THE STARDUST TRAIL - The underlying reason for space research is to explain the origin of the stars and planets without God having been involved. The ultimate hope is to find evidence of extraterrestrial life somewhere, for that would prove that life could evolve anywhere — not just on Earth. There is a lot of extraterrestrial life, of course - the Bible calls them angels! But the astro-scientists will not find any angels with their telescopes or space probes - neither will they find any other humans or humanoids out there. Physical life was specially created, and Earth was created uniquely to support that life - the stars were created for other purposes, not yet revealed - Big Bang cosmologists believe that our human bodies are essentially "stardust," composed of elements generated long ago in exploding stars which disbursed their dust into space. The trail began some 15 billion years ago in the primeval Big Bang, which first produced simple chemical elements, then eventually stars and galaxies and planets and people through aeons of evolution. This idea is not scientific. Scientists have never observed stars or planets evolve, so such ideas are essentially based on naturalistic speculation supported mostly by esoteric mathematics, so they are not scientific. The truth is that we don't understand star formation. There have been various theories of the evolution of the planets and their satellites, as well as the comets and asteroids.

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The Stardust Trail
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The underlying reason for space research is to explain the origin of the stars and planets without God having been involved. The ultimate hope is to find evidence of extraterrestrial life somewhere, for that would prove that life could evolve anywhere — not just on Earth. There is a lot of extraterrestrial life, of course - the Bible calls them angels! But the astro-scientists will not find any angels with their telescopes or space probes - neither will they find any other humans or humanoids out there. Physical life was specially created, and Earth was created uniquely to support that life - the stars were created for other purposes, not yet revealed

BY HENRY M. MORRIS, PH.D.  

Big Bang cosmologists believe that our human bodies are essentially "stardust," composed of elements generated long ago in exploding stars which disbursed their dust into space.

The trail began some 15 billion years ago in the primeval Big Bang, which first produced simple chemical elements, then eventually stars and galaxies and planets and people through aeons of evolution.

This idea is not scientific.

Scientists have never observed stars or planets evolve, so such ideas are essentially based on naturalistic speculation supported mostly by esoteric mathematics, so they are not scientific, by definition.

As far as the stars are concerned, Abraham Loeb (of the Harvard University Center for Astrophysics) has frankly acknowledged that scientists do not know how they formed.

The truth is that we don't understand star formation at a fundamental level.

The most favored theory at present is that the Big Bang explosion generated the simple elements hydrogen and helium, which eventually coalesced into the first simple stars.

These stars, known as Type-3 Stars, did not include any complex elements.

The latter had to be generated when some of this first group of stars exploded as supernovas.

From the resulting stardust evolved more complex stars and eventually planets and people.

The problem is that, out of the billions upon billions of stars in the observable universe, there do not seem to be any Type-3 Stars at all.

The first generation of stars likely formed when the universe was only a few million years old (though these Population III stars have not yet been identified).

It seems like we should see plenty of them if they ever existed, since all the other stars supposedly keep coming from them.

Be that as it may, we are more interested in our sun with its solar system.

There have been various theories of the evolution of the planets and their satellites, as well as the comets and asteroids.

Most of these theories have encountered insuperable obstacles, so that the current theory (of last resort, actually) is a set of catastrophic theories based on multiple impacts of various rock bodies.

The moon (to take a "close to home" example) is said to have originated in a gigantic impact on Earth.

Many models have been proposed for the formation of the Moon, but no one has succeeded in showing the formation satisfactorily.

The popular "giant impact" model states that a Mars-sized protoplanet hit the proto-Earth and generated a circumterrestrial debris disk from which the Moon accreted.

While this theory may have fewer problems than others, it appears extremely imaginative and quite incapable of proof. Furthermore, it does encounter one serious difficulty.

However, no reasonable means to rid the Earth/Moon system of the excess angular momentum has yet been proposed.

One scientist in this field seems about ready to give up hope that the origin of the moon can ever be explained, not to mention the other planets and satellites.

