Old Testament 1500 BCE to 0. New Testament 0 to 100 CE. A total of 1600 yr. 1900 years since the Bible was completed in 100 CE. Let’s add a Newer Testament of the 1900-year-increase in knowledge, wisdom, & truth to the “New Testament.” -Newer Science, Cosmology’s Century -New Poetry (Psalms) -Hymns -Literature & Theology An awakening universe with increasing globalization.

1. A NEWER
TESTAMENT
Of the Continuing Creation
since 100 CE
Paul H. Carr, PhD
www.MirrorOfNature.org 1

2. Time makes ancient good uncouth.
They must upward still and onward
Who would keep abreast of truth.
James Russell Lowell
THE LIGHT OF TRUTH

3. A NEWER TESTAMENT
of the Continuing Creation since 100 CE.
Old Testament 1500 BCE to 0.
New Testament 0 to 100 CE. A total of 1600 yr.
1900 years since the Bible was completed in 100 CE.
Let’s add a Newer Testament of the 1900-year-increase in
knowledge, wisdom, & truth to the “New Testament.”
-Newer Science, Cosmology’s Century
-New Poetry (Psalms)
-Hymns
-Literature & Theology
An awakening universe with increasing globalization.

4. OLD TESTAMENT 2500-YEARS-AG0 FLAT EARTH
In the Beginning God Created.. (Genesis 1:1).
And God made the firmament and separated the waters which
were under the firmament from the waters which were above
the firmament. (Genesis 1:7)

5. Earthrise on the Moon
THE NEWER
TESTAMENT
WORLD
VIEW
Enabled us to
land an
astronaut on
the moon in
1969

6. In 1510, Copernicus made a controversial proposal:
The Sun not the Earth is the center of our
solar system.

7. Astronomer Harlow
Shapley discovered our
place in our Milky Way
Galaxy in 1920.
We are not the
center of our
Milky Way Galaxy.
OUR MILKY WAY GALAXY

8. Fr. Lemaitre, inspired by
1. Genesis 1,
2. Hubble’s discovery of the expanding
universe &
3. Einstein’s General Relativity theory,
published his
Hot Big Bang theory in 1927.
Albert Einstein. Fr. George Lemaitre

9. Hot to Cool Cosmology, From Hydrogen to Humans
The Whispering Cosmos
---------------------Big Bang 13.8 Billion years ago------------------
Earth
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10. THE WHISPERING COSMOS.
From cooler temperatures 0.3 M yrs after “the Beginning,”
to Galaxies, 2 B years later.
Hubble Telescope Optical Deep
Field Image of Galaxies
12 Billion Light Years away,
about 2 Billion years after “the
beginning.” (1996)
Image of the universe 0.3 Million
years after “the beginning.” This
image of temperature fluctuations
was measured by the Wilkinson
Microwave Anisotropy Probe. The
cooler regions “seeded” the stars
and the galaxies. 10

11. IGNITING CREATIVITY
by Brian Swimme (cosmologist) in
Order of the Sacred Earth (2018) (Matthew Fox)
The universe gives birth to itself by assembling
communities with the capacity to awaken the
creativity of their members.
When hydrogen atoms find themselves in an
interaction community called a star, they discovers
they have the power to transform themselves into
the elements that give birth to life.

12. The cooperative FUSION of hydrogen nuclei into helium in our sun’s community
releases large amounts of heat and light.

13. The onion-like layers of a massive,
evolved star just before core collapse.
(Not to scale.) Elements up to Iron (Fe)
are formed from hydrogen by fusion.
The Cats Eye Nebula formed by the death of a star
The heaviest elements in the periodic
table such as Uranium and Lead are
formed by fusion in the higher
temperatures of such super novae.
HOW WE CAME FROM THE STARS

14. WE ARE MADE OF STARDUST
Hubble Telescope of new stars being born from the gravitational attraction
of the dust from the death of a star that had exploded in a supernova.

15. 1920s Fr. George Lemaitre’s
Big Bang Theory based on
Einstein’s General Relativity
P J E Peebles, 2020 Nobel Laureate

16. The new popular Creation Museum in northern Kentucky shows why
God´s infallible Biblical Word, rather than man´s faulty assumptions, is
the place to begin if we want to make sense of our world.
WHY WE NEED A NEWER TESTAMENT

17. The 75,000-square-foot Creation Museum allows families
to experience earth history as God has revealed it in the
Bible.
Nearly 150 exhibits feature fearsome animatronic
dinosaurs living at the same time as heroes of the faith,
and professional displays that honor God´s Word in the
Bible
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This is why we need the NewerTestament.
There are no dinosaurs in the Bible.
The dinosaurs died off 65 Million years
ago before humans emerged.

