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Guest (Male): Discover the mystery of Red Sirius. Next on today’s Creation Moment.

And now here’s our Creation Moment host, Ian Taylor.

Ian T. Taylor: Space is full of mysteries. Those who think that the universe is millions or even billions of years old have more mysteries to solve than Bible-believing Christians. One of these is the mystery of a star named Sirius B. This mystery is so great for evolutionists that it was one of the hottest topics of discussion at a scientific symposium in 1978 at Louisiana State University.

Records of Egyptian astronomers dating back to 2,000 BC describe Sirius B as a red star. Seneca described Sirius as being redder than Mars. One of the most famous astronomers in history, Ptolemy, writing in 150 AD, listed Sirius as one of the six red stars. There can be no question that Sirius was red. Today, Sirius B is a white dwarf star.

Now, that's a problem because, according to modern evolutionary astronomy, it should take at least 100,000 years for a red giant star to collapse into a white dwarf star. The mystery of how a red giant Sirius could become a white dwarf in less than 2,000 years was and still is the topic of hot debate. Sirius B calls the most basic theories about supposed evolution of the universe into question. Quite obviously, those evolutionary ages are not nearly as well-proven as evolutionists would like us to believe.

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