Posted on 03/20/2014 1:46:53 PM PDT by smoothsailing
E major!
“An Israeli physicist ..” What? I have been told that no scientist believe in creation and/or God. That the only people that would/could believe in creation and/or God are the uneducated, non-elite, serfs and peasants. </s>
Because it sounded better than "Bazinga!"
I just got those chills on the back of my neck like when I hear an awesomely performed piece.
yes, absolutely fascinating. Light is needed for the creation.
E = mc**2
The universe starts with God imparting his energy to create mass. Which gives the universe the Music of the Spheres.
imo, it's keeping it simple. Those 4 words identify God as our Creator as no others can. God intended from the beginning for his Word to be understood by everyone, regardless of age or education. "Let there be light" beautifully conveys an instant mental image to the reader that God, hovering above a void (Genesis 1:2), is a thinking, intelligent entity, capable of careful and methodical planning of a complexity far beyond our wildest imaginations. The same 4 words also act as a tone-setter for the wonders to follow in Genesis 1:6-24 and Genesis 2:5-20. Accepting that God can and did create light itself, it's also reasonable to believe God had no problem at all creating a fish (or something that would morph into a fish). Not to mention let there be light sounds a whole lot better than, Hi, I'm Charlie and I'll be your creator today.
As the late, great Archbishop Fulton Sheen taught, scientist can only discover what already existed.
Wait,so this is not about Penny?
Well, we all had to have started somewhere?
RE: “Any particular frequency?”
That does raise an interesting question.
Why is the CMB microwave and not some other wavelength?
Think about it. If you’re walking north to find the North Pole, if you keep walking you will eventually be going south. In the beginning, before the command ‘Light Be’, the initial conditions had dimension space and dimension time as one. BUT the separation of these two dimensions is what caused there to be a ‘place’ in which radiation can occur. So, the first wave lengths had to be the shortest/tightest. As the vacuum grew greater wave lengths could express. In these wave length stews God spoke worlds (matter) into existence ... God thumped the Gordian KNowt of waves/radiation, causing vortices that created the quarks. And the rest is History ... the first expressions of the zero point field generated the first things being interpreted as gravity waves.
Don’t forget the Big Bang Theory was first postulated by a Catholic priest Monseigneur Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaitre. The church far from being a hindrance to science has always been on the cutting edge.
I appreciate your thoughtful and eloquent answer.
I was thinking more along the line that, if the Big Bang confirms Creation, then we need to explain why the Universe was 380,000 years old before the first light turned on.
And, since the first light was apparently at the microwave wavelength, it would not have been visible to human beings.
Actually, I might be mistaken about the wavelength of first light.
I seem to recall that the great distance it has traveled stretched it into microwave length.
Still, do you see my main point?
Depending on science to “confirm” Creation can be a very slippery path.
Thanks for the info, I did not know that!
Lucifer was an angel, probably the one who appeared to muhammed.
I also think that’s what Hawking is saying. But, how can you have laws about something that doesn’t exist? Didn’t Hawking believe in the Big Crunch?
[from wikipedia] ...Aviezer is particularly notable for being one of very few modern writers from the religious Jewish perspective to publish on these issues using the language of science, rather than religion. Aviezer allows for divine guidance within an evolutionary paradigm in the transmutation of species over time, including the emergence of modern man from homo erectus. He interprets the six days of creation as broadly referring to large periods of time, an interpretation for which he cites rabbinic sources, including Maimonides and Nachmanides, citing in particular the problem with defining the several “days” of creation that precede the creation of the Sun, according to the Biblical narrative.
I have no doubt that if ever there was a religion spawned by Satan him self, it is Islam. He was the anointed cherub, but was the original sinner. I just define the word "person" differently, like God in 3 persons, blessed Trinity.
You might find it interesting to know that the cosmic microwave background is imprinted with waves (the sound) at the very moment light formed and went its way. (God said "let there be light."):
The peaks indicate harmonics in the sound waves that filled the early, dense universe. Until some 300,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe was so hot that matter and radiation were entangled in a kind of soup in which sound waves (pressure waves) could vibrate. The CMB is a relic of the moment when the universe had cooled enough so that photons could “decouple” from electrons, protons, and neutrons; then atoms formed and light went on its way.
God's Name is I AM.
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It took some 380,000 years before the density of the proto-universe dropped to the point that photons were free to travel as light.
The record of God having said, "Let there be light" at that point raises this question:
Unless they were told (or shown) so by the One who did it, how could ignorant desert itinerants have even imagined such an event?
Scientific research is steadily uncovering facts that were recorded over 4,000 years ago -- by people who had no earthly way of knowing about those events.
Genesis is the very most carefully preserved of ancient writings. Scientific revelations verifying its veracity may not impress you -- but they certainly should...
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