18. 65 Million years ago, the dinosaurs became extinct.
A few Million years ago, we human mammals emerged.
Will humans still be
here as long as the
185 Million years
that the dinosaurs
were?

19. A NEWER TESTAMENT
of the 1900-Yr Continuing Creation
Bible 1500 BCE to 100AD = 1600 years
New Science, Cosmology’s Century
New Poetry (Psalms)
Hymns
Literature & Theology

20. The following Newer Testament poetry could
supplement the biblical Psalms:
The old order changes
Yielding place to new.
God fulfills Himself in many ways
Lest one good custom should corrupt the
world.
A.L. Tennyson. Idyls of the King

21. The Newer Testament should also include the
writing and hymn “A Mighty Fortress is Our God,”
of the first Protestant reformer Martin Luther,
also evangelists like John Wesley who wrote,
“Do all the good you can,
by all the means you can,
in all the ways you can,
in all the places you can,
at all the times you can,
to all the people you can,
as long as ever you can.”

22. John Wesley’s brother
Charles wrote:
A charge to keep I have,
A God to glorify
A never dying soul to save
And fit it for the sky.

23. The Newer Testament should include the thought
of UU minister and philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
In the Newer Testament , Emerson’s poetry could
supplement the biblical Psalms:
Over me soared the eternal sky
Full of light and of deity
Again I saw, again I heard
The rolling river, the morning bird;
Beauty through my senses stole;
I yielded myself to the perfect whole.
From Emerson’s Each and All

24. Inscription on Emerson’s grave in Concord, MA
The passive master lent his hand
To the vast soul that over him planned.

25. Emerson wrote about nature as he
knew it, yet what he said applies to
the awaking cosmos we have
recently discovered:
“In nature every moment is new;
the past in always swallowed up
and forgotten, the coming only is
sacred.”

26. For theologian Tillich, the heart of the
Christian message is the
“New Being,” New Creation,
It came through Jesus the Christ. We
measure time from his birth, 2021 years
ago.
Christianity is more than a religion. It is
the message of a New Creation, evident in
the threefold:
re-conciliation,
re-union, and
re-surrection.

27. Resurrection is more universal than the revival of dead bodies.
Tillich states,
”It is the victory of the new state of things, the New Being born out
of death of the old.
Resurrection is not an event that might happen in some remote
future, but it is the power of the New Being to create life out of
death, here and now, today and tomorrow.
Where there is a New Being and Creation there is resurrection,
namely the creation into eternity out of every moment of time.
The Old Being has the mark of disintegration and death.
Resurrection happens now.
It happens in us and around us, in soul and history, in nature and
the universe.”

28. The word human derives from humus, the fertile
soil that comes from the composting of plants that
have died.
The birth of the new from the death of the old is
cosmic.
Stars die in cosmic explosions called supernovae
that spread dust containing all the elements into
space. Gravity pulls this dust back together to form
new stars and planets. This was how our solar
system was created. This Hubble telescope has
enabled us to see this happening.

29. WE ARE MADE OF STARDUST
Hubble Telescope of new stars being born from the gravitational attraction
of the dust from the death of a star that had exploded in a supernova.

30. The Roman Catholic process theologian John Haught at Georgetown
University in his recent book cited Emerson. Prof Haught’s recent
book is:
The New Cosmic Story: Inside our Awakening Universe,(2017)
The outer scientific story tells us that the universe is still awakening
to rightness. The universe on which we are utterly dependent
nevertheless created us. We are made of stardust.
We find our greatest inner fulfillment and joy as we contribute
something new and indispensable towards increased goodness,
beauty, and truth.
The universe is still awakening, and we are called to participate as
co-creators in the continuing creation.

31. A NEWER TESTAMENT
of the 1900-Yr Continuing Creation
As created co-creators, let’s add a Newer
Testament of the 1900-year-increase in knowledge,
wisdom, & truth to the “New Testament.”
What are your suggestions for publishing:
-New Science, Cosmology
-Poetry (Psalms)
-Hymns
-Literature & Theology
E-mail me at paulcarr@alum.mit.edu
Google my name “Paul H. Carr” to find my email.

32. Time makes ancient good uncouth.
Let’s be upward still and onward
To keep abreast of truth.
James Russell Lowell
THE LIGHT OF TRUTH