Surely some of you Athiests can answer that, it has been up there ever since the Heavens and Earth were formed by God, you can see a closeup of it and it is just a mass of burning gases, so tell me why after all these years it is still burning and doesn't show any sign of burning up and dissapearing?
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Are you serious?
If it were made of coal as many thought in the middle ages, it would have been long gone.
Fortunately for us God didn’t. But God did create it through a complicated process of Nuclear Fission of elements created from a Super Nova.
In fact we are all made of elements from the largest explosion in the Universe since the so called Big Bang. A Super Nova is caused by a dying star that is collapsed in on its self. This happens when the star fuel burns out and its own gravity draws it in on its self-causing a massive explosion that certain heavy elements would not be around without this phenomenon. Seeing how God created the Universe and all that is with-in.
He made the Sun out of something other than coal so that it would burn for Billions of Years.
For that I thank God.
Skippy
The answer is that the Sun is absolutely massive (99.86% of the mass of the entire solar system) and that nuclear fusion releases huge amounts of energy relative to the mass involved in the reaction (E=mc^2), so while the sun has been burning for approximately 4.6 billion years, it still has enough hydrogen left for about another 5 billion years before it starts burning helium and swells into a red giant.
Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean that God did it.
The answer is that the Sun is absolutely massive (99.86% of the mass of the entire solar system) and that nuclear fusion releases huge amounts of energy relative to the mass involved in the reaction (E=mc^2), so while the sun has been burning for approximately 4.6 billion years, it still has enough hydrogen left for about another 5 billion years before it starts burning helium and swells into a red giant.
Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean that God did it.
Good answer!
quote: Originally Posted by TheMeInTeam:The answer is that the Sun is absolutely massive (99.86% of the mass of the entire solar system) and that nuclear fusion releases huge amounts of energy relative to the mass involved in the reaction (E=mc^2), so while the sun has been burning for approximately 4.6 billion years, it still has enough hydrogen left for about another 5 billion years before it starts burning helium and swells into a red giant. Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean that God did it.
Then, just what, or who, did create such a massive amount of nuclear fusion that will burn for almost 10 BILLION years? Did it create itself? Did it, with all the trillions of stars and planets -- come from one small object hanging in space which exploded?
Did the universe create the sun? Science has acknowledged that there was a beginning, a time when nothing existed, and then something existed. What, or who, was the cause of that beginning?
If you say the universe created itself -- then, the creation is the Creator. Can that be -- that from nothing, including the universe being nothing -- that suddenly it created itself and then the rest of the universe? Doesn't that take a lot of faith to believe -- that nothing could create itself from nothing -- and from that nothing, the massive universe of billions of galaxies with trillions of stars? And, keep in mind that many of those trillions of planets and stars are much, much, much larger than our sun or earth.
So, Team, when you say, "Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean that God did it" -- that also does not mean that God did not do it.
Basically, what you and other "it all came from science" proponents tell us is that you have no idea how the universe was created -- but, you KNOW it was not created by God. If you have no idea how it was done; how can you be so sure it was not done by God?
On the other hand, I am very comfortable with "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" which is the beginning of the Bible -- because I have seen so much more of the Bible which has been proven to be true. This works for me -- and it answers the question, "Who created the universe?" God did!
God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,
Bill
"So, Team, when you say, "Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean that God did it" -- that also does not mean that God did not do it."
On this, you and I 100% agree. Science neither proves nor disproves the existence of God.
Surely some of you Athiests can answer that, it has been up there ever since the Heavens and Earth were formed by God, you can see a closeup of it and it is just a mass of burning gases, so tell me why after all these years it is still burning and doesn't show any sign of burning up and dissapearing?
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The Sun has a life cycle. Educate yourself.
It's a good thing it isn't made of coal, Obama would be trying to shut it down due to inviromental issues.
It's a good thing it isn't made of coal, Obama would be trying to shut it down due to inviromental issues.
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Good One Gingee.
Skippy
my,my,my and here I thought that we were running short on Scientists, and here I find that they are all around us.all you have to have is a Degree in atheiology to be one. by the way the
sun is 109 times larger than the Earth
my,my,my and here I thought that we were running short on Scientists, and here I find that they are all around us.all you have to have is a Degree in atheiology to be one. by the way the
sun is 109 times larger than the Earth
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Blabber, and then a random fact. At least you are now trying to learn something.
actually scientists don't know the answer for sure. God planned it that way is as adequate as any argument scientists have made. Very little is actually known about our nearby star yet scientists like to represent they know much about a star billions of light years away. It's a game. you will never know the answer while here on the Earth. Sorry.
This display of ignorance of scientific knowledge readily illustrates the cause of the decline in U.S.
scientific and technological achievement.
"Blabber, and then a random fact. At least you are now trying to learn something."
Well he should try harder. The diameter of the Sun is 109 times larger than the Earth, but as anyone who paid attention in high school can tell you, the volume of a sphere (and for our purposes let's assume the Sun and Earth are both perfect spheres even though they're not quite) is 4/3π times the radius cubed. Taking a few seconds to punch that into a calculator will tell you that the Sun is in fact about 1,295,000 times larger than the Earth.