All in all, developing a theory of lunar origins that could make sense of data obtained from the Apollo lunar landing programme proved very difficult.

So much so, in fact, that when I took a class on our planetary system from Irvin Shapiro two decades ago, he joked that the best explanation was observational error — the moon did not exist.

The comets orbiting the sun present another problem. These bodies lose considerable mass at every pass around the sun. They cannot survive many orbits, and thus cannot be very old.

To get around this problem, evolutionists assume there is a vast cloud of hibernating comets out near the edge of the solar system, which releases new comets every so often.

This imaginary cloud is called the "Oort Cloud," named after the astronomer who proposed it. The problem is that there is no observational evidence such a cloud exists at all.

We have never actually "seen" the Oort Cloud . . .

We infer the existence and properties of the Oort Cloud . . . from . . . the steady trickle of long-period comets into the planetary system.

The underlying reason for space research is to explain the origin of the stars and planets without God having been involved.

The ultimate hope is to find evidence of extraterrestrial life somewhere, for that would prove, they say, that life could evolve anywhere — not just on Earth.

One hope is to locate some type of nonrandom radio signals from the stars.

Very elaborate radio telescopes have been built and monitored for years hoping to catch them. But this effort has been a waste of much money.

. . . scientists are systematically scrutinizing a thousand nearby sun-like stars for the faint signal that would betray intelligent habitation.

So far, they have found nothing — not a single extraterrestrial peep. . . we are, to our knowledge, still alone in a vast cosmos.

Nevertheless, NASA is still hoping to find some evidence of extraterrestrial life — if not human life on some far-off planet, then at least microbial life on a nearby planet.

The only candidate remaining in the solar system is Mars.

Although Mars seems to be devoid of any life at all, they still are searching for evidence that it used to be there.

Two years ago, NASA generated global publicity by announcing they had found such evidence — a Martian rock with fossilized bacteria that had somehow traveled to Earth and landed in Antarctica.

This claim has been well debunked by now.

Eighteen months after David S. McKay and his colleagues . . . raised eyebrows with their claim . . . the team has made few converts . . . its critics have published dozens of new observations they believe make that theory increasingly improbable. . . .

On the other hand, this sensational claim of Martian life has been immensely successful in one sense.

Scientists now working on . . . the possibility of extraterrestrial life are funded at levels that two years ago would have been unimaginable.

Had NASA's publicity machine not turned McKay's paper into a global media event, this largesse would never have been granted.

What is NASA up to? Two years ago, the agency thought it had discovered life on Mars and set the world ablaze with talk of a Universe populated by aliens.

Now it has discovered water on the moon and the world is already planning holidays at lunar resorts. . . .

But we should not be cynical. NASA needs periodic blazes of publicity to keep the U.S. Congress interested in funding space exploration.

The most recent NASA project has been the widely publicized adventure of sending an ex-senator and ex-astronaut (now 77 years old) back on a space mission, ostensibly to research the effects of space travel on the aging process.

The public-relations boost for NASA has again been enormous.

There is a lot of extraterrestrial life, of course. The Bible calls them angels!

These are specially created beings "sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation" (Hebrews 1:14).

But the astro-scientists will not find any angels with their telescopes or space probes. Neither will they find any other humans or humanoids out there.

Physical life was specially created, and Earth was created uniquely to support that life.

The stars were created for other purposes, not yet revealed.

"The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S: but the earth hath He given to the children of men" (Psalm 115:16).

Evolutionary scientists would be well advised to "hit the sawdust trail" that leads to Christ and forget about the imaginary stardust trail that they think led to life.

* Dr. Morris is Founder and President Emeritus of ICR.

The Institute for Creation Research (ICR) wants people to know that God’s Word can be trusted in everything it speaks about—from how and why we were made, to how the universe was formed, to how we can know God and receive all He has planned for us.

