God’s Mighty Expanse (ever wonder what the BIBLE says about COSMOLOGY?)

CMI ^ | 26 February 2009 | D. Russell Humphreys, Ph.D.

[GodGunsGuts]

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[MHGinTN]

Placemarker ... are we about to have a discussion on the where/when?

[MHGinTN]

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[GodGunsGuts]

Just thought people might be curious about the YEC interpretation of the Bible’s cosmological statements.

[boomop1]

My faith is the only thing that matters, we worry for naut as the God of all is always there to hear our plea, bless and praise the Lord God almighty let Bozo obama be a temporary flea, meaningless and ignorant of reality.

[MHGinTN]

I enjoyed reading it!

[GodGunsGuts]

I’m glad. I find this stuff absolutely fascinating!

[GodGunsGuts]

For some reason I thought you guys might be interested in this. All the best—GGG

[SubMareener]

If you are really interested in a scientific examination of God's Word, then take a look at Stan Tenen's body of work at the The Meru Foundation.

"We have discovered an extraordinary and unexpected geometric metaphor in the letter sequence of B’reshit (the Hebrew text of Genesis), a text which underlies and is held in common by the spiritual traditions of the ancient world. This metaphor models embryonic growth and self-organization. It applies to all whole systems, including those as seemingly diverse as meditational practices and the mathematics fundamental to physics and cosmology.

The metaphor also serves to explain the origin of and reason for traditional claims of sacred status for particular alphabets and texts, and it demonstrates a level of commonality among teachings in different traditions based on the self-aware nature of our consciousness and the self-propagating nature of life. We have found that the letters of the Hebrew (and, later, likely the Greek and Arabic) alphabet, because of the unique means of their generation, represent fundamental directions in a hyperdimensional space. This makes them ideal as elements of a natural algebra for theoretical physics. It also identifies the letters of the alphabet with the perspectives of conscious focus that are the inherent elements of our self-awareness and of our inner meditational and emotional reality.

We believe that such an alphabet, based on the geometric metaphor we have identified, can specify physical and psychological states simultaneously. Physicist Nick Herbert in his discussion at the end of his book, Quantum Reality, Beyond the New Physics, states: "One of the greatest scientific achievements imaginable would be the discovery of an explicit relationship between the waveform alphabets of quantum theory and certain human states of consciousness." Used with the author’s permission; ©1985 Anchor Press/Doubleday, p. 249." More..

[BobS]

I heard that between stars there is very fast moving gas. That makes sense because solar systems are orbiting with everything else with mass around the galaxy's gravitational center.

Now, what's going on between galaxies? I would think not much is left there anymore. Microwave background is all around and is what happened a long time ago.

I don't think we are going to find out what is in the space between galaxies or what it's doing, if anything, for a while.

[GodGunsGuts]

Sounds interesting. I’ll check it out. Thanks—GGG

[tflabo]

After reading the eternal Words of the Creator the IQ seems to spike a few points higher on the sensor scale.

[GodGunsGuts]

I know what you mean. There are all these passages in the Bible relating to creation, cosmology, etc, that I used to just gloss over. Now I stop and ponder with a true sense of wonder.

[MHGinTN]

I’m currently into a manuscript title ‘That’s In The Bible?’ I’ve chosen several passages of fascinating phenomena through which to build interest in reading the Bible for the astonishing things in it accessible to the lay reader, like the Daniel Chapter 5 surreal scene, or the floating iron axehead, and of course, the astonishing revelations in the resurrection.

[GodGunsGuts]

Sounds fascinating. Is there anywhere I can go to get a preview?

[BobS]

God basically said to explore our surroundings (with one big rule in Genesis).

So we do explore and measure the physical world. Even Einstein said God exists after spending the latter part of his life at Princeton U looking for the Unified Field Theory. Nobody can get there from here. Even with 11 dimensions wandering into sub-particle neighborhoods.

[count-your-change]

Humphreys? At least he good for a few laughs but no much else.

[GodGunsGuts]

Humphreys is one of my favorites. Have you seen his video, Starlight and Time?

PS I’m not ignoring your previous post. I just haven’t had the time to sit down and go through all your Bible verses.

All the best—GGG

[BlueDragon]

One of the questions I hear about that physicists have been asking themselves, and have a difficult time *proving* an answer for is; how fast does gravity travel?

The most usual answer is instantaneously, since time lags might have showed up by now?

Just think...if that is true, that gravity travels vast expanses within no discernible elapsed time...then what the heck is going on? Is the aether a fabric? Ok, your article claims it as one. That might not be a bad idea to hold to help orient one's thinking. It may also be made to fit with the idea of "dark matter", which supposedly comprises what --- something like 98% of the universe? --- unless many other calculations are very, very wrong?

I wonder every now and then what ever happened to Gravity Probe B? Every time I looked it up, it seemed like "not much", which made me suspect something went wrong with it, like they were not able to fully stabilize the orbit (or something?), which would jinx the measurements --- or --- I don't know, inconclusive returns maybe?. Perhaps someone will come along and tell us the proper answers, to that one...I'm a bit too tired at the moment to go search for it. Besides, my many other searches in the past few years yielded underwhelming results. I couldn't tell if the frame skewing, frame dragging question was answered --- though if memory serves, something of the geodetic effect supposedly was.

But they sure didn't make much noise about it. Just a little blip, then nothing. I would have expected a bit more crowing, since the project was only the oldest-longest in planning space shot ever to come to eventual launch.