In the advent of Naturalism, scientists have put their faith in scientific method when the Church has failed in their assumption that the Earth is flat.
However, science is about to make a big turn as it gazes at the stars.
If Astrologers claim that we see the future in our stars, Astronomy says that we see our PAST from our stars. I leaned more on finding our past from them. This is due to our cosmic yardstick- LIGHT YEAR.
Sirius star, one of the brightest stars in our night sky is 8.6 lightyears away from us. It means that whenever you see this star at night, you are actually seeing its light some 8 years ago.
A light from the past.
Siruis Star, take by Hubble Telescope, where it's light is coming from some 8.6 years ago.
A galaxy, such as the Andromeda Galaxy, the nearest galaxy in our universe, is 2.54 Million light years away, is actually showing off its light that was shone some 2.54Million years ago. Talk about seeing the past!
Andromeda Galaxy, nearest galaxy can be seen by the naked eye.
It's light is from 2.4 Million years ago.
So, imagine seeing pictures of galaxies from 13 Billion Lightyears away from us. Ain’t it great to be a witness of what most scientists call the Big Bang and see how it all began? The good news is, we do have a picture of our universe from 13Bly away from us!
Last 1995, The Hubble Space Telescope was able to take a picture of the most important picture ever taken, the Hubble Deep Field. And in 2003, it was able to take a picture from 78 Billion light years away?? You would expect to see cosmologic plasma and swirls of it here and there that pictures the Big Bang that we have come to believed, right?
A galactic snapshot from NASA's Ultra Deep Field taken September, 2003. It was said that this is a shot of some distance of 78 Billion lightyears away. (Nothing from this picture look Big-Bangy to me)
What was amazing is that none of those pictures show any Big Bang events that scientists predicted. Galaxies in the pictures from NASA showed well-formed galaxies.
Physicists from Harvard have done some researches regarding the speed of light. They were able to slow it down to somewhat 38 mile per hour speed as if seeing a car in a heavy traffic. Other researches, showed that that the speed of light is slowing down for the last 300 years! Christian Physicist have calculated that if that is the case the speed of light during the time of creation was 70 zeroes faster than today. With that assumption, a lot of the problems in Big Bang theory can easily be solved, where other constants from nature such as Plank's constant and electron's rest mass adjusts accordingly affecting radioactive decay and radiation energy that will explain a lot of creation at a shortest time possible.
And it will point to a young cosmos of 8,000 years of age as most Christian Scientists claims, and the idea that everything came about as fast as a spoken word of a Higher Being is more plausible.
It’s exciting to see that Science is truly being the language that God used to explain His creation, explains even the true possibility of the existence of a Creator himself. There seems to be a restoration even in the field of science. The Science that left God out of the picture some hundreds of years ago, is the same Science that is putting Him back to His Glory-- The Powerful Intentional Loving Creator.
Keep on praying for the restoration of the world of academe to bring back God in the center of Knowledge to prepare the soil of the hearts of men in the coming of His Only Son, for the restoration of His creation and ultimately for His Glory.
To God be the Glory!
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References:
Crowie, William, Physicist Slow Speed of Light, Accessed last July 08, 2011 at http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/02.18/light.html
Grego, Peter (2006), Universe: Need to Know?, London: HarperCollins Publishers.
Griggs, Jolly F. Ph.D., Evolution 101: Evidence of a Young Earth, Accessed last July 08, 2011 at
http://www.creationism.org/griggs/Evol_L12.zip
Kiel, Rinus, The Cosmology of Barry Setterfield, Accessed last July 08, 2011 at http://www.setterfield.org/Kiel_Presentation.html
McMillan, Chaisson (2008) , Astronomy Today, 6th ed., Vol.1, CA:Pearson Addison-Wesley.
Missler, Chuck, Speed of Light Slowing Down, Accessed last July 08, 2011 at http://www.khouse.org/articles/1999/225/
NASA, Hubble Digs Deeply Towards Big Bang, Accessed last July 08, 2011 at http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsgalaxies/hubble_UDF.html
NASA, Looking Deep, http://hubblesite.org/gallery/movie_theater/lookdeep/ Accessed last July 12, 2011
NASA, Looking Deep, http://hubblesite.org/gallery/movie_theater/lookdeep/ Accessed last July 12, 2011
Setterfield, Barry, The Atomic Constants, Light and Time, Accessed last July 08, 2011 at http://www.setterfield.org/report/report.html
http://www.setterfield.org/000docs/data.htm
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more references on Varying Speed of Light:
Albrecht, Andreas. Cosmology with a time-varying speed of light, Accessed last November 3, 2011.
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/9904/9904185v1.pdf
Barrow, John D. and Joa˜ o Magueij, Can a Changing Alpha Explain the Supernovae Results?, Accessed last November 3, 2011.
http://iopscience.iop.org/1538-4357/532/2/L87/pdf/1538-4357_532_2_L87.pdf
Haikonen ,Terho (Max), Varying speed of light (VSL) and general relativity. Accessed last November 3, 2011. http://koti.welho.com/thaikon2/VSL%20and%20GR.pdf
(This blog is to pool people to intercede for the field of academe to be used as a platform to till the soil of the hearts of this generation, in preparation for the Second Coming of God’s Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Suit Up! We are at War!)
Written: July 08, 2011
http://www.setterfield.org/000docs/data.htm
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more references on Varying Speed of Light:
Albrecht, Andreas. Cosmology with a time-varying speed of light, Accessed last November 3, 2011.
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/9904/9904185v1.pdf
Barrow, John D. and Joa˜ o Magueij, Can a Changing Alpha Explain the Supernovae Results?, Accessed last November 3, 2011.
http://iopscience.iop.org/1538-4357/532/2/L87/pdf/1538-4357_532_2_L87.pdf
Haikonen ,Terho (Max), Varying speed of light (VSL) and general relativity. Accessed last November 3, 2011. http://koti.welho.com/thaikon2/VSL%20and%20GR.pdf
(This blog is to pool people to intercede for the field of academe to be used as a platform to till the soil of the hearts of this generation, in preparation for the Second Coming of God’s Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Suit Up! We are at War!)
Written: July 08, 2011
