Participants: Don Mackintosh (Host), David Gentry, Dr. Robert Gentry
Series Code: V
Program Code: V000016
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00:32 It was early morning on July 16, 1945, at the Alamogordo proving
00:38 grounds near White Sands, New Mexico. 00:40 A select group of atomic scientists and U.S. military 00:44 personnel had gathered. 00:45 On a tower in the distance was a secret, untested nuclear device, 00:50 code named Trinity. 00:52 The countdown begins, and then the button was pushed... 00:59 In a flash of light the nuclear age came bursting on the scene. 01:03 American had won the race to unleash the destructive power of 01:07 the atom. 01:08 It was clear this power was awesome-too awesome 01:11 to remain untamed. 01:12 So began the quest of science to harness that power for peace, 01:17 while others feared it would lead to another war 01:20 more destructive than any since the beginning of time. 01:22 The beginning of time. 01:24 The beginning of time for man. 01:26 The beginning of time for the universe. 01:28 How did it all begin? 01:30 What keeps the awesome power of the atom in check until it 01:34 bursts forth in those uncontrolled nuclear reactions? 01:38 Scientists have deciphered the laws that govern them, 01:41 but who made the laws? 01:42 Who made the atoms? 01:44 And who made the earth, sun, moon, and stars? 01:48 Hi, I'm Don Mackintosh, and in this program we'll be exploring 01:52 the scientific mysteries of the universe, and the controversy 01:55 over how it came to be. 01:57 But first, on Christmas Eve in 1968, the Apollo 8 Astronauts, 02:03 Anders, Lovell, and Bormann, gave an impressive answer 02:06 to the question of who made the heavens and the earth, 02:09 when they relayed a special message back to Earth from their 02:12 orbit around the moon. 02:14 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 02:18 And the earth was without form, and void; 02:22 and darkness was upon the face of the deep. 02:25 And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 02:29 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 02:35 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided 02:40 the light from the darkness. 02:41 And God called the light Day, and the darkness 02:45 he called night. 02:46 And the evening and the morning were the first day. 02:50 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of 02:53 the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 02:57 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters 03:01 which were under the firmament from the waters which were above 03:04 the firmament; and it was so. 03:07 And God called the firmament Heaven. 03:09 and the evening and the morning were the second day. 03:13 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered 03:17 together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: 03:21 and it was so. 03:22 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering 03:27 together of the waters called He Seas: 03:29 and God saw that it was good. 03:32 And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, 03:38 good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you- 03:43 all of you on this good Earth. 03:45 The world was stunned! 03:48 Like a voice from the heavens, it was reminded of the Creator's 03:52 claim in Genesis that He had done it all in six days. 03:56 But most modern scientists long ago rejected the six literal 04:00 days of creation in favor of Big Bang's theory of geologic, 04:05 and cosmic evolution over six long, geologic 04:09 and cosmic periods. 04:10 They claim it's one of science's greatest achievements 04:14 of all time. 04:15 But two U.S. scientists, Dr. Robert Gentry, and his son 04:19 and associate, Dr. David Gentry, now prepare to show why it's 04:23 actually scientists' greatest blunder, not it's 04:27 greatest achievement. 04:28 In particular, instead of the universe being the same 04:31 everywhere, which is Big Bang's key assumption, 04:34 they have discovered astronomical proof the universe 04:38 has a nearby center. 04:40 They believe this startling discovery may yet attract 04:43 the interest of people of all religious persuasions, and even 04:47 those who have none, for they believe it points to the Great 04:50 White Throne; the celestial dwelling place 04:53 of the God of Genesis, the same God who gave the literal seven 04:57 day creation commandment to Moses on Mount Sinai. 05:01 With this background Dr's. Robert and David Gentry 05:04 begin to unfold the exciting saga behind their discoveries. 