Just out of curiosity, have you read Dr. Humphreys book entitled “Starlight and Time.” I recently read it, and all the rebuttals, and all his rebuttals to the rebuttals, and have concluded that his book can stand on its own two feet. In short, he uses Einstein’s Gen. Rel. re: gravitational time dilation to demonstrate that the same “Big Bang” event could produce an earth that can at least in theory be thousands of years old relative to a universe that is billions of years old. All you have to do is reverse current Big Bang assumptions. Instead of plugging in a universe with no edge and no center (the current Big Bang assumptions), you simply plug in a universe with an edge and a cente...and a young center and old edge of the universe (relatively speaking) literally “fall out” of Einstein’s GR equations. It’s a very short book and easy to read. Check it out, if you haven’t done so already.
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...and all the rebuttals, and all his rebuttals to the rebuttals, and have concluded that his book can stand on its own two feet...
I am an acknowledged layman in physics and astronomy, and have only a B.S. in mathematics. My sense is that I'm not the best person to evaluate an apparent radical departure from current astrophysical models. Even if he is right on the money, and I take the time to verify and convince myself of this, I'm not sure what weight that would carry.
Even so, being a curious sort of person, I *might* take a look at it. Currently I'm reading some classical C.S. Lewis, specifically "The Abolition of Man".