After 50 years of ministry, ICR remains a leader in scientific research within the context of biblical creation. Founded by Dr. Henry Morris in 1970, ICR exists to conduct scientific research within the realms of origins and Earth history, and then to educate the public both formally and informally through professional training programs, through conferences and seminars around the country, and through books, magazines, and media presentations.

https://www.icr.org/article/stardust-trail/

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LET'S TALK ABOUT WATER - In all the exploration of the solar system and space beyond it, we’ve not found water on any planet. Ours is the only one with water on the surface in abundance – and an atmosphere that is perfectly in balance to maintain water on it. So, before we begin to think that we’ve got wisdom enough to run our own lives – we ought to also consider the water on our planet and God’s orchestration of it by creation and by wisdom in how it works in our world. We consider all that we see with our current lakes, rivers, and oceans a given – and yet to begin to comprehend how God gave us these things is beyond our understanding. We take water for granted, and yet if we stopped and though about it’s rarity in the universe we would be filled with wonder as to its presence and origin. The utter brilliance that formed it and fashioned it is also the same utter brilliance that manages our days according to the will and purpose of God. That, hopefully, is of great comfort to you. It was meant to be.

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 Let's Talk About Water

Job 38:8-11

Calvary Chapel of Jonesboro

"Or who enclosed the sea with doors When, bursting forth, it went out from the womb; When I made a cloud its garment And thick darkness its swaddling band, And I placed boundaries on it And set a bolt and doors, And I said, 'Thus far you shall come, but no farther; And here shall your proud waves stop'?“ Job 38:8-11

We take water for granted, and yet if we stopped and though about it’s rarity in the universe we would be filled with wonder as to its presence and origin. 

So far, in all the exploration of the solar system and space beyond it, we’ve not found water on any planet. 

Ours is the only one with water on the surface in abundance – and an atmosphere that is perfectly in balance to maintain water on it. 

So, before we begin to think that we’ve got wisdom enough to run our own lives – we ought to also consider the water on our planet and God’s orchestration of it by creation and by wisdom in how it works in our world.
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The language used here is not limited to describing water in its current state. 

God speaks of how the sea burst forth through doors and out of the womb in the earliest moments of creation. 

Some creation scientists postulate that there was a different way that water worked in the Eden environment. There was no rain until the time of Noah. 

The water cycle before that time involved a mist that would arise and water everything on the planet. 

This would explain the lust green forests that have been found in the midst of the icy confines of the polar caps. 

The event by which these seas burst forth through their “doors” is the flood. 

Again, creation scientists have a theory that the earth was surrounded by a water vapor canopy that not only allowed for a worldwide tropical climate, but also blocked UV rays to the point where people would not age as they do now. 

The third thing this would provide for is a rain event that would flood the entire earth under enough water so that everything would die except those preserved on the Ark which Noah built at God’s direction.

That flood would have happened at the same time that massive earthquakes (described in Genesis as “all the fountains of the great deep bursting open.”) would have opened up fissures in the earth where massive underwater reservoirs would have let loose their water into the seas, helping the earth flood greatly. 

This cataclysmic event would have radically changed the face of the planet. 

At the end of this event God describes the way that he established boundaries for the water where the water’s proud waves would have to stop. 

We consider all that we see with our current lakes, rivers, and oceans a given – and yet to begin to comprehend how God gave us these things is beyond our understanding. 

Water, and the current water cycle, was set into place. Thus, we’ve had water ever since. 

But as to how it got here – we are clueless. Why our planet alone has it like this is even a greater mystery. 

So, we have an all-powerful God by whose wisdom all that we see was put into place. 

We have an all-wise God who gave it to us according to a sheer genius that is beyond anything we could ever conceive. 

When we go to the beach – the water comes in waves and crashes against the beaches of the planet. 

Why it works this way – and how it came to be this way is attributable to God alone. 

The utter brilliance that formed it and fashioned it is also the same utter brilliance that manages our days according to the will and purpose of God. 

That, hopefully, is of great comfort to you. It was meant to be. 

Remember that the next time you go to the beach.

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