GOD'S GLORY, GOD'S HANDIWORK, AND GOD'S WORD, THE GENESIS ACCOUNT A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of Louisiana Baptist Theological Seminary In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Doctorate of Philosophy in Theological Studies By Edward Rice January, 2017 Contents ILLUSTRATIONS viii PREFACE x ABSTRACT xi PROLOGUE 1 INTRODUCTION 3 1: The Creation Account 8 Creation Out of Nothing 16 Atomic Theory and “Ex-Nihilo” Creation 18 The Hubble Telescope and “Ex-Nihilo” Creation 23 Creation Accounting Conclusions 29 2: The Age of the Earth 31 A Time Warp Needs Due Consideration. 32 A Time Warp Substantiates The Age of Planets 37 A Time Warp Is In Evidence 44 3: A Time Warp Was Conceived by Albert Einstein 47 Enter Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. 47 A Bounded Universe Causes Even Greater Time Warps 52 Einstein's Mainstay E = mc2 And Its Boundary Conditions 55 4: The Black-Hole 62 Black-Holes are Enlightening 64 In the beginning God…. 71 iii Black Holes Expose World Views 73 Hungry for Relativity 76 5: Algebra's Imaginary Dimension 79 Algebra's Lines and Curves 80 Analytic Geometry Goes Even Further 90 Even More Dimensions 94 Why Do We Have To Learn This? 96 Einstein's Use of Multidimensional Analysis 99 A Christians use of Multidimensional Analysis 102 6: Relativity 105 Relative Laws of Euclidean Geometry 106 Relative Laws of Motion 107 Relative Laws of Velocity 108 A Constant Speed of Light “in Vacuo” 115 Gravity in the More General Theory 116 Rotation Produces Gravity and Gravity Produces Rotation 122 Gravity Effects Time 130 7: Relativity and the Age of Rocks 133 RATE casts doubt on three radiometric assumptions 134 Radioisotope Dating Methods 136 Relativity Changes Atomic Clocks 139 Cesium Clock Measures Relativity Time Changes 140 iv Radioactivity, Relativity, The Flood and the Age of Rocks 141 Why Bother About the Age of Rocks 146 8: The Six-Days 150 Sunday The First Day of Creation. 151 Monday The Second Day of Creation 159 Tuesday The Third Day of Creation 163 Wednesday The Fourth Day of Creation 166 The Stars Used for Seasons 170 The Stars Used For Signs 171 The Creation of Angels with the Stars 173 God saw that it was good 174 Thursday The Fifth Day of Creation 174 Friday The Sixth Day of Creation 177 Saturday The Seventh Day of Creation 179 9: The World Flood 180 Water for the World Flood 188 The Flood Caused Cataclysmic Changes in the Calendar 191 The Changed Calendar's Mathematical Analysis 197 10: Glaciers After The Flood 201 Glaciers Change Things 202 The Real Ice Age 205 11: An Apology for Creation 210 v The Ken Ham Debate and Apologetic Purpose 210 The Ken Ham vs Bill Nye Debate and Apologetic Strategies 214 What, if anything, would change your mind? 215 Well what about Noah's Ark? 218 The untouched “Cambrian Explosion” 223 A good offense is better than any kind of defense. 227 A careful strategy against evolutionists- the Main Thing. 230 Considering the Audience. 233 12: Defiance of Science - Flat-Earth, Geocentric, and Conspiracy Conspirators 234 Defying The Flat-Earthers 236 Defying The Geocentrics 239 Defying The Conspiracy Conspirators 244 Why defy the defiance of science? 246 13: Measuring The Speed Of Light And Distance to Stars 249 Essays in Science – Speed of Light 249 Essays in Science – Measure of Space Distance 250 13: James Ussher's Calendar and Dating Methods 254 Epilogue 258 Appendix 1: God's Simple Plan of Salvation 260 Appendix 2: The Emperor’s new Clothes by Hans Christian Anderson, 1837 263 Appendix 3: Theory of Relativity and Atomic Clocks 266 Hafele and Keating Experiment 266 vi Around the World 266 Around-the-World Atomic Clocks 266 Gravitational Time Shifts 267 Kinematic Time Shift Calculation 267 Application 268 Aircraft Time Dilation 268 Twin Paradox 269 BIBLIOGRAPHY 270 God's Glory, God's Handiwork, and God's Word, The Genesis Account vii ILLUSTRATIONS Figures 1. A cone forms a parabola 79 2. Graph of lines x + 1 and x + 7 80 3. Graph of x + 1 and x + 7 and their resulting parabola 81 4. Graph of x + 2 and x + 6 and their resulting parabola 82 5. Graph of x + 3 and x + 5 and their resulting parabola 82 6. Graph of x + 4 squared and the resulting parabola 83 7. Graph of parabolas from multiplied imaginary lines 84 8. Graphs of the six various parabolas 84 9. Graphs of the pairs of lines multiplied to form various parabolas 85 10. Graphic of a plane orthogonal to the blackboard. 