Bible Discussion Thread

To discover whether light has been reflected or not, an instrument called a POLARISCOPE is used. When, by this means, a ray of light from the moon is examined, it is discovered to be polarized or borrowed, light. By the same means, it can always be determined whether light from heavenly bodies is reflected from planets and moons, or emitted by self-luminous suns. So we see the astronomical accuracy of the Bible which 2000 years ago declared, ‘’There is one glory [or brilliance] of the sun, and another glory of the moon.’’


A SPECTROSCOPE is another wonderful modern instrument by which rays of light from far-distant stars are broken up into their spectrums and thus give up their secrets as to the distance of the stars, their size and composition. These strange lines of color in the spectroscope, as H.W. Warren said, are ‘’The alphabets to new realms of knowledge. They are produced by specific substances in the sun [or the stars]. Each substance has its own peculiar line or lines. Sodium has always two lines at a certain place in the yellow spectrum. Light passing through vapour of sodium as the vibration that would fall on these two narrow lines in the yellow utterly destroyed leaving instead two black spaces. Light passing through vapour of burning iron has hundreds of vibrations absorbed, leaving in their stead that number in black lines. But if the salt or iron is glowing gas, in the source of the light itself [red], the same lines are bright instead of dark.