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Last week, standing with the Bible skeptic Michael on the common ground that science affords, we continued to look to the stars to see what we might learn. What we have been looking for is evidence that the universe had a beginning, because if the universe had a beginning, then it had to have a Beginner.
In the early twentieth century Albert Einstein ventured to say that the universe is continuously expanding and that the planets and moons and stars are all moving further and further away from each other. Then, some 20 years later, a man named Edwin Hubble confirmed Einstein’s equations. Of course, this was all just mathematical theory at the time. By the end of the twentieth century the Hubble telescope (named after Edwin Hubble) was looking out unto the far edges of the universe. And what the Hubble telescope saw was absolutely amazing.
The Hubble was able to take light that was being emitted by the distant stars at the very edge of the universe and analyze it by passing the starlight through a prism. In this way they were able to separate the different wavelengths of light just like what happens in a rainbow. But they noticed two things that were odd. The red band of light had moved, or shifted from its normal location in the rainbow. They also observed that the blue band of light from other stars had shifted as well. But this is exactly what Einstein and Hubble had predicted; a shift in the position of the red light in the stars that were moving away, and a shift in the position of the blue light in the stars that were moving closer.
