Over the past ten years three scientists have made the most significant advance in physics since Einstein. But you’ve probably never heard of it, because two of them are Creationists and this discovery supports the veracity of the Bible’s creation account.

For about a century the problem of distant starlight has been a challenge to believers in the Bible’s chronology of a world 6000 years old.

The problem is simple.

We can measure the speed of light, and it appears to be constant. And it’s really really fast.

The distance a particle of light (photon) travels in a year is called a “light year” and is about ten trillion kilometers.

We can see out into the universe and estimate distances reasonably well. The problem for believers in Biblical chronology is that 99% of the things we can see out there are farther away than 6000 light years.

In fact, using powerful telescopes, we can see things as far away as 10 billion light years, which implies the universe has to be at least that old in order for us to see things that far away.

This doesn’t bother most people too much, but about ten years ago when Dr. Russell Humphries of Los Alamos National Labs wondered if Einstein’s theorums of Special and General Relativity could help to explain the “starlight problem”.

Dr. Humphries noticed that the cosmologists who developed the “Big Bang” theory deliberately assumed that the universe cannot have a center. Their reason for this assumption is that from Earth we can see roughly the same number of stars and galaxies in all directions, and they all appear to be moving away from us.

This means that if the universe has a center, then Earth is sitting right near the center.

For the atheist cosmologist, Dr. Hubble, this was “unthinkable” because it would imply that Earth has a special place in the universe. Since Copernicus physicists have completely rejected the idea that the Earth is the center of the Universe, so Dr. Hubble deliberately assumed that the universe is “curved” or has no center and worked out Einstein’s equations for the Big Bang.

The problem is the Big Bang system doesn’t explain what we actually see in the universe. The galaxies are spinning too fast. There appear to be ordered rings or “walls” of galaxies as if the universe itself is organized as a “super-galaxy” with the Milky Way Galaxy at the center. There are numerous problems and discrepancies between The Theory and observation.

In order to explain the discrepancies between their equations and what is observed, atheist cosmologists have had to invent “dark energy” and “dark matter”, which is energy and matter that we cannot detect at all. Their equations require that 90% or more of the universe is made up of dark matter and energy but since we cannot measure it, we just have to take it on faith that it must be there.

Dr. Humphries found that if you assume the universe has a center, and that God stretched it out (rapid expansion) during creation week, that there would have been a time dilation event near the Earth that would slow down time on Earth to a standstill while time passed in the universe at normal rate. This would result in a few days of time (creation week) passing on Earth while billions of years worth of time pass in the rest of the universe. This explains how the starlight could have gotten to Earth in a few Earth days.

Paradoxically, it also means the Universe is both 6000 years old and billions of years old, depending on the location of the clock.

But Dr. Humphries still had some difficulties fully working out the equations.

Enter Dr. Moshe Carmelli, a Jewish physicist who developed a common-sense set of equations (the Carmelli Metric) in the early 1990s that better explain the movement of galaxies.

A decade later a creationist physicist named Dr. John Hartnett applied Dr. Humphries’ assumption (the universe has a center) to Dr. Carmelli’s cosmological equations, and lo and behold, the resulting equations solve not just the starlight problem, but also eliminated the need for dark matter and dark energy to explain the movement of galaxies and the redshifts that we see in the universe.

Essentially, the work of these three men has revealed the Holy Grail of physics – cosmological model that explains everything we see from subatomic particles to galaxy clusters and quasars.

You won’t hear about this discovery in the news because it points to Biblical creation six thousand years ago.

If you are interested in such things I highly recommend “Starlight, Time and the New Physics” by Dr. John Hartnett.

Ken Griffith has a degree in biology from Virginia Tech and currently works as a web developer; living in Nairobi. This article first appeared on the author’s website and is used with permission.

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