Comets, God, and the Oort Cloud

Wikipedia defines the Oort cloud as a hypothesized spherical cloud of comets which may lie nearly one light-year from the sun.

Notice the "hypothesized" and "may."

No one has ever seen the Oort cloud. No one has ever measured its size or density, or counted the objects in it. Yet science articles will assume the Oort cloud exists, and even say that it has a dense core, that it contains an estimated six trillion comets, that one sixth of these are in the outer region of the cloud, and that the comets are tens of millions of kilometers apart.

Do they know this, or did someone make it up?

I painted this a couple weeks ago. It's called "Comet Launch."

It is easier for me to believe that God plays marbles with comets than it is for me to believe in an Oort cloud.

Why? Because I know God is the Creator, and that the Oort cloud is an invention. It was invented by astronomers, who reject God and the Bible, as a way out of a dilemma.

You see, comets which periodically pass near the sun, lose so much matter each time they pass that they could not still exist after thousands of years. Comets are one evidence for a young (thousands not billions of years) universe.

A young universe implies that the Bible is true, that God is real. And a real God implies our responsibility to him. That cannot be allowed! So, the imaginary Oort cloud gives astronomers a source for new comets, making it okay that those we see are young—and solves their dilemma.

^"Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.

Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength." 1 Corinthians 20-25