

Especially since hues of all varieties have special meanings to each one of us. He, instead, infused with meaning the phenomena of colors we call a rainbow.You think it would be easy to put this list together. The token of God's promise never to destroy life again by a deluge was not borrowed from an already existing and commonly occurring event. The absence of sufficiently sized water drops leads to the conclusion that rainbows could not have appeared in the sky until after the rains that brought the great flood. Evidence in the Bible highly suggests that water on the pre-flood earth came not by rain but by ground-based mists and fogs created by the Earth's near total tropical environment (see our article on why there was no rain before the flood). While rainbows and their fascinating display of colors are common occurrences it was not always so.

Their result, a slightly beige white color (which is the background of the text you are now reading), was dubbed "Cosmic Latte." This average was determined after measuring the spectral range of light from at least 200,000 galaxies. Two researchers studying the formation of stars, in 2002, stumbled upon the average color of the known universe.

Children in school are sometimes taught to remember this list, from longest wavelength to the shortest, through memorizing the name "Roy G Biv." Isaac Newton gave us the now familiar list of seven wavelengths of light that we can see: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo (a wavelength of light roughly 420 to 450 nanometers long), and Violet. The average human eye can perceive wavelengths that are from about 390 nanometers long (violet) to about 700 nanometers (red).

What several of them represent, however, can be gleaned based on where and how they are used in Scripture.Ĭolors are actually a section of the electromagnetic spectrum (a grouping of charged particles (energy) that move through space at a particular wavelength and frequency) referred to as visible light. Although the KJV lists bay, black, blue, brown, crimson, green, grey, hoar, purple, red, scarlet, sorrel, vermilion, white, and yellow, a precise translation of the underlying original language word(s) is difficult.
