{"id":349,"date":"2014-03-21T14:39:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T14:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.creationdata.com\/?page_id=191"},"modified":"2014-03-21T14:39:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T14:39:10","slug":"astronomy-and-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/creationdata.com\/index.php\/astronomy-and-the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomy and the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><b>Astronomy and the Bible<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">featuring Mike Riddle<\/span>\u00a0(72 min.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">****************************************<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Topics<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Two models<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Evidence for age<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Origin of stars<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Scientific evidence and the big bang<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Bible and big bang cosmology<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Evolution\/Theistic Evolution<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Day Age Theory\u00a0<\/b>\u2013 God used the big bang to start things off, but the universe is billions of years old and the days of creation are long indefinite periods of time.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Gap Theory<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 Puts billions of years in between Genesis 1 and Genesis 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Progressive Creation Model<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 Big bang, long periods of time for days of creation.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\">\u25ba\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">All the above believe in the big bang, universe is 12-15 billion years old, and that stars formed by natural processes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Biblical Model<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">God spoke the universe into existence by his great power<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Young Universe<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">God created the stars and all heavenly bodies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>What are the\u00a0implications of accepting the big bang\u00a0as part of,<\/b>\u00a0<i><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">In the beginning God Created<\/span><\/i><b><i>?<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The big bang is associated with long ages and stellar formation by natural processes.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>From a Biblical Perspective it means:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">God&#8217;s creation was not 6 days<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The meaning of \u201cvery good\u201d in Genesis 1:31 becomes questionable<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Death before sin<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Genesis Flood was not worldwide<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Colossians 1:16 \u201call\u201d does not mean\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">all<\/span>\u00a0things<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">What do the heavens declare? God or Evolution<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Textbooks and Science Journals<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Big Bang \u2013 billions of years old<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Distant Starlight \u2013 billions of years old<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Are we being given all the evidence?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Recession of the Moon<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 4 cm\/year (Contact of earth and moon in 1.4 billion years.)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Comets<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 Made of ice. Long period comets circle around the sun or solar system 200 years or more. Short period comets circle around the sun or solar system 200 years or less. As they circle around our solar system they lose mass and therefore should not exist over long periods of time. Evolutionists claim that out in space is an Oort Cloud that produces comments to replace the ones which melt away. An Oort cloud has never been observed, there is no evidence for its existence, and there would not be enough mass in the hypothetical Oort cloud. Oort clouds are accepted and taught on faith, not science. Danny Faulkner, PhD Astronomy, More Problems for the Oort Cloud, Technical Journal, 2001 p.11 states,\u00a0<i>Since it cannot be detected, the Oort Cloud is not a scientific concept. This is not bad science, but non-science masquerading as science. The existence of comets is good evidence that the solar system is only a few thousand years old<\/i>&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Age of the Sun<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 Sun creates energy by thermonuclear fusion (turning Hydrogen into Helium). As it ages, the sun gets hotter and hotter. If the earth is 4.6 billion years old, then we should be 40% hotter today than in the beginning. According to evolutionists, life started 3 \u00bd billion years ago. At the time life formed, the average earth&#8217;s temperature would have been below freezing at 27<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">\u00ba<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">\u00a0F or -3<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">\u00ba<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">\u00a0C<\/span>. Yet, evolution theory requires much heat to supposedly create life.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Supernova Remnants<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 We have observed stars exploding into gas clouds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Supernova Number of observable SNRs<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Remnants predicted if our galaxy is:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Stage<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: small;\">(exploded in years)\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Billions of Years<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">7000 Years<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Actual<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">First\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: small;\">(recent)<\/span>\u00a02 2 5<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b><\/b>Second\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: small;\">(thousands)<\/span>\u00a02260 125 200<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Third\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: small;\">(millions)<\/span>\u00a05000 0 0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Galaxy formation<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 Spiral galaxies should not exist if the age of the universe is billions of years old. Book \u2013 The Facts on file Dictionary of Astronomy 1994, p.172. &#8211;\u00a0<i>Galaxies\u00a0<\/i><i><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">must have<\/span><\/i><i>\u00a0expanded from the big bang&#8230; Details of the formation of galaxies are still highly uncertain, as is their subsequent evolution<\/i>. This is evidence of a faith in evolution, not in science. Why should we accept the evolutionist&#8217;s believe system, when our own fits alongside the observable evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>The Origin of Stars<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Evolution \u2013 Stars evolved billions of years before the earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Theistic Evolution\/Progressive Creation\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Stars evolved billions of years before earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Bible\u00a0\u2013 Earth created on Day 1, The sun, moon and stars on Day 4.