Creation Astronomy

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Creation Astronomy

• Dr. Jason Lisle

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Creation Astronomy

• The Universe declares Gods Glory
• The bible is accurate when it touches on
  Astronomy
• The universe is thousands of years old not
  billions

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Creation Astronomy

• The heavens have been supernaturally designed
• The earth is unique
• Distant starlight does not support the big bang

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Creation Astronomy

• Insights from Kepler, Newton, Madler, Einstein,
  and many others teach us that the Universe truly
  is a work of art designed by God

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The Universe

• Chapter 16

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• The sum of all matter and energy that exists,
  that ever has existed and that ever will exist

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• There is only
• 1
• Universe

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• There is only
• 1
• Creator

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Light years

• unit of distance equal to the distance light
  travels in one year
• 1ly 9.5 x 1015m
• a unit of distance NOT time

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• Galaxies collection of millions or billions of
  stars bound together by gravity

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• The Known Universe
• Billions of Galaxies
• Hundreds of Billions of Stars

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• Milky Way Galaxy
• 100 Billion stars
• 100,000 ly across
• size of a quarter in comparison to North American
  continent

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• Sombrero Galaxy
• 32 million ly from earth
• 50,000 ly across

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• Whirlpool Galaxy
• 23 million ly from earth
• Central x structure

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Galaxies

• three types
• based on shapes
• Spiral
• Elliptical
• Irregular

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• Galaxies collection of millions or billions of
  stars bound together by gravity
• Stars huge ball of hot gas the emits light

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Stars

• Brightness depends on temperature, size and
  distance from the earth
• Our Brightest Sun
• closest to earth

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Stars

• Composed of burning Hydrogen and Helium
• greater than 1500 Kelvin
• 15 million degrees Celsius

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The Sun

• a typical star
• 90 hydrogen
• 9 helium
• 6000ºF
• 27 million ºF at center

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Stars

• Hotter stars more blue
• Cooler stars more red
• Very dense (150x more than water)

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Constellations

• a group of stars appearing in a pattern as seen
  from earth
• often outline characters from Greek Mythology

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Constellations Project

• Choose a constellation
• Research it online
• Make a poster or model
• Give an oral presentation to the class

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Information to include

• Its name, mythology, nickname
• where did it come from
• what is its position in the sky (northern or
  southern hemisphere)
• what stars it includes
• when it the best time to see it

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ConstellationChoices
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Stars

• Driven by Nuclear Fusion reactions

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Life and Death of Stars

• Stars are formed in a Nebula (cloud of gas and
  dust)

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Birth of a Star

• The cloud of gas and dust collapses inward by
  its own gravity and begins to spin

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Birth of a Star

• It gets very hot and electrons are stripped from
  the Hydrogen atoms leaving free protons

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Birth of a Star

• The high temperatures causes the protons to move
  very quickly and when they hit each other nuclear
  fusion occurs.

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Birth of a Star

• Outward forces and inward forces balance to cause
  equilibrium

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Death of a Star

• When fusion slows, the core contracts and
  temperature increases

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Death of a Star

• The outer layers expand and the star becomes a
  Red Giant

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Death of a Star

• The outer layers are cooler but the center
  continues fusion until the core becomes carbon
  and oxygen

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Death of a Star

• The core contracts further and the outer layers
  expand again forming a Planetary Nebula

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Death of a Star

• A Planetary Nebula is a glowing cloud or ring of
  gas

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Death of a Star

• The core becomes a white dwarf a very dense,
  glowing ember that slowly cools until it
  produces no more energy

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Death of a Star

• As the White Dwarf burns out it may become a
  Black Dwarf

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Death of a Star

• Any star less than or equal to 1.4 times the mass
  of the sun will die as a White Dwarf or a Black
  Dwarf

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Death of a Star

• Larger stars have more dramatic deaths
• Supergiant stars explode into Supernovas

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Death of a Large Star

• Stars more than 1.4 x the mass of the sun do not
  become Red Giants, they become

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Supergiants
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Supergiants

• An extremely large star that creates elements as
  heavy as iron

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Supergiants

• Do not stop at carbon fusion core becomes Iron
  beginning of a very violent death

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Supergiants

• Fusing iron atoms does not produce energy
• It uses energy
• Fusion stops

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Supergiants

• No longer any outward pressure to balance
  gravitational force
• Star collapses and rebounds with a shock wave

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Supergiants

• Outer layers are blown away from the core in a
  huge bright explosion Supernova

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Supergiants

• If the leftover core is 1.4 to 3 x mass of the
  sun, it will become a neutron star

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Supergiants

• Sometimes can be detected as pulsars (rapidly
  rotating sources of radio waves)

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Supergiants

• If the leftover core is greater than 3x mass of
  the sun, it will collapse to form a black hole

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Black Hole

• An object so massive and dense that not even
  light can escape its gravity

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Black Hole

• Can be seen indirectly because they have such a
  powerful gravitational influence on objects

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New Stars and Planets

• The formation of a new star has never been
  observed, as it is supposed to take hundreds of
  thousands of Years.

