3 Year WMAP Results

Kurieuo · Post by **Kurieuo** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:13 pm

Just thought the three year results of WMAP data may be appreciated by some (see http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_mm.html). I love the time line that was produced, which I modified below to include what I consider to be the obvious as a Christian

bluesman · Post by **bluesman** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:11 pm

1:1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 1:2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

1:3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 1:4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

Let there be light and there was light !!!!!!!!

Mike

angel · Post by **angel** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:34 am

Actually according to the picture posted the Earth came about 10 billion years later than light.

And it took about 400000 years to do it.

IRQ Conflict · Post by **IRQ Conflict** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:09 am

Blacknad · Post by **Blacknad** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:47 pm

IRQ - Excellent.

Glass darkly - LOL, but how true.

Regards,

Blacknad.

Kurieuo · Post by **Kurieuo** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:45 pm

angel wrote:Actually according to the picture posted the Earth came about 10 billion years later than light.

And it took about 400000 years to do it.

Actually the phrase ha'shamayim we ha'erets, translated "heavens and earth" is said to consistently refer to the totality of the universe. For example, and I quote from AiG to boost my words amongst the YEC faction here, "Hebrew scholars, both conservative and otherwise, recognize that Genesis 1:1 ('In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth') means that God created the universe, or everything.9 Hebrew has no word for 'universe', or the totality of everything. To represent this, Hebrew uses the extremes of the whole, the heavens (out there) and the earth (right here) to represent the whole."

So in Genesis 1:1 we read all the materials of the universe (i.e., matter, energy and whatever else it contains) were created. Then continuing onto verse 2 we are given a reference point—Earth which is formless and empty—so we can assume everything prior to Earth being formless and empty had happened and was included in the ha'shamayim we ha'erets of verse 1.

Kurieuo