Do Faith and NASA Meet with Dark Matter and Dark Energy?

Posted on Jul 14, 2016 Topic : Men's Christian Living, Prophecy

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters.”
—Genesis 1:1-2

In the beginning God did not create.

Instead, “God started to create.” That’s what some Hebrew lingo specialists say.

“God created” (Genesis 1:1) comes from a Greek translation of the original Hebrew language. And the Greek translator wasn’t up on his Hebrew, some Jewish scholars say. The corrected version emphasizes that creation was a process.

When God created the universe, he started with existing material that was formless and dark, the Bible says. With that, he began to separate and organize the material.

NASA astrophysicists use similar words to describe the birth of the universe. They say it’s made up mostly of mysterious substances called dark energy and dark matter.

When the universe was young, it was nearly smooth and featureless. As it grew older and developed, it became organized.*

Astrophysicists estimate that only about 5 percent of the universe is organized into objects we can see, such as planets and stars.

Seventy percent is dark energy, sometimes cryptically described as a property of space: empty, but with such characteristics as the ability to allow the universe to expand.

The rest of the universe, an estimated 25 percent, is dark matter: exotic particles that can’t be seen—possibly axions, hypothetical particles 500 million times lighter than an electron.

As you think about the intricacies of space and the universe—everything from the stars in the sky to the fish in the sea—what makes you feel most inclined to believe that there’s a Creator behind the creation?

*Goddard Space Flight Center, “Dark Matter,” Imagine the Universe, https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/dark_matter1.html.

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