Galactic Warning - Creation Moments

Psalm 19:1
“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.”

A recent article on a popular science website featured the Andromeda Galaxy – a neighboring galaxy to our own Milky Way, and a source of fascination to me since I was a child. The article accused the Andromeda Galaxy of cannibalism, saying that it had eaten a number of other galaxies and was now heading our way, ready to devour the Milky Way.

One researcher explained, “The Milky Way is on a collision course with Andromeda in about four billion years. So knowing what kind of a monster our galaxy is up against is useful in finding out the Milky Way’s ultimate fate. Andromeda has a much bigger and more complex stellar halo than the Milky Way, which indicates that it has cannibalised many more galaxies, possibly larger ones.”

Now, before you start panicking, even evolutionary astrophysicists are not heading for underground shelters just yet. They think that the galactic collision will take place in about 4 billion years. Now, a lot happens in 4 billion years to a deep-time cosmologist. They believe that Earth was formed 4.5 billion years ago.

And herein lies the problem with their hysteria. Their observation of Andromeda’s stellar halo is very interesting, but their interpretation of future events is based on incorrect presuppositions of the past. The Bible tells us that “the heavens declare the glory of God”, and that presupposition increases our wonder at God’s creation. The Universe will end when God says so – not a day early or a day late!

Prayer: We praise Your Name, our God and Creator, as we gaze in wonder at the heavens, which declare Your glory. Amen.

Author: Paul F. Taylor

Ref: Australian National University. “The violent history of the big galaxy next door.” ScienceDaily, 2 October 2019. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191002131947.htm>. Image: Adam Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0 Generic.