[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you oh so very much for all your kind words and especially for your testimony!

I haven't read Starlight and Time - but I will make it a point to do so.

On the Scripture passages, because the meaning of water is so very important to my understanding of Genesis 1:2-8 - I regret that I did not include John 3:5 and John 4:14 in the essay also. Oh well, hindsight is 20 20 (LOL!)

I'm very confident that you will become a most excellent Physicist because of your humility before God. And you already know the difference between fact and Truth.

Hugs to you and may God bless you always!

[newguy357]

Thank you very much Alamo-Girl, you are very kind!

The specific thing you wrote which made me think of Starlight and Time is how time would run at different rates depending on one's reference frame. E.g., the first 24 hour day is what we perceive to be the first eight billion years, if I understood you correctly. He uses the same idea, namely general relativity (time dilation in gravitational fields), to explain how only seven 24 hour days could have passed on earth, while billions passed elsewhere. His main goal is to explain how, if the earth really is only ~6000 years old, we could be seeing light from millions of light years away. Of course, this doesn't address the fact that the earth itself appears to be much older than that.

So I like your ideas better!