without political agendas getting in the way. All too often in some areas of science, e.g. climate studies, anyone questioning the orthodoxy has his political motives questioned. Those who do that sort of thing (e.g. Bowser in this post) are little different from the high priests who wanted to burn Galileo for saying the Earth wasn't the center of the universe.

Until now, the best scientific consensus is that the universe is about 14 billion years old. However, these new observations are undermining that estimate. This is how science is done. The same applies to that skull discussed on the Current Events page - it undermines some of the previously held views about human evolution. When science is done properly, all it sometimes takes is a single unrefutable data point to destroy one or more theories.