{"id":864,"date":"2018-12-29T04:27:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T04:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creationevidence.org\/blog\/?p=864"},"modified":"2019-07-03T04:10:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T04:10:21","slug":"creation-devotional-december-16-cosmology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creationevidence.org\/blog\/creation-devotional-december-16-cosmology\/","title":{"rendered":"Creation Devotional December 16 - Cosmology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Devotional \u2013 December 16<\/p>\n<p>Cosmology<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For decades, planetary scientists have claimed that the Earth\u2019s ocean water came from comets colliding with the early Earth. But once they measured the composition of the water on comets, scientists found it did not match the characteristics of ocean water. Thus, this explanation fell upon hard times. What\u2019s an evolutionary cosmologist to do?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The latest attempt to rescue the idea that the Earth made itself violates all rules of logic and science. It is now being proposed that water clung to dust particles as they coalesced to form the Earth approximately 5 billion years ago. Here\u2019s the elephant-in-the-living-room problem with this idea:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>These dust particles circling the Sun would have been heated to between 150 and 1080 degrees Celsius \u2013 way above the boiling point of water for millions of years while the planet was coalescing. The water would simply have boiled away!<\/li>\n<li>It is repeatedly assumed that dust circling the Sun clumped into planetesimals (giving something we don\u2019t understand a long name apparently makes it more believable), and then the planetesimals accreted into planets. Yet, it has never been satisfactorily explained how this process could happen because realistic modeling scenarios indicate the particles are driven apart far faster than they \u201caccrete.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>One of the researchers stated, \u201cThe new results will force scientists to re-evaluate the process of Earth\u2019s formation. Perhaps the team\u2019s absorption model is correct, or perhaps water came to Earth aboard a kind of asteroid that hasn\u2019t yet been found, or no longer exists...\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Notice the faith of these scientists. Their beliefs are not based on testable, reproducible observations of science but in \u201cperhaps stories\u201d and things that \u201chaven\u2019t been found or no longer exist.\u201d For Christians, our faith is in what God has told us, \u201cHe created the heavens and the earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.<\/p>\n<p>~ Isaiah 48:13<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: \"Pearls in Paradise\" by authors Bruce Malone and Jule Von Vett<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Devotional \u2013 December 16 Cosmology &nbsp; For decades, planetary scientists have claimed that the Earth\u2019s ocean water came from comets colliding with the early Earth. But once they measured the composition of the water on comets, scientists found it did not match the characteristics of ocean water. Thus, this explanation fell upon hard times. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[57,4],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creation-daily-devotional","tag-cosmology","tag-creation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creationevidence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creationevidence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creationevidence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creationevidence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creationevidence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.creationevidence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":972,"href":"https:\/\/www.creationevidence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions\/972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creationevidence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creationevidence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creationevidence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}