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>How are stars formed?\u00a0<\/b>Evolution teaches that stars are formed from gas and dust clouds through gravitational contraction. This theory is counter to basic physics. The process causes heat pressure and expansion, not contraction. Fred Whipple, Smithsonian Institute Press, 1985, p. 213. says that Astronomers have yet to find an interstellar cloud in the actual process of collapse. The textbooks are filled with deception, and hold back evidence that might suggest special creation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Star Formation and Time<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Based on the number of estimated stars in the universe, the star formation rate should be around 31,700 stars per second, yet we can&#8217;t observe any stars forming. Evolutionists suggest most stars formed at the point of the big bang or shortly thereafter. That conveniently masks the problem of star formation.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Star nurseries are a figment of the imagination.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Background Radiation<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, or WMAP satellite: New York times, 2003 \u2013\u00a0<i>The most\u00a0<\/i><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><i>detailed and precise map<\/i><\/span><i>\u00a0yet produced\u00a0<\/i><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><i>of the universe at its birth confirms the Big Bang theory<\/i><\/span><i>\u00a0in triumphant detail&#8230;. It reveals the<\/i><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><i>emergence of the first stars<\/i><\/span><i>\u00a0in the cosmos, only 200 million years after the Big Bang, half a billion years earlier than theorists had thought<\/i>&#8230; The pictures were just a bit more clear than previous pictures. They made a great claim with no evidence, and that&#8217;s called faith.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Marcus Chown, \u201cLet there be Light\u201d, New Scientist, Feb 7, 1998 states,\u00a0<i>The truth is that we don&#8217;t understand star formation at a fundamental level<\/i>. The question is then; why do so many textbooks state we know how stars formed? It appears the scientific evidence doesn&#8217;t matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>From the perspective of the evolution model we are:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A non-special species<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Living in a non-special place in the universe<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">An accident of chance occurrences<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Is there enough evidence to support a belief in billions of years?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is what evolutions use as evidence for billions of years:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Redshift<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Cosmic Background Radiation<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Element abundances<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Education system and the media (biggest supporter)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Evidences against the Big Bang\u00a0<\/b>(left out of most textbooks)<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Redshift<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Cosmic background Radiation<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Galaxy formation<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Spiral galaxies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">SNR (supernova remnants)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Distribution of galaxies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0&amp; 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0Laws of thermodynamics<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Medium and heavy elements<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Star formation<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The big bang model proposes that in the beginning there was matter which expanded in the relationship of space and time, similar to blowing up a balloon. It assumes there was matter, but doesn&#8217;t explain where it came from. The bible has the answer. It requires more faith to believe the big bang theory than,\u00a0<i>in the beginning God created<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Redshift \u2013<\/b>\u00a0As with sound, as light travels towards you is compacts (blue-shift) and expands as it moves away from you (redshift). Compacting is shown on a blue scale, and expansion or stretching out is shown on a red scale. Most of the light we see is on the red side of the scale suggesting that the universe is expanding away from us. That is used by evolutionists to support the big bang model. Also, the further away a galaxy is from us the further it shows on the red scale or the faster it appears to be moving away from us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Assumption to the big bang model is that the universe is homogenous, with no center, and redshift everywhere. What we observe is redshifts in concentric circles 1 million-light-years apart, with nothing in between. Big bang predicts everything should be the same. Evolutionists, W.G. Tifft and W. J. Cocke, wrote, \u201cGlobal redshift quantization\u201d, Astrophysical Journal, 1984,\u00a0<i>There is now very firm evidence that redshifts of galaxies are quantized<\/i>&#8230; This went against the big bang theory and was totally ignored. This has been confirmed out to a billion light years by the Hubble telescope. The big bang theory suggests that before the time of Copernicus we thought ourselves to be the center of the universe, but as stated by Stephen Hawking and George Ellis in 1973, in the Cambridge University Press, we are nothing special. Yet we have come full circle and it now appears that everything in the known universe is moving away in concentric circles from our galaxy. Halton Arp (Staff astronomer at the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories for 29 years), Quasars, Redshifts and Controversies, 1987, p. 195.\u00a0<i>The fact that measured values of redshift do not vary continuously but come in steps \u2013 certain preferred values \u2013 is so unexpected that conventional astronomy has never been able to accept it, in spite of the overwhelming observational evidence<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Does the evidence support the big bang model?<\/b>\u00a0NO!