The Truth About The Creation
God's Glory, God's Handiwork, God's
Word, The Genesis Account
A Dissertation by Pastor Ed Rice January 2017
1: The Creation
Account
In the
beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
No grander
introduction has ere been written, no more compelling first line, no
more resounding compilation: “In the beginning God
created the
heaven and the earth.” This is communicated in
seven Hebrew
words, #rah
taw ~ymVh ta ~yhla
arB tyvarB (in Hebrew read from
right to left).
Introduced here are three continuums,
and a Creator. The finite time continuum, holding our reference, had
a beginning, and it had an initiator, his title is "God."
His action verb is "create".
The space continuum, called “the heaven,” contains
the universe.
The matter continuum, called “the earth”, forms all
mass, all
that occupies space, and all that can be perceived by senses. In this
revelation, time, space, and matter are made finite, and introduced
as contained continuums. In this revelation God remains infinite,
existing within and outside of the three tenses of the time
continuum, existing within and outside of the three-dimensional space
continuum, and existing within and outside of the material of the
matter continuum. The rational mind is compelled to believe such an
all inclusive revelation. The revelation states a rational truth, and
every evidence available for observation compels the truth of the
Bible's opening line. Every impulse of human thought requires its
consideration. Each rational mind pursues the questions,
“Where did
I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going?” This is but
the
opening line of the revelation that answers these questions. Yet, it
is curious that man rebels against such a resolute clarifying
introduction.
When one considers
this revelation of God, it is not purely, just, and only believable
by deductive reasoning, but there is an inner compulsion framed into
the human's very being, a compulsion to believe what they are told.
This first sentence from God presumes a believing audience. It is
communicated in words that are straight forward, understandable and
comprehensible. That communication style draws the rational mind to
simply trust each word, and such a communication style is a model for
all authors. A trustworthy style is presumed in God's first sentence.
It is not figurative. It is not allegorical; despite the teachings
from the Roman Empire in its hostile takeover of Christianity. When
using the Roman Catholic, and later Protestant, definition of
“allegorical,” NONE of the Bible is
“allegorical.”
The Bible is actually a straightforward and trustworthy revelation,
discernible by the common man, which they call laity. “Every
word
of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in
him”
(Prov 30:5). Even the first sentence pleads for the rational mind,
the reader, the audience, to put their trust in this author:
“In
the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” This
first
utterance of the revelation of God does indeed include the beginning
of a time continuum, the beginning of a space continuum, and the
beginning of a matter continuum. Implied with such beginnings is that
each continuum has a middle and an upcoming ending. The components of
the time continuum are a sequential past, present and future. There
is thus an expectation for both the continuance and deportment of the
three created continuums. The Creator, however, in order to create
these three, must be outside of each. A Creator outside of this
beginning, and outside of a presumed ending, is more fitting than a
hypothesis of an uncaused, but of course, naturally occurring, big
bang. An omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient Creator is thus implied.
Thereby God is the uncaused cause. This is implied in the first line,
and it is more fully “flushed out” with great
detail in the rest
of God's revelation.
After such an
intriguing all encompassing opening sentence the introduction must
proceed without pause. “And the earth was without form, and
void...” (Gen. 1:2a). As the earth is the matter continuum in
the
first sentence, so it must be in the second. Referencing earth with
no planet would be like speaking of light with no sun. So it is, and
so God does. Be careful of two things here, first there is not planet
Earth spoken of at this point. Second, one must be wary of those who
would wedge a gap and another whole universe in between God's first
two sentences of revelation. In using words in revelation to man God
expeditiously says what he means, and means what he says.
The matter
continuum, which is without form and void, is still not a planet. It
is still only the matter continuum, which today is understood by
man's finite mind to be based on a simple hydrogen atom. The hydrogen
atom is made of a proton, a neutron and an electron. It is now
theorized that these tiny particles are made of tinier particles, and
those are made of nothing at all; they are only strings of energy
wrapped up in energy. That “string-theory” will be
explored
later, for now the matter continuum in God's description is engulfed
in darkness, that is, “darkness was upon the face of the
deep...”
