Astronomy and the Bible;

162 ASTRONOMYANDTHEBIBLE acommunity;butsincethattime, muchmorerefined observations have been possible. By means of the spectrosc ...

THEBANDSOFORION 163 ityontheheavens isnottobe attributedtoa mere casualarrangement,butistobetakenasindicatinga communityoforigin ...

164 ASTRONOMYANDTHEBIBLE Orion,the finestconstellation inthe heavens, is not amerefortuitousconcourseofstars,butisasystem posses ...

THEBANDSOFORION 165 "Thegroupingofevensixstarsvisibletothenaked eyeinsosmallaspaceisveryremarkable. Consider- ingthenumberofstar ...

166 ASTRONOMYANDTHEBIBLE photographsoftheMessrs.HenryandofMr.Roberts showthesevenstarsofthePleiadestobeimmersedin a single nebul ...

THEBANDSOFORION 167 "Ofthenaked-eyeclustersthePleiadesisthemost interesting and important. To an ordinary eyesix starsareeasilyv ...

168 ASTRONOMYANDTHEBIBLE spacemoreswiftlythanafast-flyingcannonball,they yeteach feelthepresenceoftheirfellows;theyobey thisinst ...

THEBANDSOFORION 169 No, mannevercouldgroup suchacommunity of starsas the Pleiades;neither couldhe tear asunder such acluster as ...

CHAPTERXVI ArcturuswithHisSons *iy^>|ANSTthouguideArcturus withhissons?" (^1) Job 38 :32. This quotation from the an- ^^^ cie ...

ARCTURUSWITHHISSONS 111 alization. From limited records we have of those days,we seethattherewasnosuchideathenpreva- lent. The u ...

172 ASTRONOMYANDTHEBIBLE asismanifestedintheWord,andtheyhadnomeans ofobtainingit,andwhattheydidwriteaboutthestars andthe heavens ...

ARCTURUSWITHHISSONS^173 amileaminute,orsixtymiles anhour,isasnothing comparedwithit. Tenmilesasecondissixhundred milesaminute. T ...

174 ASTRONOMYANDTHEBIBLE velocityofArcturus, 257 milesasecond. Whatabout itssize? Ashas alreadybeenstated,Arcturusisthe fourth o ...

ARCTURUSWITHHISSONS 175 ofthesun. Butgreatasthesunis,wemustmultiply thisfigurebyonethousand togetaballbigenough tomatchArcturus. ...

176 ASTRONOMYANDTHEBIBLE Andmore,mancannotguideit,cannotunderstand itsguidance,cannotaccountforthatguidancebyany mathematical or ...

NebulainCygnus Thisdaintystreamerofglowingwispsoflightseemstodefy theastronomer'sefforttoanalyze. ...

TheSurfaceoftheMoon The largepictureshowshowtheearthwouldappear toan observeronthemoon'ssurface. Thesmallerviewsillustrate someo ...

CHAPTERXVII TheGospelofDespair THERE is one idea advanced by astronomers, which,triedbytheWordofGod,isutterlyer- roneous. I feel ...

178 ASTRONOMYANDTHEBIBLE ''Soonerorlaterthesunmustbecomeadarkglobe, nolongerfieryand radiant,no longerthesourceof heatandlightto ...

THEGOSPELOFDESPAIR 179 thatall weknow, even from science itself, depends on ourvery limitedsensations, our verylimited ex- perie ...