Giant Waffle wrote:
On 25 Sep 2006 13:16:37 -0700, you
decided to say:
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/1e0657/
1E 0657-56: NASA Finds Direct Proof of Dark Matter
I'm sorry, but that is not a truthful claim. Gases are not
proof of dark matter. And that which you are forced to
confess cannot be detected, cannot be proved by gases.
If gases are not proof, what would be the proof that could persuade
you?
Could it be the Bible?
The Bible is amazing and awesome book - no matter what new things
godless secular liberal scientists discover, bible-believing scientists
show that these things were already described in the Bible.
Here, one Biblical scientist shows from clear biblical evidence that
dark matter is real. Could it be enough for you?
http://www.theswordbearer.org/spD002_Flood.html
THE FIRMAMENT
Let's take a brief look at "dark matter" in order to see how a
Bible believer might
use discernment when he reads the daily newspaper. The Big Bang theory
so
popular with scientists says a ball of matter exploded, driving the
matter outward.
But the outward-traveling bits of matter did not continue to expand and
get
farther away from each other. Some of them got close enough so
gravitational
attraction could pull them into swirling galaxies. All stars are in
galaxies. The
galaxies are far away from each other. So far, in fact, that all the
stars it is
possible for us to see at night are in our own Milky Way Galaxy. In
between
galaxies science always thought there was nothing - no stars, "no
nothing;" just
the void and vacuum of outer space.
But that didn't sit well with scientists because if the Big Bang did
happen, all of
the outward-traveling matter would not have collected into galaxies
with nothing
in between. In fact, it is stretching it to say that even 10% of the
matter would
have randomly collected into galaxies. That leaves 90% of the matter in
the
universe missing out there somewhere. And that makes the theory look
pretty
weak.
But along comes the C.O.B.E. Project, which you probably read in the
news
provided "confirming evidence" of the Big Bang theory. In essence,
they aimed
sensitive radiation-detecting equipment out in space between galaxies
in an effort
to see if anything is really there in the void. (In other words,
looking for the
missing 90% of the Big Bang theory.)
They used radiation-detecting equipment because all matter emits
radiation - heat
radiation, since nothing exists at a temperature of absolute zero. And
out in the
"void" or "vacuum" of space between galaxies they got on their
recording charts
a faint wavy line. (A flat line would mean nothing was there.)
So the big news, they say, is that the missing 90% of the universe has
been found.
Since they cannot see the matter they call it dark matter. And that
dark matter is
believed to validate the Big Bang theory. And from their Reasonable
scientific
perspective you and I can see how they'd think they are on the right
track. And
their error doesn't bother us at all; they can bark at the moon all
they want. But
you and I have an advantage over scientists because you and I are not
prohibited
by the rules of philosophy from letting the Bible guide our thoughts.
Think of a fish bowl or a birdcage, for example: Everything in it -
fish or birds -
has detectable radiation. And even if we can't see the water or the air
they still
emit radiation because there is something there. So we don't say that
the space
between the fish and birds is a void or vacuum, because that space is
not nothing;
it is something. And we don't call that
radiation-emitting-but-invisible stuff dark
matter, because we've already called it air and water.
OK, what's the point? The point is you and I knew all of this stuff
about the
universe long before the Big Bang theory and the C.O.B.E. Project:
God made the fish and the birds. So they really exist - they aren't
nothing, a void,
or a vacuum. And God made the water and the air. So they also really
exist. Why
do they exist? Because God created them. What did God do with the birds
and
the fish? He put them in the invisible air and water.
God also made the sun, the moon, and the stars. So they really exist
- they aren't
nothing, a void, or a vacuum. And God made the firmament. So it also
really
exists. Why does it exist? Because God created it. What did God do with
the sun,
moon, and stars? He put them in the invisible firmament (Ge 1:17). So
all these
years while scientists have been barking at the moon and telling us the
sun, moon,
and stars were in nothing, a vacuum, a void, you and I just rolled our
eyes and
thought, "Will they ever learn?" And when the C.O.B.E. Project
"discovered"
that the sun, moon, and, stars really are in something after all, you
and I just rolled
our eyes in disgust because they called it dark matter instead of the
firmament,
and because they thought it validated the Big Bang instead of the Bible.