It is fascinating to observe the scientists scrambling since the 1960's to obviate the necessity of God the Creator ex nihilo. They could justify being atheist as long as they could appeal to an infinite past, i.e. the plentitude argument – anything that can happen, did.
But none of the cosmologies – big bang, multi-world, multi-verse, ekpyrotic, cyclic, hesitating, imaginary time – none of them – can obviate God because every single one them rely on geometry (space/time) for physical causation.
That's fascinating and so true. A mad and frantic scramble to attribute existence to anything but the Triune God.
That is also why 7 equivalent earth days at the inception space/time coordinates is roughly equal to 15 billion years at our earthy space/time coordinates.
You've probably said this before, but I've missed it. How does seven days equal 15 billion years (which sounds like a really helpful reference to have on hand.) 8~)
Are you saying the enormity of the distance and speed from the point (and event) of creation magnifies the amount of perceived time on earth?
More disturbing though are those scientists who promote atheism under the color of science:
"We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counterintuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door. The eminent Kant scholar Lewis Beck used to say that anyone who could believe in God could believe in anything. To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen."
Or to put it another way, a star may have sent a photon when it was merely a billion light years away from earth - but it has taken eleven billion light years to reach us. The reason it travels so far - takes so long - is that the universe itself is expanding (space/time.)
The above article explains it using the photon example as well. If God were to send a photon to us from the first Day of Creation, it would take 8 billion light years to reach us, etc.
The magnitude is intelligible by math: Powers of 10