THE ACCELERATING EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE
A commenter wrote "In fact, your bible does NOT explain WHY THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE IS STILL MOVING OUTWARDS!"
Actually, the Bible does more than that. Now, before I begin to explain, I want this thought in your head. "How could sheep herders in the land of Israel, know something about the Universe, that was learned in the late 1990s by a group of scientists, with Alexei Vladimir "Alex" Filippenko, being one of the scientists? When I was in college in the 1980s, I took a physics class from a professor that worked on the Manhattan Project. At that time everyone knew that the universe was expanding, but what they did not know is
1) is the universe expanding but slowing down and headed for a big crunch?
2) expanding and proceeding at a steady pace
3) or the Universe is expanding, and at an accelerated rate. This is the one they did NOT WANT, or believe to be possible.
Why did they believe that number three was not possible--Acceleration. If the Big Bang Happened 13.6 billion years ago, the "explosion" is over, and there should be NO continued force on the universe. This is a purely MATERIALISTIC view of the universe. Yet, all accelerating bodies--even in the vacuum of space need a FORCE to continue the acceleration process. Low and behold, what have they found, an accelerating universe.
MYSTERY, what is causing the acceleration? In fact, the universe seems to be violating Einstein's rule that no matter can travel faster than the speed of light. As any matter reaches closer and closer to the speed of light its Mass increases to infinity. YET as Alexei Vladimir "Alex" Filippenko, will tell you today, the distant galaxies are moving away from us FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF LIGHT. Just a few decades ago this was impossible. Today, they now have created an exception--the galaxies are not technically moving--the space between the galaxies is being stretched. Today scientists have a MADE UP term for this FORCE, they call it DARK ENERGY. But in 2020 they have no idea what it is, nor where it comes form. Period.
Now the best part for me, Psalms 104:2 The Lord wraps himself in light as with a garment; he strethes out the heavens like a tent. NIV "He stretches" (present tense, and implying that he is currently applying a force) "out the heavens" "like a tent". Einstein himself talked about space as a fabric, and our God, the creator of the Universe, with one simple phrase, explained what the Universe is doing in 2020 that was only discovered in all of human history in the late 1990s. And the only way sheep herders in the land of Israel 3600 years ago could know this is by divine revelation. PROOF THAT GOD EXISTS, LOVES HIS CHILDREN, and COMMUNICATES WITH THEM. By the way, I just showed what DARK ENERGY is.
Now what is Dark Matter, does the Bible have anything to say about that? Why yes. First What is Dark Matter. It is a Force acting in the universe that the scientists of today can see its affects, but they have no idea in 2020 what it is. What this force is doing is quite interesting. Just as our Earth revolves around the Sun, our solar system is part of a vast Galaxy, called the Milky Way Galaxy, and our Galaxy is spinning around a Black Hole at its center. Scientists were surprised to find that there is NOT enough “normal matter” like planets and stars to account for the fact that our Galaxy seems to be spinning to fast. In other words, based on the spin of our Galaxy, the planets further away from the center of the Black hole should be spinning off into space, just like a kid sitting on the outer rim of a merry-go-round.
So what outside FORCE, is HOLDING the Galaxy ogether, and keeping the planets form shooting off into space. Scientists again, call this FORCE Dark Matter. They propose that there is so much of this stuff, that 20 percent of the Galaxy is Dark Matter (70 percent is Dark Energy) and only 5 percent is the stuff we can see. They also agree in 2020, that you can’t see it, can’t taste it, can’t smell it, and can’t even measure it, but they HAVE FAITH ITS there because of its affects on the other stuff in the Universe—a purely Materialistic View of the Heavens—NO GOD ALLOWED.
So now that I have explained what “Dark Matter” is/isn’t, let me show you what the Bible says. Col 1:16-17 AMP 16 For [d]by Him all things were created in heaven and on earth, [things] visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities; all things were created and exist through Him [that is, by His activity] and for Him. 17 And He Himself existed and is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. [His is the controlling, cohesive force of the universe.] [Jesus] He Himself existed and is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. [His is the controlling, cohesive force of the universe.] Jesus is the Dark Matter
