[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!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for summarizing Starlight and Time!!!

Indeed, you understand my position that God is the only observer and the author of Genesis - and that at His inception space/time coordinate (big bang) the equivalent of a 24 hour day would appear to be 8 billion years at our space/time coordinates, etc. Thus, I believe both statements (old and young) are in agreement.

We just never finish the sentence, the universe is 15 billion years old from our space/time coordinates.

It sounds like Starlight and Time would have God as the observer from our pre-existing earth space/time coordinate. I would probably dismiss that because time is a part of the creation and not something in which the Creator exists.

Hugs!