Hubble Ultra Deep Field shows Biblical
Cosmic History
Numerous passages
in the Old Testament refer to the spreading heavens. Are we to
understand that these passages refer to a vast void that expands like a
balloon? Put yourself in the shoes of any person, pagan or Jew, living
2,500 years ago. It is unlikely that they ever noticed a vacuum, a
void. Yet a Jew could read about vacuous things in the Bible. At first
darkness covered the primordial abyss [tehom]. At this stage, the
heavens and earth were formless [tohu] and empty [bohu]. Then Elohim
moved across the face [paniym] of the transitory thing [mayim] and
commanded light [owr] to be. It was then that all matter in the heavens
and the earth was actualized by light. A Jew, who believed the Bible,
could understand that the form of all matter was due to a relationship
with light. This Jew could read that there is an empty place in
the starry north (the opposite direction from the center of the galaxy)
and that the earth hangs upon nothing.
What if a scientist could go back and explain
scientific cosmology to them. They might wonder, how could a tiny spec
of
vacuum explode and create everything out of nothing? How could the
vacuum change the appearance of all ancient light or accelerate all
stars away from us? How could the vacuum be crammed full of invisible
matter? Scientific myths would seem absurd even to the pagan myth
makers. The modern idea that the vacuum expands is an ad hoc
story contrived to protect the scientific creed that the properties of
matter are not emergent. This idea came from the mind of a pagan
philosopher. It was upon that idea that Western science was
historically built. All the magical vacuous things in the scientific
universe were invented to protect the
scientific creed.
According to Genesis, God formed [incomplete action] the Sun, Moon and
stars on day four. He is placing [incomplete action] the Sun,
Moon and stars in the raqiya. The word raqiya is the noun form of the
verb to pound out, to spread out [raqa]. Raqiya means the place that is
spreading out. A contemporary in the Old Testament era would expect
that the Sun, Moon and stars are continually
changing even as they
continually spread apart. Since
the Bible mentions a close passage and a shattered planet, it is
consistent with itself and their handed down earth-histories.
What does the Bible mean by a spreading heavens? In the following
verses, an English verb with an “ing” ending shows the continuous
action of the Hebrew verbs.
Zechariah 12:1 "An affirmation
of Jehovah, Stretching out heaven,
and
founding earth." (YLT)
Isaiah 44:24 "I Jehovah, doing
all things, Stretching out the
heavens by Myself, Spreading out the earth -- who [is] with Me?"
(YLT)
Isaiah 51:13 "Jehovah . . . Who is stretching out the heavens,
and founding earth, . . ." (YLT)
Isaiah 42:5 "Thus said God,
Jehovah, preparing The heavens, and
stretching them out . . . " (YLT)
Isaiah 40:22 "He who is stretching out as a thin thing the heavens,
And
spreadeth them as a tent
to dwell in." (YLT)
Psalm 104:2 "Stretching out the heavens as a curtain."
(NASB)
Job 26:7 "Stretching out the north over desolation,
Hanging the earth upon nothing."
(YLT)
Job 9:8 -10 "Stretching out the heavens by Himself"
(YLT)
Job 37:18 "can you join him in spreading out the skies, hard as a
mirror of cast bronze?" (NIV)
Please notice that it is not the bohu
(the vacuity) that is continually stretching, but the heavens, the
visible
Sun, Moon and stars. Isaiah
40:26 Lift up your eyes
on high And see who has created
these stars, The One who leads forth their host by number [in
unbroken
continuity], He calls them all by
name; Because of the greatness of His
might and the strength of His power, Not one of them is missing.
(NASB). Job 37:18 uses the
word yatsaq - something dense like molten
bronze. The verb spread out [raqa] is imperfect - to continually spread
out - as in hammering a piece of hot metal into a thin sheet. The word
sky [shachaq] means a thin cloud or dust cloud. Apparently Elihu
thought that the primordial sky was dense like hot bronze and was
continually being pounded out, spreading out into a thin cloud.
The wonderful thing about biblical cosmology it that it is visible. We
see the history of the universe at many ranges from the creation to the
present. The word raqiya is appropriate for what we see. We
see dense, naked primordial galaxies packed with stars. At closer
ranges, we see little globs of stars bracketing countless primordial
galaxy nuclei. We follow in billions of galaxies, at many ranges, how
the
little clumps of stars spread out, accelerate out, as galaxies grew
into huge growth spirals. We see how the stars follow each other
outward in spiral lanes. They normally do not lap the nucleus - they
accelerate together. Every atomic clock in the universe is visibly
accelerating along with the accelerating orbits. Clearly and
unambiguously we see that the properties of all matter continually
change relationally as ouranoi esan
ekpalai - the heavens came out long ago (2 Peter 3:5).
The visible expansion is not something that ended long ago. Even in the
solar system, our angular solar parallax is much smaller than those
measured by many previous astonomers. This clearly suggests a
continually expanding solar system. Why then do
clocks and orbits track together? We see in the distant heavens that
the clocks and the orbits both accelerate in billions of galaxies. Not
a single ancient galaxy shone with the light of perpetual motion atoms.
What we see is a violation of every law of science, because it is a
violation of the scientific creed. Every scientist must believe in
perpetual motion atoms because they are the presumption made by their
symbolic units, their ways of measuring, their mathematics, their
constants and their methodologies.
Here is a film strip
showing the progression of how galaxies spread out as they get closer
to us.
Although the galaxies in this strip may seem to have similar sizes, the
upper
ones have a smaller anglular size. All the galaxies are
part of a million second exposure of the primoridal universe known as
the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.
The first is HUDF #3125.
Its atomic light shines at ~0.24 times the frequencies of local atoms.
Notice that it looks a little like a tadpole with a blue tail.
The next is HUDF
#4404. Its atomic light shines at ~0.26 times the frequencies of local
atoms. It also has a string of distinct star clusters arching around to
one side like a tadpole with a discontinuous tail.
The next is HUDF
#2189. Its atomic light shines at ~0.27 times the frequencies of local
atoms. It has blue clumps of stars on
each end of the elongated white nucleus.
The next is HUDF #1112. Its atomic light shines at ~0.28 times the
frequencies of local atoms. Thios galaxy has spread out into what looks
like the beginning of a three armed spiral.
The next is HUDF
#3844. Its atomic light shines at ~0.33 times the frequencies of local
atoms. The galaxy has a redish, lumpy nucleus and a long segmented
tadpole tail of blue star clusters.
The next is HUDF
#3031. Its atomic light shines at ~0.42 times the frequencies of local
atoms. This galaxy has a redish bar with two
blue, arms rotating out from one end of the bar. The arms are
made of disinct
bluish clusters. At the end of one arm is a bright yellow galaxy -
perhaps a sibling.
Please notice that the earliest galaxies (the top ones on this strip)
clocked lower frequencies than the angularly larger, apparently closer
galaxies. Also notice that the galaxies that clocked higher light
frequencies also have more developed
appendages.
What we see in the universe is biblical cosmic history. We see how the
galaxies formed as they continually spread out like a tent, go from
dense things to vaporous cloud like things. Every atom is following
biblical physics, changing relationally as it ages. Orbits also
concurrently accelerate as billions of glaxies violate the laws of
scientific physics.
A scientists, who believes in invariant time,
might wonder how all of this fits into 6,000 years of biblical history.
We should always accept what the Bible states rather than
adjusting the Bible to fit scientific aspeculations about time. Look at
how the galaxies formed and
you can see the answer to your question. Look!
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