Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified a very old, faraway galaxy that indicates the early universe developed differently from the way they thought, the telescope’s official website reported on March 26.

The universe’s “dark ages”: According to widely accepted scientific theory based on the big-bang theory, the universe was filled with a thick fog of neutral hydrogen in its earliest “dark ages” stage.

When the universe was this young, stars and galaxies emitted ultraviolet light, but not enough to pierce this thick fog. According to the big-bang model, light could not travel freely through until the hydrogen became ionized, a process they say would have taken hundreds of millions of years.

Yet the discovery of the galaxy jades-GS-z13-1 provides evidence that the universe emerged from the “dark ages” much sooner.

• jades-GS-z13-1 was observed just 330 million years after the big bang supposedly took place.
• The galaxy shows very bright hydrogen emission that should have been absorbed by this supposed cosmic fog of the early dark universe.
• Scientists originally thought the strength of the light emitted was only possible about 600 million to 700 million years after the big bang.

Readjusting theories, again and again: Weeks after the James Webb started sending data back in 2022, it was already causing major problems for the big-bang theory, revealing that the early universe had far more bright galaxies and disks than expected, and much less empty space.

Astronomers were forced to drastically readjust their theories of early galaxy evolution to make them fit their big-bang premise. Now jades-GS-z13-1 is making them do it again. Time will tell how long their new theories will last.

God’s handiwork: There is one “theory” that requires no adjusting and provides absolute proof of the origin of the universe: creation by a masterful Creator.

Watch for this space telescope to bring to light further flaws in creation-denying theories and more evidence of our great Creator.

Learn more: Read “Has the Big-Bang Theory Exploded?”