Welcome to Heavens
Declare, I'm Jim Burr.
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We're continuing on
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and this should be
a third part series
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talking about astronomy
from a biblical perspective.
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We have in this
series over 300 pictures,
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most of them from the
Hubble space telescope.
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This Hubble's doing fantastic,
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fantastic images of the heavens
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and but I thought I'd
share a little experience,
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I travel a lot lecturing,
my wife and I travel a lot,
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we do camp meetings in many,
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many countries
in and around the US
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and often get a chance
to witness on the aeroplane.
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And I had to go back
to New Jersey, New York,
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every year in the
spring of the year
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and had a really
interesting experience,
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I was getting
on the shuttle bus,
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I drop my car off with budget,
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car rentals and
got on the shuttle bus
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and I was the
only one on the bus.
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It was in the
evening and the driver said,
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"Are you a musician?"
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I must have been
carrying a case or something.
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"Oh, no, I build telescopes."
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He says, "You
build telescopes, is it?
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I wanna know about aliens."
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And I said, "Well, you
know, I think aliens..."
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UFO was that actually what
he was saying, UFOs and aliens.
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I said, "I think
UFOs probably could be
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some experimental
government activity
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and I think some were
maybe demonic activity
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and I think, you know,
the Bible tells us that
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there will be false
Christ and false prophets.
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In the last days, we
should not be deceived
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and I think Satan
maybe preparing the world
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for a deception of
false Christ coming."
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And so he's, as
I think, you know,
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"This could be
secret government activity,
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maybe alien."
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"That's what I
wanna hear," he says,
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"You're a scientist
and you believe in God?"
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I said, "Yeah."
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You know what he says,
"Well, man, I got questions."
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And so he started
asking questions and in fact,
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he droves us to LaGuardia
Airport New York and I said,
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"You know, I'm in
no hurry to leave,
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I'm turning my car into night,
I'm leaving in the morning,
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I got a motel, hotel."
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And so he drove around
the drop off area in LaGuardia
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so that he could
ask more questions.
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I had one video left
on Creation Evolution,
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I shared that with
him, gave my emails,
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you know, email me,
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I've got more, more stuff
I'd like to share with you.
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And so that was cool
but he never emailed me,
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well, guess what?
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A year later in
April, I'm going back,
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I get on the bus,
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turn in to my
car again at Budget
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and I'm the only one on the bus
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and here is the
same man driving.
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And he said this
didn't just happen.
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So once again we got
into the conversation,
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I mean, in the New York city,
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how many people
in New York city,
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I'm the only guy in the bus.
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Well, guess what?
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The third year I go
back, I get on the bus,
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this time I'm
getting on arrival,
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at 11 in the
morning, I get on the bus
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and I have one
person in the back,
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I'm getting on the side
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and the man driving up front,
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I said, "Do you
know who Elliot is?"
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He goes, "I'm Elliot."
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He said this didn't just happen,
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you know, and I said,
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"The Lord's got plans for you,
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I'm preaching in west,
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out in long island.
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Tomorrow," I
said, "I'll pick you up
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and take you out there."
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Well, it did
actually had to work,
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so we didn't get to do that.
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But it was exciting,
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sharing in many, many
stories on the aeroplanes
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and sharing things with people
that just really make life fun.
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But one of these
flights from New York,
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I got into Denver,
2:00 in the morning
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with a red eye.
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So I get in my car,
turn on the radio station KOA
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and I was, well,
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have all these calling
stations on my speed dial.
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So I turned on the
radio station in KOA
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and just in time to
hear the announcer say,
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"Professor, you had
said, you have written a book
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that you can prove
there's no God through Physics?"
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And the professor said,
"Well, that's a little strong,
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I would say I can
show through Physics
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that there's no God."
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And I thought, "Man,
I've got to get on the radio,
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" so I speed dialed
right in KOA on the phone
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and I get right in.
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And I said to the
professor, I say, "You know,
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you say that you can show
there's no God through Physics,
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I think that I can show you,
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you could trust the
bible through Physics.
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And, professor, I'm
on the freeway until...
