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[[Image:NGC .jpg|right|thumb|350px|The majestic spiral galaxy ''[[NGC 4414]]'', imaged by the [[Hubble Space Telescope]] in 1995.]]A '''galaxy''' is a massive ensemble of hundreds tens of millions to trillions of [[star]]s and some with associated [[planet]]sand planetary systems, all interacting through the [[gravity|gravitational force]], [[orbit]]ing around a common center.<ref>Wile, Dr. Jay L. ''Exploring Creation With Physical Science''. Apologia Educational Ministries, Inc. 1999, 2000</ref> The observable [[universe]] contains hundreds of millions billions of galaxies. Some scholars theorize that at the center of every galaxy lies a super massive [[black hole]]. The [[Sun]], the [[Earth]] and our [[Solar System]] are in the [[Milky Way]] galaxy.

== Young Earth Creationism View Age Dispute ==[[Young earth creationism|Young earth creationistMany scientists]] scientist assert that [[materialism|materialistic]] explanations of galaxy formation are unsupportable and counter evidence.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/AstroPhysicalSciences22.html|title=In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood - 62. Galaxies|accessdate=2019-09-15|publisher=creationscience.com|date=2019-09-01}}</ref> <ref>http{{cite web|url=https://wwwanswersingenesis.org/big-bang/young-galaxies-too-old-for-the-big-bang/|title=Young Galaxies Too Old for the Big Bang|accessdate=2019-09-15|publisher=answersingenesis.org|date=2004-06-01|author=Andrew Rigg}}</creationref><ref>{{cite web|url=https:/v27/i1creation.com/phoenix-galaxy-stars-explode-stellar-evolution-theory|title=Phoenix Galaxy stars explode stellar evolution theory|accessdate=2019-09-15|publisher=creation.aspcom|author=Rod Bernitt|date=August 2000}}</ref> <ref>http{{cite web|url=https://www.answersingenesis.org/creationastronomy/v25cosmology/i3galaxy-games/|title=Galaxy Games|accessdate=2019-09-15|publisher=anwersingenesis.org|date=2004-12-01|author=Andrew Rigg}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://creation.com/early-galaxies-don-t-fit|title=‘Early’ galaxies don’t fit!|accessdate=2019-09-15|publisher=creation.aspcom|date=March 2003|author=Andy McIntosh and Carl Wieland}}</ref> In 1988, fifty cosmologists attended a conference which focused on galaxy formation. After summarizing the observational data, two of the most respected scientists estimated the probability that any existing theory on galaxy formation is correct was about 1 out of 100. <refname=fast_binaries>{{cite web|url=http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes61.html#wp1212721|title=In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood - 60. Fast Binaries|accessdate=2019-09-15|publisher=creationscience.com}}</ref> In 1999, J. Bland-Hawthorn wrote in the science journal [[Nature]] the following:

"In 1977, [[Stephen Weinberg]] observed that "the theory of the formation of galaxies is one of the great outstanding problems of astrophysics, a problem that today seems far from solution". Although the past two decades have seen considerable progress, many questions remain. " <ref>http://www{{cite journal |last1=Bland-Hawthorn |first1=J.nature |display-authors=3 |title=Clues to galaxy formation |journal=Nature |volume=400 |issue=|page=220-221|date=1999 |doi=10.com1038/nature/journal/v400/n6741/full/400220a0.html22230 |ref=harv}}</ref>

. . . it is an elegant structure that shows both order and complexity. . . . The end product is especially remarkable in the light of what is believed to be the starting point: nebulous blobs of gas. How the universe made the Milky Way from such simple beginnings is not altogether clear. - Cristina Chiappini, "The Formation and Evolution of the Milky Way," [[American Scientist ]] (vol. 89, Nov./Dec. 2001), p. 506. <ref>http{{cite web|url=https://www.icr.org/article/547/|title=What Astronomers Don't Know|accessdate=2019-09-15|publisher=icr.org|author=Henry M. Morris|date=2002-07-01}}</ref>

