Dating is a major issue btwn YEC's and the old earth camp. My proffered hypothesis is that as Adam and Eve were created as fully adult, like in a second of accelerated time, so would the earth, but when Adam sinned, and death came, then he and the rest would test to be far older.
Matthew Pines answered this question beautifully.
If there are infinite possible universes and we are in one of them we could not know about our universe if there was nothing in it.
Since we do know about it there must be something in it.
There is no need to over complicate the analysis.
YEC’s and the old earth
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doesn’t directly appear in the equations for time dilation, it represents a fundamental limit on the smallest measurable time interval in our universe. Understanding time dilation at the Planck scale is a major challenge in theoretical physics, and further research is needed to fully grasp its implications.
In simpler terms:
The Planck time is the smallest unit of time that has physical meaning in our universe.
Time dilation is a phenomenon where time passes slower for an observer in motion or in a strong gravitational field.
At the Planck scale (where space and time are incredibly small), the nature of time dilation and the very concept of time itself become complex and are still being explored by physicists.
Understanding time dilation at the Planck scale is a key goal of quantum gravity research, aiming to unify our understanding of gravity and quantum mechanics.
Nonsense!
Just a little something.
It’s nothing, really.
https://learn.ligonier.org/podcasts/ultimately-with-rc-sproul/out-of-nothing-nothing-comes
Ladies and gentlemen, if anything exists now—this is elementary—then there never could have been a time when there was nothing, because the most fundamental maxim of all reason and all science and all philosophy is the maxim, Ex nihilo nihil fit. “Out of nothing, nothing comes.”
If there were nothing, we wouldn’t be asking that question.
Hmmmm.... that suggests to me that the oscillating universe models I was taught in school is off. If there are repeat big bangs, then the expansion after the most recent bang would be slowing down to eventually stop expanding, then start contracting, and wind back up in another point singularity to eventually bang again.
But the accelerating expansion suggests to me a one-time big bang. If all of the fine-tuning necessary for life ain't right this time, there's not infinite future big bangs hoping it's right some other time. This looks like evidence for design to me to make sure things are right in this only shot we get for life.
Either the universe always existed, or it was created. If it was created, it was by a being outside of the universe.
“Something from nothing” is not possible.
Just because we don't know the cause doesn't mean there is no cause.
No one ever hailed as a great philosopher or revelator by saying he has no idea what is going on.
And that is the reason none of the great philosophers admit that.
. Proverbs 26
While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
God is a being of more than 3 dimensions that exists in a world of more than 3 dimensions. Both God and his world have always existed. God then created our 3 dimensional universe that exists within his own higher dimensional universe. He can inject himself into our universe whenever he feels like it, any way he likes.
We exist and know only what is called Euclidean space, that is three physical dimensions and a concept of time related to that space.
My God transcends that space and our universe.
We were made in the image of God and we stole some but not
all of our worlds knowledge and built upon that.
God still watches over us, but it has to be by his rules as our incomplete understanding is so dangerous.
We kill each other for fun and profit what would we do to others totally alien?
Happy Sunday, I listened to a church sermon today as I do every Sunday.
....Atheists say they have the answer to why there is something rather than nothing—the nothing created it!....
Sorry, atheists—nothing comes from nothing!
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth!”
it seems to me the explanation is much simpler than all that.
We were given an inspired message long ago.
“God is Light”
the full implication of that realization covers many, many aspects of divine presence in Cosmology, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Spiritual matters. (imho)
In my thinking, “nothing” requires a lot of explanation, “something”, hardly any at all.
There never was nothing
One of the best things I ever read said basically, “Saying that the universe was by chance created from a big bang is like saying an explosion in a print shop resulted in the Webster’s unabridged dictionary.
The genesis narrative does not explicitly say they were created fully adult
The genesis narrative does not explicitly say they were created fully adult