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I wanna
paraphrase some statements
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from different
magazines that I've read
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and in fact, in July of 2001,
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Sky & Telescope Magazine
issues had a report on the fact
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that now the universe
seems to be expanding.
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You would think that
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the universe gravity
would pull it back together
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and we'd have a big crunch
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and for many years they thought
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that's how the
universe would end.
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You know, the big bang
and then the big crunch,
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it comes back together but now
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as they look at
this type A Supernova,
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it seems to be study
after, study after, study
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that not only is the
universe continuing to expand,
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it is expanding faster everyday.
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And there's an article,
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I mentioned in Sky & Telescope
Magazine in July of 2001,
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this article
said, if this is true,
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you know, this
violates all standard Physics.
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How can you show
there's no God through Physics?
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That this discover
violates all physics."
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And I said,
"Another report was written
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and this was an
astronomy magazine
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and this will report
about Laura and Postman,
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two well known astrophysicists
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and they've been
watching the universe
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and all of the sudden,
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they seem to have
discovered a river of...
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The article said
they've discovered
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what looks like
a river of galaxies
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going off in another direction.
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And the article
said, if this is true,
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we know less than nothing."
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And I said,
"Professor, you know,
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that most scientists say
when life arose on earth,
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it was a reducing
atmosphere, there was no oxygen.
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And they used methane, ammonia
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and hydrogen to stimulate
this early atmosphere of what,
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how life could have
gotten started Miller and Urey,"
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and we talked about
that in previous programs.
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And so most scientists would
agree that life arose on earth,
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we couldn't have oxygen,
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oxygen wouldn't
oxidize everything.
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So I said, "But, professor,
when you read the books,
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they will tell you
that in the Supernova,
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eruptions is
exploding stars are created
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all of the elements
for life including oxygen.
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So, professor,
they say oxygen's made
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in the Supernovas which created,
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they help
create the sun and yet,
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when life arose on
earth, there was no oxygen
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and then when you get
the first living cell,
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what do you need?
Copious amounts of oxygen."
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And the professor said,
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"Will you just stop
reading those magazines?"
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So about this time the radio,
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you know, station says,
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"We got the 3 o'clock,
it's 3:00 in the morning."
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You now, I've been
around the sun already
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seven to eight times,
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I should be in bed sleeping but,
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man, I was pumped.
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3:00 in the
morning, the announcer said,
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"We have the 3 o'clock
news breaking, it's coming up."
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Can I stay over in an
interview with this guy
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after the news break?
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Which I did, I
was happy to do it,
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in fact, I live
in the mountainside,
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I pulled over
and I found a place
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where I could talk on the phone.
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In Colorado, you can
talk on the telephone
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when you're
driving, you don't have to,
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in some country
places, you can't do that.
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So we had the news break
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and I had six of these things
that I want to share with him.
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And see what his response was.
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And in fact, with
all of these problems,
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how can you say,
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you can show through
Physics, there's no God.
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Another one was an article
in Sky & Telescope Magazine,
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they said, the
question headlines was,
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'How can astrophysicists
keep a straight face?'
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This magazine, a
whole article on this
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because they say all these,
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there's so much
disagreement in the Big Bang,
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so much disagreement.
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They present to the public,
they come across to the public
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as though the
Big Bang is a fact,
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it's a done deal,
it's good science,
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it's testable
science and yet there,
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in this article, it said,
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"They argue over five
major areas of the Big Bang.
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How they can
keep a straight face?"
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And one of the thing,
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there was a
noted astrophysicist,
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his name was
Harwitt and he said...
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well, practically the
same thing but he says,
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"We have a hundred billion stars
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in the Milky Way galaxy
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and we have a
hundred billion galaxies."
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Yes, they believe,
you know, as I've said,
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maybe in the galaxy milky way,
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maybe a 100 billion
suns, maybe 200 billion
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depending on
which book you read.
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We really can't get a good count
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but he was saying
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and we believe
there's many galaxies
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as there are
stars in our galaxies.
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So maybe a 100 billion,
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200 billion galaxies out there.
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We're gonna be showing
you a picture of the Hubble
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took in the sky through a straw
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and a very little tiny
portion of the sky in the north.
