Cosmic Microwave Background]] (CMB) would have varied considerably from place to place early in the universe, yet because the speed at which this radiation can disperse from hotter to colder parts of the universe is limited by the speed of light, there has not been enough time for the radiation to even out, yet observations today show it to be extremely uniform.<ref name="Lisle">Lisle, 2003</ref>

{{QuoteBox|The problem is this: even assuming the big bang timescale, there has not been enough time for light to travel between widely separated regions of space. So, how can the different regions of the current CMB have such precisely uniform temperatures if they have never communicated with each other? This is a light-travel–time problem.<ref name="Lisle" />}}

== Bibliography ==

== Bibliography ==