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The James Webb Telescope (JWST or Webb) has unveiled hundreds of ancient galaxies that could be among the first members of the universe — a leap from only a handful that were previously known to exist at the time.
As early as 600 million years after the Big Bang, these very young galaxies flaunted complex structures and clusters of star formation, a new study reports. The study is part of an international collaboration called the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES), which gathered a month's worth of observations from two tiny patches in the sky: One in the Ursa Minor constellation and another in the direction of the Fornax cluster. Within this region were over 700 newly discovered young galaxies that reveal with the cosmos looked like in its earliest.
In those five minutes alone, which marks the universe to be between 370 million and 650 million years old, Hainline's and his colleagues studying Webb's data found 717 young galaxies — which turns out to be higher than previous predictions — with all of them already spanning thousands of light-years, sporting complex structures, and birthing stars in multiple clusters.
"Previously, the earliest galaxies we could see just looked like little smudges. And yet those smudges represent millions or even billions of stars at the beginning of the universe," Hainline said in a statement. "Now, we can see that some of them are actually extended objects with visible structure."
John 1:5
The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
originally posted by: surfer_soul
a reply to: AngryCymraeg
It would be better to be agnostic than so arrogant. Considering the fact we don’t everything.
originally posted by: neoholographic
It basically means, the more uncertainty in a system, the more available or unknown information. This is also a higher entropy state. When there's less uncertainty and more is known about the system, then it's in a low entropy state. An intelligent mind can reduce the uncertainty.
originally posted by: AngryCymraeg
If anyone thinks that the human body has been intelligently designed (internally draining lungs due to current upright posture, potentially lethal vestigial organs like the appendix), then I can only point and laugh hysterically at them.
The need to create a god or gods to explain how the world was born out of a pile of dung or something (insert creation myth here) is understandable for hunter-gatherers in the Bronze Age. However, it's time for humanity to leave such childish things behind us.
There can't be any information without an intelligent mind.
Look at all that's known from science and even more information we don't know yet. How is all of this information known without an intelligent mind in 13.8 billion short years? Again, information about the universe has been known since the cosmic microwave background. Who's reducing the uncertainty and making all of this information known without an Intelligent Designer?
originally posted by: Klassified
How many times have I read an OP, here and elsewhere, which seeks to prove intelligent design using the latest science and "logic" only for that same OP to make a gargantuan leap of faith at the end that it is the God they believe in behind that intelligent design?
Answer: Too many to count.
originally posted by: Peeple
a reply to: neoholographic
computers use bits for information processing. computers are not intelligent. 0/1 is per se not information. Just like 'the word' is in itself not information. They are methods to transfer and to encode information.
with that i think we have disproven this
"There can't be any information without an intelligent mind."
has been known... I mean information doesn't need to be known to exist.
computers are not intelligent.
capacity to problem solve
Intelligence is very much dependent on information
originally posted by: ancientlight
I'm agnostic. I don't support 'intelligent design' because it just has too many holes. Like how did this intelligent being/designer pop into existence then? Someone designed him/it ? And on and on into infinity? Doesn't make sense.
If information exists without intelligence what then would be no point to it? I can’t think of any information that isn’t used or applied in some way, either by nature or by us in our endeavours.