In the beginning, God created everything supernaturally in six days as we count time on the Earth’s surface. This history was what happened. After God’s initial act of creating something from nothingness, (time, space, energy, and matter) He used the very processes He created to form the rest of the physical universe. If He used gravity, then it would have taken 13,700,000,000 years, but there are many problems with big bang cosmology. However, if God used electromagnetic energy along with the enormously faster atomic processes, which the scientific data indicate existed in the past, the formation of the universe in six 24-hour days is likely how God made the universe, according to astronomer and physicist Barry Setterfield.

Today, many within the secular scientific community teach the gravitational model. However, gravity is a weak force, easily defied. Every time we pick up 50 pounds, we defy gravity. However, the gravitational model has some major astronomical problems because it requires the invention of ‘dark matter’ and ‘dark energy,’ and the usage of tortuous mathematics. On a small scale, such as the solar system, gravity as a major force works very well, but on a larger scale, such as a Milky Way Galaxy, gravity does not work in the same manner. Research into plasma physics and electrodynamics appears to illustrate how God made the physical universe, according to astronomer and physicist Barry Setterfield.

Plasma is an electrically conducting medium where there are roughly equal numbers of positively and negatively charged particles, produced when the atoms in a gas become ionized. Scientists call plasma the fourth state of matter. Plasma is unique in the way it interacts with itself, with electric and magnetic fields, and with its environment. Physicists think of this as a collection of ions, electrons, neutral atoms and molecules, and photons where natural processes ionize some atoms while electrons are recombining with other ions to form neutral particles, and

natural processes continuously produce and absorb photons. Scientists estimate that more than 99 percent of the matter in the universe exists in the plasma state. Therefore, God used plasma physics, which He created to form galaxies and stars, and this history happened very quickly within the first four days of the creation week. God the Holy Spirit was likely driving the surging energy and matter, while He was stretching out the heavens, according to astronomer and physicist Barry Setterfield.

PRIMARY SOURCE: The Plasma Model of Creation by Barry Setterfield (http://www.setterfield.org/Genesis_1-11/part_2_plasma_model.html)