Creation: the First Day
Okay.
Let’s talk about the first day of Creation.
Genesis1:3 says, “And God said, “Let there be light, and there was light.” A lot of people argued that this is not scientific because the celestial bodies, such as Sun, moon..etc., that give out lights were created on the fourth day.
Well, so, is it really not scientific?
Of course, it is scientific.
Visible light that is given off by celestial bodies and that common people usally define as light is just a tiny segment of the entire light spectrum. In 1864, James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) developed a mathematical theory to describe all forms of radiation in terms of oscillating, or wave like, electric and magnetic fields; these are collectively called ”electromagnetic radiation.”
As everybody knows, the speed of light is 2.998x10^8 (m/s), and it is equavalent to wavelength(m) times frequency(s-1). There are about 7 types of light; gamma rays, x rays, ultra violet, visible light, infrared, microwave, radiowave, and they are organized in order of increasing frequency.
Anyway, the point that I wanted to make is that celestial bodies can never given off visible lights or ultra violet if there was no wave like electric and magnetic field passing through substances.
Thus, the order of Creation in the Bible is absolutely scientific.
My question is that if creation is just a made up story, how Israelites of few thousands years ago could possibly know about the fact that light should be first before celestial bodies that was finally proved in 1864!
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