Don Mackintosh: It was early morning on July
16, 1945. At the Alamogordo Proving Grounds
near White Sands, New Mexico a select group
of atomic scientists and U.S. military personnel
had gathered. On a tower in the distance was
a secret, untested nuclear device code named,
“Trinity.”
The countdown began and then the button was
pushed. In a flash of light the nuclear age
came bursting on the scene. America had won
the race to unleash the destructive power
of the atom. It was clear this power was awesome;
too awesome to remain untamed.
So began the quest of science to harness that
power for peace, while others feared it would
lead to another war more destructive than
any since the beginning of time.
The beginning of time... The beginning of time
for man? The beginning of time for the universe?
How did it all begin? What keeps the awesome
power of the atom in check until it bursts
forth in those uncontrolled nuclear reactions?
Scientists have deciphered the laws that govern
them. But who made the laws? Who made the
atoms? And who made the Earth, sun, moon,
and stars?
Hi, I’m Don Mackintosh and in this program
we’ll be exploring the scientific mysteries
of the universe and the controversy over how
it came to be, but first…
On Christmas eve in 1968, the Apollo 8 astronauts
Anders, Lovell, and Borman gave an impressive
answer to the question of who made the heavens
and the Earth when they relayed a special
message back to Earth from their orbit around
the moon.
Anders: In the beginning God created the heaven
and the Earth. And the earth was without form,
and void; and darkness was upon the face of
the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon
the face of the waters. And God said let there
be light: and there was light. And God saw
the light, that it was good: and God divided
the light from the darkness.
Lovell: And God called the light Day, and
the darkness he called Night. And the evening
and the morning were the first day. And God
said, let there be a firmament in the midst
of the waters. And let it divide the waters
from the waters. And God made the firmament.
And divided the waters which were above the
firmament. And it was so. And God called the
firmament Heaven. And evening and morning
were the second day.
Borman: And God said let the waters under
the Heavens be gathered together in one place.
And the dry land appeared. And it was so.
And God called the dry land Earth. And the
gathering together of the waters called He
seas. And God saw that it was good. And from
the crew of Apollo 8, we pause with good night,
good luck, a Merry Christmas and God bless
all of you - all of you on the good Earth.
Don Mackintosh: The world was stunned. Like
a voice from the heavens, it was reminded
of the Creator’s claim in Genesis that He
had done it all in six days. But most modern
scientists long ago rejected the six literal
days of Genesis in favor of the big bang’s
theory of geologic and cosmic evolution over
six long geologic and cosmic periods. They
claim it’s one of science’s greatest
achievements of all time. But two U.S. scientists,
Dr. Robert Gentry and his son and associate,
Dr. David Gentry now prepare to show why it’s
actually science’s greatest blunder; not
its greatest achievement. In particular, instead
of the universe being the same everywhere,
which is big bang’s key assumption, they
have discovered astronomical proof the Universe
has a nearby center.
They believe this startling discovery may
yet attract the interest of people of all
religious persuasions and even those who have
none, for they believe it points to the “Great
White Throne,” the celestial dwelling place
of the God of Genesis, the same God who gave
the literal seven-day Creation Commandment
to Moses on Mt Sinai.
With this background Drs. Robert and David
Gentry begin to unfold the exciting saga behind
their discoveries.
Dr. Robert Gentry: The excitement begins by
recognizing that the Hubble Space Telescope
and other NASA telescopes have photographed
some truly amazing celestial objects within
our universe.
This is a very long exposure of our galaxy
as seen in the night sky. We see it here from
inside, looking edge-on through its disc of
billions of stars interlaced with vast clouds
of dust and gas hundreds and thousands of
light-years in size.
And this is a supernova exhibiting what astronomers
have called, “The Glowing Eye.”
Then we have NGC 491’s “Cosmic Blast.”
And then the “Ant,” a planetary nebula
surrounding the dying sun-like star, Menzel 3
Another exploding star caused the Eskimo nebula.
It’s about 5,000 light-years from Earth
in the constellation Gemini.
A complex of mixed nebulosity surrounding
the triple star Rho Ophiuchus and the yellow
giant, Antares.
And here’s the amazing NGC 346 in the Small
Magellanic Cloud.
Another exploding star 3,000 light-years away
in the constellation Draco created the “Cat’s
Eye” nebula.
This nebula, V838 Monocerotis, is from a burst
of light traveling outward and illuminating
shells of gas and dust ejected from the central
star and has been likened to Van Gogh’s
“Starry Night.”
And here are the fabulously exotic “Pillars
of Creation” in the Eagle Nebula – They are
actually spires of rarefied gas and dust hundreds
of light-years long.
And here’s a close-up of the beautiful Orion
nebula that we’ll see more of later.
