Originally Posted by John Kierein

7. The existence of old stars in distant galaxies galaxies is ignored when the supporters of the big bang look for old stars ... These galaxies contain stars that are 10 to 15 billion years old which when added to the fact that we are seeing them as they were 10 to 12 billion years ago makes them well older than the supposed age of a big bang.

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Some boffin at NASA[/url]]The oldest globular clusters contain only stars less massive than 0.7 solar masses. These low mass stars are much dimmer than the Sun. This observation suggests that the oldest globular clusters are between 11 and 18 billion years old. The uncertainty in this estimate is due to the difficulty in determining the exact distance to a globular cluster (hence, an uncertainty in the brightness (and mass) of the stars in the cluster). Another source of uncertainty in this estimate lies in our ignorance of some of the finer details of stellar evolution. Presumably, the universe itself is at least as old as the oldest globular clusters that reside in it ... But our current estimate of age fits well with what we know from other kinds of measurements: the Universe is about 13.7 billion years old!