05:11 The excitement really begins by recognizing that the Hubble 05:14 Space Telescope, and other NASA telescopes, have photographed 05:18 some truly amazing celestial objects within our universe. 05:23 This is a very long exposure of our galaxy as seen 05:26 in the night sky. 05:28 We see it here from inside, looking edge on through its disk 05:32 of billions of stars, interlaced with vast clouds of dust and gas 05:36 hundreds of thousands of light years in size. 05:39 And this is a super nova, exhibiting what astronomers have 05:43 called The Glowing Eye. 05:47 Then we have NGC 49's cosmic blast. 05:53 And then the end of planetary nebula's surrounding the dying 05:58 sun-like star Mensal 3. 06:00 Another exploding star caused the Eskimo nebula. 06:05 It's about 5,000 light years from Earth, in the constellation 06:09 Gemini, a complex of mixed nebulosity surrounding the 06:13 triple star Rho Ophiuchus, and the yellow giant Antares. 06:19 And here's the amazing NGC 346 in the small magellatic cloud 06:25 Another exploding star 3,000 light years away in the 06:29 constellation Draco created the Cat's Eye nebula. 06:32 V838 Monocerotis is from a burst of light traveling outward 06:38 and illuminating shelves of gas and dust ejected from the 06:42 central star and has been likened to Van Gough's 06:45 Starry Night. 06:49 And here are the fabulously exotic pillars of creation 06:52 in the Eagle nebula. 06:54 They're actually spires of rarified gas and dust 06:58 hundreds of light-years long. 07:01 And here's a close-up of the beautiful Orion nebula 07:05 that we'll see more of later on. 07:07 These two closely spaced galaxies, nicknamed The Mice, 07:11 are 300,000,000 light-years away in the 07:14 constellation Coma Berenices. 07:17 The variety of shapes, and the sizes of galaxies, 07:20 is unbelievable. 07:22 Take, for example, the Bard Spiral NGC 1300, 07:28 and then the Star Burst Galaxy. 07:33 Here we have Hoag's object strange Ring Galaxy. 07:40 And here is the Antenna Galaxy showing the interaction of two 07:44 spiral galaxies. 07:45 Galaxies are so huge, and their distances so great, 07:50 that we can hardly comprehend their existence. 07:52 The beauty and majesty of all these celestial wonders 07:56 captures the imagination. 07:58 Take a look at the exquisite detail of these astronomically 08:01 huge lanes of gas and dust that form a belt around the 08:05 Sombrero Galaxy. 08:08 Surely all these galaxies are telling us something of 08:11 vast importance. 08:15 To see what it is, we turn to this special Hubble Space 08:18 Telescope photo that took 11 days, or 1 million seconds 08:21 to expose in 2003 as the telescope orbited the Earth. 08:25 It shows several thousand galaxies in a little speck of 08:28 space the size of a pinhead. 08:29 It's aptly named the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, 08:33 because it recorded galaxies more distant than any ever seen 08:36 before, and leads to the estimate that throughout the 08:39 cosmos there are over several hundred billion galaxies, 08:42 each with over 100 billion stars. 08:44 Many small green circles have been now been drawn on this 08:47 image, each one containing the most distant galaxies ever seen, 08:51 but when magnified we see that all of them are red. 08:54 Why? 08:55 We'll focus on this shortly. 08:57 For now we know that these distant galaxies must reach 09:00 almost to the edge of the visible universe. 09:02 And because we see about the same density of galaxies in 09:05 every direction that the telescope is pointed, 09:06 we say this is evidence that our universe does have a center, 09:10 which is astronomically nearby. 09:12 But this is just the opposite of what Hubble and other 09:15 astronomers concluded when interpreting his famous red 09:18 shift discovery. 09:19 So which is correct? 09:22 To find the answer we flash back in time to the early part of the 09:25 20th Century. 09:26 By then astronomers, like Edwin Hubble, knew that the Doppler 09:29 Effect could cause spectral line sifts due to the relative 09:32 motion of the source and observer. 09:33 A shift toward the blue end of the light spectrum, called a 09:36 blue shift, was interpreted as motion toward the Earth. 09:40 A shift toward the red end, called a red shift, 09:43 was interpreted as motion away from the Earth. 09:45 Here's a real astronomical illustration of 09:48 the Doppler Effect. 09:49 The gasses swirling around a distant galactic disk, 09:52 that are moving toward Earth, produce a blue shift. 