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Looking out of our galaxy,
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when we're looking to the north,
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we're looking out of the galaxy,
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when we look to the south,
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we're looking to
the centre of the galaxy
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and we can't really see
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because the maze of
stars in the centre,
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we can't really see, you know,
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what's behind that area.
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But looking to the north,
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we're looking out of the galaxy
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and the Bible
even has that right
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because your Bible says,
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"God hangs the north
over the empty space."
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And so the Hubble
look through there,
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the initial
photograph back in 1990
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or it was '95, they let,
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it was a time
exposure for 10 days,
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they let the light come through
that little spec of the sky
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and they got 3,000 galaxies.
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Then they improve
the Hubble, new cameras,
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new computers on the Hubble,
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instead of going
for a 10 day exposure
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where they got 3,000 galaxies,
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they then exposed for 8.4
hours and they got twice as the,
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6,000 galaxies in 8.4 hours.
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And then another photo
you'll see will be showing you
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coming up in another series.
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They went to 84 hours,
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so they went from
10 days to eight hours,
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8.4 hours and they
went from 8.4 to 84 hours
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and in that
image, you'll see about
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20, 000 galaxies
through this little straw.
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And so they believe,
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they would tell
you there is probably
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as many galaxies out there
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as there are our
stars in our galaxy.
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If you're gonna photograph
the whole sky through a straw,
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how many pictures
will you have to take?
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About 27 million pictures.
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Now we got a
problem because today,
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all day the sun is
covering up, a bazillion stars,
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there's no such word but I
kind of like that word anyway.
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And so we can't see all
of the stars that would,
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all of the galaxies that would
be in the sky during the day
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but six months from now,
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the earth is gonna be over there
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on the other side of the sun,
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the sun will be
this side, behind us.
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And we'll be able to
see the rest of the galaxies
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and then we need to go
to the southern hemisphere
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to cover the stuff we can't see.
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You know, the people
from the southern hemisphere
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can't see the Big Dipper
and many other constellations.
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You know, we can't
see the Southern Cross
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and many of the things they see.
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So you'd have to
take 27 million pictures
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to cover the whole sky
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if you're gonna
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and if each picture
had 20, 000 galaxies,
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how big is God?
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"And my ways are not your ways,
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my thoughts are
not your thoughts,
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as high as the
heavens are above the earth,
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are God's ways above our ways."
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So Harwitt said,
"We have a 100 billion,
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200 billion
stars in the Milky Way
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and we have a 100, 200
billion other galaxies."
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He said, "The
silent embarrassment
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to astrophysics is
they cannot tell you
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how even one star formed."
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We've got a graphic
coming up of a galaxy face on
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and if just to give you an
idea of the size of the galaxy,
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you'll see at the top,
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you'll see an arrow
at the top of the galaxy
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and an arrow at the
bottom of the galaxy.
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And suppose you are to
travel across the galaxy
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and you got to the
other side of the galaxy,
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get your cell
phone out and you say,
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"And, you know,
I should call home
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and see how everything's
is doing back home."
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You can see, you've
traveled across the galaxy,
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you get to the
other side of the galaxy
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and you're gonna
make a phone call.
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Now these radio waves,
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they're traveling at
186, 000 miles a second,
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it's gonna take you
at least a 100, 000 years
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to get the phone to ring.
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And if your mama's at
the other end says, "Hello."
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It would take you
200,000 years to hear the hello,
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that's the size
of these galaxies.
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A hundred, two
hundred thousand years,
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travelling at
the speed of light,
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a 186, 000 miles a
second will take you
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a 100,000 to 200, 000 years
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to get a phone
call across the galaxy,
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so that gives you some
idea of the size of the galaxy.
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I wanna show you a couple
of other pictures of galaxy,
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the best illustration that
we wanna show you kids are,
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take two papers,
chinet paper plates,
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put them together
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and you'll see they'll
be like a circle in one way
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and you'll see a thin
line with the bulge in there.
