Now we run into the next question which is pretty self explanatory, "Why are there stars that are equal to and older than the age of the universe?"
     The estimated age of the universe is roughly 12 billion years old (see new findings on the age of the universe), but there are stars that are observed to be between 15 and 20 billion years old. That implies that stars are older than the universe! Even if we took the extremes of the estimate for the age of the stars and the universe, we can come up with the star ages to be about 10 billion years which is getting close to the necessary time frame needed. However this is like I said, stretching the age ranges to the barest minimums.

Another question most recently came to light, "Why is the universe accelerating?"
     In the January 1999 issue of the Scientific American, pages 45 - 69, new observations of distant objects have revealed that the universe may actually be accelerating rather than expanding at a constant rate. This would skew the age of the universe estimation because the constant rate of expansion was a  major  part in how the age of the universe was determined. Also the question begs answering....."What is making the universe accelerate?" If there was an explosion, then the universe should be weighted down with the dragging gravitational effects of all the matter in the universe, slowing ever so slowly over time.
     It has been suggested that there is a vast amount of what astronomers have deemed "antigravity" which pervades the universe, pushing rather pulling at all things....which conveniently cannot be detected by us and hence lives only in the world of theory.

Next, science tells us that in a Big Bang type explosion, there should be an equal amount of matter and anti-matter created. The problem with this is that when matter and anti-matter meet up, they cancel each other into mutal annihilation. So the early universe of the Big Bang should have simply destroyed itself. If for some odd reason and another stroke of luck it did not, then there should be whole glaxaies and galaxy clusters of pure anti-matter. There has been absolutely no evidence of this.

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