Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Wednesday, May 06, 2009 8:17:14 PM
Neo-scientists have a problem. The universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate, but if general relativity is an accurate cosmological model, and if the universe is made up of the kinds of matter and energy that are directly detectable (like atoms and light), then its expansion should be slowing. This problem was “fixed” by theorizing that 75% of the energy density of the universe exists as dark energy. This non-detectable dark energy allows the man-made model to match astronomical observations.
Dark energy is a substance that has not as yet been measured directly. At the urging of the neo-scientists, millions of government dollars are being spent trying to detect and characterize dark energy.
Another assumption is the Copernican principle, which holds that the universe has no edge and no center. It assumes that there are no unique places and that the position of the earth is therefore not special. If this principle is rejected, then the general relativity equations can describe a universe that does have a center and edges. A bounded universe admits to the possibility that earth is uniquely positioned, which is anathema to the neo-scientists.
There is strong evidence from quantized red-shifts of galactic clusters indicating that galaxies are in evenly spaced spherical shells around the Milky Way Galaxy. Earth appears to be within 100,000 light years of the center of the universe, a position with the small chance of 1 in 1,000,000,000,000 of having happened by accident. If earth is near the center of the universe, then the need for the mythical “dark energy” vanishes.
A cadre of secular scientists is following the data where it leads, and where creation cosmologists have already been—recognizing that earth appears to be near the center of a bounded universe. May many follow the data back to God, who placed the earth then ‘stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in’ [Isaiah 40:22].