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Origins of the Universe

• Your Textbook
• Explanation
• Big Bang

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Textbook pgs 531-534

• Expanding Universe
• Edwin Hubble, 1929
• Red Shift
• Shows that galaxies are moving away from earth
• Galaxies farther away have greater Red Shifts

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Textbook pgs 531-534

• Universe used to be smaller
• Going backwards brings them closer together
• Extremely small volume at one time
• Singularity

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Textbook pgs 531-534

• Rapid expansion of the singularity caused Big
  Bang
• Big Bang Theory
• 10-20 billion years ago
• Most complete and most widely accepted

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Textbook pgs 531-534

• Nothing existed before Big Bang (no time or
  space)
• From nothing came space, time, matter and energy
• Explosion released all of the matter and energy
  that still exists in the universe today

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Textbook pgs 531-534

• Cosmic Background Radiation
• 1965, Penzias Wilson
• Supports Big Bang Theory because it was predicted
  by the theory
• CMBR remains of radiation produced during Big
  Bang

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Textbook pg 533

• Time Line in figure 16-10
• Protons, neutrons and electrons right away
• Hydrogen atoms after a million years
• The stage is set for everything else

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The Future

• Three possible outcomes
• Bottom of page 533
• Depends on amount of matter (figure 16-11 pg 534)

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Origins of the Universe

• Big Problems
• with the Big Bang
• Jason Lisle

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Problems with the Big Bang

• Cause of the Universe
• Timescale
• Order of Events
• The Future
• Extra Terrestrial Life
• Original Earth

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Origins of the Universe

• Big Bang cant be reconciled
• with scripture

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A good Scientific Model

• Explains properties of nature and makes
  predictions
• Simple
• Fewer assumptions the better
• Makes many correct, specific predictions

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Origins of the Universe

• Big Bang is not a
• Good
• Scientific Model

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Scientific Problems

• Flatness problem
• Horizon problem
• Monopole Problem
• Inflation
• Singularity Problems

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Why do People believe it?

• Locked into a way of thinking
• evidence is interpreted by worldview
• John 319
• Men love darkness more than light

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In Conclusion

• Big Bang is Naturalistic
• Not compatible with bible
• Not a good scientific model
• Large number of scientific problems
• The bible reasonable description of origins
• You can trust in the authority of God

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The Biblical Model

• 7 Cs of History
• Creation 6 24 hr days
• Corruption the fall
• Catastrophe the flood
• Confusion Tower of Babel

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7 Cs of History

• Christ
• Centerpiece and proof of biblical cosmology
• Earth is focus of the Creators attention
• The place where He chose to be with His people

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7 Cs of History

• Cross
• Curse affected whole creation
• Cross redeemed whole creation
• Resurrection proves Jesus is who He said He was
  and that Bible is accurate

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7 Cs of History

• Consummation
• Final Judgment
• Revelations 88-10

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7 Cs of History

• We do not have to wait billions of years for a
  big chill, or a big crunch, or a big rip.
• We have a new creation on the way
• Isa 469-10, 439-12, Rev 2213

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Our Solar System

• Sun
• 9 Planets
• All other objects orbiting the sun

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The 9 Planets

• primary body orbiting the sun
• closer than stars
• dont give off their own light

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Inner Planets

• Mercury
• Venus
• Earth
• Mars

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Asteroid Belt

• divides inner and outer planets
• small rocky objects that orbit sun, usually in a
  band
• range in diameter from 3km to 700 km

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Outer Planets

• Jupiter
• Saturn
• Uranus
• Neptune
• Pluto

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Our Moon

• largest moon in the solar system
• spins once in the same time it goes around the
  Earth
• always keeps one side facing toward the Earth

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Our Created Moon

• Dr. Don DeYoung

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Our Moon

• Nearest neighbor
• 4 X smaller than earth
• 1/6 gravity (diet solution)
• No weather, place of extremes
• 150 new planets and moons
• Earth is special, no place like home

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Evidence for Creation

• Origin
• Age
• Design

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Origin of the Moon

• Naturalistic lunar theories
• Fission - Daughter theory George Darwin
• Capture Spouse theory
• Nebular - Sister theory
• Collision Impact theory

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Origin of the Moon

• Fourth day of Creation
• Genesis 1 16
• Two great lights
• Placed by God
• Supernatural and beyond explanation

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Age

• Evol 4.5 billion years old
• Lunar Recession
• Orbit is outward spiral, distance is increasing 4
  cm a year,
• If you go back in time the numbers show that
  moon would have been too close just one billion
  years ago

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Age Youthful Moon

• Recorded evidence of lunar cratering during
  middle ages, Bruno
• Young dynamic satellite
• History of Craters
• Worldwide Flood, Radio Isotope half lives
  shortened, Mars activity, all happened at the
  same time

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Design of the Moon

• Reason Purpose for the Moon
• Night light
• Clock, Calendar, Compass
• Stable Seasons (holds tilt)
• Psalm 10419
• Tides (currents), Lives (Marine plants, oxygen
  production)

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• Significant Insignificance
• Isaiah 4012
• Louie Giglio

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