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Age of the Cosmos: The Biblical Model

Age of the Cosmos: The Biblical Model. Christopher W. Ashcraft M.S., M.Ed. Creation Cosmology. Big Bang vs. Creation Origin of Stars Solar System: Evidence of Design Age of the Cosmos. Are we being told all the evidence or just selected information to support a particular idea?.

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Age of the Cosmos: The Biblical Model

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  1. Age of the Cosmos:The Biblical Model Christopher W. Ashcraft M.S., M.Ed.

  2. Creation Cosmology Big Bang vs. Creation Origin of Stars Solar System: Evidence of Design Age of the Cosmos Are we being told all the evidence or just selected information to support a particular idea?

  3. Days of Creation in Genesis One 00825 Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6

  4. Biblical Chronology

  5. Biblical Chronology

  6. Evidence for a Young Cosmos • Recession of the moon • Comets • Age of the sun • Supernova remnants

  7. Heavens DeclareMoon

  8. Recession of the Moon • Earth’s force of gravity pulls on the moon • This causes the moon to accelerate in its orbit so that it slowly spirals away from the earth (4 cm/ year) • The moon pulls back on the earth (Newton’s 3rd law of motion)

  9. Moon Recession

  10. Lunar recession • The Moon is receding at about 4 cm (1.5 inches) per year • Looking backwards in time, the recession rate was faster • The Moon would have been touching the Earth just 1.5 billion years ago

  11. Earth – Moon Distances 1,000 years ago 125 feet closer 1 million years ago 28.4 miles closer 10 million years ago 284 miles closer 100 million years ago 2,840 miles closer 1 billion years ago 28,400 miles closer 1.4 billion years ago contact

  12. Recession of the Moon Distance from Earth 1.0 bya today 1.4 bya Time Contact

  13. Origin of the Moon International Geology Review, 1998 “The origin of the moon is still unresolved.” A. Snyder Ruzicka and L. A. Taylor, “Giant Impact and Fission Hypotheses for the origin of the moon: a critical review of some geochemical evidence, International Geology Review, 1998, p. 851. The best explanation is the moon was created in its present orbit about 6,000 years ago

  14. Evidence for a Young Cosmos • Recession of the moon • Comets • Age of the sun • Supernova remnants

  15. Comets

  16. Comets Long-period comets Short-period comets

  17. Kuiper belt and Oort cloud

  18. Oort Cloud and Kuiper belt

  19. Comets and the Oort Cloud “Many scientific papers are written each year about the Oort Cloud, its properties, its origin, its evolution. Yet there is not yet a shred of direct observational evidence for its existence.” Who said this? Carl Sagan and A. Druyan, Comets, 1985, pp. 201.

  20. Comets and the Oort Cloud Timothy Ferris, The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe Report, 1997, p. 123. “Though the Oort cloud has yet to be observed, the theory accounts so well for the distribution of comets’ orbits that most astronomers today accept its existence,…” Definition of faith An unquestioning belief that does not require proof or observation.

  21. Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belt Danny Faulkner, Ph.D. Astronomy, More problems for the ‘Oort comet cloud’ , 2001, TJ 15(2):11 “Since it cannot be detected, the Oort cloud is not a scientific concept. This is not bad science, but non-science masquerading as science. The existence of comets is good evidence that the solar system is only a few thousand years old .”

  22. Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belt KBO Comets (10 km) 100 – 500 km Don DeYoung, Ph.D. Physics, Astronomy and the Bible, 2000, p. 49-50 “The existence of the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud of comets has not been verified. Perhaps there is an alternative: The presence of comets may be evidence that the solar system is not as old as is often assumed.”

  23. Kuiper Belt Objects

  24. Protective Magnetic Field

  25. Causes of Magnetic Field?

  26. Dynamo Theory “The mechanism for generating the geomagnetic field remains one of the central unsolved problems in geoscience.” http://earth.agu.org/revgeophys/roberp01/node1.html, quoting the report from the National Geomagnetic Initiative, as of19 Dec 2002

  27. Young Magnetic Field • Since its first measurement in 1829, its total energy has fallen by 14%. Loses half its energy every 700 years or so. • Archaeomagnetic and paleomagnetic measurements show wild fluctuations of polarity in the past. • Field can only be tens of thousands of years old, not billions • (Dynamo theories can’t explain these facts.)

  28. Planetary Magnetism “Magnetism is almost as much of a puzzle now as it was when William Gilbert (1544-1603) wrote his classic text ‘Concerning Magnetism, Magnetic Bodies, and the Great Magnet, Earth’ in 1600.” Taylor, Destiny or Chance: our solar system and its place in the cosmos, p 163-164

  29. Evidence for a Young Cosmos • Recession of the moon • Comets • Age of the sun • Supernova remnants

  30. The Early Faint Sun Paradox 40% Brighter • Energy by thermonuclear fusion • The core of the sun should alter and the sun should grow brighter with age • If the sun is 4.6 billion years old, it should have brightened by about 40%

  31. The Early Faint Sun Paradox Freezing Earth average temperature (59O F or 15O C) A 25% increase in brightness increases the average temperature by about 32O F (18O C) (59o – 32o = 27oF (-2.78o C) Avg. temp

  32. The Alternative V838 Mon

  33. Evidence for a Young Cosmos • Recession of the moon • Comets • Age of the sun • Supernova remnants

  34. Evidences for a Young Universe Supernova remnants (SNRs) Crab Nebula Light from the supernova reached the earth in 1054

  35. Supernova Remnant

  36. Supernova Remnant Stages • First stage - (free expansion ) debris hurtling outwards at 7000 kilometers per second. Characterized by constant temperature and constant expansion velocity. It lasts a 200-300 years and reaches a diameter of 7-21 light years. • Second stage - material begins to decelerate and cool. Characterized by mixing that enhances the magnetic field, and is a very powerful emitter of radio waves. Lasts from 10-120 thousand years and reach a diameter of about 350 light years. • Third stage – (snowball stage) begins after the shell has cooled down to about 106 K (-167C). At this stage, electrons and atoms begin recombining with the heavier atoms making the SNR shrink and become more dense. The velocity decreases, outward expansion stops and the SNR starts to collapse under its own gravity. This lasts a few hundreds of thousands of years. After millions of years, the SNR will be absorbed into the interstellar medium at a diameter of about 1800 light years.

  37. Actual number observed Supernova remnant Number of observable SNRs predicted if our galaxy is: Billions of years old 7000 years old Stage 1st 300 yrs 2 2 2nd 120 K 2260 125 5000 0 3rd 1-6 mya Evidences for a Young Universe 5 200 0

  38. The Bible and the Time of Creation • The plain reading of the text • Words used to indicate time • Day with a number • Evening and morning • Genesis 1:14 (ref) • Sabbath - Exodus 20:11(ref) , 31:17(ref) • Sentence structure • Statement by Jesus - Mark 10:6(ref) • Genealogies - Gen 5, 1 Chron 1, Luke 3 • Plants and sunlight • The sun

  39. Creation Cosmology

  40. What About Distant Starlight? Proposed Solutions • Light Created in Transit • Variable Speed of Light • Gravitational Time Dilation

  41. Gravitational Time Dilation General relativity predicts that gravity field would slow time. The stronger the gravitational field the greater the effect on time. The atomic clock in Boulder Colorado runs 5 microseconds / year faster than the one in Greenwich England.

  42. Space-Time Distortion

  43. Starlight and Time DVD Book

  44. Starlight and Time

  45. Distant Starlight and Time A Major Problem for Evolution • No explanation for the first star • The horizon problem (light-travel-time problem)

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