Oct 1, 2017
At the beginning of the first day of creation, there was no explosion or chaos but a carefully planned and executed sequence of events. God made time, a watery earth, and light—that momentarily filled the universe. God then gathered the light to shine from an unspecified place, possibly Himself. The universe’s shape isn’t clear (if it has a defined shape) but could be spherical with an event horizon, with the experience of flatness (that the universe has no curvature) at the earth’s location. On day two, the atmosphere was made and it’s possible a layer of water was pulled from the earth (Ps. 148:4; ‘waters above the highest heavens’) and put at its extremity, making the earth near the center of the universe (geocentric). As all things radiate, this (along with the first universe-filling light) may explain the uniformity of CMB (2.7 kelvin), which Big Bang cosmology can’t, as it needs extreme temperature differences to form galaxies, and even at the speed of light, haven’t had enough time to cool. Also, matter and energy aren’t eternal and don’t come from nothing—out of nothing, nothing comes (1st/2nd Law of Therm.). We have ‘something’ because Someone decided to make it (Rev. 4:11)!