Science can never do justice to historical perspectives b/c there is no experiment which would allow even indirect observation of millions and billions of years of elapsed time.
Also if you study Einstein, Schrodinger, even Russell Humphreys a little closer you may realize the with gravitational time dilation 6,000 years can appear to be billions of years maybe even 13.7~15.7 when you take the big bang perspective in conjunction with shells of time. If everything was moving faster then...
Day 1 ~ 7 to 8 billion years apparent elapsed time
Day 2 ~ 3.4 to 4 billion
Day 3 ~ 1.75 to 2 billion
Day 4 ~ .875 to 1 billion
Day 5 ~ .4375 to .5 billion
Day 6 ~ .2188 to .25 billion
So one week at creation could make the elapsed time of an initial expansion appear to be longer for both a stellar and a nuclear perspective. Just some food for thought b/c
science also needs to do a good job of explaining contradictory data rather than sweeping it under a rug and pretending it doesn’t exist.
101 Evidences for a Young Age of the Earth...And the Universe
http://creation.com/age-of-the-earth
It's relative. Pun intended.
So... you introduced 'apparent elapsed time'.
The bottom line is that you are arguing about what time it is?
You go with your theory. I'll withhold judgement. I don't claim to hold absolute truth.
I'm not likely to put a bunch of credence in Archbishop Ussher's calculations, though.
I expect I'll learn the truth eventually, and it doesn't affect my salvation, either way.
In fact, focusing on that can be counterproductive.
/johnny
“7-8 billion years of apparent elapsed time” is kind of giving away the store, don’t you think? “And the evening and the morning were the first day.” How can that be anything but poesy? What are your theories on absolute true and mathematical evening and morning?
There’s also a neat theory I read recently which posited that the apparent age of the universe, the redshifts, radioactive decay, and all the associated phenomena, could be reconciled with a young universe simply by speed of light decay.
There’s more than one way to skin a cat, and there are more than two ways to explain the observed phenomena.