(Gen 1:2b). As yet, in this exacting creation description, there is
no planet, there is no sun, there is no universe. A "black-hole"
is perceived today as a deep darkness, and doubtless has some
similarities to God's description here.
The black-hole and the theories of relativity that brought it to
“light”, so to speak, are given extensive coverage
later in this
work. For now just consider the description that God gives and
similarity it might have to “black-hole.”
Taking God's Holy
Word exactly as given, and interpreting it with a
grammatical-historical-literal methodology, produces clear evidence
that God says what he means, and means what he says. This was true
before liberal thinking unbelieving scholars convinced the modernists
to deny the literal “day” in God's six-day creation
account. It
was presumed true before the Roman Catholic Church embraced the
allegorical method of interpreting Scripture. With that gross
compromise the Roman Pope has now accepted the evolutionary
“theory”
and even the “theory” of the big bang. Such are
only hypotheses
of science-so-called, they are not bona fide theories in true
science. Believing what God recorded as accurate, was the true and
pure method of Biblical interpretation, and such allegorical
hermeneutics is foreign and contrived. Protestants did not protest
this Roman allegorical method, and thereby they accepted a hybrid
tom-foolery called “theistic evolution.” Even the
fundamentalist
C. I. Scofield rationalized a huge gap between the first and second
sentences of God's creation account. He too, was attempting to
appease the unbeliever using “science-so-called.”
One cannot hold
to the inerrancy and infallibility of Scripture and insert your own
wild hypothesis as fact. In Genesis God is clear, and through the
psalmist he states, “It is time for thee, LORD, to work for
they
have made void thy law. Therefore I love thy commandments above gold;
yea, above fine gold. Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning
all things to be right; and I hate every false way” (Psalms
119:126-128).
An exacting look at
the words of God, aligns perfectly with present day observable
phenomena. The facts perceptible with microscope and telescope,
particle
theory and relativity theory, the minutest atomic structures and the
almost incomprehensible super novas of deep space, depict that,
“The
heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his
handiwork.” On the cutting edge of man's technology, God's
exacting
truths are more compelling than has heretofore been documented. This
dissertation may be a first advance into such documentation.
God's Word to the
prophet Daniel says that in the latter days knowledge shall increase.
It has. Presently one can sit in most any living room in America and
view detailed photographs of the moons which circle the planet of
Saturn, or read what Saint Augustine of Hippo said to the Donatist
Bible believers in AD
390 (just before having them killed). One can, in the next minute,
preview the string theory lectures of Professor Brian Greene, a
theoretical physicist of Columbia University, all available within
thirty seconds of the point-and-click. Jesus said to whom much is
given, much is required (Luke 12:48). That living room, even without
access to the internet, has first and foremost access to the
inerrant, infallible, verbally inspired Word of God.
As a systems
engineer with a twenty year background of attending conference rooms
stuffed with PhDs of every ilk, this author has systematically
reconciled the world's increase in knowledge and the exactness of
God's Word. This dissertation documents some of that profound
harmony.
A
careful reading of God's account combined with a meaningful knowledge
of physics, can produce a greater scrutiny of what God has revealed.
A believing scrutiny has not previously been matched with a diverse
scientific, mathematical, and physics background in a seasoned
systems engineer who has lived on the leading edge of scientific
discovery. Herein such a combination will spotlight what many
theologians have failed to capture, and what
“science-so-called”
has failed to consider. The combination of science, theology, and a
belief of Bible inerrancy, cries out for capture in a dissertation.
This work makes that noble attempt.