Young earth creationists also cite The [[Institute for Creation Research]] wrote the following regarding a 2005 article in [[Science News]] the following:

“In its simplest form, A strange cartoon graced the [[Big Bang Theory|Big Bang]] scenario doesn’t look like cover of Science News last fall (10/08/2005) that serves as a good way to make galaxies. It allows too little time symbol for the force a whole class of gravity by itself to gather ordinary matter—neutrons, protons and electrons—into the patterns of galaxies seen todayproblems for evolutionary astronomers. Yet the theory survives for want of It showed a star-shaped old man in a better ideastellar maternity ward.” Ivars PetersonWith its title, Science News"Crisis in the Cosmos? Galaxy-formation theory is in peril, "Seeding the universearticle exposed a running theme in astronomy: how did matter assemble itself into the giant filamentsas far back as we look, clusters, bubbles stars and walls of galaxies that now fill the universe?" March 24, 1990, pappear mature. 184. <ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes61.html#wp1212721</ref> <ref>http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_n12_v137/ai_8878747</ref>

“It [the Great Wall, composed of tens of thousands of galaxies] is far too large "Imagine peering into a nursery and too massive to have formed by the mutual gravitational attraction of its member galaxies.” M. Mitchell Waldropseeing, “Astronomers Go Up Against among the Great Wallcooing babies,” Sciencea few that look like grown men, Vol" Ron Cowen quipped. 246, 17 November 1989, p. 885. [See also Margaret J. Geller "That's the startling situation that astronomers have stumbled upon as they've looked deep into space and John P. Huchra, “Mapping thus back to a time when newborn galaxies filled the Universe,” Science, Vol. 246, 17 November 1989, ppcosmos. 897–903". <ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes61.html#wp1212721</ref>

<blockquote style="background: #F9F9F9; border: 1px solid #AAAAAA; padding: .3em;">These findings corroborate a January 8, 2002, NASA press release that was considered astonishing at the time: based on Hubble surveys, "the grand finale came first" in stellar and galactic evolution. As far back as telescopes look, they see mature creation, not evolution.<ref>{{cite web|url=See Alsohttps://www.icr.org/article/2946/|title=Mature at Birth: Universe Discredits Evolution|accessdate=2019-09-15|author=David F. Coppedge|date=2006-10-01}}</ref></blockquote>  Young earth creationists also cite the following: <blockquote style="background: #F9F9F9; border: 1px solid #AAAAAA; padding: .3em;">“In its simplest form, the [[Hubble Ultra Deep FieldBig Bang theory|big bang]]scenario doesn’t look like a good way to make galaxies. It allows too little time for the force of gravity by itself to gather ordinary matter—neutrons, protons and electrons—into the patterns of galaxies seen today. Yet the theory survives for want of a better idea.” Ivars Peterson, Science News, "Seeding the universe: how did matter assemble itself into the giant filaments, clusters, bubbles and walls of galaxies that now fill the universe?" March 24, 1990, p. 184.<ref name=fast_binaries/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_n12_v137/ai_8878747|title=Seeding the universe: how did matter assemble itself into the giant filaments, clusters, bubbles and walls of galaxies that now fill the universe?|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216183100/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_n12_v137/ai_8878747|archivedate=2019-09-15}}</ref></blockquote> <blockquote style="background: #F9F9F9; border: 1px solid #AAAAAA; padding: .3em;">“It [the Great Wall, composed of tens of thousands of galaxies] is far too large and too massive to have formed by the mutual gravitational attraction of its member galaxies.” M. Mitchell Waldrop, “Astronomers Go Up Against the Great Wall,” [[Science (journal)|Science]], Vol. 246, 17 November 1989, p. 885. (See also Margaret J. Geller and John P. Huchra, “Mapping the Universe,” Science, Vol. 246, 17 November 1989, pp. 897–903).<ref name=fast_binaries/></blockquote>

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