The scenarios of Creation events appeared smaller and smaller in scope with each new “day.” Time seems to have advanced on a similarly decreasing scale during Creation “week.” It has been likened to a spiral, a frequently occurring figure in nature, to demonstrate the diminishing rate. An exponential spiral can be graphically derived from and illustrated in a golden rectangle.
The golden rectangle
The
“golden rectangle” has intrigued artists, philosophers, and mathematicians since
ancient times with its special beauty, which, for inexplicable reasons, is
tantalizingly pleasing to the eye. The longer side of a golden rectangle is to
the shorter side as the sum of the two short sides is to the longer side. The
figure has a 1-to-0.618 length-to-width ratio, known as the “golden ratio,”
also called “divine proportion,” “golden section,” “magic ratio,” “golden
mean,” “Fibonacci series,” and “Phi,” after the classical Greek sculptor
Phidias, who made use of it. In his work Timaeus,
Plato described the Phi as the most binding of all mathematical relations,
calling it the key to the physics of the cosmos.
The
golden ratio has served as the magical framework of many great masterpieces.
Whether by design or intuition, artists Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo,
Raphael became famous for it. Great composers like Bach, Mozart, Beethoven used
it to divide musical time.1 The golden rectangle can be seen in many
ancient and modern structures: the Parthenon, the Great Pyramid, the United
Nations Building. It is also in similarly proportioned credit cards, playing
cards, photograph prints, postcards, business cards, light switch plates, PC
monitors, iPods. But the most holy object in the form of a golden rectangle is
the Biblical Ark of the Covenant, being 2.5 cubits wide and 1.5 cubits high (Ex
25:10).
To
form a golden spiral: Mark off a perfect square on one side of a golden
rectangle, a smaller golden rectangle will then remain. Mark out another square
from the left-over rectangle, and a still smaller golden rectangle will be
left, ad infinitum. In the Creation
narrative, the first and biggest square represents Day One; the second, smaller
square Day Two; the next square Day Three, and so on.
A more exact
chronology?
We
have seen that Schroeder’s CMBR-based timeline of 15.75 billion years, though
evidently a stroke of genius, does not perfectly correspond to the six “days”
of Creation. Would other estimates result in a more exact chronology? What
about the oft-mentioned 15-billion-years? Surprisingly, a little pencil-pushing
is quickly rewarded.
As
it turned out, 15 billion years produce a near-perfect match with the six
“days” of Creation, God’s seventh-day rest, the ensuing 6,000 years from Adam,
and the prophesied seventh Millennium! The order of the diminishing day-ages in
the successively contracting squares of a golden rectangle correctly correspond
to the sequence of events that scientists theorize took place in the young
universe – precisely agreeing with Scripture, cosmology, paleontology and, yes,
even prophecy.
The
shorter 15-billion-year timeline even has an extra factor in its favor. The gematria of the number 15 spells out the
short form of the Name of God [YH = 10+5). It is assuring to think that God has
both initiated and initialed His creation. Below is that timeline:
Diminishing Day-Ages
Chronology*
(7-“Day”
Creation “Week” until 3000 A.D. = 15 Billion Years)
Day-Age
|
Length in Yrs.
|
Start, Yrs. Ago
|
End, Yrs. Ago
|
1
|
7,500,000,000
|
15,000,000,000
|
7,500,000,000
|
2
|
3,750,000,000
|
7,500,000,000
|
3,750,000,000
|
3
|
1,875,000,000
|
3,750,000,000
|
1,875,000,000
|
4
|
937,500,000
|
1,875,000,000
|
937,500,000
|
5
|
468,750,000
|
937,500,000
|
468,750,000
|
6**
|
234,375,000
|
468,750,000
|
234,375,000
|
(7)
|
117,187,500
|
234,375,000
|
117,187,500
|
(1)
|
58,593,750
|
117,187,500
|
58,593,750
|
(2)
|
29,296,875
|
58,593,750
|
29,296,875
|
(3)
|
14,648,438
|
29,296,875
|
14,648,438
|
(4)
|
7,324,219
|
14,648,438
|
7,324,219
|
(5)
|
3,662,110
|
7,324,219
|
3,662,110
|
(6)
|
1,831,055
|
3,662,110
|
1,831,055
|
(7)
|
915,528
|
1,831,055
|
915,528
|
(1)
|
457,764
|
915,528
|
457,764
|
(2)
|
228,882
|
457,764
|
228,882
|
(3)
|
114,441
|
228,882
|
114,441
|
(4)
|
57,221
|
114,441
|
57,221
|
(5)
|
28,611
|
57,221
|
28,611
|
(6)
|
14,306
|
28,611
|
14,306
|
Sub-total:
|
14,999,992,847
|
||
7
|
7,153
|
14,306
|
7,153
|
4000 B.C.-3000 A.D.
|
~6,000
|
on-going
|
|
Total:
|
15,000,000,000
|
*Figures
approximate. **Day 6 made up of two successive exponentially regressing
segments
Using
the above “Diminishing Day-Ages” figures, let us make a side-by-side comparison
with the other interpretations of the six “days” of Creation by Young Earth
Creationists (“Literal 24-Hour Days” and “Thousand-Year Days”).
