Great Attractor A messy Creator?
Feb 13, 2024 16:44:31 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on Feb 13, 2024 16:44:31 GMT -5
The Great Attractor: A messy Creator?
No, I didn't intend to make this thread a biblical one. However, the video narrator glibly tells us that the Great Attractor could not be directly observed because whoever made the universe, left a lot of messy junk lying around.
Of course that might just be his way of promoting his atheistic viewpoint. Or maybe not. Maybe it is simply a careless expression intended to seem witty. But in either case, it seems like criticism of the designer, and to us Christians, that means criticism of our God.
So in order to address this criticism, let's see what the Bible has to say about our present universe. Does it say that it is a finished product? No it doesn't. Instead we are told that it will be replaced by a new one just as the Earth is to be replaced.
In short, both were made perfect, but underwent a negative change after mankind's fall from grace. Otherwise, neither of the twain would need replacement. The scriptures provided below clearly tell us this.
Of course that might just be his way of promoting his atheistic viewpoint. Or maybe not. Maybe it is simply a careless expression intended to seem witty. But in either case, it seems like criticism of the designer, and to us Christians, that means criticism of our God.
So in order to address this criticism, let's see what the Bible has to say about our present universe. Does it say that it is a finished product? No it doesn't. Instead we are told that it will be replaced by a new one just as the Earth is to be replaced.
In short, both were made perfect, but underwent a negative change after mankind's fall from grace. Otherwise, neither of the twain would need replacement. The scriptures provided below clearly tell us this.
Psa 102:25
Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
Isaiah 65:17
“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;
And the former things will not be remembered or come to mind.
Isaiah 66:22
“For just as the new heavens and the new earth
Which I make will endure before Me,” declares the Lord,
“So your offspring and your name will endure.
“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;
And the former things will not be remembered or come to mind.
Isaiah 66:22
“For just as the new heavens and the new earth
Which I make will endure before Me,” declares the Lord,
“So your offspring and your name will endure.
The Great Attractor
The Great Attractor is a region of gravitational attraction in intergalactic space and the apparent central gravitational point of the Laniakea Supercluster of galaxies that includes the Milky Way galaxy, as well as about 100,000 other galaxies.
The observed attraction suggests a localized concentration of mass on the order of 1016 solar masses. However, it is obscured by the Milky Way's galactic plane, lying behind the Zone of Avoidance (ZOA), so that in visible light wavelengths, the Great Attractor is difficult to observe directly.
The attraction is observable by its effect on the motion of galaxies and their associated clusters over a region of hundreds of millions of light-years across the universe. These galaxies are observable above and below the Zone of Avoidance; all are red shifted in accordance with the Hubble flow, indicating that they are receding relative to us and to each other, but the variations in their redshifts are large enough and regular enough to reveal that they are slightly drawn towards the attraction. The variations in their redshifts are known as peculiar velocities, and cover a range from about +700 km/s to −700 km/s, depending on the angular deviation from the direction to the Great Attractor.
The Great Attractor itself is moving towards the Shapley Supercluster. Recent astronomical studies by a team of South African astrophysicists revealed a supercluster of galaxies, termed the Vela Supercluster, in the Great Attractor's theorized location.