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Our next graphic
shows an edge on galaxy
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and you'll see the
bulge in the centre,
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that still gonna take
you a 100,000, 200,000 years
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to get a phone call from
the top to the bottom of that
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but just as an example,
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we see galaxies from
all different directions
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and we have one
more graphic coming up
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and that one is very interesting
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and it's a real problem
for evolution because we,
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it seems that the
arms are going both ways,
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the law of conservation
of angular momentum,
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they should be
spending the same way,
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you see arms
going in and going out,
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actually revolving in and out
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and so that's a real
problem for evolution.
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The next picture we have is
a beautiful picture of Orion,
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this is a nebula.
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There are basically four
type of nebula in the sky,
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there are nebula that
glow because they're hot,
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there's nebula that glow
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because they're
embedded with hot stars,
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there's dark
nebula, which Harwitt said,
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you'll be seeing coming up
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in some of our
programs is just dust,
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an interstellar dust.
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And then we have exploding stars
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which we've talked about.
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The biggest stars seem
to be use up their fuel
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and as they burn up their
fuel, they tend to expand,
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it get bigger and
bigger like a balloon,
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it's, we pretty
much know this happens,
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they get bigger and bigger
till they can like a balloon
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and they pop, they explode,
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can't support this
outer shell and they...
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When this happens,
we get this explosion,
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the gas is travelling
out at hundreds of thousands,
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you know, 200,000,
300,000, 400,000 miles,
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a half a million miles an hour,
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this gas expands
out in all directions.
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And some of these
they've actually photographed,
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you can actually photograph,
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this expanding gas over a
period of every 10, 15 years
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and you can play
it back on a computer
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and see and
verify when it happened.
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Doesn't happen very
often in the Milky Way galaxy.
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In fact since the
invention of the telescope,
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in the last 400 years,
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we have not seen a supernova
in the Milky Way galaxy.
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We did see one
quite close to our galaxy,
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a little companion galaxy,
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in the south we have
the Magellanic Clouds
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and in February 25, 1987
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we had a star,
nobody noticed this star,
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it was like another
star and all of the sudden,
00:16:36.42\00:16:39.19
it just went
supernova, went bright,
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brightest thing
in the whole galaxy.
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Some of these can
actually be seen in the day time
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and we talked about
that before actually,
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look at the Scripture what,
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if you like to put
that together with the God
00:16:52.94\00:16:54.74
and the Creator in heaven.
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If you look at Hebrews
1:3, it said, no, actually 1:11,
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where it says, "Of old, He laid
the foundations of the earth,
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and the heavens are
the work of His hands.
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They will perish..."
00:17:08.06\00:17:09.39
The heavens are gonna perish,
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"Yea, all of them
shall wax old like a garment,
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as a vesture
shalt thou change them,
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and they should be changed."
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Psalm 102:25 and 26,
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it repeats
almost the same thing.
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And so some
stars just my vesture,
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King James
talks about a vesture,
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this outer jacket.
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And some stars repeatedly
cast off an outer shell.
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Eta Carinae for instance
does it about every 5.2 years,
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we see a blast come off.
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Some people find that
Scripture to be helpful
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but I wanna share,
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talk a little bit about
comets and as an illustration,
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this would be kind of
what a comet looks like.
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Now a comet is the biggest thing
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and the smallest
thing in the solar system.
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A comet, we have an ice cube,
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okay, a chunk of ice,
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the comet, the
nucleus is just a chunk of ice
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and it travels
in our solar system,
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you know, and when it gets out,
00:18:05.11\00:18:06.98
it will travel out past Jupiter,
00:18:07.02\00:18:09.85
Saturn, maybe Uranus, Neptune
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and then it begins
falling towards the sun.
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And so it'll orbit the sun
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and as it gets close to the sun,
00:18:16.73\00:18:18.06
this ice cube vaporises.
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So what could
be five mile chunk,
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five mile ice cube,
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okay, the nucleus could be
00:18:23.83\00:18:25.33
a five mile ice cube in diameter
00:18:25.37\00:18:28.34
but when it gets
close to the sun,
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as it comes in towards
the sun, let's suppose,
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this my computer is the
sun, the heat from the sun,
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the solar wind
causes this ice to vaporise.
