No longer does one have to choose between the truthfulness of the Bible and the reliability of scientific evidence. You are about to see for yourself that one can be a Christian and still have an open mind to scientific evidence.
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good (Genesis 1:9-10.
What was Created on Day Three?
According to my hypothesis, the days of creation were spiritual law substances, or images of God's will, which were the source for the fundamental forces of our physical universe. Fundamental forces created our universe and our planet Earth. Think of the third day as the creation of our universe, not just our planet. The laws of physics obeyed on our planet are also obeyed everywhere in the universe.
If I were to go outside, pick up a handful of soil, and then examine each atom, no atom would be unique to the planet Earth. Atoms consist of at least one electron and one proton, which are held together with electromagnetic force. They exist alone or in combination and are building blocks of everything that we see (Jones 1992).
Scientists say it is a fact that our planet and our bodies are made of elements formed within suns that went supernova (explosion of a large star) (Gribbin 1999). God's Word cannot disagree with scientific facts, for they are both God's laws. With this statement in mind, Day Three must be about the creation of the physical universe, not just the planet Earth.
If the planet Earth was the only planet to be created when God said, "Let dry land appear," when did he create all the other planets and non-star heavenly bodies? Did He speak one planet at a time into existence? Why didn't God mention when He created them? Surely when He spoke dry land into existence, He created what would become our universe, not just our planet.
Were the Waters an Energy Substance?
As previously stated, the waters were present before God spoke on Day One. Chances are good that the waters were residue from a previous universe. In any case, they could not have been H2O. Scientists know that the waters (H2O) of this physical universe did not manifest until some time after the universe started to form. Whatever the waters were, God used them to create both the heavenly universe and the physical universe.
God's spoken words, "Let the waters under heaven be gathered," along with the waters under firmament, manifested into a substance called gathered waters. Gathered waters were the evening of the third day of creation. Gathered waters became the cosmic egg from which our physical universe was hatched.
Today, physicists believe a pure form of water was present before the big bang, which is in perfect agreement with God's written Word (Salanitri 2005).
According to my hypothesis, evenings and mornings are opposites. Since the evening of Day Three was gathered waters, the morning of Day Three would be scattered gathered waters (dry land). God said, "Let the dry land appear," and caused the substance of gathered waters to manifest into dry land, the morning of the third day. It happened with a bang. a big bang, as described by scientists. The gathered waters exploded into the curved space dimension that we call our universe. Gathered waters became scattered gathered waters, or dry land. Dry land (physical matter of our universe) has two forms, mass matter and nonmass matter (waters).
Mass matter and nonmass matter also come in two forms or types. One type is observable and the other type cannot be detected with scientific equipment. Twenty-five percent of mass matter and seventy percent of nonmass energy are dark. They cannot be observed.
What do Scientists Say About the Big-Bang Theory?
Galaxies are moving away from each other. By reversing the motion of their expansion, scientists can estimate the time when our universe exploded into existence. They believe the big bang occurred less than twenty billion years ago, but more than nine billion years ago. Fifteen billion years ago seems to be a reasonable estimate for the beginning of time.
Scientists don't know if the big bang was preceded by a big crunch (the compression of a previous universe) or just popped out of nothing (Rothaman 1995). I hypothesis that there was a previous universe, and after this universe ends another will follow.
This universe will end in the same manner as the last universe ended. God will speak the three "Let there be" statements that were not written in the first chapter of the Book of Genesis. These are "Let there be darkness," which will melt higher spiritual energy or spiritual light; "Let the heavens melt," which will cause the heavens to melt into the waters that will later be above firmament; and "Let the earth melt," which will cause our universe to melt into the waters that will later be under firmament.
In the universe that will follow the universe we live in, some confused fellow will wonder for years why these three "Let there be" statements were not written. Surely God must have spoken these statements in order for darkness, the waters above firmament, and the waters under firmament to have been present.
Was Higgs field created by the words "Let dry land appear?"
Scientists believe a field that is responsible for particles receiving their mass permeates our universe. They named it Higgs field after Peter Higgs, a Scottish physicist. Since the big bang was the beginning of mass matter, it makes sense that the words "Let day land appear" caused the Higgs field to be created.
What was Dry Land?
Gathered waters and dry land were not two separate things; they were two parts of one thing, which was Day Three. I believe gathered waters are the same as strong nuclear energy, and dry land is strong nuclear energy in the form of mass.
Strong nuclear force operates only within the nucleus of atoms, which it holds together. A nucleus consists of protons and neutrons. Protons are positively charged with electromagnetic energy. Neutrons are really only protons that are neutral; that is, they don't feel the electromagnetic force. Protons repulse each other with tremendous force. It's the strong nuclear force that holds nucleus (protons and neutrons) together. On a darker note, it is strong nuclear force that releases the power of atomic bombs (Jones 1992).
How Did Electromagnetic Force Come to Be?
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
And the evening and the morning were the third day (Genesis 1:11-13).
When God spoke those words to the earth (dry land, or our physical universe), dry land exploded, or decayed into particles with electric charges to create the electromagnetic force (Jones 1992). The electromagnetic force is the fundamental physical force responsible for the emission and absorption of photons and for interactions between charged particles.
Electrons and nuclei (protons and neutrons) are held together to form atoms by the electromagnetic force (Coulomb force). In nature, atoms can be found in about ninety elements that combined to make compounds, and compounds that combined to create mixtures.
Since plants are formed from elements, compounds, and mixtures and they live on electromagnetic energy (light), there simply could not be any grass, herbs, or trees without the electromagnetic force.
Where Does the Force of Gravity Come From?
Before dry land appeared, God spoke the words "Let the waters under heaven be gathered together." These words caused the waters under heaven to be attracted to itself, which caused the waters to become concentrated after the waters were gathered.
God's spoken words, "Let dry land appear," caused gathered waters to transform into energy matter of our universe. Gravity or curved space is a residue affect of the force, which gathered the waters together. The force of gravity is trying to return dry land back into its original state of being gathered waters.
Why is There a Struggle Between Mornings and Evenings?
Light (morning of Day One) was opposite of darkness (evening of Day One). Firmament (morning of Day Two) was opposite of waters (evening of Day Two). It is only reasonable to believe that dry land (morning of Day Three) was opposite of gathered waters (evening of Day Three).
Mornings and evenings are engaged in struggles that will not stop until our universe ceases to exist. It is this struggle that gave each creation day the ability to do its work. In a way, it is like the relationship between men and women who are made opposite of each other so they can have children. Mornings and evenings were also made opposite of each other so they could produce seed light to produce images of themselves.
Can We Share the Name Earth?
Before moving on, we need to emphasize a very important point about Day Three. When God gave the name Earth to dry land, He was naming all physical energy (matter and nonmatter), not just our planet. As long as one is locked into the belief that the name Earth belongs only to our planet, Genesis will always be a mystery to that person.
A long time ago, man gave up the belief that the Earth was the center of the universe and that all the heavenly bodies rotated around it. Today, for the sake of increasing our knowledge, we must share the name Earth with the entire universe, or all physical matter.
Bibliography
Gribbin, John. Almost Everyone's Guide to Science. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999.
Jones, Roger S. Physics for the Rest of Us. Lincolnwood (Chicago), Illinois: Contemporary Books, 1992.
Rothaman, Tony. Instant Physics. Fawcitt Columbine, New York: Bryon Press Book, 1995.
Salanitri, RoseAnn. GUTs All Tied Up With Strings. Mustang, Oklahoma: Tate Publishing LLC, 2005.
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