<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>The Bible and Big Bang Cosmology<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Can we fit big bang cosmology into the Bible? Danny Faulkner, PhD Astronomy states,\u00a0<i>There are many today who interpret Genesis in terms of the latest scientific theories and even fads. If the history of science is any teacher, then we must conclude that many of these ideas eventually will be discarded<\/i>. Many churches today compromise God&#8217;s Word to the fallible theories of man, like the big bang. Many of these ideas were devised to counter the biblical record, which is firmly against cosmic evolution over billions of years. Once compromised, it is easy for them to believe other evolutionary ideas. If the foundation is let go to evolution, then what can the righteous do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>The Bible and Time of Creation\u00a0<\/b>\u2013 There is nothing in the Bible which leads us to believe the earth is billions of years old.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Day with a number<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Evening and morning<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Genesis 1:14 &#8211;\u00a0<i>And Gods said, Let the bright lights appear in the sky to separate the day from the night. They will be signs to mark off the seasons, the days, and the years.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Exodus 20:11-<i>\u00a0For in six days the Lord made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and everything in them; then he rested on the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy<\/i>. Plus Exodus 31:17.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Words used to indicate time<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Sentence structure<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Genealogies (Gen 5, 1Cron 1, Luke 3)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Plants and sunlight<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The sun<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The plain reading of the text<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Lexicons and theological dictionaries<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Semantics<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>A God of Miracles<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">God created trees mature with fruit<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">God created mature animals<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">God created Adam and Eve mature<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Jesus fed the 5000<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Jesus turned the water into wine<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Jesus withered the fig tree (Matt 21:18-19)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Instant learning of language (Tower of Babel)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Instant healing of soldier&#8217;s ear (Luke 22:51)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Creation was \u201cvery good\u201d (Genesis 1:31)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Question<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0\u2013 Is that the God we worship, or do we have to bring God down to our level of understanding of science? If the latter statement is true, then we are creating God in our own image and that&#8217;s idolatry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>What have we seen about the pattern of evolution?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Not reporting all the evidence<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Constantly updating the big bang model to match observable data<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Disagreement among astronomers<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A disregard for biblical interpretation<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">An appeal to churches to accept \u201creal science\u201d claiming you can have the Bible and Evolution<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Which is easier to believe?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Nothing created something (Universe)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">God used evolution<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In the beginning God created<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>2 Timothy 4:3-4<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">. Fables today come in the form of evolution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The creation by God gives meaning to the Universe. We were created in the image of God. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son to save us from ourselves and forgive our sins so that we would be worthy of grace when we face our God in Heaven.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Biblical References<\/span>:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Genesis 1:16 \u2013\u00a0<\/b><i>And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Isaiah 40:26<\/b>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<i>Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number:<\/i>&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Psalms 8:3<\/b>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<i>When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained<\/i>;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Exodus 20:11<\/b>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<i>For in six days&#8230;.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Ps 19:1<\/b>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<i>The heavens declare the glory of God<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Ps 33:6<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<i>By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them&#8230;<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Ps 148:5<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<i>&#8230;for he commanded and they were created.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Is 45:12 &#8211;<\/b>\u00a0<i>&#8230;I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their hosts have I commanded<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Nehemiah 9.6<\/b><i>\u00a0\u2013 Thou, even thou, are Lord alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host&#8230;<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>John 1: 3 \u2013<\/b><i><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/i><i>All things were made by him&#8230;<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Rev 4:11<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 &#8230;<i>for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomy and the Bible featuring Mike Riddle\u00a0(72 min.) **************************************** Topics Two models Evidence for age Origin of stars Scientific evidence and the big bang The Bible and big bang cosmology Evolution\/Theistic Evolution Day Age Theory\u00a0\u2013 God used the big bang to start things off, but the universe is billions of years old and the days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creationdata.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creationdata.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creationdata.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creationdata.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creationdata.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/creationdata.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creationdata.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}