Born in the darkness of...
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"Born in the darkness of interstellar space some 4.6 billion years ago, our solar system emerged from a contracting cloud of dust and gas. When the core of this cloud became dense enough, gravity triggered the collapse of the inner layer." Thus speaks modern science. And we are told that there are billions of solar systems in the universe! These concepts boggle the mind; are quite beyond human comprehension.
Yet something is missing in the logic of astrophysicists. How did the "contracting cloud of dust and gas" emerge? It has always been a category of science that only out of something can anything be created. But does this mean a reversal of thinking and science now believes in "creatio ex nihilio?"
This is surely the position of theism. Whether it is the simple mytholigical biblical description of the Creation in six literal days; or whether our expanding knowledge of the universe has replaced this ancient creation story, we begin with God. God alone in a universeless existence. God alone with himself who in his own good time declares, 'Let there be light ...' "
Sir James Jeans wrote that God was a "cosmic mathematician." John makes an ever more astounding claim. In the beginning with God was the Word. And this Word who was, before time existed, and was with God, became flesh and dwelt among us!
-- Docherty
Yet something is missing in the logic of astrophysicists. How did the "contracting cloud of dust and gas" emerge? It has always been a category of science that only out of something can anything be created. But does this mean a reversal of thinking and science now believes in "creatio ex nihilio?"
This is surely the position of theism. Whether it is the simple mytholigical biblical description of the Creation in six literal days; or whether our expanding knowledge of the universe has replaced this ancient creation story, we begin with God. God alone in a universeless existence. God alone with himself who in his own good time declares, 'Let there be light ...' "
Sir James Jeans wrote that God was a "cosmic mathematician." John makes an ever more astounding claim. In the beginning with God was the Word. And this Word who was, before time existed, and was with God, became flesh and dwelt among us!
-- Docherty
