Creation Station
Space
Starlight, Star Bright
by Sean Meek, Director of Project CREATION
Image from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
How do stars, like our Sun, produce so much light and heat? Most people
have heard the theory that the Sun is like a perpetual hydrogen bomb,
producing energy thru nuclear fusion. This idea has become such an
article of faith that most people don't know that this theory has never
been proven. One of the problems with this theory is that the evidence
is against it.
When nuclear fusion does occur, it produces a particular type of
radiation called neutrinos. The problem is that the Sun produces only
about one third of the neutrinos it should be producing if all of its
energy were being produced by nuclear fusion. So if it's not nuclear
fusion, how does the Sun make most of its energy? Before nuclear fusion
was discovered, the generally accepted idea was that the Sun produced
energy by shrinking. The compression of the hydrogen in the Sun could
be what produces most of its energy. Evolutionists hate this idea,
because if the Sun is shrinking, it cannot be very old. A preshrunk
Sun even a few million years old would have been so
large it would have touched the Earth, making life impossible. A
shrinking Sun in a 6 to 8 thousand year old Solar System would present
no problem at all.
Actual observation of the Sun has shown that it is shrinking, but
evolutionists reject the data, making up stories to explain it away. So
how does the Sun produce energy? At this point the answer is, like so
many questions about nature, we don't know. Some day true science may
find the answer. In the mean time evolutionists will continue to invent
more stories.
"For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse."
Romans 1:20
