How do we deal with the astronomical distances of millions of "light years" between the galaxies of the universe? Can anyone familiar with the discoveries of modern science take the Genesis account seriously? It may come as a pleasant surprise to discover that the more you know about modern science - the real physics, not the mythology and conjectures that masquerade as "science" - the more you can take the Biblical text seriously.
The Lord always rewards the diligent. A recent book includes articles by fifty top scientists - from many different fields of specialization - who declare why they believe in a literal six-day creation.
One of the many advantages that 20th century science has given us is that, thanks to Dr. Albert Einstein's brilliant discoveries, we now know that time is a physical property and is subject to mass, acceleration, and gravity. We have come to realize that we live in a four-dimensional continuum properly known as "space-time. Furthermore, the astronomical timetables now seem to be entirely overturned with the reluctant acknowledgments that the speed of light is not longer regarded as the constant that the high priests of physics had been previously convinced of.
Not only have recent scientific articles highlighted the discoveries that the speed of light has changed over the centuries something that Barry Setterfield has been declaring for decades the very nature of light has ripped open the entire world of quantum physics that has shattered our concepts of reality itself. The changes in the velocity of light not only impacts our understanding of the astronomical distances and properties, it affects the atomic behavior involved in the red shift of spectra, the reliability of radiological dating, etc.
It is the peculiar properties of photons themselves that continue to astonish the quantum physicists wrestling with the very nature of our physical existence.
It is now recognized that subatomic particles lack a property known as "locality. There is a simultaneity - a "non-locality" - among all photons that has been confirmed in the laboratory.
It now appears that our entire universe may actually be a gigantic hologram of some kind. Most of us assume that space is simply an empty vacuum with nothing "in it. We now know that this "firmament," raqia which the Scripture presents, possesses electromagnetic properties including dielectric permittivity, magnetic permeability, an intrinsic impedance, 10 and has an astonishing "zero-point" energy sufficient to keep all the electrons in the entire universe in their orbits.
According to the Scriptures, the heavens can be "torn," 13 "worn out" like a garment, 14 "shaken," 15 "burnt up," 16 "split apart" like a scroll, 17 rolled up" like a mantle 18 or a scroll. There must be some dimension in which space is "thin. Thus, this tells us that there must be additional dimensions beyond those of space itself.
It is now understood that we live in even more than four dimensions: ten dimensions is the current estimate which is precisely what Nachmonides concluded in his commentary on Genesis back in the 13th century! The more we understand from the current perspectives of modern physics, the more comfortable we are with the chronicle in Genesis One. Or are we to suppose that in some tiny pocket of civilization, nearly swamped by an ocean of human savagery, an unbroken chain of saintly men some who lived for centuries perpetuated the Messianic line of Shem and handed down the knowledge of the one true God for hundreds of thousands of years?
Theoretically, creationists are able to work with an old earth or a young earth. Though Scripture gives us no clear evidence as to the precise age of the earth, it suggests that man has appeared on the scene rather recently. The idea of an earth that is billion years old is nowhere taught in Scripture. Old Testament authority Oswald Allis wrote: We need to remember that limitless time is a poor substitute for that Omnipotence which can dispense with time. The reason the account of creation given here is so simple and so impressive is that it speaks in terms of the creative acts of an omnipotent God, and not in terms of limitless space and infinite time and endless process Oswald T.
How Old Is The Earth? What do we know for certain? Contrary to popular belief, there is no certain or unequivocal evidence that the earth is older than a few thousand years. Written records only take us back a few thousand years. What happened before this time is based on conjecture. Henry Morris writes: Prior to written history, of course, chronologists are forced to rely on various changing physical systems e. Such calculations must always be based on the various assumptions of uniformitarianism e.
The radiocarbon method, for example, is now known to be so unreliable that many archaeologists have abandoned it altogether Henry Morris with Gary Parker, What is Creation Science? Different Quality Of Time Some scientists believe that there was a different quality to time before the fall. Lambert Dolphin writes: I personally think time as we know it now began with the fall of man and that time had different qualities before the fall.
The fact that the creative activity of God took place in a time sequence from Day One through Day Seven indicates that time was "flowing" in its usual sense through the present towards the future.
Neither Satan nor Adam had fallen, there was yet no sin. Unable To Find Out The Bible hints that we may not be able to resolve this issue: He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also he has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from the beginning Ecclesiastes , emphasis added. This passage may indicate that the issue of the age of the earth may be beyond our finding out.
Summary The theory of evolution demands that the earth and universe be old while special creation can have either a young or old earth.
Though the Bible does not us give an exact age of the earth, there is no indication in Scripture that the earth is very old. The genealogies in Scripture do not allow an unlimited amount of time between Adam and Abraham. Scientific evidence has been brought forward that would indicate the earth may be young after all but there is no consensus among Christians.
Most scientists, Christian and non-Christian, believe the earth and universe are old. The age of the earth is not an issue that has been settled among believers. Scientist Paul Zimmerman writes: Thus the evolutionist needs a very old earth. His theory is utterly hopeless if the earth is young.
On the other hand the creationist can operate with a young earth or a very ancient one. The creationist does not need millions of years to make his theory workable. For the believer in creation the question is a different one: 1 What does the Bible say about the date of creation? These questions the creationist seeks to answer.
Actually neither the scientist nor the creationist can fix the date of the beginning. The Bible permits certain general conclusions, but it does not give the age of the earth. The scientist in turn can make certain interesting calculations, but his computations are often interlarded with slippery assumptions, and the results are beclouded by serious questions that rise in the research P. Zimmerman, ed; St. Louis: Concordia, , pp. It is also possible that time had a different quality before sin entered the universe.
This would make it impossible for us to pinpoint the time of creation. Concerning the age of the earth, Mark Twain wryly commented: In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. This is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian period just a million years ago next November, the lower Mississippi river was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing rod.
And, by the same token, any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now, the lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along with a single mayor and a mutual board of Alderman.
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns out of such a trifle investment of fact Samuel L. These are far from mainstream views, but they do underscore a concern held by the handful of Roswell ministers who organized the daylong "Alien Encounter" conference, which is being advertised on billboards around town.
The ministers say they worry that with all this talk of extraterrestrials, residents of Roswell and the thousands of visitors in town may look heavenward for the wrong source of inspiration. The coexistence of church and extraterrestrials is no small matter here, given the enthusiasm exhibited by supporters of both groups. Roswell, which sits on the western edge of the Bible Belt, boasts churches for only 46, residents. For the most part, the ministers say, the groups can happily coexist.
In fact, several ministers said they didn't rule out the possibility of alien life, that the Bible is not explicit on the matter, and that God is powerful enough to create anything he wants. On Thursday, ministers from several churches in Roswell gathered in front of the King's Way Christian Bookstore on Main Street to urge passers-by to remember that while aliens could exist, Jesus Chris is pre-eminent.
When we asked Chuck he told us, after having a good long laugh, that it was never something he wanted to do, and even if he did, he would have never had the time.
See Visual Timeline Although he did work on classified projects, all of the details of these projects are freely available for people to read about online.
Does Chuck believe in the 'Ancient Aliens' Also called Ancient Astronaut theory that there are extraterrestrial beings that exsist from other planets?
The simple answer is no. Chuck does not believe that beings from another planet exisit or have visited earth in spacecraft. The Return of the Nephilim? Mischievous Angels or Sethites? As The Days of Noah Were. For someone who was more than 80 years old, Chuck did very well.
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