These two closely spaced galaxies nicknamed
“The Mice” are 300 million light-years away
in the constellation, “Coma Berenices.”
The variety of shapes and sizes of galaxies
is unbelievable. Take for example the Barred
spiral NGC1300.
And then the Starburst galaxy.
Here we have Hoag’s object strange Ring
Galaxy.
And here is the Antenna galaxy, showing the
interaction of two spiral galaxies.
Galaxies are so huge and their distances so
great that we can hardly comprehend their
existence. The beauty and majesty of these
celestial wonders captures the imagination.
Take a look at the exquisite detail of these
astronomically huge lanes of gas and dust
that form a belt around the Sombrero galaxy.
Surely all these galaxies are telling us something
of vast importance.
Dr. David Gentry: To see what it is we turn
to this special Hubble Space Telescope photo
that took 11 days or 1 million seconds to
expose in 2003 as the telescope orbited the Earth.
It shows several thousand galaxies in a little
speck of space the size of a pinhead. It’s
aptly named the “Hubble Ultra Deep Field,” because
it recorded galaxies more distant than any
ever seen before and leads to the estimate
that throughout the cosmos there are over
several hundred billion galaxies, each with
over a hundred billion stars.
Many small green circles have now been drawn
on this image, each one containing the most
distant galaxies ever seen. But when magnified
we see that all of them are red. Why? We’ll
focus on this shortly.
For now we note that these distant galaxies
must reach almost to the edge of the visible
universe, and because we see about the same
density of galaxies in every direction the
telescope is pointed, we say this is
evidence that our universe does have a center,
which is astronomically nearby. But this is
just the opposite of what Hubble and other
astronomers concluded when interpreting his
famous red-shift discovery. So which is correct?
To find the answer we flash back in time to
the early part of the 20th century.
By then astronomers like Edwin Hubble, knew
that the Doppler effect could cause spectral
line shifts due to the relative motion of
the source and observer.
A shift toward the blue end of the light spectrum,
called a blue-shift was interpreted as motion
toward the earth and a shift to the red end,
called a red-shift, was interpreted as motion
away from the earth.
Here’s a real astronomical illustration
of the Doppler effect. The gases swirling
around a distant galactic disk that are moving
toward Earth produce a blue shift. Those moving
away produce a redshift.
It was here at Mt. Wilson observatory in the
1920s that Hubble utilized its new 100-inch
reflector; the largest telescope of that day,
to discover that light arriving from distant
galaxies was red-shifted in an orderly way.
In 1929 he published his findings: The greater
the red-shift, the greater the distance a
galaxy was from the Earth. This was a monumental
discovery, as shown in this graphic, that
modern astronomy has confirmed.
It was also very puzzling. Hubble and other
astronomers had observed red-shifts of different
galaxies, but didn’t recognize the systematic
trends. Previously the universe was thought
to be static and unchanging. Now it was shown
to have an unexpected kind of order.
This animation illustrates how the red-shift
increases as a galaxy moves further and further
from the earth. The preeminent question was
– and still is – what assumption should
be used to interpret Hubble’s discovery?
Dr. David Gentry: Before discussing Hubble’s
assumptions and the conclusions he drew, we
first determine the outcome if the Doppler
interpretation is used.
In that case these graphics clearly show that
galaxies both far and near are receding from
us – spreading out from us if you please
– in an orderly manner.
The spherical symmetry of the galactic recession
from our observation point is again extraordinary
proof of the existence of a nearby center
of the universe.
Dr. David Gentry: Why then didn’t Hubble
report this discovery over seventy-five years
ago? The answer is in his 1937 book, “The Observational Approach to Cosmology.” 
On page 51, he stated,
“The unwelcome supposition of a favored location
must be avoided at all costs.”
On page 59, he spoke of ways “to escape the
horror of a unique position,” which was also
said to be “intolerable.”
And on page 54, he emphasized, “There must
be no favored location in the universe, no
center, no boundary; all must see the universe
alike.”
Dr. Robert Gentry: It’s obvious then that
Hubble engaged himself in the most extraordinary
denial of fact in all the history of science
in his attempt to get rid of the center and
demand the universe be everywhere the same.
These three graphics show, however, this could
not be accomplished using the Doppler assumption.
For example, if Observer 1 sees red-shifts of galaxies
moving away from his position and a distant
Observer 2 sees red-shifts of galaxies moving
away from his position, then each will observe
a universe full of blue-shifted galaxies mixed
in uniformly with red-shifted galaxies. But
this is not observed. So it’s impossible
to get rid of the center using the Doppler
interpretation of Hubble’s red-shift discovery.
So, how did Hubble and all astronomers since
then evade it? This they did by adopting a
new untested assumption about red-shift, called
space-time expansion.
