Light-years? Not a problem!

D. Russell Humphreys, Ph. D.Creation Research Society

Creationists need a “History of Brief Time”

A Biblical cosmologyshould explain:

Cosmic microwaves

How light got here fast

“Pioneer anomaly”

Red shiftsStephen Hawking

“A Brief History of Time”

Starting point: The Genesis deep

And the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters.

What was the “deep” in Genesis 1:2?

The deep was a big ball of water

Much bigger than the Earth

Earth formlessand featurelesswithin the deep

The heavens originated in the deep

Expanse

And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters…”

—Genesis 1:6

Big enough for stars

And God called the expanse heavens.

—Genesis 1:6

raqia, stereoma, firmamentum, firmament, = something spread out

The waters above theheavens affect us here

“Praise Him, highest heavens, And the waters that are above the heavens” — Psalm 148:4

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Galaxies

... let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place; and let the dry land appear… —Genesis 1:9

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The Earth is near the center

Became the Earth

At start of 4th day, earth was the only matter below the waters

Unusual gravity situation

Why should gravity matter?

Scientists agree: gravity affects time

Gravitational time dilation — Lower clocks tick slower

Shown by experiment

Predicted by Einstein

Slow

Fast

Time: Flies when high Slow when low

A trampoline is a good analogy for gravity

Dent

“Waters above” like ring on trampoline

Flat inside ring

The tramploline must accelerate

Very high acceleration in 4th space direction

Could be centrifugal

Acceleration makes cosmic microwaves

Unruh effectheats the fabric of space

Journal of CreationDecember 2014

The waters above made a very deep dent

Water mass: 20 × all the galaxies

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During 4th day, God created the stars

New stars More gravity Zone of Timelessness

And God made the two great lights ... and the stars. And God placed them in the expanse of the heavens ... Genesis 1:16

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God stretched the fabric of space,making the nearly-flat region rise up

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Timeless zone followed the wave of new stars

Starlight followed the shrinking sphere of timelessness

Earth time stopped during 4th day

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So Adam could see Milky Way and Andromeda

Starlight arrived during 4th Day

“Let there be lights in the firmament ... to give light on the earth ... and it was so.” Genesis 1:14, 15

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Decrease of dent depth explains the Pioneer anomaly

Pioneer 10/11Solar System

Journal of CreationAugust 2007

Relativity effect

Slowdown of space probes

2012 “thermal” theory doesn’t work

Read more in Journal of Creation online

August 2007 December 2008

How light got here

Redshift

How expansion affects spacecraft

Creation cosmology is answering questions

So you can trust the Bible to be true

Cosmic microwave background