“Scripture states that God stretched out the heavens like a curtain.”
also ‘rolled up like a scroll’:
I looked when He broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood;
and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind.
The sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
Rev 6:12-14
And all the host of heaven will wear away,
And the sky will be rolled up like a scroll;
All their hosts will also wither away
As a leaf withers from the vine,
Or as one withers from the fig tree.
Is 34:4
A good scientist will clearly state their assumptions.
There is an unstated assumption built into many ‘scientific’ articles that assumes that the speed of light (c = 299,792,458 m/s) was constant for last the x number of years....
There has been some intesting work on the subject of the varible speed of light theory over time the last few years.... first peer reviewed published by Setterfeild in 1987....
Setterfield and Norman SRI in July 1987
Dr. Joao Magueijo, a physicist at Imperial College London
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_Magueijo
Dr. John Barrow of Cambridge
Dr. Andy Albrecht of the University of California at Davis Dr. John Moffat of the University of Toronto
have all published work advocating their belief that light speed was much higher – as much as 10 to the 10th power faster in the past...
Variable speed of light theory:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_speed_of_light
The Variable Speed of Light theory is advocated by scientists with atheistic presuppositions of ultimate reality and scientists with theistic presuppostions.
also note: ‘the variable speed of light cosmology has been proposed independently by John Moffat and the two-man team of Andreas Albrecht and João Magueijo to explain the horizon problem of cosmology’
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6092.html
if c changes over time, it also alters ‘red-shift’ calcuations regarding expansion/contraction of universe
Scientists who are looking at the possibility of a change in the speed of light are considering a transient change at the very beginning of the universe.
Setterfield is supposing a tremendous change over the past 6000 years.
Scientists who are looking at the possibility of a change in the speed of light have outlined several impossibilities that can result from theories like this and have not yet made a model that avoids these problems. Setterfield never bothered to check.
All evidence shows that the speed of light has been the same for billions of years. A young earth is right out.
If space itself is expanding, the resultant speed of light is dependant on the rate of expansion. This is also the reason for all red shift observations from Earth. It all expanded away from Earth, in every direction.