As this illustration shows, space-time expansion
assumedly causes light to be red-shifted as
it travels across the universe, independent
of the Doppler effect. It was postulated to
cause galaxies to move apart and wavelengths
of light to expand as space itself expanded.
This idea was adopted over seventy years ago
but remained untested until David and I did
so and found proof it has always been wrong.
Dr. David Gentry: The reason: Light wavelength
expansion means the loss of energy. The total
non-conservation of energy loss of all the
light particles in the universe due to this
imaginary process equals over thirty million
times the mass of the universe.
Details of this are available in the internet report:
arXiv:gr-qc/9806061 at www.orionfdn.org
Dr. Robert Gentry: Galaxy motion is also assumed
to be magically affected, somehow causing
each galaxy to move away from every other
galaxy as space itself expands, and in this
way make it appear the universe is everywhere
the same.
But it’s easy to show it’s the greatest
blunder of all time! All we have to do is
examine what three of the greatest authorities
on the big bang say when trying to convince
their physics graduate students that it is
genuine.
Dr. Robert Gentry: “Of all the disturbing
implications of ‘the expansion of the universe,’
none is more upsetting to many a student on
first encounter than the nonsense of this
idea. The universe expands, the distance between
one cluster of galaxies and another cluster
expands, the distance between sun and earth
expands, the length of a meter stick expands,
the atom expands? Then how can it make any
sense to speak of any expansion at all? Expansion
relative to what? Expansion relative to nonsense!
Only later does he realize that the atom does
not expand, the meter stick does not expand,
the distance between sun and earth does not
expand. Only distances between clusters of
galaxies and greater distances are subject
to the expansion. Only at this gigantic scale
of averaging does the notion of homogeneity
make sense. Not so at smaller distances. No
model more quickly illustrates the actual
situation than a rubber balloon with pennies
affixed to it, each by a drop of glue. As
the balloon is inflated, the pennies increase
their separation one from another, but not
a single one of them expands!” From the
book, “Gravitation,” by C. W. Misner, Kip
Thorne, and J. A. Wheeler, published by W. H. Freeman & Company, 1973, page 719, section 27.5.
Here is the balloon doublespeak illustration
that Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler’s book
uses to intimidate their graduate students
to accept expansion.
But the simple example of galaxies projected
on screens at increasing distances from a
projector reveals the fatal flaw in their
illustration. They show that expansion, if
it ever existed, would cause galaxies to expand
in size as well as separate from each other.
Here is another illustration proving the
same point – namely, if expansion had ever
existed, galaxies would have expanded into
smithereens. Obviously no galaxies would ever
have formed in the first place!
Dr. David Gentry: But as we saw earlier, the
universe is full of them – more than a thousand
billion trillion. Each one silently testifying
that the space-time expansion hypothesis has
always been an imaginary effect, and hence
that big bang has always been nothing more
than a big fizzle, just the figment of the
imagination of those who vainly tried to wipe
the remembrance of God from His universe.
While the big bang collapses under its own
contradictions, we now begin to understand
the true significance of Hubble’s discovery.
There really is a nearby center of the universe,
And this Cosmic Center of the Universe illustration
shows how galaxies diminish in size and increase
in red-shift as they move further from the
Center.
So what is the significance of the Center?
What does it all mean?
In Isaiah 40:21, (and similar passages) the Bible
speaks of God spreading out the heavens, an
obvious reference to the expansion of the
universe we’ve been discussing. Also obvious,
is that their outward motion – their spreading
out – implies there is a point of origin,
a definite location from which they are spreading
out from.
Which point could that be?
Dr. Robert Gentry: In Psalm 103:19, the Bible
says, “Thy throne O Lord is established
in the heavens...” which we also identify
with the location of the Great White Throne
described in Revelation 20:11. It’s just
that simple.
In fact this graphic briefly illustrates the
new cosmic model. It contrasts visible galaxies
receding from the nearby Center with our recently
discovered outer shell of galaxies that encloses
the visible universe. Light from the outer
galaxies cannot be seen by telescopes because
vacuum gravity has shifted it down to become
the well known Cosmic Microwave Radiation.
My December 2004 article in “Perspectives on
Science and Christian Faith,” identifies the
galaxies in the visible universe as originating
in the Genesis creation, while those in the
outer shell are ascribed to a separate, earlier
creation. This fits with Job 38:7, which shows
that intelligent beings existed prior to the
Genesis creation. With this background we
will now see why the nearby Throne has special
relevance to the Genesis six day creation.
Dr. Robert Gentry: To us the logical conclusion
is that God deliberately created the universe,
so as to reveal that His throne – the great
Command Center of the Universe – is located
so astronomically nearby that it could be
within the our own Milky Way galaxy. On this
basis we here on planet Earth are definitely
in a privileged position in the universe.
