Hugh Ross will be terribly disappointed.
“Hugh Ross will be terribly disappointed.”
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Liberty 1970 said, Hugh Ross will be terribly disappointed.
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No he wont be upset. Dr. Hugh Ross, a CalTech PhD in Astronomy, will say the kid’s basic astrophysics is wrong.
If I could be so bold as to speak for Dr. Ross, I hardly expect the newspaper to go through a peer review, but they should at least ask someone who knows something about it before the publish. The media is untrustworthy!
in a nutshell, his theory is based on his claim that stars like ours burn through nuclear fusion of hydrogen to helium, and when that burning is complete, the star dies. he also claims that all heavier elements are the result of fusion inside supernovas. both of those claims are wrong.
he then claims that there cannot be enough carbon in the universe to be consistent with observed carbon, and thus big bang wrong.
his error is that nuclear fusion burning in stars like ours continues past helium, even past carbon, all the way to iron. only elements heavier than iron require supernovas for synthesis.
and yes friends, YOU ARE MADE FROM SUPERNOVAS DUST!
the kid does unknowingly hit on one of the reasons i think there must be a creator God. It took about 10billion years to assemble the heavy elements necessary for life via stellar fusion. when that was done, life appeared virtually “instantly.”
miraculously that timing also matches the timing of our 4.5billion year old Earth forming as a hot mass, and the instant it cooled enough for life to appear, bam!, life did appear, 3.8 billion years ago.
then, life didn’t “evolve” for 3.3 billion years until the Cambrian explosion, 530million years ago, and again BAM! every phyla that exists today appeared in an ecological instant! There’s no explanation for those things other than a Creator God.
the bible says it best.
Psalm 19 (New International Version, ©2011)
1 The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
2 Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they reveal knowledge.
3 They have no speech, they use no words;
no sound is heard from them.
4 Yet their voice[b] goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.
And the Apostle Paul (a Jew who accepted Christ) in his letter to the Romans said:
Romans 1:20 (New International Version, ©2011)
20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.