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This little, you know,
00:18:38.61\00:18:39.95
five mile ice cube could
become a hundred thousand mile,
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we call this now the comet.
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So the core is the
nucleus and that's the ice cube
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but then the
vapor, cloud around it,
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we call this the nucleus
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and the tail is
formed by the solar wind.
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So as the comet comes in to go
00:18:57.40\00:18:59.17
and remember the
sun is my computer,
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now as it goes around the sun,
00:19:00.70\00:19:03.54
the tail always
point away from the sun.
00:19:03.57\00:19:08.08
And what's really interesting,
00:19:08.11\00:19:09.48
the comet leaves the
sun running into its tail.
00:19:09.51\00:19:13.62
Solar wind is crossing this tail
00:19:13.65\00:19:16.38
and yet the
comet is moving away,
00:19:16.42\00:19:18.65
still causing the comet,
00:19:18.69\00:19:20.19
and so as it
travels out in space,
00:19:20.22\00:19:22.02
it gets, you know,
00:19:22.06\00:19:24.16
smaller and smaller and smaller,
00:19:24.19\00:19:25.89
till when it gets
out by Neptune, Uranus,
00:19:25.93\00:19:27.90
then we can't even see it.
00:19:27.93\00:19:29.90
Now what's interesting,
00:19:29.93\00:19:31.27
the comet
leaves behind it, okay,
00:19:31.30\00:19:33.20
particles.
00:19:33.23\00:19:34.70
It is dust, it has
a dusty tail in it,
00:19:34.74\00:19:37.31
it has the ion
tail and vapor tail
00:19:37.34\00:19:42.74
and so behind the comet,
00:19:42.78\00:19:45.81
it has this
debris that's spread out.
00:19:45.85\00:19:48.68
Now this debris is mass,
00:19:48.72\00:19:52.02
it's gonna
follow the same order.
00:19:52.05\00:19:53.96
So as the comet has gone,
00:19:53.99\00:19:56.73
it's gonna leave a
long tail of dust behind it.
00:19:56.76\00:19:59.86
Now it goes past
Venus, it does a little dance,
00:19:59.89\00:20:02.50
it goes past
Jupiter, does a little dance.
00:20:02.53\00:20:04.10
So it tends to wanna
spread out, so in space,
00:20:04.13\00:20:06.84
even though the comet may have
already been around the sun,
00:20:06.87\00:20:10.41
we still have this
debris of particles behind it.
00:20:10.44\00:20:15.44
Even though or
maybe way past the sun,
00:20:15.48\00:20:17.68
we still have these
particles from the comet tend,
00:20:17.71\00:20:20.98
they want to follow the
comet, orbit of the comet,
00:20:21.02\00:20:24.39
follow the same orbit.
00:20:24.42\00:20:25.75
Well, now we've got the
earth going around the sun,
00:20:25.79\00:20:28.22
the earth is
going around the sun
00:20:28.26\00:20:29.59
at 66,000 miles an hour.
00:20:29.62\00:20:32.56
What happens if the earth runs
into these particles of dust?
00:20:32.59\00:20:36.70
Well, you can rub
your hands together tight
00:20:36.73\00:20:38.67
and you get
friction, they get hot,
00:20:38.70\00:20:40.20
you see, at 66, 000 miles
an hour these dust particles
00:20:40.24\00:20:44.21
hit the upper atmosphere
of our earth and vaporise.
00:20:44.24\00:20:48.51
Now we say, we saw a
falling star, shooting star.
00:20:48.54\00:20:52.55
If you remember from
our previous program,
00:20:52.58\00:20:54.32
we show you our sun, the star,
00:20:54.35\00:20:57.55
really big
00:20:57.59\00:20:58.92
and we showed you
how little our earth is.
00:20:58.95\00:21:01.59
Well, what happened
if a star fell on earth?
00:21:01.62\00:21:04.19
It would vaporize,
00:21:04.23\00:21:06.39
the earth would be gone
00:21:06.43\00:21:08.93
but when the Bible says,
00:21:08.96\00:21:10.30
the stars are
gonna fall from heaven,
00:21:10.33\00:21:13.23
the Bible talks like we would
look at the sky and see things.
