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To: editor-surveyor
the universe is not yet 10,000 years old

Comical.

The speed of light is well-known and reliably proven and provable.

Basic trigonometry reliably gave us the distance to the moon and then the sun and then the planets and then the stars... and most stars are farther than 10,000 light years. (A high schooler with a pencil can calculate the easier distances with excellent accuracy. Sirius and Vega are two excellent ones to start with. In 1770, we had the distance to the sun within 1 percent. In 1836, we had the distance to 61 Cyg within 9 percent.)

Light must travel that distance, and it takes time... a lot more than 10,000 years for most... and yet it has already travelled here, for all of those millions of stars in the sky that we can see every night, or else we could not see them.

Please, do point out the verses in Genesis that explains this anomaly. The Almighty, in his efforts to pull a fast one over 18th-21st Century humans, at the moment of Creation supposedly 6000 +/- years ago, decided to place light 99.9999999999 percent of the way between the stars and the earth... just for kicks. Makes perfect sense. *rolling eyes*

About as much sense as the idea that the Bible covers every generation that has ever existed, and thus gives a complete accounting of the length of time since Creation.

Yes, He created it all.
No, it wasn't 6000 years ago.

45 posted on 05/20/2015 10:40:31 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Teacher317

... ... Yes, He created it all.
No, it wasn’t 6000 years ago.
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That was a great posting based on science! Had me laughing!


64 posted on 05/21/2015 7:39:05 AM PDT by octex
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To: Teacher317

With the level of your cognition so low, it is appropriate that your handle is “Teacher.”

The universe was expanded at creation. That expansion obviously had to include “time” since it is a part of the creation of the material universe.

Viewed from Earth, the central point of creation, the age of creation remains 6015 years.

1000 years from now, when the material creation is destroyed, how old will it be?

Zero! - Time is dependent, as space also is, upon the soon to be discarded.

The speed of light is now well known to be variable.

The word used in the ancient Hebrew text is “Raqia.”


67 posted on 05/21/2015 9:27:08 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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