Mysterious force's long presence

Re: Post 12

The way Farmer (a professor at Indiana State University) did it was to simply have folks create a "pocket universe" ~ looked just like the real universe, and you could see all the distant galaxies and so forth, but it only extended out to the Oort cloud where it simply ended ~ the rest was just an image.

Russell Humphreys (Los Alamos) submitted an interesting model that invoked time dilation/Relativity to explain the Creation event. Crudely put, time is affected by Gravity (This actually has been demonstrated by comparing the measurements from atomic clocks at Sea Level to those at high altitudes). If one takes the Creation event as defined in Genesis 1, and place all of the Created matter (from Day 1) within a half-light year radius the gravity at the center (call the center, 'Earth') is much higher than that on the outer perimeter. At Day 2, some of the matter gets 'pushed' farther out (e.g., 'the heavens were stretched out'). The clocks on the outer perimeter run much faster than the clocks in the center. Day 4, when light from the stars appear on Earth corresponds to 'billions' of years at the outer perimeter...
This my crude summary. You can find more details at answersingenesis.org if you are interested (just search for Russell Humphreys; or Time; or Relativity;...)

Isaiah 40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

" Dark energy - the mysterious force that is speeding up the expansion of the Universe - has been a part of space for at least nine billion years.
That is the conclusion of astronomers who presented results from a three-year study using the Hubble Space Telescope."

Sorry.
But it seems that any rational person would intuit that one of the basic elements of the universe had been around approximately as long as the universe.
They needed a telescope??

"There was some guy who made a convincing argument about how the universe could be 6,000 years old from the Earth's perspective, and billions of years old from another reference."

That's Dr. D. Russell Humphreys

His "Starlight and Time" was unabashed in starting from a Bible literalist perspective and provided what I believe is THE answer to the speed of light dilemma.

His interpretation of the Genesis "waters" as being H20 instead of fluid matter or plasma was a bit too English centered literal though.

"I sounds more like Medieval "Scientists" trying to explain disease."

First we had magic dark matter.
Now we have magic dark energy.

There is a magic-dark-whatever that we can invoke to glue together any theory we want. If the evidence contradicts your world view, you just gotta have faith in the magic-darkness to save you.

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