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Originally Posted by Melissa D
I've always wondered about this ever since I heard about a cluster of stars called the jewelery box which twinkles like diamonds in the sky
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I have often noticed this cluster, too. It is quite beautiful. Near it there is another cluster called The Coal Sack which contains no stars at all, and therefore appears black. Even the athiests - who are all heathens - know that this is correct. The sky indeed reflects light like a polished mirror, and mirrors were made of metal at the time of Job
Job 37:18
The Prophet Jeremiah knew this:
"Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men. But the LORD…hath stretched out the heavens"
Jeremiah 10:9-12 Whether the sky is made out of metal, as the verb "stretched out" (like metal, to make a plate) suggests, or of molten glass (which is black) it needs to be
polished before anything will
shine in it. Just like diamonds (a form of carbon, like coal, but shiny), the stars cannot be further away than the sky, which is revealed as a lid. And lids are opaque. That is why we can see the stars. Could the creation scientists confirm this, please - I would not want to intrude my opinion if it were wrong?