God's Amazing Creation

What can we learn about GOD from the universe He made?

Jeff Zweerink Azusa Pacific University, 16 Oct 2002

Outline
Mans spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God. A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy

The universe in light The universe in temperature The universe in matter

Some closing thoughts

The night sky in visible light

The Electromagnetic Spectrum and Atmospheric Transparency

The night sky in radio (just above FM)

The night sky in radio (neutral Hydrogen)

The night sky in microwaves

The night sky in infrared

The night sky in visible light (again)

The night sky in X-rays

The night sky in Gamma-rays

More Gamma Rays

Gamma-ray Bursts

Temperature in the Universe

Life is only possible in this narrow range

The universe in matter

Everything on Earth is made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons. This is normally referred to as baryonic matter and composes roughly 3% of all matter in the universe A little more than 30% of the stuff in the universe is some form of dark matter that we dont understand yet Roughly 65% of the stuff of the universe is unlike any thing we are acquainted with. This stuff is usually referred to as dark energy and is often associated with Einsteins cosmological constant.

What about this dark energy?

Acts like anti-gravity so it causes the acceleration of the universe. May be constant or may change with time If strictly constant, the initial value must be finetuned to better than 1 part in 10120 If not strictly constant, must answer the question Why is the dark energy scale about the same as the matter scale now?

God's minimum dimensionality

We live in a 4 dimensional universe that most likely is part of a 10 dimensional space. Since this universe had a transcendent creator, GOD must exist in at least spacetime dimensions (or their equivalent). Thus, GOD is far more powerful than we could ever imagine.