Astronomy – Creation Moments

Jupiter in Collision

Jude 1:13 “Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. “ In the previous few months as I write this script, the planet Jupiter has been featured heavily in items on sci...

Jupiter Weather Forecast

Psalm 107:29-30 “He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.” Here is the weather forecast for the surface of the planet Jupiter for today. It...

Galileo Galilei

Psalm 8:1 “O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.” “We don’t know much about Galileo,” quipped comedian Milton Jones, “except that he was a poor boy from a poor ...

Ganymede

Psalm 19:1 “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.” There are many strange worlds in the Solar System. Ganymede is one of Galileo’s moons – one of the four larger moons of Jupiter, discovered by pionee...

Playing Ducks with Drake

Isaiah 55:12 “For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.” In 1961, the astronomer Frank Drake invented the ...

Jupiter’s Moons: What’s in a Name?

Genesis 1:16b “He made the stars also…” Somewhere, hidden deep in a box in a storeroom, is a book about the planets, written and presented to me by a TV astronomer in Britain. In the section about Jupiter, it informs me that the Solar System’...

Ceres

Genesis 1:16b “…he made the stars also.” In 1772, Johann Elert Bode, an astronomer from Hamburg, thought long and hard about the large gap that there seemed to be between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. He proposed that there must be another pla...

Did Noah’s Flood Affect Mars, Too?

Genesis 7:11 “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened..” One of the biggest headlines...

Quirks and Quarks

Genesis 1:1-2 “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” In the fourth century BC, the Greek p...

Spiders Help Make the “Sun”

Proverbs 30:28 “The spider skillfully grasps with its hands, and it is in kings’ palaces. The instruments that scientists are using to develop fusion energy continue to become more complex and powerful. They are trying to generate the energies needed ...