In
that God has carefully detailed the events that initiated our
universe, it behooves the rational mind of man to carefully consider
the exactness of his revelation. The overriding theme introduced in
Genesis is man’s fall from innocence, his lost union with
God, and
God’s resolve to restore him. Some refuse to see that theme,
or and
thus reject the detail that surrounds it. Some
“religionists”,
who may call themselves Christian, try to reasonably accept that
theme while refusing to believe the detail that depicts it. This
study, however, wholly accepts that theme, and then delves head long
into the minutia of detail. God's word affirms that his very words
are inspired (2Tim 3:16, 2Peter 1:19-21), his words are inerrant
(Matt 5:18), containing no error, and his words are infallible and
preserved for every generation, they will not fail nor disappear
from the earth (Psalm 12:6, Isa 40:8, 1Pet 1:24-25).
In faith, believing what the Bible says about the Words of God, one
can expect that God means what he says and says what he means, and he
does so in an inerrant and infallible record. Approaching Genesis,
the revelation of God, using Scripture with such fidelity of faith is
ground breaking.
The
terms inerrant and infallible need a caveat. Inerrant means that
God's word read in the historical, literal, grammatical sense, will
not lead one into error. It does not mean what last century Bible
critics, particularly textual critics, forced into its definition.
They implied that variant spellings, or variant wordings implicated
an error in the Holy Bible. Those critics used great craft to imply
that the Bible that we have is riddled with error and unable to be
understood as written. They sold the masses on the idea that they,
the Bible critics, can restore what God meant to say by going back to
“the most ancient manuscripts” from Alexandria
Egypt, and
providing a modernized, ecumenically approved, very copyrighted,
completely revised translation of the Holy Bible. Their marketing was
even effective on many Baptists. Baptist were never ecumenical, and
were previously known as “people of the Book.” The
Holy Bible is
inerrant in that it will not lead one into error, the same cannot be
said of the modernists translations.
The
Bible is also infallible, meaning that it will not fail. These two
concepts of Bible accuracy are defended eloquently by Gaussen in his
AD 1840 book "Theopneustia – The plenary Inspiration
of The
Holy Scriptures deduced from Internal Evidence, and the Testimonies
of Nature, History and Science."
It contends that the Holy Bible is always accurate whether it
addresses God, nature, history, or science. That is the position
taken whenever this dissertation refers to the Holy Bible or the Holy
Bible's inerrant, infallible, plenary, verbal inspiration. It
represents a reliable understanding of 2Tim 3:16-17, "All
scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in
righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly
furnished unto all good works."
Beginning such a
ground breaking venture in the very place where God begins his
revelation, cries out that the very latest of man's understanding
come to bear on what God has revealed. Where man’s
understanding
falls short, and it forever will, being finite, one should surrender
to God’s exactness, and not modify, add to, or take away from
it
(cf Rev 22:18-19). Pressing the leading edge of man’s
understanding
about matter, space and time in God’s introduction, pushes
one to
explore both atomic theory and the findings of the Hubble Telescope,
and this we shall do. After our due consideration of some of modern
sciences leading-edges, the Genesis account of the six-day creation
will be revisited with more pressing detail.
After losing a law
suit over its advertising practices, Listerine Inc. was ordered to
add disclaimers to all of their advertisements. They devised this
ditty, “Listerine, it says what it does and it does what it
says.”
A similar slogan needs to be affirmed for God's Holy Word. This
dissertation makes that affirmation and it can empower any Bible
believing Christian to do the same. God says what he means, and
means what he says. That can increase one's faith. It can also
intensify the examination of God's six day creation account.
Creation
Out of Nothing
“And
the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face
of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the
waters”
(Gen 1:2). Three sentences in one are interconnected in thought. As
it is expressed in Hebrew, so it is carefully captured in English,
where “earth” might mean a handful of dirt, it
might mean a
mountain of it, or it might reference a planet with that title.
Exclude a reference to the whole planet because this is only on the
brink of the creation account for the whole universe. The earth
without form and void is likely a reference going right down to the
atomic structure of matter itself.
It
is energy alone which holds a mass together with any form.
