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To: Moonman62
Magnetic striping of the oceans, and the lengthier ice cores should do it.

A good additional one will be the Gaia spacecraft launching this year, which will be able to measure the distance to stars up to 30,000 light-years away through straightforward parallax trigonometry, thus adding yet another proof the galaxy, at least, is older than 6,000 years.

It will be amusing to watch the young-earth creationists contort themselves into trying to disprove those results - probably through some silly claims the speed of light has radically changed in the last 6,000 years.

24 posted on 03/27/2013 11:44:47 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Strategerist

Interestingly enough, there are “young stars and Galaxy’s” that we shouldn’t be able to see.


27 posted on 03/27/2013 11:49:12 AM PDT by Zeneta (No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.)
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To: Strategerist
A good additional one will be the Gaia spacecraft launching this year, which will be able to measure the distance to stars up to 30,000 light-years away through straightforward parallax trigonometry, thus adding yet another proof the galaxy, at least, is older than 6,000 years.

Again, no contortion is necessary ... the light from the stars was part of creation as the Genesis text says the stars were put in place to mark times and seasons. If the photon stream was not part of the creation the stars could not be used to mark times and seasons.

43 posted on 03/27/2013 12:10:19 PM PDT by dartuser (My firearm is not illegal ... its undocumented.)
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To: Strategerist; All

Most likely the false assumption here isn’t creationism, but rather that God would work as slowly as processes presently work. All a person can do today is examine what already exists, and imagine how it could have come to such a condition without God and assuming it must have taken millions of years. If God wanted light to be visible from stars light years away, what could stop him from making the initial effect immediate?

It is enough to show, however, that the universe could not have come into existence without the hand of God in the first place. This is obvious especially when you look at the smallest of details, say the way ATP is put together in the cell, to realize that no random processes could have put together such a complex piece of machinery in one go. Once the assumption of a godless universe is destroyed, then there is nothing that stops the creation story of the Bible from being true.


190 posted on 03/28/2013 1:30:25 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
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