How The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics Supports The Bible!

It's official! Three Americans will share the 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics. Here's an excerpt of the Associated Press article, "3 win Nobel for showing universe is speeding up" by Malcolm and Carl Ritter released Tuesday, October 4th;

NEW YORK (AP) -- Three U.S.-born scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discovering that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace, a stunning revelation that suggests the cosmos could be headed for a colder, bleaker future, nearly devoid of light.

In 1998, Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess presented findings that overturned the conventional idea that the expansion was slowing 13.7 billion years after the big bang.

Their discovery raised a question: What is pushing the universe apart? Scientists have labeled it "dark energy," but nobody knows what it is.

It's "an enigma, perhaps the greatest in physics today," the Nobel committee said.

On the official website, NobelPrize.Org, the following announcement has been placed;

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 was divided, one half awarded to Saul Perlmutter, the other half jointly to Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae".

Why is this such big news for people of Faith and Science?

Job 9:8(AMP) - Who alone stretches out the heavens and treads upon the waves and high places of the sea;

Isaiah 40:22(AMP) - It is God Who sits above the circle (the horizon) of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; it is He Who stretches out the heavens like [gauze] curtains and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,

According to The Bible, the universe is being continually stretched like a curtain and spread out like a tent. Without any advanced scientific research, Job and the prophet Isaiah said the universe is expanding. Hence, they appeared to already know an important element of The Big Bang.

In sum, current research which proves that the expansion is accelerating only further supports the fact that it's expanding in the first place. How could this scientific fact be in The Bible thousands of years before it was ever theorized and then proven by scientists? Where did these authors of The Bible get such wisdom? Maybe they had inside information. ;-)

2 Timothy 3:16(KJV) - All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: