One of those stars (light spots) is the size of our sun so you get the idea of huge! A planetary nebula, NGC 7293, The Helix Nebula Credit: NASA, ESA, and C.R. O'Dell (Vanderbilt University)

 YES! Honesty! Who created and why is the realm of religion, not science! I wish some scientists would get that!


The bible talks about God being there before the Big Bang!

Scientists can apparently get to 10^-43 of a second in their information currently, but before that, our science just doesn’t help us!

 Okay, so let’s take a look at what Genesis 1: 1-2 says:

The key words are formless, empty and deep! For those of us that like logic, we ask ourselves how something we know is very solid (the Earth) and wet (the oceans) is formless, empty and deep at the same time. How can that be?

Can you explain it? Most people who don’t believe God used ‘what science explains’ as part of his creation cannot explain this!  It just doesn’t make sense!

Now let’s consider how the earth formed according to science!

Let’s investigate something mention earlier and called a Nebula. No, that’s not a big pimple! It’s a huge dust cloud in space! Probably bigger than we can possibly imagine! We actually can see some of these with the sophisticated telescopes of today. Amazing and beautiful, they give us glimpses into our own past (we think).

“Nebula” comes from Latin for “cloud”. One example of this was the "Pillars of Creation" from the Eagle Nebulae as photographed by the Hubble Space telescope. Take a look at it at the top of this blog!

One of those stars is the size of our sun so you get the idea of huge!

The dust grains clump together due to gravity and finally make up asteroid like planetesimals. The whole cloud tends to start to spin a bit as this happens. These collide randomly and slowly the clump gathers more and more and a planet grows into being. When it gets big enough, the pressure of gravity moulds it into a spherical shape.

That original cloud is basically empty. We would call it part of the vacuum of space! Lots of emptiness! It also doesn’t really have edges, or a form. Like a fog bank doesn’t have a form. It is sort of there! Hard to say where the edges are right?

Then inside the cloud is water and the components of water. They have detected that in nebula. That’s where the oceans supposedly came from after all! So we could say that if you could move over the formless surface, you would be moving over the deep as well!

That’s probably as far as I want to go right now! So, here we have the dust clouds, having all the building blocks of our atmospheres and oceans distributed in huge clouds of dust and gas in space.

Please consider this however…If you had to explain this to a child, you couldn’t explain it the way I just have, could you?

Think of this! Simple man had a similar problem of being less complex in thinking and more like a child in thought. God also wanted simple ancient man to remember his message and be able to faithfully write about it for future generations. Now my explanation has no hope in that regard! Far too complex! Difficult for even clever us to understand! God was smart, he wrote it down as:

Isn’t that a simple but clear explanation of this creation event we discussed?

It’s short, to the point and memorable as well!

Trust God to speak truth with simplicity so that we can all get it (even though it would take men almost 4000years and lots of copying of those words before they could really understand them).

Can you think of any other creation story that explains Earths creation as simply and elegantly as this, without making up stories! One that fits our scientific known theories! This bible is magnificent!

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring.
Charles Guggenheim

We also know the early Jews and Christians didn’t believe the earth was created in seven days. They probably had more reason to believe in physical days than we do, since they had no scientific preconceptions. However, they just didn’t believe it was an actual week!

They took it to be huge periods of time and believed they were in the last days described by that biblical text. The sixth day was the day they believed the messiah would come! That’s why they were waiting for a “messiah!” If these early Christians, 2000 years ago, believed they were in the sixth day, then they didn’t believe in creation in six 24 hour days did they?

It was the English translation that gave us a level of confidence that that text in Genesis was talking of a 24hour day. So, let us just go to where the first translation into common English occurred.

This was started in 1604, and it was finished in 1611 by 47 people working for King Henry of England. (There was an earlier Wycliff bible in English, but this King James version was the most popular and appears to have stayed that way.)

You can understand that in those years the translators would have fully believed that God constructed the earth in a day.

The word for “day” that was translated from Hebrew, was “yom” which can mean “day” or it can mean “period”.

In the first century when Jesus walked the Earth, both Christians and Jews understood this to be period and not a physical day. They also knew the word meaning was structured to allow this!

However, our King James translators selected the 24hour day option and rejected the “period” meaning of the word as they did their work in the 1600’s. Once selected, this became embedded in our culture and we have never wanted to go back on this again.

Why not? Perhaps we should? It is after all the same word as used in the phrase “Day of the Lord” which is generally agreed to be interpreted nowadays to mean a period of time, and not a 24 hour period.

Another aspect that actually ties together science and the bible quite effectively is the first sentence in the first writing of the Bible. It says “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.”

This firstly shows a beginning to time and space that science collaborates.

Secondly, take a look at the words “The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep”

Try explaining those words which were written before science existed without resorting to our modern knowledge and you are lost.
 
It was a mystery for thousands of years. Christians believed it, but didn’t understand it. Faith based belief is not all wrong!

Today with the help of science we know that the earth, in its early days of creation, was part of a huge dust cloud in space with vast distances between dust particles.

A bit like a dust smog, with water, ice, as well light gases such as hydrogen and helium in it. The best description of this nebula and the swirling dust cloud that became our earth would be “formless and void”.

 The scientists now believe the nebula had large amounts of ice it as well. This could be the reference to the waters and surface of the deep. Science helps us understand the Bible (if we take this interpretation approach that is).

Let’s get it straight, you don’t need to believe the explanation given previously, only please understand that science and the Bible are quite compatible and it is acceptable for us to believe both and not be crazy, sub-intelligent, or out of our mind.

In fact, to reject the Bible on the grounds of science is perhaps more crazy, sub-intelligent, and mindless than to accept it!

 We should perhaps move away from classifying others by their acceptance or rejection of science in relation to the Bible.

 Those bible texts are written to show us the way to live successfully, and to develop a soft heart. They are not there to cause arguments on scientific principles.

God is outside and above these arguments of science!

Rather, lets understanding how God can help us live successfully on this earth and afterwards once we die. That’s what the bible is really about!