Our Created Solar System - Introduction

The Solar System (not to scale)

Welcome to the first post in this series about our Solar System! The Solar System is a truly amazing place, and we're very excited to begin exploring it with you. Now most people, when they think of the Solar System, imagine the traditional nine planets, as displayed here. These are the objects we will be exploring in great detail over the course of this series, but they are only a tiny fraction of everything to be found within the Solar System. There is much, much more to see and discover!

To give you an idea of how vast the Solar System is, we'll start with distance. Distances in space are huge; so huge, it's not reasonable to measure them in miles or kilometers. You are no doubt familiar with light years, the unit we use to measure the distances between stars. Well, just as miles are too small to measure the Solar System, light years are too big. So science has come up with an intermediate unit for measuring the Solar System. It has been named, quite creatively, the Astronomical Unit, or AU. 1 AU is equivalent to the distance the Earth is from the sun, or 93 million miles (150 million km). Our Solar System is some 50 AU in size (about 4.5 billion miles/7.5 billion km). Within those 50 AU, there are 8 universally accepted planets, 5 dwarf planets (Pluto, Ceres, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris) and roughly 700,000 other orbiting objects such as asteroids, comets, and moons.

Now you may be wondering, "Where did all this stuff come from?" There are basically two schools of thought on the issue: The Bible vs. the Big Bang, or put another way, Creation vs. Evolution. (When we use the term "Evolution" in the context of astronomy, we're referring to the concept that everything formed gradually over time without a Creator.) Creation, drawing from the Bible, tells us that the entire Universe was created over the course of six days some 6 - 10 thousand years ago. Evolution tells us quite another story, called the "Nebular Hypothesis", which was first postulated by Immanuel Kant in the 1750s, and further refined over time. It has become, since the 19th century, the dominant accepted model of the origins of the Solar System.

An artist's concept of the early Solar System, some 4 billion years ago

According to Evolution, the Universe began with the Big Bang some 14 billion years ago. About 4.6 billion years ago, our Solar System began to form. Clouds of dust and gas slowly began to swirl and condense, first into the Sun, and then into many orbiting bodies. This process is called accretion. This hypothesis claims to explain the shape of the Solar System, the orbits and rotations of the planets, as well as the reason why the inner planets are rocky while the outer planets are gaseous. In fact, this model is so widely accepted by modern science that it is usually treated as fact, is often incorrectly labeled "The Nebula Theory" (when in reality is still hasn't gotten past "Hypothesis"), and is the only model used or considered by the majority of modern scientists.

"There's only one problem with this model," says U.S. Military Space Engineer Spike Psarris, "and that's that it doesn't work." You see, we've actually tested accretion. You can test it in your own home in fact. And it works, on a small scale. Small particles of dust do, in fact, cling together and grow into larger particles of dust. You can see this with the dust bunnies under your bed, or the filth on the lint screen in your dryer. Accretion is a real thing, and it works... until you try to take it too far. We can demonstrate accretion on a small scale, and we can simulate it on a medium scale. Simulations have shown how dust clouds in space can indeed accrete into small rocks, those rocks can accrete into larger rocks, and larger rocks can accrete into asteroids or "planetesimals". The problem is, we can't figure out how planetesimals accrete into planets. That does not work. And yet, for the Nebular Hypothesis to be true, it must work.

Even Evolutionists themselves admit the failure of the Nebular Hypothesis to actually explain how the Solar System formed. According to Professor Martin Harwit of Cornell University, "Once these planetesimals have been formed, further growth of planets may occur through their gravitational accretion into large bodies. Just how that takes place is not understood." (Martin Harwit, "Astrophysical Concepts" pg. 553) So, they come up with this intricate, elaborate explanation, and finally must admit that they don't actually know how their own idea works.

Accretion isn't the only reason this model doesn't work. Remember when we said that the Nebular

The hero of the story

Hypothesis is supposed to explain why the planets are the way they are? It actually doesn't. Evolution cannot actually account for a single planet being the way it is. So, and I kid you not, the go-to explanation for almost every single contradiction between reality and this model is that an asteroid hit it. You see, everything formed exactly the way Evolution predicted it should... but at some point in time, a big fat rock smashed into it and made it the way it is today. That's not a joke. But as we explore the Solar System in depth over the next several months, you will see just how comical, how unbelievable, how un-scientific even, this claim really is. But it is a necessary claim to rescue their own hypothesis from reality, for as Spike tells us, and we shall soon see, "Each [planet] in a unique way disproves Evolution".

The Bible tells us that the heavens declare the glory of God (Psalm 19:1), and they do. The heavens also speak of a young Solar System, a young Universe. We hope that you will return with us in two weeks as we begin our amazing journey through the Solar System to discover its wonders, beginning with Mercury!