09:55 Those moving away produce a red shift. 10:08 It was at Mount Wilson Observatory in the 1920's that 10:12 Hubble utilized its new 100 inch Reflector, the largest telescope 10:15 of that day, to discover that light arriving from distant 10:18 galaxies was red shifted in an orderly way. 10:21 In 1929 he published his findings. 10:24 The greater the red shift, the greater the distance a galaxy 10:28 was from the Earth. 10:29 This was a monumental discovery, as shown in this graphic, 10:32 that modern astronomy has confirmed. 10:34 It was also very puzzling. 10:36 Hubble, and other astronomers, had observed red shifts of 10:39 different galaxies, but didn't recognize the systematic trends. 10:43 Previously the universe was thought to be static 10:45 and unchanging. 10:46 Now it was shown to have an unexpected kind of order. 10:50 This animation illustrates how the red shift increases as a 10:54 galaxy moves further and further from the Earth. 10:56 The preeminent question was, and still is, what assumption should 11:01 be used to interpret Hubble's discovery? 11:08 Before discussing Hubble's assumptions, and the conclusions 11:11 he drew, we first determined the outcome if the Doppler 11:14 interpretation is used. 11:15 In that case, these graphics clearly show that galaxies both 11:20 far and near are receding from us, spreading out from us, 11:23 if you please, in an orderly manner. 11:26 The spiracle symmetry of the galactic recession from our 11:29 observation point is, again, extraordinary evidence 11:32 of the existence of a nearby center of the universe. 11:36 Why, then, didn't Hubble report this discovery 11:39 over 75 years ago? 11:41 The answer is in his 1937 book, The Observational Approach 11:46 to Cosmology. 11:49 On page 51 he stated, 11:59 On page 59 he spoke of ways, 12:04 which was also said to be 12:05 and on page 54 he emphasized 12:19 It's really obvious then that Hubble engaged himself 12:22 in the most extraordinary denial of fact in all the 12:25 history of science in his attempt to get rid of the center 12:28 and demand the universe be everywhere the same. 12:31 These three graphics show, however, this could not be 12:36 accomplished using the Doppler assumption. 12:38 If, for example, Observer 1 sees red shifts of galaxies moving 12:43 away from his position, and a distant observer, number 2, 12:47 sees red shifts of galaxies moving away from his position 12:50 then each would observe a universe full of blue shifting 12:55 galaxies mixed in uniformly with red shifted galaxies. 12:59 But this is not observed, so it's impossible to get rid 13:03 of the center using the Doppler interpretation of Hubble's 13:07 red shift discovery. 13:08 So how did Hubble and all of those astronomers since then 13:13 evade it as they did by adopting a new untested assumption about 13:18 a red shift called space time expansion? 13:21 As this illustration shows, space time expansion assumedly 13:26 causes light to be red-shifted as it travels across the 13:29 universe, independent of the Doppler effect. 13:32 It was postulated to cause galaxies to move apart and 13:36 wavelengths of light to expand as space itself expanded. 13:40 This idea was adopted over 70 years ago, but remained untested 13:45 until David and I did so and found proof it has always 13:49 been wrong. 13:50 The reason? 13:51 Light wavelength expansion means the loss of energy. 13:54 The total nonconservation of energy loss of all the light 13:58 particles in the universe, due to this imaginary process, 14:01 equals over 30 million times the mass of the universe. 14:05 Details of this are available on the internet report 14:18 Galaxy motion is also assumed to be magically affected somehow, 14:23 causing each galaxy to move away from every other galaxy, 14:27 as space itself expands, and in this way make it appear 14:31 the universe is everywhere the same. 14:34 But it's easy to show it's the greatest scientific blunder 14:38 of all time. 14:39 All we have to do is examine what three of the greatest 14:43 authorities on the big-bang say when trying to convince their 14:47 physics graduate students that it is genuine. 16:24 Here is the balloon double speak illustration that Misner, 16:29 Thorne, and Wheeler's book uses to intimidate their graduate 16:32 students to accept expansion. 16:34 But the simple example of galaxies projected on screens 16:39 at increasing distances from a projector reveals the fatal flaw 16:44 in their illustration. 