More than good science which certainly abounds, good PR for NASA and friends! At a time when interest in pure science, space exploration has waned and public consciousness of all their benefits seems absent (i.e. no space program, no holy-apple-iphone!), this telescope, with all the problems and expense fixing and maintaining it, has brought smiles and enthusiasm to multitudes.

Long live the Hubble!

If you TRULY wish to have a better understanding of how the Hubble can possibly see back billions of years in time, just check the current research on time and space as was well as dark matter, dark energy, gravity, physics, quantum physics, theoretical physics, astrophysics, applied physics, etc. You will see how certain scenarios make it plausible that one can "look back over distance in time".

You will have to make the effort as it will not be possible to explain it here. NOVA has had some good programs related to these subjects recently. You may still find the information and videos on the PBS site. It's a good place to start. There is also a plethora of information on the Internet.

My suggestion is stay with recognized and accredited sources of information, and not religious or ID related sources. That way you'll get the true picture of what the "other side" is saying so you can better understand their point of view. That is, if you want to form an objective opinion about it all....

You're opinions might have some validity if you backed them up with just bit of proof, or at least explain in some detail how you're going about obtaining that proof.

Although their job is not yet done, scientists can show you the details of their efforts and the evidence obtained to date. What, exactly can you show? A collection of unsubstantiated writings from a couple of thousand years ago? At least make the effort to obtain tangible proof, before you apply labels to the "non-believers".

Very scientific, that! It seems "highly implausible" to millions who choose to ignore the evidence in order to live on in their sin. Far more implausible, based on science, is that matter an useable energy are eternal. If there was ever a time in the past when there was nothing, then nothing is what we would have today. String theory and multiple universe conjecture is nothing more than proof that scientists understand this and are coming up with very creative ideas, unproven. It would be one thing had God not told us what He had done and is doing. Far more plausible is the answer that in order for there to be anything today, something, or Someone, must have as a necessary function of their being eternal existence. We already know *via science and observation* that this does not apply to matter. That Someone is God!