Lacking this energy, mass would indeed be without form and void. They
say all the mass in the universe might occupy a space smaller than
the dot at the end of this sentence. Such a statement is made here
because science-so-called makes it regularly in attempts to justify a
“big-bang.” Its absurdity will be brought to light
as we can
understand that matter is not compressed, per se, it is unraveled
into the nothingness from which it came.
Hydrogen
is the simplest and the basest of all atoms. A hydrogen atom consists
of a single proton in
a nucleus, and a single electron in a high speed orbit around the
two. It has energy and structure enough to have form and not be
called void. Genesis 1:2 references an unorganized
matter
continuum, perhaps nothing more than hydrogen and oxygen, but perhaps
even formless, as protons, neutrons, and electrons and perhaps
again, even more formless as only the theorized sixteen particles
which seem to form them. Water is made up of two hydrogen atoms
bonded with one oxygen atom. God does imply in his account that water
is a basic building block.
Understand
here that matter in its continuum cannot fully come together into any
atomic structure without the addition of great amounts of energy.
Such a great amount of energy is summoned with an upcoming command,
"Let there be light." But before that God impresses a
difference between,“Darkness was upon the face of the
deep,” and, “the Spirit of God moved upon the face
of the waters.” One seems
to have matter without form and void, the other has matter structured
into molecules of water as H2O. Considering how
God
went from matter without form and void, to water molecules with great
form and structure.
Ex-nihilo
is a Latin phrase
which means "out of nothing." The first sentence of God's
revelation to man has the word in Hebrew, bra
(bara) - create shape
or form. It has this constraint, that before "The beginning,"
there was nothing. God created, he did not reform, develop, refine or
evolve his creation; he created from nothing. After the beginning
there was time, space, and matter continuums, and before the
beginning there were not. Even so, God's act of creation was not
complete in this statement. In a transitional step that he reveals,
the matter continuum was darkness and without form.
Man's growing realization that matter is indeed nothing, nothing held
together by strings of energy, and that the strings are somehow
one-dimensional objects, objects which might easily be spoken into
existence by an infinite source of energy, well, such a realization
should be said out loud a few times. It is presently closed up in a
physicist's journal on the backside of an atheist's library. They
might never take such realization, that matter is made of nothing at
all, and correlate it to God's creation account. They might not
corroborate that that is exactly what God told Moses to write in Holy
Scripture in 1492 BC. There on the backside of a mountain, called
Mount Sinai, God wrote the first three sentences of revelation, "In
the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was
without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters" (Gen
1:1-2). A mere Christian might marvel, and a true believer will most
certainly marvel, but few of them get to the backside of that
physicist's library. God created the world out of nothing, and just
now Bible believers are understanding that he meant what he said and
said what he meant. Our universe appears to be made out of nothing
held together and consisting only because of some well organized
strung together bands of energy. That has always been believed by
faith, but now with a physicist’s own library, faith is
becoming
sight; or at least becoming insight. “Now faith is the
substance of
things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the
elders obtained a good report. Through faith we understand that the
worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen
were not made of things which do appear” (Heb 11:1-3).
It is very conceivable that matter is made of nothing. Close
examination of the microscopic reveals scientific theories which
support the exactness of that statement. Close examination of the
macroscopic should reveal the same. The microscopic involves delving
into some atomic theory. The macroscopic involves reaching out into
space with gargantuan telescopes.
Atomic
Theory and “Ex-Nihilo” Creation
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word
of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which
do appear (Heb 11:3).
If
one considers that God created matter out of nothing, it should
follow that it can be reduced back to nothing. It should also follow
that an extremely close examination of matter should reveal the
'nothing'. And so it does.
Matter
is the interconnection of the most minute imaginable particles called
atoms. In 1915 Neil Bohr demonstrated that the atom is actually made
up of even tinier particles interconnected by energy bands. In the
mid 1990s it was surmised that these tinier particles were not
particles at all, but bundles of energy wrapped in on themselves. In
particle physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which
protons, neutrons, and even electrons, are made of other point-like
particles, and all point-like particles, even the six flavors of
quarks or their anti-quarks, are, in today's developing theory,
considered objects called strings.