00:21:13.27\00:21:17.14
We say a shooting
star, a falling star
00:21:17.17\00:21:18.97
because they look like stars
00:21:19.01\00:21:20.68
but actually particles of dust
00:21:20.71\00:21:23.71
because our earth is travelling
00:21:23.75\00:21:26.01
66,000 miles an
hour thorough space,
00:21:26.05\00:21:28.28
it goes through areas
00:21:28.32\00:21:29.65
and we have this periodic comet,
00:21:29.68\00:21:32.25
meteor showers like August,
00:21:32.29\00:21:34.19
around the 12th of August
is the Perseid meteor shower
00:21:34.22\00:21:36.79
and the name comes
from the constellation,
00:21:36.83\00:21:39.49
the stars appear to be falling
00:21:39.53\00:21:41.96
from the
constellation of Perseus
00:21:42.00\00:21:44.33
and that's
where we get the name.
00:21:44.37\00:21:45.70
In November, we
have the Leonids,
00:21:45.73\00:21:47.24
they appear to be come
from the constellation of Leo.
00:21:47.27\00:21:50.54
In December, we have the Gemini
00:21:50.57\00:21:52.17
and these were all
the comets that have gone,
00:21:52.21\00:21:54.64
almost every month we have,
00:21:54.68\00:21:56.64
what we call
periodic meteor showers
00:21:56.68\00:21:58.98
because the
earth is going around
00:21:59.01\00:22:02.02
where a comet has gone.
00:22:02.05\00:22:04.55
Now we had a pretty
spectacular one in 1833.
00:22:04.59\00:22:09.06
It was, in fact,
we have, first of all,
00:22:09.09\00:22:12.63
I need to show you
00:22:12.66\00:22:14.00
a fantastic
picture of comet McNaught.
00:22:14.03\00:22:18.77
Comet McNaught,
00:22:18.80\00:22:21.74
it's been three, four years ago,
00:22:21.77\00:22:24.07
most fantastic
comet I've ever seen.
00:22:24.11\00:22:27.68
It was actually
visible in the day time,
00:22:27.71\00:22:30.31
I went up to the
top of our building,
00:22:30.35\00:22:33.48
right at sunset
00:22:33.52\00:22:35.28
and you could actually see
this comet in the day time.
00:22:35.32\00:22:38.79
And so but you see
the particles behind it,
00:22:38.82\00:22:40.72
that it leaves behind,
00:22:40.76\00:22:43.29
this comet
McNaught and you can imagine
00:22:43.32\00:22:46.93
the particles that the
earth would have travelled
00:22:46.96\00:22:48.53
through there at
66,000 miles an hour,
00:22:48.56\00:22:52.20
now what would happen.
00:22:52.23\00:22:53.87
In 1833, we had
the meteor shower,
00:22:53.90\00:22:57.97
were called the Leonids,
around the middle of November
00:22:58.01\00:23:01.24
and you can still go out and see
00:23:01.28\00:23:03.95
particles left
over from that shower
00:23:03.98\00:23:05.91
but it turns out a
comet Tempel-Tuttle
00:23:05.95\00:23:08.75
was responsible
for that meteor shower.
00:23:08.78\00:23:10.42
Comet Tempel-Tuttle
is a 33 year comet,
00:23:10.45\00:23:13.49
so every 33
years, it goes around.
00:23:13.52\00:23:16.93
That was 1833
00:23:16.96\00:23:19.49
and even down in 1966, 1999,
00:23:19.53\00:23:24.00
it's continued to go around
00:23:24.03\00:23:25.80
but it still has
its whole path of debris
00:23:25.83\00:23:28.27
that it has left behind it.
00:23:28.30\00:23:31.01
And so if you go out,
about the middle in November,
00:23:31.04\00:23:35.68
15th, 16th of November,
00:23:35.71\00:23:37.45
you can see the remnant of that.
00:23:37.48\00:23:39.41
And the next of
that would be in 2033
00:23:39.45\00:23:45.72
and it'll be on the news.
