The Expanding Universe Theory (2 of 4 notes)

Part Three
Theology Proper: 16 PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker

Astronomers speculate that about eight to twelve billion years ago all matter was condensed in one huge glob of glowing hydrogen and that creation took place in the form of an explosion which threw matter out into space in all directions, which later congealed into galaxies, stars, and planets. Galaxies have been observed which are retreating from earth at speeds up to 80 percent of the velocity of light and which are estimated to be four billion light years away, which means that what the astronomer sees today represents the appearance of these galaxies four billion years ago. More recently there has been speculation that the universe has been going through cycles which last 80 billions of years during which the expanding galaxies lose their momentum, stop, and then fall back by mutual attraction into the primal ball of glowing hydrogen from which they sprang, only to explode again and to keep repeating the process ad infinitum.²

2            Earl Ubell, “The Greatest Explosion of Them All,” (Reader’s Digest, February, 1966), p. 123.

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