If you haven’t taken a science course since high school or college decades ago, here’s some news: We know a lot less now about the basic makeup of the universe than we thought we did then.

Several decades ago scientists knew the universe was expanding. They believed the expansion had to slow down. No astronomer had observed such slowing but it had to happen because the universe is full of matter, matter has gravity, and gravity pulls things together.

In 1998, though, the Hubble Space Telescope let us look at very distant stars. It became apparent that the universe was expanding faster and faster, not slower. Why? No one knew, but it seemed that something else we couldn’t see or measure had to be present. Theorists named the mystery stuff “dark matter,” possibly made up of some subatomic particles, and “dark energy,” maybe made up of something else for which we have no name.

To explain the behavior of what we perceive through telescopes and other instruments, scientists now guesstimate that “dark energy” makes up 68 percent of the universe and “dark matter” makes up 27 percent. That adds up to 95 percent, which means we can see or measure only 5 percent of reality, a humbling number indeed. Again, we know of the dark stuff only because of its effect on visible matter.

Let’s apply this to one of the hardest theological problems, theodicy, which literally means “justifying God.” Christian theodicy attempts to explain why an omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent God allows evil to exist and even -- as with Nazi and Communist butchers -- expand.

Theologians over the centuries have proposed many explanations. The most popular hinge on man’s free will: God could have made us like robots or Stepford wives, only able to obey orders -- but how then would we be in the image of God? He could have kept bad things from happening to us, but it’s often those things that make us realize how desperately we need His grace.

Many people understand that some suffering is educational, and tragedies affecting other families may warn us. I remember as a white-water rafter on the Nantahala River in North Carolina hearing that three people out of 14,000 going down the river had drowned, so if you fall out of your boat don’t try to walk and possibly get your foot snagged on a rock and fall facedown: Float downstream, feet first. A California newspaper editor ran a photo of a mourning family standing over the corpse of a child who entered a lake against parental instructions and drowned: Readers protested, but that alert may have saved other lives.

We might say what does not kill us makes us stronger, but what about all those who die suddenly without the opportunity to learn lessons? What about hurricanes, tsunamis, and earthquakes that kill both innocent and guilty? What about diseases that take the lives of children? What about the scale of disaster? Six million Jews gassed or shot in the Holocaust, along with 6 million others? Tens of millions in China, the Soviet Union, Cambodia, and elsewhere? Tens of thousands year after year in Syria, Yemen, and other venues of war. Why so many, Lord?

Dark energy and dark matter: Scientists can’t see or measure any of it, but they believe it exists because of its effect on what they can see and measure. The apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus in the fourth century, Bernard of Clairvaux in the 12th century, and John Milton in the 17th century also had a name for what they could not see or measure, except by its effect on the visible: They wrote about princeps tenebrarum, the Prince of Darkness.

We don’t tend to talk about Satan these days, except in weak, semi-joking excuses (“the devil made me do it”) or Rolling Stones songs: “Please allow me to introduce myself / I’m a man of wealth and taste / I’ve been around for a long, long year / Stole many a man’s soul and faith / . When the blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank.” Yet, as Jeffrey Burton Russell writes in Satan, “The depth and intensity [of evil] exceeds and transcends what could be expected in an individual human. No theodicy that does not take the Devil fully into consideration is likely to be persuasive.” Dark matter. Dark energy. Dark supernatural power.

The idea that mankind can control or “fix” the weather is a mockery of God. To think that we can control the wind is ludicrous. We can use the force of wind in sails and windmills. We can pipe it and change the temperature in confined areas but when the wind blows in a hurricane or tornado forget about control. Being humble in the presence of God is the correct position to take. Not giving Him respect is the opening the Devil needs. All of the great scientists like Newton were very aware that they were discovering the wonders of His creation and giving credit. The present day method is to elevate humans to a higher position than God and trying to prove that reality is just an accident.

Piffle.

Over 60 MILLION have been CHOICED to death;

just in the USA.

"Dark Matter" has been solver, but MSS (main stream science) has been slow to accept it.

Hydrogen and Hydrinos

Hydrogen comprises most of the visible mass of the Universe.
Dark matter, which far exceeds the amount of visible matter, is also hydrogen that exists in lower-energy, non-radiative forms termed Hydrino.
Hydrogen consists of a small, positively charged proton fully enclosed by a negatively charged spherically curved electron (orbitsphere).
The radius, charge density and angular momentum of the electron orbitsphere are all dynamic. These parameters will all change:
- to achieve stable force balance with the charge of the proton when the electron is first captured;
- when photons are absorbed or emitted; or
- when a resonant transfer of energy from Hydrogen results in the formation of a trapped photon in the orbitsphere that add positive integer values to the central field.
A free electron that is captured by a proton to form a hydrogen atom will emit continuum radiation as it settles into the first non-radiative state (the former "ground") where the mass, charge and angular momentum of the electron is force balanced with the charge of the proton and is stable - i.e. it cannot lose energy by spontaneous photon emission to get closer to the proton.
Hydrogen in the "ground" state is NOT in the lowest energy state as claimed by Quantum Mechanics - it retains a huge amount of potential energy due to the energy stored in the electric and magnetic fields of the proton and electron.
Hydrinos are hydrogen atoms having energy levels below the so-called "ground" state, which is merely the first stable radius at which further energy cannot be lost by the emission of photons.^[6]
The "ground" or first non-radiative state of hydrogen atom can resonantly transfer energy to ionise a catalyst that can accept an integer multiple of 27.2eV.^[6]
The loss of 27.2ev of energy via resonant transfer from hydrogen results in the formation of a trapped photon inside the orbitsphere with an intrinsic electric field that superimposes a +1 integer increase to the positive central field of the proton.
A bound electron experiencing a +1 increase to the central positive field will undergo an increase in radial acceleration, shrink, gain angular velocity and emit additional energy in the form of continuum radiation in order to restore force balance with the central charge, thereby becoming a hydrino.
There are 136 hydrino states that are all formed by the resonant loss of an integer number of 27.2eV packets of energy followed by an increase in the central field of the proton and the emission of continuum radiation as the radius decreases and the kinetic energy of the electron increases to effect stable force balance.
At the H(1/137) hydrino state, the electron orbitsphere current loops have velocity close to light speed and additional shrinkage is relativistically impossible. This is the true Ground State.
Once formed, a hydrino is super-stable and may neither accept nor emit photons, making it invisible to spectral analysis yet retaining gravitational mass. (Resonant and collisional mechanisms may still occur.)
A hydrino can gain or lose energy only via resonance reactions with matter, where the energy gained or lost is an integer multiple of 27.2eV.

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Over 60 MILLION have been CHOICED to death;

Job 42:1-6

1 Then Job replied to the Lord:

2 “I know that you can do all things;
    no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
3 You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’
    Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
    things too wonderful for me to know.

4 “You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak;
    I will question you,
    and you shall answer me.’
5 My ears had heard of you
    but now my eyes have seen you.
6 Therefore I despise myself
    and repent in dust and ashes.”

Hydrogen and Hydrinos

Over 60 MILLION have been CHOICED to death;

Job 42:1-6

1 Then Job replied to the Lord:

2 “I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted.3 You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.

4 “You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer me.’5 My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.6 Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”

Hydrogen and Hydrinos

2 “I know that you can do all things;
no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
3 You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’
Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me to know.

4 “You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.’
5 My ears had heard of you
but now my eyes have seen you.
6 Therefore I despise myself
and repent in dust and ashes.”