It is reasonable that Earth should occupy
a special place in the cosmos because the
Creator Himself lived here for over thirty
years. We thus believe God is now using the
heavens to confront humanity with astronomical
proof that He is the Creator of the heavens
and the Earth. Moreover this view exactly fits
our earlier scientific discoveries of Earth’s
rapid creation and young age as shown in our
earlier videos titled, “Fingerprints of
Creation” and “The Young Age of the Earth,”
and my book, “Creation’s Tiny Mystery.”
More information on these resources is available
at www.halos.com and www.orionfdn.org.
The scientific community was informed of the
downfall of the big bang, the discovery of
the Center of the Universe and its identification
with the Great White Throne, plus many other
features of the universe in this poster we
presented at the April 2005 American Physical
Society meeting in Tampa, Florida.
Dr. David Gentry: We have already discussed
the meaning of a number of its graphics. It
can be viewed in its entirety at http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/APR05/Event/29744
Dr. Robert Gentry: Along with this, it’s
fascinating to think about what we would find
if we were to travel to the Throne itself.
So, let’s take a trip there right now through
the magic of computer animation.
As we prepare to leave earth orbit, we see
the night side coming into view with it’s
millions of city lights far below.
The sun blazes into view along with the constellation
of Orion and we begin to accelerate, passing
our modest yellow star at 10 times the speed
of light.
Years ago I suggested in a scientific publication
that the Orion Nebula was the space corridor
to the Throne and now as we approach the stars
making up the constellation, each one a different
distance from earth, we’re going over 1
million times the speed of light.
As the stars of Orion pass behind us, the
Orion Nebula, 1,500 light-years away from
Earth, looms larger and larger as we begin
our deceleration. This nebula is a vast cloud
of rarified gases and dust, one hundred light-years
across. It is illuminated and being boiled
away by this handful of very bright and very
hot, blue-white giant stars called the Trapezium.
Hundreds of smaller sun-like stars form a
cluster around them.
As we pass through the cloud and emerge on
the other side we see Heaven itself and the
Throne of God, described in Revelation 21:16
as being a glorious city 350 miles square.
Verses 19 and 20 tell us its foundation is
made of 12 layers of precious gemstones and
surrounded by a 250-foot high wall containing
12 gates, three on each side.
As we enter through one of the huge pearl
that form each gate described in verse 21
we see within the city on top of its huge
mountain, spoken of in Isaiah 14:13 and Revelation
14:1, the indescribably glorious and holy
throne room of God pictured in Revelation
4.
We reverently enter and approach closer to
His throne and there before us, according
to Hebrews 8:1 through 6 and Revelation 11:19,
is the same Fourth Commandment of the Ten
given to Moses on Mt Sinai, which tells of
God creating the visible universe in six days
and resting on the seventh-day Sabbath. Jesus
tells us in Matthew 5:18 that it has never
been changed and that He is there now, representing
us before God.
The fact that God created the universe to
specially point to His Throne and His seventh-day
creation Commandment tells us it is just as
valid now as when given in Eden.
Dr. David Gentry: It will be of spectacular
importance as the end time events continue
to unfold before us.
How could it be otherwise when we see the
first angel of the three in Revelation 14
commanding with a loud voice in verses 6 and
7 for everyone to “worship Him that made
heaven, and Earth, and the sea, and the fountains
of waters?”
Dr. Robert Gentry: We believe the timing of
this discovery, that the universe
really does have a nearby center, may well mean God arranged all this
to come to world attention before the
greatest and most spectacular event of all time.
Dr. David Gentry: The Second Coming of Christ
in the clouds in heaven. As you can see, He
is at the Throne, ministering as our Great
High Priest, as described in the book Hebrews,
but very soon, He will return.
Retracing our steps now, Jesus steps out of
the Most Holy Place of the Heavenly Sanctuary
on His way back to Earth.
The angels surround Him, forming a vast cloud;
like the one described in Acts 1:9 that the
disciples saw when Jesus was taken back to
His throne at His ascension from earth 2,000
years ago.
And just like Revelation 1:7 says, as He enters
the solar system, every person on Earth will
be able to see Him approach at first like
a dark storm cloud growing larger and brighter
until, according to Revelation 6:14, the atmosphere
rips apart and suddenly, there He is! His
brightness, like pure energy, consumes all
who turned against Him and rebelled. Yet,
we who are waiting for Him will He save from
that destruction.
That’s what it’s all about. The Lord is trying
to help us prepare for this great and glorious event.
Don Mackintosh: Lastly, believing as we do
that God intends to use the great works of
creation presented in this program as well
as the saga behind these discoveries to awaken
a great many to a sure realization that Christ’s
second coming is imminent, we urge one and
all to join with us in a worldwide effort
to spread this good news so it will go as
fire in the stubble.
Thank you for watching and may the God of
Creation bless you.
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