If we had a powerful telescope that observed the beginning of life on earth, i.e. Adam & Eve, is that scary?

Question

What if the telescope was powerful enough to observe God creating the universe, would we be allowed to view it , and would God back then know we are watching now with that telescope?

Answer 1

It is not scary if we allow viewing Adam & Eve’s life. And if people CAN make powerful things to view how God created the universe, He WILL let us to view it.

These things may happen because He wants people to look back to His creations. He wants us to know Him. That He was the One who created the whole Universe, the only One who deserved praise here and in Heaven.

Answer 2

Its an interesting idea, in principle.

But physics prevents light-based telescopes from observing all the way back to the beginning. With light we can see about 13.5 billion years into the past, but we can't see past the creation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). So we're missing out on the first 400,000 years of the history of the universe.

Now, Adam and Eve probably weren't around then, but that's just physics.

Answer 3

Sorry but this question does not refer to any known physical phenomenon. I think your confusion comes from hearing people talk about observing images of stars that are many thousands of years old. This has nothing to do with the power of telescopes. There is no instrument that can see back into time. If you see an image with a telescope that is ten hundred thousand years old, it is just as old as when you see it with your eyes. What does happen is that light travels at a certain speed. This means that it takes time for light to get from one spot to another. In day to day life, this amount of time is so small as to be dismissed as instantaneous, but over the super huge distances of the universe, these distances add up and the amount of time that it takes for light to travel them becomes large.
An example is the light-year, which is a unit of distance. It is how far light will travel in one year.
Hope this helps.

Answer 4

It would be a little terrifying if you ask me. We're close to figuring out how it happened, either through God or science, but to watch it happen would throw the world into chaos. Knowing that there was a being powerful enough to create the universe and all in it is sometimes scary, but to watch said being create the universe and know that the power to destroy the universe, including us, belongs solely to the Creator, would throw so many people for a loop.

Personally, I think that a being (call it what you will) created the universe to end the loneliness he'd (I use 'he' to eliminate confusion) experienced for millenia. Imagine being able to feel every cell in your body, and that everything the cells knew and felt, you knew and felt as well. That is what's happening with the Creator, and as long as the universe, in all its glory, exists, he'd never be alone again. The universe will continue to exist long after all of us are gone, but to actually see the universe created? I don't think I could watch. I'd want to keep it a mystery.

Answer 5

no you can't do that.
you don't understand how a telescope works. a telescope is like a big magnifying glass. it scatters the light that goes into the front so it looks bigger. to see the begining to the earth, you would have to go way faster than the speed of light and go really really far away and then focus a very powerfull telescope on earth

Answer 6

I wish people wouldn't go equating creationism and biblical stories with science. They don't belong together. You're trying to equate a faith with a science. One is based on mysticism and revelation, the other is based on logic and knowledge.

So to answer this question would be a waste of time scientifically and for all practical purposes as it is nothing more than a faith based question reliant on the veracity of a myth, written down about 3000 years ago by a group of (compared to now) uneducated and primitive tribal peoples based in the Middle East. Who had no basic understanding of the forces of nature nor of the basic fundamentals of nature of the reality which surrounded them.

I would suggest that you're far more sophisticated than they are, hopefully have a better understanding of nature and existence and therefore can come up with a far better question than something as puerile as this. Instead of basing such questions on matters of pure "belief" and "faith", that you....and others....make an attempt at basing your questions on what you know as facts rooted in observation and scientific knowledge.

You do both your faith and science a great disservice by trying to equate the two.


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Lizzie, you show that sophistication I was talking about, or at least an understanding of some of it :):).

Answer 7

I'd sure hate to find out it was all Adam's fault. Now, according to astronomers, we are not "allowed" to view inside a black hole. Scientists refer to the "singularity" inside a black hole as "cloaked." If we could look at such a singularity, what would we see? God maybe? Ah, but apparently He doesn't allow such snooping. By the way, I thought that Adam and Eve lived in Heaven before they were kicked out (way to go, Eve!).

Answer 8

We cannot look back to the beginning of the Earth, as we look away from Earth when we use telescopes.

Answer 9

Actually, that would be impossible by any law of physics. As Einstein said "God does not play dice with the Universe." Sorry. This belongs in Sci-Fi.

Answer 10

hey that to crazy cuz no one can invent a telescopethat can see the beggining of the life on earth , and if you like things about the space go to nova in google, i know that you like the space cuz all your questions are about the space