Creation Moment 6/14/2024 - Creation Astronomy does not have this problem

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens... Genesis 2:4

"James Webb telescope discovers earliest galaxy in the known universe — and its shockingly big (Live Science, 30 May 2024). Reporter Brandon Specktor indicates two surprises with the latest JWST find: galaxies that are too early and too big—"shockingly” big.

According to new research, astronomers using the powerful infrared telescope have revealed what appears to be the two earliest, most distant galaxies in the known universe, dating to just 300 million years after the Big Bang.

Alert readers always notice that the big bang is assumed as a given. It’s too essential as a part of the materialist worldview to question. Creator-denying cosmologists simply squeeze the natural production rate to maintain the belief.
With the larger of the galaxies measuring an estimated 1,600 light-years across, the discovery adds to a mounting pile of evidence that the earliest galaxies in the universe grew up much faster than leading theories of cosmology predict to be possible.

“It is stunning that the Universe can make such a galaxy in only 300 million years,” lead study author Stefano Carniani, an assistant

professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, said in a statement.

300 million years sounds like plenty of time to assemble a galaxy, but it represents only around 2.5% of the assumed age of the universe. Astronomers started worrying when the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) began imaging light from galaxies estimated to be 800 million years after the big bang.

In the old days before the HST and JWST, astronomers assumed they had billions of years for the first stars to form and assemble into galaxies. Now, Specktor writes, the light-gathering capabilities of JWST are poised to give cosmologists more to worry about: “the space telescope will soon reveal even older objects in the distant universe, perhaps dating as far back as the first 200 million years of cosmic history.”

Just a quick reminder: creation astronomy does not have this problem. 

In Genesis, early maturity is baked in. God created a mature, functioning universe, with the light from the distant reaches of space visible from Earth on the 4th day of creation." 

CEH