16:45 They show that expansion, if it ever existed, 16:49 would cause galaxies to expand in size as well as separate 16:54 from each other. 16:55 Here's another illustration proving the same point, namely 17:01 if expansion had ever existed galaxies would have expanded 17:05 into smithereens. 17:07 Obviously no galaxies would ever have formed in the first place. 17:12 But as we saw earlier, the universe is full of them, 17:16 more than a thousand, billion, trillion, each one silently 17:20 testifying that the space-time expansion hypothesis 17:23 has always been an imaginary effect, and hence that big-bang 17:27 has always been nothing more than a big fizzle, 17:30 just a figment of the imagination of those who vainly 17:33 tried to wipe the remembrance of God from His universe. 17:36 While the big-bang collapse is under it's own contradictions, 17:40 we now begin to understand the true significance 17:43 of Hubble's discovery. 17:44 There really is a nearby center of the universe, and this cosmic 17:49 center of the universe illustration shows how galaxies 17:51 diminish in size, and increase in red-shift as they move 17:56 further from the center. 17:58 So what is the significance of the center? 18:01 What does it all mean? 18:02 In Isaiah 40:21 the Bible speaks of God spreading out the 18:08 heavens, an obvious reference to the expansion of the universe 18:12 we've been discussing. 18:13 Also obvious is that their outward motion, 18:16 their spreading out, implies there is a point of origin, 18:20 a definite location from which they are spreading out from. 18:23 Which point could that be? 18:25 In Psalm 103:19 the Bible says, "Thy throne, Oh Lord, 18:31 is established in the heavens," which we also identify with the 18:36 location unto the Great White Throne described in Rev. 20:11. 18:40 It's just that simple. 18:42 In fact, this graphic briefly illustrates the new 18:45 cosmic model. 18:46 In contrast, visible galaxies receding from the nearby center 18:51 with our recently discovered outer shell of galaxies 18:55 that encloses the visible universe. 18:58 Light from the outer galaxies cannot be seen by telescopes 19:01 because vacuum gravity has shifted it down to become 19:05 the well-known cosmic microwave radiation. 19:09 My December 2004 article in Perspectives and Science and 19:13 Christian Faith identifies the galaxies in the visible universe 19:17 as originating in the Genesis creation, while those in the 19:22 outer shell are ascribed to a separate earlier creation. 19:25 This fits with Job 38:7 which shows that intelligent beings 19:30 existed prior to the Genesis creation. 19:33 With this background we will now see why the nearby throne has 19:38 special relevance to the Genesis six day creation. 19:42 To us the logical conclusion is that God deliberately created 19:47 the universe so as to reveal that His throne, the great 19:52 command center of the universe, is located so astronomically 19:56 nearby that it could be within our own Milky Way Galaxy. 19:59 On this basis, we here on planet Earth are definitely in a 20:05 privileged position in the universe. 20:07 It is reasonable that Earth should occupy a special place 20:10 in the cosmos because the Creator Himself lived here for 20:15 over 30 years. 20:16 We thus believe God is now using the heavens to confront humanity 20:22 with astronomical proof that He is the Creator of the heavens 20:26 and the Earth. 20:27 Moreover, this view exactly fits with our earlier scientific 20:31 discoveries of Earth's rapid creation and young age, as shown 20:36 on our earlier videos, titled Fingerprints of Creation, 20:40 and The Young Age of the Earth, and my book, 20:44 Creation's Tiny Mystery. 20:46 More information on these resources is available at: 20:55 The scientific community was informed of the downfall 21:00 of the big-bang, the discovery of the center of the universe, 21:03 and its identification with The Great White Throne, 21:06 plus many other features of the universe in this poster we 21:09 presented at the April 2005 American Physical Society 21:14 meeting in Tampa. 21:15 We have already discussed the meaning of a number 21:18 of its graphics. 21:19 It can be viewed in its entirety at this APS website: 21:27 Along with this, it's fascinating to think about what 21:30 we would find if we were to travel to the throne itself. 21:33 So let's take a trip there right now through the magic 21:37 of computer animation, and as we prepare to leave Earth's orbit 21:41 We see the night sky coming into view with its millions of city 21:45 lights far below. 