Genesis 1:16 “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.” “Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite’em” begins the nursery rhyme. “Little fleas ...
Continue ReadingPsalm 115:16 “The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.” Someone recently told me that it was unbiblical to explore space because it is forbidden in the Psalms. I had, at that particular mo...
Continue ReadingGenesis 22:17a “That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; (Genesis 22:17a) Atheist scientist Dr. Richard Dawkins suggests that children should...
Continue ReadingPsalm 19:1 “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork.” Two rocks float through silent space, unaware that they will soon cause a scientific debate millions of miles away on earth. On earth these two small ast...
Continue ReadingPsalm 148:3 “Praise Him, sun and moon; praise Him, all you stars of light!” Our moon is moving away from the earth at the rate of four centimeters per year. That might not seem like much. However, that rate of movement away from the earth pres...
Continue ReadingJob 38:33 “Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?” A recent article about Jupiter was a textbook lesson in how deep-time scientists confuse fact and theory, science and supposition. The article, on the...
Continue ReadingPsalm 8:3-4 “When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?” When I was in primary school, my teacher came ...
Continue ReadingMatthew 2:1-2 “Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men form the East came to Jerusalem, saying, ‘Where is He who is born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and hav...
Continue ReadingJude 1:13 “Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever” The small, almost throwaway comment about the creation of the stars in Genesis 1:16 – “He made the stars also...
Continue ReadingJob 38:31” “Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion”? (Job 38:31) Constellations are patterns of stars in the sky. In one sense, constellations are imaginary. Someone, at some time in the ancient world, has look...
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