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by Dr. Walt Brown.
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1. A blackbody radiates at all wavelengths, but the intensity at each wavelength depends on only the body’s temperature. Perfect blackbodies do not exist, because all matter (solids, liquids, gases, and plasmas) radiates at preferred wavelengths. However, blackbodies can be approximated in the laboratory.
If the positive and negative electrical charges in all atoms were created in their resting positions, charges would not accelerate toward each other, so no light would be emitted. The light of Genesis 1:3 would not be a consequence of the creation of matter. Instead, light would have been created independently of matter. Even so, blackbody radiation would still be produced by the multiple reflections of light off matter in the much smaller universe that was stretched out later during the creation week.
Genesis 1:3 clearly states that light was created. Was it created as a consequence of accelerating matter (electrons) or independently of matter? Either way, blackbody radiation would be produced before the heavens were stretched out.
2. Steven Weinberg, The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe (New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1977), pp. 44–45.
3. Ivars Peterson, “Seeding the Universe,” Science News, Vol. 137, 24 March 1990, p. 184.
4. M. Mitchell Waldrop, “The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe Gets Larger—Maybe,” Science, Vol. 238, 13 November 1987, p. 894.
5. Margaret Geller, as quoted by John Travis, “Cosmic Structures Fill Southern Sky,” Science, Vol. 263, 25 March 1994, p. 1684.
6. Michael A. Straus, “Reading the Blueprints of Creation,” Scientific American, Vol. 290, February 2004, p. 61.
7. Ron Cowen, “Light from the Early Universe,” Science News, Vol. 153, 7 February 1998, p. 92.
8. Stars and other heavenly bodies may not have all been made on a single day (Day 4); instead, they may have been completed on Day 4. Keil and Delitzsch, in analyzing the Hebrew words in Genesis 1, feel strongly that Day 4 marks the completion of the heavenly bodies: “the words can have no other meaning than that their creation was completed on the fourth day.” [See C. F. Keil and F. Delitzsch, Commentary on the Old Testament in Ten Volumes, Vol. 1 (reprint, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1981), p. 59.]
This is consistent with the Bible verses and scientific evidence discussed in "Why Does the Universe Seem to Be Expanding?" on page 396. Before the heavens were stretched out on Day 4, gravity acted in a much more compact universe and, therefore, was much more powerful. Stars and black holes would form. Galaxies would collide, be stretched out in a “string,” and achieve velocities that, today, appear to contradict laws of physics.