The Island of Logic

I am going to delve momentarily into what I believe is the highly controversial subject of the age of the universe. I am going to take a position that many Christians may believe is almost sacrilegious. I have been giving this subject quite a bit of thought and study lately. The accepted secular opinion is that the age of the universe is somewhere around 13 billion years and most Christians believe the age of the universe is somewhere between 6,000 and 10,000 years. I am beginning to believe that both of these opinions have some truth to them. Let’s get one thing straight before we get started, “God created the universe”. This is really without dispute. Intelligent design is the only logical explanation for all of this. The mathematical probability of the Big Bang theory or unintelligent design is simply far too enormous to be even accepted by any logical person. The only argument that should exist is between the agnostic and the believer of a caring Creator. The accelerating expansion of the universe and the left over energy of the “Big Bang” have been proved and are without dispute. I however do not believe that these two evidences prove the Big Bang theory, but they are the result of God’s creation of the universe. God created the universe sometime between 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. However when God created the universe he created time before there was time, or maybe stated in a little better way, God created the history of time when he created time. This I believe can be simply proven by looking into the night sky. If we as Christians believe that the age of time is 6,000 to 10,000 years ago end of story, then this simplistic view can be disproved by the viewing the stars and galaxies in the night sky. With our naked eye we can see galaxies that are 10s of millions of light years away. If the age of time was exactly 6,000 to 10,000 years of age there would only be a hand full of stars visible to us. So when God created the universe he created the history of light. It doesn’t take much of an imagination to believe that He also created the history of fossils, geological events, meteor impacts, ice ages, etc., which are really also part of the history of light. To believe that the only source of geological monuments (Rockies, Grand Canyon, etc), oil, fossils, etc. is the Flood; is simply stupid. Another opinion some Christians have is that God created universe around 13 billion years ago and then created our solar system 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. I believe that this theory is disproved by Genesis 1:3 KJV “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” and Genesis 1:16 KJV “And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.” The simplest explanation is then, God created the history of time when he created time. In looking at the current accelerating expansion of the universe we can fairly accurately predict the beginning of this history of time and that is a little over 13 billion years ago. There will also be an end to time (Revelations 1:8 KJV “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.”). Time is finite, eternity is infinite. What makes eternity infinite is the absence of time. Peter tries  to explain it II Peter 3:8 “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” in other words time means nothing (or does not exist) in eternity. Now to throw away some of my previous assumptions, if time and space themselves are made relative by large gravitational forces while light is a constant as predicted by Einstein’s Theory of Relativity then our predictions of the age of the history of time may be quite substantially inaccurate. God may have stretched the space/time continuum to the point that we result in our current predictions. Which also means, that in theory, time travel is possible. Maybe we will never really know the age of time in the universe until time ends for us, but it sure is fun to try?? Maybe a more appropriate title for this blog entry is the difference between the age of time and the age of the universe. Age of time, according to our calculations, 13 billion plus years. Age of the universe 6,000 to 10,000 years relatively speaking.