For too long, recent creationists have dismissed the existence of dark matter and dark energy as rescuing devices for the big bang model. A proper survey of the history of both dark matter and dark energy reveals that this assessment of dark matter and dark energy is false. There are three robust lines of evidence for dark matter, two of which were known long before the big bang model became widely accepted. If the big bang model were to fall out of favor, the reality of dark matter would remain. Thus, the existence of dark matter has nothing to do with the big bang model. Dark matter easily can be included within a recent creation model, so I discourage recent creationists from rejecting the dark matter hypothesis in an attempt to nullify the big bang model. The unexpected downturn in the Hubble relation at great distances is the evidence for dark energy, albeit interpreted in terms of the big bang model. What the downward inflection of the Hubble relation might mean in a biblical cosmology/cosmogony is unknown, for no such model yet exists. In developing such models, I encourage recent creationists to consider the evidence generally interpreted in terms of dark matter and dark energy.