I've thought on this subject a great deal. Everything the Bible claims could have been done in a very short period of time if God utilized his full authority over all of the physics involved. What is becoming more interesting to me is how science continues to uncover more mysteries than it seems to solve. We still don't know what gravity is. We have theories of what the smallest particles in the universe are yet we are unable to adequately explain the force that holds it all together. Christians have been taught that all things are held together by Christ. All is all, right? Interesting to me that scientists have "discovered" another quantum particle they are calling the Higgs Boson. They playfully call it the "God Particle", because they believe it literally holds everything together at the quantum level. Another interesting fairly current theory is that everything is made from vibrating strings (string theory). I find this theory interesting because Christians know God "spoke" the universe into existence. We know the power of the spoken Word. A command spoken by God just may have brought things into existence by the vibration initiated by God speaking.
I love watching all of these shows about The Cosmos, The Universe, Through the Wormhole and Universe Explained. I can't help but chuckle a little each time a scientist puts forth a new theory of everything they wind up answering a few questions but there are always other things that seem to pop up that they simply cannot explain. When we all come to fully know God only then will we fully know our universe. We tend to think of the universe mostly as the planets, galaxies and stars but then we have newer things like "dark matter", "dark energy", "inflation" and then there's the super small, the quantum level of the universe and nothing there seems to play by the same rules that planets and stars do. All of these things are typical theories that attempt to explain what cannot be seen or understood. Why doesn't light escape from a black hole? What happens to matter that falls into a black hole? Does time exist in a black hole? Some seem to believe that at the edge of a black hole, time stops and if time and space are a fabric. Does space and matter disappear when time stops? Is time nothing more than a human perception. Some scientists theorize that all time exists right now just as the universe exists right now. I think most Christians believe that God exists outside of what we perceive as time. This is how God knows everything, he is everywhere and every when at every moment.
God put the evidence of himself in his creation. When the earth was "dated" to be 4.6 billion years old it was calculated by measuring what percentage of a piece uranium turned to lead. Scientists declared that uranium decays at a constant rate. Based on the rate of decay, a rock with uranium in it can be dated by calculating the lead content and then calculating how long it had to take for the uranium to decay down to that percentage of lead. Of course the assumption is that in the history of the universe, uranium has always decayed at exactly the same rate. I think it's a good theory but how can you verify that Uranium has decayed at the same rate since the beginning of time? Research now shows that many factors can affect the breakdown of Uranium into lead. My favorite pastor used to say "When I was in school they taught us that it's a fact the earth was 1 billion years old. Now they tell us it's a fact the earth is 4.6 billion years old… and it wasn't that long ago I went to school". Here's a link to an article about where Uranium comes from. You can see, there are many factors that can affect how fast Uranium turns into lead.
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/N...nium-Resources/The-Cosmic-Origins-of-Uranium/
I think it was last year there was a lot of talk that the science of global warming is settled science. I believe there is no such thing as settled science, there is only God's will.