00:23:45.75\00:23:47.09
In 1999, it was on
the news like crazy.
00:23:47.12\00:23:50.69
In fact, they were saying
00:23:50.73\00:23:52.63
they really had
plotted this comet very well
00:23:52.66\00:23:55.50
and they were able to predict
00:23:55.53\00:23:59.17
that the best views of
this meteor shower of 1999
00:23:59.20\00:24:05.07
would be in the Orient.
00:24:05.11\00:24:06.98
And I went on
Travelocity and made a...
00:24:07.01\00:24:10.55
There you could
bid on airline tickets,
00:24:10.58\00:24:12.45
to go to Hawaii,
00:24:12.48\00:24:13.82
so I could see
the meteor shower.
00:24:13.85\00:24:15.18
Well, I didn't get the offer,
00:24:15.22\00:24:16.72
so I didn't get to go
but they were correct,
00:24:16.75\00:24:19.12
it was actually the most
spectacular in the Orient.
00:24:19.15\00:24:23.86
Well, there's one
more graphic coming up
00:24:23.89\00:24:27.23
and that shows you,
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you know, they didn't
have good cameras in 1833
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but it shows you an artist
conception of what the stars,
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the falling stars of
1833 and this, of course,
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create a great interest in
the second coming of Christ
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because people saw
it as a sign, you know,
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that the time
of the end of this,
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the stars were falling
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as the Bible talks
about the end of time.
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The sun will be dark,
the moon will turn to blood
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and not give her light
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and the stars
will fall from heaven
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and so this was a
great exciting event of 1833.
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Now these stars are
falling at the rate of actually,
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they figured
about a 100,000 an hour.
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It seemed like
a 100,000 an hour.
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They were coming straight
down, from Leo, in November,
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Leo was straight over
head and we had though,
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I watched the one in
1999 and these are fireballs,
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they are very bright,
in fact they actually,
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some of them created shadows
on the ground of the pine trees
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where I live in the mountains.
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And so it was a
pretty spectacular event,
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a most
spectacular one I've seen.
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But they're coming straight
down out of Leo in November
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because Leo's
straight over head.
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And so people thought
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this was really a
sign of time of the end.
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One farmer went
out and said that
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he was gonna see if
there were any stars left.
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He was sure
that all of the stars
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fell the night before.
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Well, the Bible tells us that
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because He's strong
and power and not one fail,
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and once again and you'll be
seeing in this series I guess,
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the last weeks program,
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we showed you
the size of our sun,
00:26:09.70\00:26:11.67
we showed you the
size of, you know, Arcturus
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and Betelgeuse
and Canis Majoris,
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these huge, huge stars
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and when we put
these stars on the screen,
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these big, huge stars,
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you can't even see
the size of the earth.
00:26:22.44\00:26:24.05
You can't even put
a pin on the screen
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and show you the
size of the earth.
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And so when we say a star
fell, a star did not fall,
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it was a meteor
shower caused by friction
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as our earth is
travelling 66,000 miles an hour
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around the sun
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and the little
particles of dust that create...
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They burn up,
they actually burn up
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in the upper atmosphere
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as we are
orbiting about the sun.
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So our time goes by so fast
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and we wanna thank you
for watching Heavens Declare
00:26:53.74\00:26:59.01
and just remind you that
if you don't know the Lord,
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you can find Him, you
can seek Him and find Him.
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The Bible tell us that
you can seek Him and find Him
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if you search for
Him with all your heart,
00:27:08.82\00:27:10.66
we live in troublesome world,
troublesome times everyday,
00:27:10.69\00:27:13.66
I think the world
can't get any worse,
00:27:13.70\00:27:15.86
it seems like
everyday it does get worse
00:27:15.90\00:27:17.90
and the Bible tells us that
there's signs and at the end,
00:27:17.93\00:27:22.24
famines and
pestilences and earthquakes
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and so the day is
coming when Jesus is coming,
00:27:24.51\00:27:27.24
you wanna be ready for that
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and so thank you
again for watching
00:27:29.11\00:27:31.91
our Heavens Declare.
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