Why such a Dark Universe? We are in the best place to view the complete history of the universe.
Dark Moon, small as can be, yet large enough to support advanced life.
Dark Solar System (No near by large gas or dust clouds)
Distant Star Clusters (one star 4 light-years (ly) away, next star is 35 ly away, closest clusters 150 ly away)
Dark Nebulae (closest Nebula is 650 ly away)
Dark Galaxy Clusters (closest Galaxy is 2.5 million ly away)
Dark Matter (Milky Way Dark Matter is 3,260 light-years from the Sun, stabilizing the spiral arms for life, and can not be seen)
Dark Energy (In the spacetime curvature of the universe and throughout all of space and can not be seen)
Job 38:19–20. “Where does darkness reside?…Do you know the paths to their dwellings?" Over 4,000 years ago, God asked this question; not until recently did we know the answer. (Dark Matter and Dark Energy)
As light travels at 186,000 miles per second, thus as astronomers look at the night sky they see only the past, as light takes time to travel. Astronomers can see back in time 13.7 billion years. The earliest color photo of the universe is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, taken as it was 3.8 billion years ago. This is only possible in a very dark place in the universe, which the Earth is. Ext Link: NASA Hubble Ultra Deep Field Photo. To NASA Hubble Deep Field website.
The Right Stuff - Mass of the universe:
Ordinary matter 4.62% – Stuff we can see (Stars 0.27% and Planets 0.0001%)
Dark matter 23.3% – Cannot see, but measured gravitational. One key to the Milky Way's stable Arms, a key to life on Earth.
Dark energy 72% - in the spacetime curvature of the universe and throughout all of space, causing the universe to expand faster. The expansion rate is highly fine-tuned for life on Earth or anywhere in the universe.
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Psalm 19:1-3 “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”
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Early Dark Sky on Earth
Gen 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters."
Job 38:9, “I [God] made the clouds its [Earth’s seas] garment and wrapped it in thick darkness.”
The Bible states in Gen 1 and Job 38:9 that the early earth had a dark sky, thus the sun (made in Gen 1:1) was not visible on the surface of the earth (over the water, ocean).
Six geochemists led by Paolo Sossi demonstrated that outgassing from this magma ocean produced an atmosphere identical to Venus, very dark. The lack of oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere also made it hazy and dark.
Genesis 1:14 “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens. . . . they shall serve as signs and for seasons, and for days and years.”
As Genesis 1:20 implies, the signs are for the benefit of the animals created after Earth’s atmosphere became transparent, due to higher oxygen levels. The phrase "Let there be light" does not have the word create or made in it. Often, those who hate the God of the Bible will change the wording and replace "Let there be lights" with God created the sun.
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Also See Space-Time page
Also See Why so Vast
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Ref:
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Dark Sky:
Paolo A. Sossi et al., “Redox State of Earth’s Magma Ocean and Its Venus-Like Early Atmosphere,” Science Advances 6, no. 48 (November 25, 2020): id. eabd1387, doi:10.1126/sciadv.abd1387.
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Hilke E. Schlitchting, Paul H. Warren, and Qing-Zhu Yin, “The Last Stages of Terrestrial Planet Formation: Dynamical Friction and the Late Veneer,” Astrophysical Journal 752, no. 8 (June 10, 2012): id. 8, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/752/1/8; R. Brasser et al., “Late Veneer and Late Accretion to the Terrestrial Planets,” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 455 (December 1, 2016): 85–93, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2016.09.013.