Do christians believe that black holes exist? Or did they or not prior to science completely proving it?

Answer 1

If black holes came from stars, why are there still stars???

Answer 2

Look up a book by Dr. Russell Humphries call Starlight and Time. He details how, using an Euclidian model of space, such that there are real boundaries and therefore a real center, it is possible to use a combination of black holes, white holes, time dilation, and event horizons to explain how time might have progressed at a very high rate of "speed" relative to the Euclidian center of the universe due to time dilation. As a result, it is possible that the earth, if it was near the center of this time dilation sphere emanating from a super massive black hole, experienced time as measured in weeks relative to time at the periphery of the supersphere being measured in billions of years. This, he says, may also explain some otherwise inexplicable red shift phenomena. In other words, black holes may actually explain a young earth dwelling deep inside a very old universe.

So yes, many well informed believers do accept the notion of black holes. As with this whole debate, it is not the facts we have trouble with. They are the common ground we share with all scientists. It is the way those facts are treated, what assumptions are employed to interpret them. Creationists, because we are number two, have had to work harder at checking our assumptions and making sure they do not distort our interpretive efforts. It doesn't always go right, but then there's peer review to help us stay on track.

Dr. Humphries book is a good example of this assumption checking. He points us back to the fact that the Einsteinian gravitational equations can work under more than one set of assumptions, but that the predictions they produce vary dramatically depending on which assumption set is used. If we take the modern non-Euclidean theory of infinite, centerless space, we end up in one place. If we go with Euclid’s notion of centered space, we get the giant gravity well effect, and many details start to fall into place. Of course, it is anything but final, as anyone who appreciates science will agree, but it is refreshing to be liberated from the prison of unexamined assumptions. After all, the truth is what we all want, isn’t it?

Answer 3

The phenomenon called 'black holes' are only detected by technological means. No one knows for sure what they are yet. The bible may have a reference to them as it says the earth is round and there are mountains at the bottom of the oceans. It describes the stars also. The bible says God holds the universe in His hand. No matter how much of the cosmos we can observe, God is still bigger. Just like we can make a sand castle in one day, God can create the cosmos is a short period of time.

Answer 4

If science proves the existence of white, alien dwarfs that bake cookies better than Betty Crocker a hundred years from now, does that mean we should believe they exist now?

No substance in your question...

Answer 5

Yes, I certainly do.

You people are way off base thinking that all Christians are "against" Science.

We are not.

We respect Science. We believe in Science.
Can you understand that?

Answer 6

Jack van Impe was given an Ignoble Prize in astrophysics a few years ago for declaring black holes meet the qualifications for hell.

Funny bunch, those people behind "improbable research".

Answer 7

Yes the exist, And they shall be cast out into outer darkness

Answer 8

as a educated person who believes in Christ, of course I do. Those who don't are the same ones that don't really even know what the bible says except for a few verses here and there. God and science coexist in my world. and the world of any rational person who believes in God.

Answer 9

Yes they exist. There's one Gordon Brown's sitting on - and there's one that Northern Rock is trying to fill.

Answer 10

I believe in black holes because of the indirect evidence supporting their existence (and because nothing in the Bible contradicts their existence)....I believe in God because of the direct evidence I have witnessed.