Is it true that universe is gradually being expanded?

Answer 1

It's not really gradual, and there is evidence that it is increasing in speed. (50 to 100 kilometers per second per megaparsec - at least 195,600,000 light years per hour )

We can prove that it is expanding, and the most widely excepted current theory is the Big Bang Theory (simplified) 11 billion to 20 billion years ago all matter was together in a big mass. The force of all this matter pushing together caused a huge explosion. It threw out clumps of matter that became all the planets, moons, and stars.

They are all still being propelled away from the point of this explosion, and for some unexpected reason appear to be accelerating. (dark energy?)

It is believed that it will either keep on expanding forever, or it will eventually slow down and collapse back on itself.

Answer 2

The Bible indicates in several places that the universe has been “stretched out” or expanded. For example, Isaiah 40:22 teaches that God “stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.” This would suggest that the universe has actually increased in size since its creation. God has stretched it out. He has expanded it (and is perhaps still expanding it).

This verse, too, must have seemed very strange when it was first written.

In fact, secular scientists once believed that the universe was eternal and unchanging. The idea of an expanding universe would have been considered nonsense to most scientists of the past. It must have been tempting for Christians to reject what the Bible teaches about the expansion of the universe. Perhaps some Christians tried to “reinterpret” Isaiah 40:22, and read it in an unnatural way so that they wouldn’t have to believe in an expanding universe.

When the world believes one thing, and the Bible teaches another, it is always tempting to think that God got the details wrong, but God is never wrong. Today, most astronomers acknowledge that the universe is indeed expanding.

Answer 3

That the universe is still expanding is true. That it will keep expanding has been the consensus among cosmologists since about 2002.

Answer 4

Yes, the universe is expanding. Red shift of spectrum of stars is the evidence.
Gradually? The recent finding is that it is accelerating.

Answer 5

The general pull of the moon is what's making the universe expand.

Answer 6

That's the predominant theory, but the only measuring technique available to us is to triangulate the position of distant stars using the earth's position on opposite sides of the sun at half-way points through the year.

The very narrow angle of the triangle makes it impossible to get accurate measurements for anything further than a few thousand AUs away.

In short, like so many other scientific tenets, it's an unproven and unprovable theory based on old-earth dogma, not on sound scientific data.
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Answer 7

Cosmology says it... it is expanding.. all the material like galaxies are also expanding. means not size of galaxies is expanding but they are going away from each other but new galaxies are forming in this between space.

Answer 8

Yes.

Answer 9

yes, but it's also true that the land mass on the earth is shrinking.

Answer 10

yes