Extrasolar Planets
God’s Creative Diversity in Extrasolar Planets
Astronomers have devised some ingenious indirect methods to detect distant planets, known as “extrasolar planets,” or “exoplanets.” Even if the planet cannot be seen directly, we can see its effect on the star. Using this technique (and a few other methods) astronomers have now discovered over 500 extrasolar planets (and counting)!
Kepler Telescope Seeks Out Habitable Planets
NASA launched the Kepler telescope in 2009 to “find terrestrial planets . . . especially those in the habitable zone of their stars where liquid water and possibly life might exist.” But these discoveries do not demonstrate that whatever could randomly happen did happen—cosmologically or biologically.
Are There Extraterrestrials?
The Bible clearly makes man the center of His attention, so we can be sure that no extraterrestrial creatures are made in the image of God, as we are. They would not be the objects of God’s gracious salvation through the death of His uniquely begotten Son, Jesus Christ.
Articles About Extrasolar Planets
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Search for Spock: New MissionMay 12, 2007
Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are eagerly considering the prospect of life on an earth-like planet (named Vulcan in homage to Star Trek) orbiting a nearby star.
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Earth #2April 28, 2007
Scientists are exuberant following the discovery of a planet only slightly larger than earth.
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Wanted: One Planet, With WaterApril 14, 2007 from News to Know
This week’s report of the first sign of planetary water outside our solar system has some evolutionists nearly giddy-but others remain skeptical.
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Scientists Search for a New EarthFeb. 24, 2007
In a major surprise to those looking for earth-like planets beyond our solar system, the first extrasolar planet examined-HD 189733b, for those keeping score-shows no signs of “common molecules like water, methane, or carbon dioxide,” announced Carl Grillmair and David Charbonneau of the Spitzer Science Center and Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, respectively.
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A Visual Tour—With Commentary—Of the New Evolving Planet Exhibit in ChicagoApril 29, 2006
Evolving Planet will no doubt impress its visitors with what appears to be a cornucopia of evidences for evolution.
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A Field Trip to an Evolving PlanetMarch 13, 2006
The Field Museum in Chicago is the newest battlefront in the ever-growing creation/evolution controversy over what to truly believe about life’s origins.
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First Light from Extrasolar PlanetsApril 20, 2005
Astronomers have detected the first light from planets which orbit other stars.
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New Planet Challenges Evolutionary ModelsJuly 18, 2003
Recently, and as has been widely reported, astronomers announced the discovery of an extra-solar planet in the distant M4 star cluster.
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Research PaperExtrasolar Planets Suggest our Solar System is Unique and YoungApril 1, 2003, pp. 11–13
Because of its naturalistic evolutionary philosophy, modern science does not want to recognise that our solar system is specially created, and so it has problems explaining the data for exoplanets.
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Technical Research PaperThe Existence and Origin of Extrasolar PlanetsApril 1, 2001, pp. 17–25
Experimental evidence for the existence of extrasolar planets is evaluated and planet origin theories are critiqued from a creation perspective.
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Research PaperThe Age of the Jovian PlanetsApril 1, 2000, pp. 3–4
Since the jovian planets have only recently been formed, they do not need nuclear processes to keep them hot for non-existent evolutionary aeons.
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Magazine ArticleThe Search for Planets Around Other StarsDec. 1, 1995, pp. 6–7
When is a planet not a planet? When it is a telescope wobble.
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