An Ancient Record-Can You Trust It? -Visible Things In the Heavens

What are the invisible things that God created through his firstborn Son?  They include our sun and all the other billions of stars and materials that make up the universe. Does the Bible give us any ideas as to how God produced all these out of nothing?  Let us  see by looking at the Bible in the light of modern science.

In the 18th century, the scientist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier studied the weight of matter.  He noticed that after a chemical reaction, the weight of the product equaled the combined weight of the original ingredients.  For example, if  paper is burned in oxygen, the resulting ash and gasses weigh the same as the original paper and oxygen.  Lavoisier proposed a law-'conservation of mass, or matter.'  In 1910, The Encyclopedia Britannica explained:  "Matter can neither be created nor destroyed."  That seemed reasonable, at least back then.

However, the explosion of an atom bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945 publicly  exposed a flaw in Lavoisier's law.  During such an explosion of a super critical mass of uranium, different types of matter form, but their combined mass is less than that of the uranium. Why the loss?  It is because some of the mass of the uranium is converted into an awesome flash of energy. 

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From the book Is There a Creator That Cares About You?