The creation of gravity and formation of the firmament was to establish a place, heaven, where God would dwell in perpetual light because the firmament is bright like the sun, as we see from Daniel.
The Brightness of the Firmament
The Waters Above
The firmament, third heaven, originally had a portion of the deep covering its outer surface. At the time of Noah's flood the windows of heaven opened and the water poured through and flooded the Earth.
The Three Heavens
Given that the apostle Paul specifically refers to something called the third heaven it's not a stretch to conclude that there must also be a first and a second heaven. We need to know what they are.
The Danger of Peer Review
Dark matter doesn't exist. However it's necessary, in the popular science paradigm (SciPop), because the firmament is the source of gravitational interaction which keeps the universe in its current stable state.
The Hubble Constant
Sir Edwin Hubble was one of the first to suggest that the apparent red shift of stellar objects is caused by the doppler effect as the universe expands and the stars become further and further away.
Creationism #EpicFail 2
The Bible is God's Word. The Bible describes creation. According to the Bible a firmament was created in the midst of the deep to separate waters above from waters below. It's the beginning of a doctrine of gravity.
GW190521
GW190521 is a gravitational wave detection from May 21, 2019 which was so unusual that scientists had to spin it as a mammoth collision of impossible black holes.
The Antediluvian World
A word that ties together a developing theory for the interior of the Earth is tehom, the deep. The deep is first mentioned in Genesis 1:2 as a body of water which predates creation.
Hypothesis 19
The presence of extraterrestrial material at the Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T) boundary gives us the premise for a predictive testable hypothesis. However, hypothesis 19 has nothing to do with a meteorite impact.
The Windows of Heaven
The windows of heaven are described in scripture as physical structures which may be opened or closed. This is possible because the firmament is a sphere of rigid crystal on the edge of space.