21:47 The sun blazes into view, along with the constellation of Orion, 21:53 and we begin to accelerate, passing our sun at ten times 21:57 the speed of light. 21:59 Years ago I suggested, in a scientific publication, 22:02 that the Orion nebula was the space corridor to the throne. 22:06 And now as we approach the stars making up the constellation, 22:10 each one a different distance from Earth, we're going over 22:14 one million times the speed of light. 22:19 As the stars of Orion pass behind us, the Orion nebula, 22:24 fifteen hundred light years away from Earth, looms larger and 22:28 larger as we begin our deceleration, this nebula is a 22:32 a vast cloud of rarified gasses and dust 22:35 one hundred light years across. 22:38 It is illuminated, and being boiled away, by this handful 22:43 of very bright, and very hot, blue-white giant stars 22:47 called the trapezium. 22:49 Hundreds of smaller, sun-like, stars form a cluster 22:53 around them. 22:58 As we pass through the cloud, and emerge on the other side, 23:02 we see heaven itself, and the throne of God, described 23:06 in Revelation 21:16 as being a glorious city 350 miles square. 23:13 Verses 19 and 20 tell us its foundation is made of 12 layers 23:18 of precious gemstones, and surrounded by a 250 foot high 23:22 wall containing 12 gates, 3 on each side. 23:26 As we enter through one of the huge pearl gates described in 23:30 verse 21, we see within the city, on top of its huge 23:35 mountain, spoken of in Isaiah 14:13 and Revelation 14:1, 23:40 the indescribably glorious and holy throne room of God pictured 23:44 in Revelation 4. 23:45 We reverently enter and approach closer to His throne, 23:50 and there before us, according to Hebrews 8:1-6 23:54 and Revelation 11:19, is the same fourth commandment 23:58 of the ten given to Moses on Mount Sinai, which tells us of 24:02 God creating the visible universe in six days, 24:06 and resting on the seventh-day Sabbath. 24:08 Jesus tells us in Matthew 5:18 that it has never been changed, 24:14 and that He is there now representing us before God. 24:27 The fact that God created the universe to especially point to 24:30 His throne, and His seventh-day creation commandment, tells us 24:35 it is just as valid now as when given in Eden. 24:38 It will be of spectacular importance as the end time 24:42 events continue to unfold before us. 24:44 How could it be otherwise when we see the first angel of the 24:48 three in Revelation 14 commanding, with a loud voice, 24:52 in verses 6 and 7, for everyone to worship Him that made heaven 24:56 and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters? 25:00 We believe the timing of this discovery, that the universe 25:03 really does have a nearby center, may mean God arranged 25:07 all this to come to world attention before the greatest 25:10 and most spectacular event of all time, the second coming 25:14 of Christ in the clouds of heaven. 25:18 As you can see, He is at the throne ministering as our great 25:22 high priest, as described in the book of Hebrews, but very soon 25:26 He will return. 25:27 Retracing our steps now, Jesus comes out of the Most Holy Place 25:56 The angels surround Him forming a vast cloud like the one 25:59 described in Acts 1 verse 9 that the disciples saw when Jesus was 26:03 was taken back to His throne at His ascension from earth 26:06 2,000 years ago. 26:19 And just like Revelation 1:7 says, as He enters the solar 26:22 system, every person on earth will be able to see Him 26:25 approach, at first like a dark storm cloud growing larger 26:29 and brighter until, according to Revelation 6:14, the atmosphere 26:34 rips apart, and suddenly there He is! 26:37 His brightness, like pure energy, consumes all who turned 26:41 against Him and rebelled. 26:42 Yet we who are waiting for Him, will He save 26:45 from that destruction. 26:51 That's what it's all about! 26:53 The Lord is trying to help us prepare for this great and 26:56 glorious event. 27:03 Lastly believing, as we do, that God intends to use the great 27:09 works of creation presented in this program, as well as the 27:12 saga behind these discoveries, to awaken a great many to a sure 27:16 realization that Christ's second coming is imminent, 27:20 we urge one and all to join us in a world-wide effort to spread 27:25 this good news so that it will go as fire in the stubble. 27:29 Thank you for watching, and may the God of creation bless you. |
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