Armed with this theory, which melds nuclear physics, quantum physics
and the general theory of relativity, it can be conceived that mass
is nothing but bundled energy.
Thus
after 6,000 years of pondering matter’s consistency, man
theorizes
that it is made out of nothing at all. There is no solid particle
inside the solid masses around us, it is nothing more than bundles of
intertwined energy, intertwined like strings which interact as if
they have mass and as if they know gravity. God loaned some of his
energy to form mass and all this universe out of nothing at all. That
is just what God revealed from the beginning and Christ
clarifies this in Hebrews 11:3. “Through faith we understand
that
the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are
seen were not made of things which do appear.” This
stupendous
observation cries out for additional analysis. Consider further what
was learned about matter being made up of atoms.
Only
100 years ago it was supposed that all matter is made up of tiny
particles, like BBs. Knowing that these BBs had both a positive and a
negative presence it was supposed that negative charges were
suspended inside of a pudding like substance. This "Plum Pudding
Model" began to fall apart in 1909 when Ernest Rutherford
directed "alpha" particles through an extremely thin gold
foil. The pattern observed opened the door to suppose that an atom
might follow a planetary model with a nucleus of protons stuck
together with neutrons and electrons in an orbit, sort of like
planets orbiting the Sun.
In
1915 Niels H. Bohr
refined this model to show that the electrons are not like orbiting
planets at all. Understand that the gravitational forces holding
planets to the Sun, are only roughly akin to the electrical forces
pulling the electron to the proton. The Bohr model showed that each
electron has an orbit based on an energy level. His analysis of the
hydrogen atom showed that electrons either absorbed or else emitted a
specific quantum of energy when they moved from one orbit to another.
Although
Bohr's input showed that the orbiting electron did not behave like a
planet in a miniature solar system, it did allow that the vast
majority of an atom was actually open space, just as the vast
majority of our solar system is open space. The only missing
ingredient for mass to be made up of nothing is found in
comprehending that the proton, neutron, and electron are not really
singular particles of mass at all, but are packages of even smaller
particles. God readily changes protons to neutrons by inserting an
electron, they thus transmute
into neutrons. He changes neutrons to protons by
extracting an
electron. We observe this miracle in radioactive substances. In 2012
physicists got all excited because they broke a proton into pieces to
see what God had put inside. That is not exactly how they worded it
of course.
The
Higgs boson was given the misnomer “The God
particle.” It was
expected that colliding a proton into a proton would give man insight
to a particle (boson)
which revealed the theoretical Higgs field to be responsible for all
mass. Mass holds the universe together, and man was about to explore
its enclosed mysteries. There was a great physicist's fanfare at its
July 4th 2012 revelation, but when the dust
settled and
the congratulatory champagne stopped, it was not a “God
particle”
at all. It was just standard.
At the heart of particle physics is what’s known as the
Standard
Model: a group of 17 elementary particles and the rules for how they
should interact. Up until the Higgs discovery, physicists had
observed 16 of these particles—and the field was desperate
for a
17th that would push the model in new directions. But the Higgs
turned out to be totally ordinary. It acted just like the model said
it would act, obeyed every theorized rule.
The
fact that man built the $7-billion Large Hadron Collider in Europe
and observed as a proton was smashed into its parts is a perfectly
awesome piece of true science. The fact that physicists have
completely upgraded the capability since 2012 and have a new agenda
after the lackluster discovery of the Higgs boson, is equally
remarkable.
This summer (2015), the LHC’s long-awaited restart came with
a new
promise: the chance to spot larger particles never before created in
a human-made particle accelerator. Physicists believe they might
glimpse the particles that make up dark matter—the unknown
substance thought to make up a quarter of the universe—or
even
hints of other dimensions.
The
sad part of all this is that few Bible believers are staying abreast
of this leading edge of science, while every bit of it reveals over
and over again that God says what he means and means what he says.
