According to
evolutionists this obviously means that the moon is 4.5 billion years old,
roughly the same 'age' as the earth. If that is obvious to you, dear
reader, then heaven help you tighten all those loose screws.
In 1994, in issue No. 68 of the Biblical Astronomer (pg. 5), we flew
into the faces of cautious creationists and blind evolutionists and printed
an article on the dust on the moon, showing that despite the cautions by
evolutionists and creationists alike, the spacecraft data still support the
conclusion that if the moon were billions of years old that there would be
many feet (50) of dust on the moon. Recently I came upon a report on
the dust content found in the samples of lunar soil returned by the Apollo
missions. It was observed that the actual amount of dust on the moon is
about one inch (3 cm.). It turns out that of that dust, slightly more than
1% (1/67th) is meteoric in origin, the rest is powdered lunar material.
This is fraction agrees perfectly with the accumulation of meteoric
material expected on the surface of the moon if the latter were only 6,000
years old (4.2 x 10-2 gm/cm2).
Judgment and the light of God in physics
Romans 9:22-23 teaches us why God created man: What if God,
willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with
much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he
might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which
he had afore prepared unto glory. That is to say, God created us in order
to show both his wrath and his mercy. In order to do that, all events must
be recorded (see Dan. 7:10 and Rev. 20:12). In order to be recorded, all
events must be observed and measured so that judgment can be meted
out.
If these things be true in human affairs, and they most certainly are,
then we may expect the entire creation to participate in the recording
process (Rom. 8:22). How will that process be expressed? Simply this
way: an action will not be made manifest (made evident) until it is
detected in some way.
Although scientists don't recognize that spiritual issue, they do
recognize those principles in nature. At issue here is the Einstein,
Podolsky and Rosen debate against quantum mechanics. These three
men held that if an event can be predicted with certainty, that then the
event is real even if it is never measured. Spiritually, the view these men
espoused was that some events can happen without being recorded in
God's books. In other words, if God knows ahead of time what is going
to happen, he won't make an entry in his books. Opposing this view
were Bohr, Heisenberg and Born who claimed that there is no reality until
a measurement is made. In other words, nothing can happen until (or
without being) recorded in God's books.
An experiment conducted at the University of Rochester in Rochester,
New York about a year ago has confirmed the latter view. Leonard Mandel
conducted an experiment which shows that: There is no reality until
a measurement is made.5 In other words, all reality is on record.
Mandel sent a laser beam into a crystal which, in turn, sent out two
beams of lower energy. The two beams were recombined and their paths
retraced. Mandel and his colleagues discovered that the beams did not
always follow the paths predicted by classical physics even though those
paths were predicted with certainty. So there is no reality without
sense, both our own senses and God's. In other words, there is no reality
without a record, and the record and only the record can be judged.
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Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
William Shakespeare
Hamlet, Act. II, Scene 2
NOTES AND REFERENCES
1
Quoted from William Corliss, 1997. Science Frontiers, No. 110, p. 2.
2
J. Einasto, et al., 1997. A 120-Mpc Periodicity in the Three-
dimensional Distribution of Galaxy Superclusters, Nature, 385:139.
3
Neal P. Humphreys, R. Maartens, and D. R. Matravers, 1997.
Astrophysical Journal, 477:47-57 (March 1), pp. 47-58.
4
1976. Creation Research Society Quarterly, 13(1):39-40.
5
Anon., 1996. Photon Experiment Shows the Flaw in Classical
Physics, Rochester Review, Spring-Summer, pp. 5-6. (The work was
published in an early issue of Physics Letters A that year.