The Whenever I Get A Chance Newsletter

August 24, 2007 No. 8

The Whenever I Get A Chance Newsletter

Do Ph.D. scientists still agree on a slow and gradual

formation of the Grand Canyon?

It is so sad that people are still promoting this wrong view of the origin of the Grand Canyon. It is also frustrating to have park rangers at the Grand Canyon present an evolutionary view of the Canyon’s formation.

However, we’re noticing that many evolutionary geologists are now agreeing that it did not take millions of years to be carved!

For a long time, creation scientists have been telling evolutionists that the Grand Canyon does not fit with the idea of millions of years of earth history. They have said that the Canyon had to be gouged out quickly by a large quantity of rapidly moving water. Many evolutionists are now conceding this point. They have realized that the Colorado River did not slowly erode the Canyon over millions of years.

Creationists believe the aftermath of Noah’s Flood had a lot to do with the formation of the Grand Canyon. The answer is in Genesis!

Do some people really believe we Are nothing more than atoms and molecules?

Sadly, they do. This can be seen in the following true-life dialog between a teacher and a 14-year-old girl as we recorded in our Creation magazine.

“Yes, that’s all we are,” said the girl during a science lesson. “Just atoms and molecules that are recycled through nature and reused, time and time again. Some of what I’m made of may once have been part of an Egyptian pharaoh. And when I die I will rot or burn and some of me may find its way into a cow or a tree, or even another human being.”

“But what about your spirit?” asked the teacher. “There’s more to you than your body.”

“No,” replied the girl, “there’s nothing more.”

When you think about it, this student is actually being consistent with what millions of young people are being taught through most of the education system. They believe that they are just the products of matter, time and chance. This student came to the conclusion that there really is no personal soul. We are just a collection of chemical reactions, which is what evolution teaches.

But God’s Word tells us that we’re special. We are made in God’s image, with a soul that’s immortal.

What do bathtubs have to do with the age of the universe?

The bathtub is actually a wonderful way to show the difficulty in trying to age-date the universe using scientific methods.

Imagine one day that you come home and find the bathtub half full of hot water, say 120 degrees Fahrenheit. Then you want to learn how long the water has been in the tub. There are many theories that you can explore.

First, the water came out of the tap nearly boiling hot and has been cooling for a long time. Or the water was run at 150 degrees and has been cooling for less than an hour. Or maybe the water has been in the tub for only about 5 minutes, because someone knew you were coming home.

Mathematically there’s no way that you can prove any one theory to be more accurate than the other. The only way to really know is to ask someone who was there when the water was run in the tub.

The same holds true for the age of the universe. The only way to know is to ask someone who was there. Since God was the only One there when the universe was created, we find our answers in God’s Word. According to God's word in the Book of Genesis, the universe is only thousands, not billions, of years old.

Was Einstein Wrong?

The field of physics worships at the altar of c, which is the speed of light. It is widely regarded as the inviolate constant which affects all things: from our knowledge of astronomy to the very behavior of subatomic particles. The idea that the speed of light is constant is at the foundation of modern physics and it is a key factor in Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity which led to his deduction E=mc² (in which the total amount of energy obtainable from an object is equivalent to the mass of the object multiplied by the square of the speed of light).

However at a physics conference that was held in April, 2005, at Warwick University, several scientists have suggested that Albert Einstein may have in fact been wrong, that the speed of light is actually slowing down. Michael Murphy, a scientist with the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge University, said "We are claiming something extraordinary here. The findings suggest that there is a more fundamental theory of the way that light and matter interact; and that special relativity, at its foundation, is actually wrong. It could turn out that special relativity is a very good approximation but it's missing a little bit. That little bit may be the doorknob to a whole new universe and a whole new set of fundamental laws."

Throughout history our knowledge of how light travels has changed. Greek philosophers generally followed Aristotle's belief that the speed of light was infinite. Even Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), the German astronomer and mathematician best known for his laws of planetary motion, maintained the majority view that light was instantaneous. Rene Descartes (1596-1650), famous for his work in both philosophy and mathematics, also believed in the instantaneous propagation of light.

It wasn't until 1677 that a Danish astronomer named Olaf Roemer announced that the uncharacteristic behavior of the eclipse times of Jupiter's inner moon, could be accounted for by a finite speed of light. It took another half century for that notion to be accepted. It was not until 1729 that James Bradley's independent confirmation finally ended the opposition to a finite value for the speed of light. Roemer's work, which had split the scientific community for 53 years, was finally vindicated.

The speed of light has been measured 163 times by 16 different methods over the past 300 years. However, in recent years, reexamining the known experimental measurements to date, some scientists have suggested that the speed of light is not constant, but appears to have been slowing down. Needless to say, this view is highly controversial and the majority of physicists intensely reject this hypothesis. However, if such a theory were eventually proven correct, it would dramatically alter our concepts concerning the physical universe.

It is possible that the entropy laws of physics and the professed decay of c, the slowing velocity of light, were a result of the fall of man recorded in Genesis Chapter 3.

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