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Subject: THE MOTION OF THE GALAXIES Author: Pahu [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 14:26:06 11/13/08 Thu THE MOTION OF THE GALAXIES Scientists argue that the universe is not simply in a holding pattern, maintaining its movement from everlasting to everlasting. It is expanding. It now appears that all of the galaxies are moving outward as if from a central point of origin, and that all things were expanding faster in the past than they are now. Remember that as we look out into space, we are also looking back in time, for we are seeing things not as they are now, but as they were when the light was given off many years ago. So the light from a star 7 million light years away tells us what it was like and where it was 7 million years ago. “The most complete study made thus far has been carried out on the 200-inch telescope by Allan Sandage [as of 1990]. He compiled information on 42 galaxies, ranging out in space as far as 6 billion light years from us. His measurements indicate that the Universe was expanding more rapidly in the past than it is today. This result lends further support to the belief that the Universe exploded into being.” [Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers (New York: Warner Books, 1978), p. 95] This explosion, sometimes called the Big Bang, was a beginning point from which the entire universe has come. Putting an expanding universe in reverse leads us back to the point where the universe gets smaller and smaller until it vanishes into nothing. So the universe, at some point in the distant past, came into being out of nothing. [From When Skeptics Ask by Geisler & Brooks] [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]