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To: davidosborne

[aahhhhh the who speed of light thing.... I am no scientist.. but correct me if I am wrong the speed of light depends on atmospheric conditions correct? -— I believe that the speed of light was MUCH FASTER when God spoke the light into exisitence and was SLOWED DOWN to roughly its current rate when the 6 DAY project was complete..]

Yikes, your lack of basic science is astounding. While the speed of light slows when transmitted through a physical medium (like glass), it is still so fast that any conceivable correction to the cosmic distance of Stars you are hinting at still gives you multiple orders of magnitude (that is thousands of times) the 6,000 year time frame of creation.

Through a vacuum, such as space, the speed of light doesn’t vary very much even given interstellar gases etc. The local way we can confirm the speed of light for laymen is that it takes our radio transmissions around ten minutes to make it to our Mars explorers. Beyond that, even if you neglect red-shift arguments, simple triangulation gives you huge distances for even the nearest stars, and hence huge time frames.

By missing the glory of the universe by squeezing it into a 6000 year timeframe, you are squeezing God down as well. People with science backgrounds aren’t all atheists you know.


62 posted on 06/06/2008 7:55:21 AM PDT by FastCoyote (I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
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To: FastCoyote

.....People with science backgrounds aren’t all atheists you know......

If you don’t insist on the KJV, you are borderline athiest


63 posted on 06/06/2008 8:08:10 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . The Bitcons will elect a Democrat by default)
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To: FastCoyote

again you ASSUME that the conditions that determine the speed of light were the same on DAY 1 of creation as it IS on DAY 6 -—— sounds like you are the one “limiting” God... I prefer to take God at His Word... we are wayyy off topic here now -— I don’t care if we have a debate about how long Humans have been wearing shoes..... but the article ASSUMES that the 40,000 year crap is FACT... I would be ok with a discussion/debate on whether or not Adam and Eve wore shoes ... just leave out the 40,000 year FANTASY..


64 posted on 06/06/2008 8:09:08 AM PDT by davidosborne (http://DuncanHunter.meetup.com/1 - GrassRoots Organization(s) to elect Duncan Hunter)
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