Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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It is at night that the astronomers discover new worlds. It is often in the night of failure that
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
It is at night that the astronomers discover new worlds. It is often in the night of failure that
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
Persistence paid off for American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered the planet Pluto. After astronomers calculated a probable orbit for this "suspected" heavenly body, Tombaugh took up the search in March 1929. Time magazine recorded the investigation: "He examined scores of telescopic
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Astronomers now believe there are as many as 140 billion galaxies in the known universe, some more than 11 billion light years away, each containing
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2007
Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the heavens will be at half-past eleven tonight. He can
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Nicolaus Copernicus was a famed astronomer born in Poland on February 19, 1473. He was a mathematician whose accomplishments changed men’s ideas of the universe. Also he was a well-known writer. Although highly educated in astronomical science, he was much more-he was a child of God who had learned
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Contributed by Bret Toman on May 19, 2010
Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century postulated that the earth was the center of the universe, that the earth was still, that other planets orbited and other planets rotated, but the earth not. The universe revolved around the earth. It made sense, and people believed it. For 1400 years.
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Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Apr 1, 2011
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APRIL FOOLS
In 1976 the British astronomer Patrick Moore made an announcement on BBC Radio 2. He said this: "At 9:47 a.m. today there will be a 'once-in-a-lifetime' astronomical event occurring." He said that listeners could experience it in their very own homes. The planet Pluto would pass behind
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2009
THE MORE YOU KNOW
Allen Rex Sandage, the greatest observational cosmologist in the world--who has deciphered the secrets of the stars, plumbed the mysteries of quasars, revealed the age of globular clusters, pinpointed the distances of remote galaxies, and quantified the universe’s expansion
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jan 12, 2009
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SCIENCE PROVES CREATIONISM
Allen Rex Sandage, the greatest observational cosmologist in the world--who has deciphered the secrets of the stars, plumbed the mysteries of quasars, revealed the age of globular clusters, pinpointed the distances of remote galaxies, and quantified the universe’s
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In an interview in the March-April 2003 issue of The Door, preacher/author Calvin Miller observed, "Michael Card and I are kind of amateur astronomers, and he’s much better at it than I am. We were in his backyard one night, and he gave me a book by an astronomer that opened my eyes. When you look
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Contributed by Douglas Vincent on Nov 21, 2005
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Now we know there are more than 9 planets. To date, there are over 200 hundred planets- and astronomers continue to identify more and more. All but nine of them orbit stars other than our sun, but they’re out there. Our God is big. Bigger than earth, bigger, than our solar system, bigger than
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 5, 2004
How can one not acknowledge the God who created the vastness of space and all of its marvelous wonders? Space is so vast that astronomers “…had to devise special units to keep their figures manageable. Their basic unit of distance is the light-year—the distance light travels in 1 year, or about
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SIR ISAAC NEWTON ON THE BIBLE
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence. We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatsoever."
-- Sir Isaac
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 14, 2004
The anthropic principle states that in our own universe, all these seemingly arbitrary and unrelated values in physics have one strange thing in common: They are precisely the values needed to get a universe capable of supporting life.
…Physicist Freeman Dyson said: “I find that the universe in
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 18, 2006
Again, take a look at such geological evidences as the Grand Canyon. Scientist tell us it took billions and billions of years to form under the erosion effects of the Colorado River.
• But did you know that the top of the Grand Canyon is higher in elevation than where the Colorado River begins
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Wesleyan
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A BAND OF THEOLOGIANS
Dr. Robert Jastrow, scientist and agnostic once said, "Now we see how astronomical evidence leads to a biblical view of the origin of the world."
He concluded w/a monumental statement: "For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Jun 1, 2009
LARGER THAN THE UNIVERSE
Paul is telling us here that the love of Christ is too large to be confined by any measurements. It is larger than the universe. The invention of the Hubble telescope has revised our thinking about outer space. Astronomers are amazed to find out that the number of
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