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The Bad News:
Secular astrophysicists believe the universe to be almost 14 billion years old. We know that it's less than ten thousand years old, perhaps closer to half of that. The world's astrophysicists are mistaken by a factor of roughly two million. This would be akin to estimating the population of Peking to be five persons. Alternately, it's like suggesting that, insofar as there are twenty-four million donuts to the box, one box would be more than sufficient for your congregation's post-worship coffee hour with plenty left over for the Deacons' Meeting to follow. I humbly suggest that this represents a nontrivial error on the part of Satan's stargazers.
This would be harmless, and even laughable, if astrophysics were a pure, separate and distinct discipline unto itself. It is not. It is informed by, and in turn informs, many other branches of science. Interestingly, astrophysics, the study of the very large, most closely intersects with particle physics, the study of the very small. Particle physics, in turn, informs and is informed by... nuclear physics.
Yep. The guys with the 1500-megawatt reactors and the twenty-five megaton bombs are at only one position removed from "scientists" who are not just wrong, but wildly, colossally, monumentally- dare I say it? - astronomically wrong! I'm just thinking out loud here, but let's suppose that the particle physicists get data from the astrophysicists and correct it such that it's one hundred times more accurate. Then they pass it along to the nuclear physicists, who in turn correct it such that it's one hundred times more accurate still. Then they apply the data to a real-world project.
Which is to say: they design a nuclear reactor or a thermonuclear weapon based on assumptions that are incorrect by a factor of two hundred. If this reactor were a person, it would believe that our beloved United States of America was founded one year and six weeks ago. If this intercontinental ballistic missile were a person, it would pull up to the gas pump in its patriotic domestic SUV and expect to fill the tank for twenty cents. No, sir: those are not my ideas of safe, reliable nuclear reactors or thermonuclear weapons. They strike me as dodgy, to say the least. And again... that's generously assuming that other scientists correct the astrophysicists' grotesquely egregious errors by a massive factor of ten thousand. Odds are, the corrections are infinitesimally smaller. I know how so-called "scientists" think, you see.
The Good News:
The above represents just one of many, many reasons for the thinking man to joyfully embrace the truth of a loving God Who watches over His Church like a chicken over its hatchlings, as the Good Book frames it. We know that the Cosmos is a sprightly six thousand years young. We also know that the most energetic structures on the planet have been constructed based on assumptions that are so spectacularly, bizzarely, inexplicably wrong as to be the equivalent of declaring that President B. Hussein O.'s alleged birthplace (Honolulu, the Sandwich Islands) and his actual birthplace (Mombassa, British East Africa) are a few inches apart. And yet, apart from a couple of divinely-ordained judgments on Godless Russia and Pennsylvania, no nuclear reactors have melted down. And even when we accidentally nuke ourselves, the result is just a few minor injuries.
Our God is an awesome God!
Secular astrophysicists believe the universe to be almost 14 billion years old. We know that it's less than ten thousand years old, perhaps closer to half of that. The world's astrophysicists are mistaken by a factor of roughly two million. This would be akin to estimating the population of Peking to be five persons. Alternately, it's like suggesting that, insofar as there are twenty-four million donuts to the box, one box would be more than sufficient for your congregation's post-worship coffee hour with plenty left over for the Deacons' Meeting to follow. I humbly suggest that this represents a nontrivial error on the part of Satan's stargazers.
This would be harmless, and even laughable, if astrophysics were a pure, separate and distinct discipline unto itself. It is not. It is informed by, and in turn informs, many other branches of science. Interestingly, astrophysics, the study of the very large, most closely intersects with particle physics, the study of the very small. Particle physics, in turn, informs and is informed by... nuclear physics.
Yep. The guys with the 1500-megawatt reactors and the twenty-five megaton bombs are at only one position removed from "scientists" who are not just wrong, but wildly, colossally, monumentally- dare I say it? - astronomically wrong! I'm just thinking out loud here, but let's suppose that the particle physicists get data from the astrophysicists and correct it such that it's one hundred times more accurate. Then they pass it along to the nuclear physicists, who in turn correct it such that it's one hundred times more accurate still. Then they apply the data to a real-world project.
Which is to say: they design a nuclear reactor or a thermonuclear weapon based on assumptions that are incorrect by a factor of two hundred. If this reactor were a person, it would believe that our beloved United States of America was founded one year and six weeks ago. If this intercontinental ballistic missile were a person, it would pull up to the gas pump in its patriotic domestic SUV and expect to fill the tank for twenty cents. No, sir: those are not my ideas of safe, reliable nuclear reactors or thermonuclear weapons. They strike me as dodgy, to say the least. And again... that's generously assuming that other scientists correct the astrophysicists' grotesquely egregious errors by a massive factor of ten thousand. Odds are, the corrections are infinitesimally smaller. I know how so-called "scientists" think, you see.
The Good News:
The above represents just one of many, many reasons for the thinking man to joyfully embrace the truth of a loving God Who watches over His Church like a chicken over its hatchlings, as the Good Book frames it. We know that the Cosmos is a sprightly six thousand years young. We also know that the most energetic structures on the planet have been constructed based on assumptions that are so spectacularly, bizzarely, inexplicably wrong as to be the equivalent of declaring that President B. Hussein O.'s alleged birthplace (Honolulu, the Sandwich Islands) and his actual birthplace (Mombassa, British East Africa) are a few inches apart. And yet, apart from a couple of divinely-ordained judgments on Godless Russia and Pennsylvania, no nuclear reactors have melted down. And even when we accidentally nuke ourselves, the result is just a few minor injuries.
Our God is an awesome God!
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