Energy from our sun is the source of heat for our earth. Because of the heat and light transmitted to us, we live in a perfect environment for both plants and animals.
But the sun can also be very destructive. It's ultraviolet rays not only can burn the skin, but over-exposure is now known to cause cancer.
We are fortunate that the sun is exactly the distance away from earth that it is so we can live in a world that sustains life in great abundance.
But scientists have discovered an amazing fact: the sun is actually getting smaller!
The shrinking of the sun is nothing to worry about of course, but here is an amazing fact: at the present calculated rate, the diameter of the sun will be approximately half the size it presently is just 100,000 years from now. So much for earth warming!
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Believe it or not, the sun is 109 times as large as earth! It's diameter is estimated to be 864,938 miles across.
The sun is almost 93 million miles from earth. Light from the sun travels to earth in approximately 8.3 minutes.
Since 1836 more than one hundred different observers at the Royal Greenwich Observatory and the U.S. Naval Observatory have made visual measurements that reveal that the DIAMETER OF THE SUN IS SLOWLY SHRINKING at the rate of 0.1% per century.
But here is another amazing fact: if the earth and sun were really 4.5 to 5 billion years old as we have been taught by the questionable theory of evolution, the sun would have been TWICE THE SIZE IT IS JUST 100,000 YEARS AGO!
In fact, the sun would have been TEN TIMES AS LARGE just one million years ago. One million years ago, the surface of the earth would have been too hot to sustain any life.
20 million years ago, the sun would have been so large that it would have nearly touched the surface of planet earth. Imagine how big the sun would have been 4.5 to 5 billion years ago!
Maybe it is time for us to rethink our commitment to the troubled theory of evolution.
"The universe has a wonderful story to proclaim. You will find clues about how it all began and when. Surprising discoveries about the sun have proven that it is very young instead of 4.5 billion years old as suggested by evolutionary scientists and philosophers."
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