The atheistic evolutionist's agenda and the explanations of their
discoveries are saturated with the their Godless fingerprint. But
buried in every avenue of their research God's truths are readily
available. God created these particles out of nothing.
The
seventeen particles of the physicists Standard Model, particles found
inside of protons and neutrons, are now theorized to be tightly bound
bands of pure energy. This theoretical framework, in which point-like
particles are replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings, is
called string theory.
This theory, developed in the late 1960s, takes this analysis to its
conclusion. It is thus also worth some attention from the Bible
believer who can grapple with its theoretical base. It is being
pursued here that “matter” is indeed made out of
nothing and that
a detailed examination might shed more light on the
“nothing.”
Quantum
physics was altered forever when Albert Einstein demonstrated his
general theory of relativity. Dismantling an atom produces great
quantities of energy, as attested in the atomic bomb. It is now
conceivable that dismantling a string particle would produce great
quantities of gravity. Consider again, dismantling matter, i.e.
unzipping the strings in string theory, might produce an
inconceivable amount of gravity. When the Hubble telescope revealed
the black-holes in outer space, Albert Einstein's theories came to
play in understanding a whole new phenomena. Theories of man are
just now moving to substantiate just what God said, matter is made
out of nothing. Matter, in current theory, is just bundles of energy
which might be tied together with a single verse from an Infinite,
Omnipotent Being. Thus the result has been called the Uni-Verse, and
the Infinite Being revealed himself as the LORD God. These are
profound implications which align perfectly with God's revealed word,
the Holy Bible, and not so much with science-so-called and their big
bang hypothesis. Black-holes and Einstein's theories of relativity
are so essential to fully exploring God's account of his creation
that they are explored more fully in separate chapters of this work.
The
Hubble Telescope and “Ex-Nihilo” Creation
“The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament
(space)
sheweth his handiwork” (Psalm 19). In his creation account
God
declares that darkness was on the face of the deep. Such a presence
of darkness might imply only an absence of light, it might imply an
absence of the energy that organizes the orbiting electron in an
atom, and/or it might imply a darkness so deep that light is
gravitated back into its depth. The latter of these was inconceivable
until, in April of 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope launched and
peered out through space with a clarity never before imagined. In
view for the first time was the black-hole, a spot in our universe
where a solar system, or perhaps a whole galaxy, is collapsing into
itself. Ample consideration that you cannot “see” a
black-hole is
given in a subsequent chapter of this work; for this present
discussion please excuse the generalization.
Suddenly man’s knowledge was grappling with the concept that
matter
in our universe can collapse into nothingness, nothing but some
residual energy. Even like it might expand from nothingness into an
existing and expanding galaxy, when God added his residual energies
with a command like “Let there be light.” In a
black-hole the
collapsing matter releases so much gravity that even light gets
"sucked" in to its emptiness. This understanding confounded
the big bang enthusiast’s and their hypothesis that this
universe
evolved into being by random chance after a big bang. Suddenly,
scattered into their hypothesized singular big bang there were a
myriad of little bangs with things coming and going in every galaxy.
This disappearance of mass into nothingness, this black-hole idea,
completely fits into the revelation that God spoke the universe into
existence, created from nothing whatsoever. Physicist and Professor
Stephen Hawking, and atheistic evolutionists everywhere, are stuck
on an idea that structure and form of mass, i.e. the mass continuum,
must somehow continue inside of a black-hole. They theorize that it
must compress into some sort of supermass. Such compressed mass, they
suppose, produces super gravity. The creationist is free to supposes
that mass disappears into nothing inside that black hole, and that
the dissolution of the mass continuum produces nothing, nothing but
energy from whence it came. There is a significant difference.
Hawking and company insist that the compressed mass must maintain
some information, i.e. 'its intelligence,' else it could not reform
itself and be the source of evolved life. Creationists hold that such
“intelligence” is in God not in matter.