86 11. Graphic of the imaginary planes relative to the blackboard 87 12. Planes Cutting Conic Sections (OpenStax Precalculus) 89 13. Curves Produced by Conic Sections (OpenStax Precalculus) 90 14. Degenerate Conic Sections, Lines and Points (OpenStax Precalculus) 91 15. Fixed Frame to Moving Frame of the Lorentz Transformation 107 16. (7-1) DeYoung's Table 5-1 Data in a Bar Chart 140 17. (7-2) DeYoung's Table 5-1 Data in a Stacked Bar Chart 141 Tables Table 2.1 Maximum tide heights from proposed universe ages 34 Table 2.2 Cooling of Planet Times Based on Age of Solar System Estimates 40 viii Table 2.3 Evolutionist's 15 billion Years vs the Bible Believer's 6 Thousand Years 41 Table 2.4 Planet Cooling Times for various age of Earth hypothesis 41 Table 11-1 Taxonomies of Dog, Cat, and Bear 219 Table 11-2 Taxonomies of Gecko Lizard, Ostrich, and Bald Eagle 219 ix PREFACE It has been a tremendous privilege to compile this dissertation. As a Bible student, electrical engineer, systems engineer, science and math teacher, and Baptist Pastor, the compilation has been going on since I first accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as my Saviour in my childhood. The information it contains has been bursting inside me for years and the act of writing it out has refined the detail and emboldened the message. That refining may not be completely evident in the writing, but any that is owes a special thanks to the Auburn Christians Writers Group that has spent three years critiquing and rebuffing my writing style. That detail has been meticulously critiqued by Bill Brown of thee Rocky Mountain Creation Fellowship, to whom I am greatly indebted. The drive to write it down is credited to my father Levi Owen Rice, who instilled in me the desire to learn more. The whole process has been patiently driven, typed, and tolerated by my wife of 47 years, Beverly E. Rice. This work is never complete, but such as it is, to God be the glory. x ABSTRACT God's inerrant, infallible, verbally inspired word clearly depicts his six-day creation account, his account of his world flood wherein waters prevailed on the whole Earth for a hundred and fifty days1, his purposes for man, who God made in his image and likeness, and the redeeming role of his only begotten Son in that purpose. A believer's faith in that declaration need not be a blind faith. In the past few decades it has been discovered that 1) the black-hole swallows mass, space, and time back into the nothing that they were created from, 2) trapped between Earth's crust and core, under great pressure and temperature, is three-fourths of all the world's water, and 3) the continental glacier which covered much of America dissipated less than 6,000 years ago. True science, exploring and using Albert Einstein's theories of relativity, can embed these truths into a believers defense of his faith, and put the atheistic evolutionist to shame. This dissertation explores black-holes, algebra's multi-dimensions, relativity, and the glacier that formed the NYS Finger Lakes, to assemble some tools which ratify God's exacting account of his creation of the universe and flooding of our planet. 1 The Holy Bible, Genesis 7:24 xi God's Glory, God's Handiwork, and God's Word - The Genesis Account God's Glory, God's Handiwork, and God's Word, The Genesis Account PROLOGUE The Nineteenth Psalm «To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.» The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults. Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.