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Posted on 01/21/2015 8:18:29 AM PST by fishtank
The Hubble 'Pillars of Creation' Revisited
by Jake Hebert, Ph.D. *
In 1995 the Hubble Telescope photographed spectacular columns of gas, illuminated by nearby stars, in a section of the Eagle Nebula.1 The enormous columns of gas in this famous photo have been nicknamed "pillars of creation" since secular scientists insist that new stars are being "born" within them.
In celebration of the Hubble Telescope's 25th anniversary, a new photograph was taken of the same region in the Eagle Nebula, but this time the image was captured in both visible and infrared light, in order to reveal more detail.2 As before, secular astronomers are claiming that this area is a "stellar nursery" in which new stars are being born. However, although stars have been observed explosively shedding large amounts of material in nova and supernovae events, the birth of a star has never been observed—not even once.
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It’s pictures like this that confirm and deepen my belief in the Creator - God does some amazing work out there.
Facepalm.
Facepalm indeed.
This is true from the standpoint that no man or society that cares has lived long enough to witness an individual star going through the birth process. However astronomy can readily show you a star at any particular point in what is scientifically theorized to be a star creation.
It boils down to a question of what we can count on science to tell us. That blade cuts multiple ways however. “Creation Science” is an oxymoron because we are speaking of something that took place in a metaphysical environment that is not the same as our own. It could obey or disobey our scientific rules.
I watched a youtube video of a pastor (Louie Giglio) using the stars to support God’s creation and greatness. Long video but great for any new believers or golfers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtpTk2ENq7o
I believe
6000 years is but a small piece of infinity.
Thanks - I will watch it. John Ankenberg has done some great shows with astro-physicists who became Christians as a direct result of what they can now see going on out there in the great Beyond. Wonderful!
It really is simple ... God created the stars on day 4 ... and the text says He created them to be used to mark days and seasons (my paraphrase) ...
If we couldn't see the light from those stars (because as you say, they are too far away) ... how could we use them to mark the seasons?
The obvious answer is that He also made the stream of photons from there to here so we could see the star.
My question remains unanswered.
Not just some dogmatic BS.
I expected as much ...
So did I ....
A more interesting possibility is that God created the universe from material nearby the solar system, via a “white hole” phenomena. A “white hole” is predicted by Einstein’s General Relativity equations. It would have been a one-time event and would have relativistic effects in that it would move far, far faster than light. As the event horizon of this white hole passed us, we would continue to be able to see it even though billions of years would’ve elapsed in space. Yet only 6000 years would’ve elapsed here on earth.
Interestingly, the Bible at least implies just such an event has occurred:
Psa 104:2 Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
Isa 40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Both passages speak of God stretching out the heavens like a curtain. That’s how such relativistic effects would’ve appeared from the earth. The stars would’ve moved with incredible speeds, like the stretching forth of a curtain.
Anyway that’s how light from billions of light years away could’ve reached us, when only 6000 years have elapsed on earth.
Then we are both satisfied ... can’t ask for more than that.
And that’s a beautiful ‘orange tabby’ ...
Come on now, these are the same people that have the Grand Canyon being formed in five minutes, have a great flood burying all the fossils within one year, have vegetarian tyrannosaurs in the garden of Eden and granite forming in hours. What I’m saying is that if you read too much of this, you’re likely to get brain injuries from the face palms alone.
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