Matter, being no more than energy folded in on itself, is pulled into
a black-hole where it unfolds itself and disappears. In its
disappearance it releases more gravitational pull, which adds to its
blackness. The concept that matter is unraveled into nothing is
quite conceivable, and now, with evidence for a phenomena seen
through a Hubble Space Telescope, it is more than a conceivable
concept, it is an observation. Again note the distinction; the
atheistic evolutionists insists that matter is just compressed and
maintains some sort of 'knowledge' of its previous form; Bible
believers can let mass go back into nothingness from which it came.
The black-hole in outer space advances an excellent theory. Matter is
made of nothing. It appears when an outside source organizes it into
bundles of energy. It expands and expels energy when that outside
source sends a command like, “Let there be light.”
Overall this
“creation-from-nothing,” formed by the spoken word,
might be
called a Uni-(out of one), Verse-(spoken phrase), making up a
compound word, universe. It has been surmised that
the
universe has an expanding consistency. But it is not without spots
which collapse into nothingness. Thus the universe consists of both
matter expanding and releasing its energies and matter contracting
and releasing its gravitational energies. It is controlled and kept
in balance and by him, this Creator, this Outside Source, the Maker
and Master of the universe, the Self-Existent one, and his Only
Begotten Son; for by him all things consist (Col 1:17). Such a
hypothesis turned into theory by more powerful telescopes, confounds
the big bang hypothesis put forth by science-so-called, but it is in
perfect accord to those who would trust in every word of God on the
subject. Skeptics of God's word, are not limited to the
science-so-called community. One can learn some things about them in
the archeologists world.
Archeology “proved” by the absence of archeological
evidence,
that there was no Belshazzar the king of the Medo-Persian Empire. A
king who is so eloquently described by God’s prophet Daniel
in
Daniel 5. Years later, the archaeologist’s shovel uncovered a
Babylonian record that spoke of King Belshazzar's existence. Without
apology, and without a word, these unbelieving skeptics buried their
old journals and advanced other revised standard skepticism. If one
waits for it, God's decree, "Yea, let God be true, but every man
a liar; as it is written" (Rom 3:4), will carry the day.
The authors of a big bang hypothesis will do no less with their
skepticism of the Bible. When they dig deep to understand a new
phenomena and find it disproves their hypothesis about spontaneous
generation of life, or about a random chance universe, when they
launch a larger telescope, or deeper space probe, they are not on a
quest for truth, they are on a quest to support their ill fated
hypothesis, and nothing more. Believers have been slow to pick up
their discarded puzzle pieces, but when they are sized up against
what God revealed in His Holy Word, the perfect fit motivates this
author to hold his Bible a little closer and look around for more of
their discarded pieces.
In a black-hole particles which are thought to make up matter,
go through an unfolding where they disappear into nothing. In some
instances, the unfolding of nuclear matter releases tremendous heat
and light. In another it releases such a gravitational field of
energy that heat and light are sucked into its emptiness. The balance
of it all is like the ying and yang of ancient Asian philosophy, or
like the up and down of a child's yo-yo. Matter coming and going
confounds the evolutionary atheist, but it comforts the Bible
believer.
Albert Einstein approached the edge of this understanding when he
theorized that matter is energy and energy is matter and some
relationship to the speed of light tied them together. That speed of
light relationship somehow warps the time continuum as well, and thus
the tick of the clock is in this relationship as well.
Science-so-called mocked Einstein's hypothesis. They had a law
stating that energy and mass must remain constant. Mocking stopped
when the atomic bomb launched the nuclear age. Suddenly E = m c2
is called law.
Albert Einstein went beyond the edges of understanding in other
areas. Each edge he broached challenged science-so-called and
substantiated God's Word as the more accurate source. The very
existence of a black-hole tends to shake the atheistic student of the
cosmos, while it settles the Bible believing student of the universe.
I propose that three pillars of the atheistic student's understanding
are justifiably challenged
in the analysis of the phenomena called the black-hole.
