Where is all the Antimatter?

Assumed predictions of the Big Bang have lost a lot of credibility, because scientists have not found any large quantities of antimatter in the universe at all!

An antihydrogen atom is made from a negatively charged antiproton and a positively charged positron, the antimatter counterpart of the electron. Antihydrogen is an example of antimatter, which are exact copies of identical matter particles, except that each antimatter particle has the opposite charge.  


The electrodes (gold) of the trap
used to combine positrons and
antiprotons to form antihydrogen.

A research collaboration at CERN, Europe's particle-physics lab near Geneva, Switzerland, has managed, 38 times, to confine single antihydrogen atoms in a magnetic trap for more than 170 milliseconds. The group reported the result in Nature online on 17 November 2010. "We're ecstatic. This is five years of hard work," says Jeffrey Hangst, spokesman for the ALPHA collaboration at CERN.

This huge accomplishment reminds us about yet another problem with the Big Bang theory. According to the Big Bang cosmology, most evolutionists assume that every particle of matter created by the energy of the Big Bang should have a particle of antimatter created at the same time. These assumed predictions of the Big Bang have lost a lot of credibility because we have not found nearly the amount of antimatter in the universe that could be accepted under such a model. Paul W. Lamicela's research article has a detailed discussion of the many shortcomings of Big Bang cosmology related to antimatter.

Selections from Antimatter and the Big Bang by Paul W. Lamicela.

(These selections by Marko Malyj are of the article published by Answers in Genesis, March 2006, at http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2006/contest-winner/lamicela.pdf).

When matter and antimatter come together, they annihilate and form energy. According to the big bang, all the matter in the universe formed from energy. But this would produce an equal amount of antimatter. So just as easily as the matter/antimatter came into existence it could come back together and very soon, there would only be radiation.

Could the antimatter have separated from matter soon after the big bang and now be in distant regions of space? There is no evidence that there is much antimatter out in space, or that other galaxies are made of antimatter.

What about Charge Parity violation? Normally, Charge and Parity together must be conserved, so that if you swap a particle with its antiparticle and change its direction of spin, it would behave the same way as it did before the changes. But this is not true of K mesons. If there was CP violation in the first seconds of the big bang, matter would have won out over antimatter. Unfortunately for the big bang, it has been shown that the amount of CP violation is several orders of magnitude less than would account for matter/antimatter imbalance.

What about Grand Unified Theories? GUTs attempt to explain the strong, weak and electromagnetic forces as being different aspects of a single force under extremely high energies. But GUTs predict that protons eventually decay, and will have a lifetime of 10+31 years. All experiments have failed to find any proton decay at all.

How is antimatter not a problem for the biblical model? God created matter in the beginning, but He did not create much antimatter. God did not want all the matter to annihilate with antimatter. He designed the universe to function!

Are you a 12-point Calvinist? TULIP, FABRIC & More

In 1619, in order to answer Arminianism, the Five Points of Calvinism were codified by the Synod of Dort. They are summarized by the acronym TULIP:

Total Depravity (also known as Total Inability and Original Sin)
Unconditional Election
Limited Atonement (also known as Particular Atonement)
Irresistible Grace
Perseverance of the Saints (also known as Once Saved Always Saved)

In 1910, in order to answer "Modernism", the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the USA, passed the Doctrinal Deliverance, which declared that Five Fundamentals were "necessary and essential" to the Christian faith.

In 1961, in order to answer Theistic Evolution, the modern Creation Science movement was revived with the publication of The Genesis Flood: The Biblical Record and its Scientific Implications, by John C. Whitcomb and Henry M. Morris, which reminded Bible believers how vital Creation and the Flood are to the faith.

These tenets of the faith after TULIP - the Five Fundamentals, Creation, and the Flood - may be summarized by the acronym FABRIC & M:

Flood of Noah was global
Atonement for sin by Christ's death
Birth from a virgin of the Lord Jesus Christ
Resurrection of Christ in his body
Inerrancy of Scripture
Creation in the six literal days of Genesis chapter one 

Miracles of Christ were a historical reality

Today, in the early 21st century, Biblical Christianity is coming under increasing pressure. The Five Points of Calvinism, the Five Fundamentals, and now Creation and the Flood are just 12 battle grounds of the faith, with More to come. TULIP, FABRIC & More.

Flood Stories from Around the World

Where did all these stories come from? There are dozens of them from people groups all around the world. From Scandinavia, Egypt, East Africa, Korea, Australia, Pacific islands, Native Americans, and many, many more. See Mark Isaac's flood story collection.

There are three major explanations....

The first is that all the world's flood stories are mere tales, evidence of a common "flood" gene yet to be found in all human beings, that expressed itself from time to time by certain carriers of that gene to create entertaining stories centered on a flood motif (perhaps I am one of those carriers?!). By the year 2100, PhD Evolutionists will apply for grant funding, and will then make a press release that announces that they have isolated this gene. They will then do studies to show how this gene links to other tendencies within human beings, like an irrational preference for prayer to a higher being, for example. (I will make myself available for the brain chemistry study...)

The second is that the most ancient flood story of all is actually true (couldn't be Noah's flood from the Bible, could it?!), and somehow made a vast impression on all peoples across the entire world (couldn't be because the flood was global, could it?!). All the other stories multiplied and got garbled for some reason (couldn't be the Bible's Tower of Babel, could it?!).

The third is that one of the other flood stories is the most ancient one, and is the one that is actually true. Perhaps it is the Native American Lakota story that tells us that Unktehi, a water monster, fought the people and caused a great flood. A better candidate might be from East Africa (in the area where humans first evolved from their apelike forebears) - the Masai story of Tumbainot, who built an ark of wood and enter it with his two wives, six sons and their wives, and some of animals of every sort.

Which explanation do you think is correct?

Gladness

"A good attitude is

the memory of a glad heart"

(Anonymous)

Encouragement

"Never underestimate the power

of someone believing in you."

(Anonymous)