Think of How Big Our Universe Is

“O Lord, our Lord, How majestic is Thy name in all the earth, Who hast displayed Thy splendor above the heavens! From the mouth of infants and nursing babes Thou hast established strength, Because of Thine adversaries, To make the enemy and the revengeful cease. When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained; What is man, that Thou dost take thought of him?” Psalm 8:1-4a

When we attempt to measure the universe we have to disregard the inch, the foot, and the mile completely for God’s universe is too big for that. The term science uses to measure the universe is “light years.” Light moves at a speed of 186,000 miles per second. Therefore, a light year is 186,000 miles times the number of seconds in one year. That multiplies to roughly six trillion miles. Six trillion miles equals one light year.

In our universe we have galaxies. A galaxy is made up of a group of stars and planets in our local system. We live in the galaxy that has been termed the “Milky Way.” The Milky Way is 100,000 light years in diameter. Now, to compute that - six trillion miles is one light year and the Milky Way in which we exist is 100,000 light years wide. That is six hundred thousand trillion miles. Bang! That was a big explosion!

Astronomers, those people who look at the stars, estimate that there are one trillion galaxies that can be seen with our largest telescopes. Our galaxy is 100,000 light years in diameter and there are another trillion galaxies that we know of.

To explain this another way, let a single sheet of paper represent 93,000,000 miles, which is the distance from our earth to the sun. Using that criterion, it would take a stack of paper seventy-one feet high to represent the distance between earth and the nearest star which is 4 and 1/3 light years away. If we were to cover the diameter of the Milky Way, we would require a stack of paper 310 miles high. In addition to that, if we were to reach the edge of the known universe, it would demand a pile of paper sheets 31 million miles high. All this and evolutionists want to tell us there was a big ball that went “bang,” and it traveled for trillions of miles in a space of that did not even exist.

Another illustration of the size of our universe would be our sun. If the sun were hollow 1,300,000 earths could fit inside. A star named Antares could hold 64,000,000 of our suns. The constellation of Hercules has a star which could contain 100,000,000 Antares. The largest known star is called Epsilon which could easily swallow 27 billion of our suns. That is how big creation is!