The scientist-so-called, who hypothesizes that the universe is
uniformly expanding, in order to hold onto their trembling hypothesis
that it exists because of a big bang, need to find a suitable
explanation for why some pieces of the expansion are actually
collapsing. They will contrive such an explanation without leaving
their atheistic position. They always have.
The scientist-so-called who hypothesizes that the universe will
collapse into a dot smaller than the punctuation at the end of this
sentence, are perplexed that the black-hole is a tiny precursor to
their universal squashing prediction. Universal Squashing
is
not large enough of a sarcastic phrase for this hypothesis,
especially considering that they also suppose that the universe is
unbounded and infinite! They hypothesize about an unbounded universe,
and that their peering into larger telescopes is like peering back
into time. All that is confounded by the observable phenomena wherein
black-holes are found in every galaxy.
The scientist who hypothesizes that a super nova which occurred
168,000 light years away occurred 168,000 years ago, have now got to
grapple with the truth that black-holes change the speed of light
that they always considered constant, i.e. gravity changes the tick
of the clock. Just because they are in lock step sync with our
Newtonian and Gaussian laws in our little linear Cartesian coordinate
systems, the speed of light and the tick of the clock are not so
constrained in every corner of our universe. Light, space and time
all warp, thus wonder, imagination, and investigation dare not escape
the gravitational draw of a black-hole.
The scientist, however, who is first and foremost a Bible believer,
is not to be shaken at all by the observations of black-holes in
God's universe. He knows from revelation that the universe is created
from nothing, and when some of it disappears back into nothing it is
almost poetic. He also knows from God's dissertation that neither
global warming, nor global squashing will bring this world to its
end. He always knew that a 6,000 year old universe cannot support a
168,000 year old supernova. While Bible rejecting scientists rush
around, again, trying to bolster their Godless conjecturing, the
Bible believers can whistle a hymn which states, "Only trust
him, only trust him, only trust him now." The three pillars
challenged when
the
black-hole crashed into their big bang theory was 1) the ongoing
expansion from the big bang, 2) the soon coming collapsing or the big
crunch, and 3) the lockstep measure of light and time. The latter of
these, the warping of the time continuum in the outer edges of the
universe, will be the undertaking of the next chapter, and a complete
examination of black-holes is found in Chapter 4.
Creation
Accounting Conclusions
The opening line of the Holy
Bible has seven Hebrew
words that mark the first day of the universe and it says,
“In the
beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” Here time
begins,
three-dimensional space begins, and matter begins. They are
necessarily created by a force outside of time, outside of 3-D space,
and outside of matter; the self-existent one is called God. The
modernist scholars know that eventually heaven becomes the heavens,
so they set out to correct his first seven words by making
“heaven”,
the three-dimensional space, be “heavens”, the
three layers of
the heavens, a commodity yet to be created. For the sake of a
copyright they ignore God's warnings about changing his words. Shame
on every copyright one of them. When atheistic evolutionists “proved”
rocks were a million years old, accommodating Bible students inserted
a million years of time after God's first seven words. These gaptist
then invented a whole civilization created and destroyed in the
imagined gap after God's seven word opening. They are fiction
writers! Roman allegorists then decided a day wasn't a day and
developed a profound allegorical teaching where “evening and
morning” really meant millions of years. Only a remnant,
holding to
the inerrancy of verbally inspired Scriptures, believe what God said
in his opening ten sentences. Written on a 5th
grade reading level, God said matter was at first without form and
void, and that 3D space had darkness on the face of the deep. He
ordered matter into atoms, i.e. molecules of H2O,
and he pierced the darkness with light. God says what he means and
means what he says. Here he describes what he considers a day's work
and ends it with nothing but water and light. Trust God's word,
don't trust gaptists or modern scholars.
To Continue in this series click the link below:
2:
The Age of the Earth. . .
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. . . A Time Warp Needs Due
Consideration..
. . 32
. . . A Time Warp Substantiates
The Age of
Planets . . .
37
. . . A Time Warp Is In
Evidence. . . 44
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