Day 1: Light, night
and day
“And God said, Let
there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good:
and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and
the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first
day” (Gen 1:3-5).
Interpretations
of Day 1:
- Literal 24-Hour Days: 5
days before man was created circa 6,000 years ago
- Thousand-Year Days:
circa 12,000-11,000 years ago
- Diminishing Day-Ages: circa 15,000,000,000-7,500,000,000 years
ago (Duration: approximately 7,500,000,000 years)
As
interpreted by Young Earth Creationists, light was created as recently as 6,000
years ago (in 4004 B.C.) or sometime between 12,000-11,000 years ago.
On
the other hand, in the Diminishing Day-Ages timeline, God created light between
15 billion to 7.5 billion years ago (bya). The Day-Ages estimate accommodates
scientific estimates that the Big Bang took place about 13.7 to 15 billion
years ago. (Particles that survived from quantum fluctuations could have
accumulated prior to the explosion.)
The divine word.
The
Creator’s first words were probably “Yehi
‘or!” (“Let there be light!”). A psalmist memorialized the event around
3,000 years ago: “The entrance of thy
words giveth light” (Ps 119:130).
God sounded the words -- and light, from which the cosmos would form, came into
being.
Some
people are surprised to learn that the “Word” of God is a Person: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All
things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made” (John
1:1-3). The Word is the Son of God, who created heaven and earth in behalf of
Father God – the Ein Sof or “Infinite
Nothingness,” who is outside the space-time domain.
The power of sound.
The
Jewish sages knew that sound possesses great power. It can lull a baby to
sleep, or incite mobs to violence. The “Word” created the universe by sound: “By the word of the LORD were the heavens
made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth” (Ps 33:6).
Rabbi
Eleazar ben Judah Worms , Germany
Hey.
The sound of hey (E
“H”) is produced by
simply exhaling, almost effortlessly, with no movement of the lips or tongue.
In the book The Wisdom in the Hebrew
Alphabet, Rabbi Michael Munk says, “This effortless enunciation symbolizes
the effortless creation of the world.”4
Symbolizing
“wind,” hey is an abbreviation for Ruach (“breath” or “spirit”) – the
Spirit of God.5 In the esoteric technique of altering the spaces
between Hebrew letters, in the verse “These
are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created…” (Gen
2:4a), the phrase “when they were
created” is bahibaram in Hebrew.
If the compound word is divided into two as bahi
baram, it can be translated as: “With (the letter) hey (He) created them.”6 Hey has a value of “5,” the number of “grace” or “favor.”
Yod.
With the “Y”
sound, yod (J) is
actually the first letter of God’s Sacred Names. Every Hebrew letter is a
symbol for something, and yod, signifies
a “hand.” It alludes to the unseen “hand” of God when He created heaven and
earth. Its value of “10” stands for “law.” At the Creation, it probably meant
the laws of nature the Creator established.
Waw.
The letter waw (F), sounded as “W” or “V,” represents a hook, peg, or nail, and has a
numerical value of “6.” Rabbi Munk explains the use of waw in the Creation: “The physical world was completed in six days
and a complete self-contained object consists of six dimensions: above and
below, right and left, before and behind.”7
During the Middle Ages, tales
spread about wise men who could bring a dummy or mannequin to life (golem) by combining letters to form a
sacred word or one of the Names of God.8
1“The Most
Insulting Idol of All,” Personal Update,
January 2004, p. 7
2
Chuck
Missler, Cosmic Codes, 1999, revised
2004, p. 123
3Sefer Yetzirah,
ix; quoted in Names of God, The Jewish
Encyclopedia, Vol. 9, pp. 162-163
4Michael Munk, The Wisdom in the Hebrew Alphabet, p. 85
5Missler, op. cit., p. 109
6Osios R’ Akiva,
Internet
7Munk, op. cit.
8Golem, Encyclopaedia Britannica 2009 Student and
Home Edition
(Excerpted from
Chapter 4, Primordial Planet Puzzles, THE DEEP THINGS OF GOD: A Primer
on the Secrets of Heaven and Earth by M.M. Tauson, Amazon.com)
