Thanks for your additional comments. I like the way you addressed the issue with them.
This, “No true scientist rejects... (evolution)” matra, is an interesting parallel with theories Stephen Hawking and other Theoretical Physicists differ on.
For decades a certain theory will hold sway. Those who are not quite comfortable, but can’t prove their point may spend decades being known as heretics, as “no Theoretical Physicist worth their salt agrees with them.” And then it happens.
One Theoretical Physicist will come up with a method to prove what they thought was more correct during that period, and a certain aspect of Theoretical Physics will be turned on it’s head. Then the people on the outs are in, and the others have pie on their face.
Science is often times not as settled as people think it is.
I have a suspicion that carbon dating at some point in time may be found to not be quite the be all end all of measuring elapsed time, that some folks today are convinced it is.
There are things about evolution, massive periods of time, even the age of the universe, that I read with some interest, but only consider them today’s accepted truth, and not anywhere near the rock solid science some folks think they are.
We make jokes about the flat earth, but the age of the universe is revised from time to time. Who knows what portions of today’s rock solid science will be overturned by new discoveries in coming years.
When it comes to the issues we’re discussing here, it’s silly to act as if you have all the answers. God is the only being that has them all.
He must get a real chuckle watching humans.
Dr. Humphreys reconciles the huge cosmic timeframes with the biblical creation account simply by using a different set of starting assumptions from the Big Bang theory but using the same Einsteinian general relativity equations and "turning the mathematical crank."
Because of time dilation effects at the event horizon and outside the Euclidean zone, billions of years can indeed pass at the outer edges of the universe in the space of but a few hours in the solar system. That allows the light to travel the distance while, at the same time as God stretches the heavens, the wavelengths enlongate explaining the redshift seen in more distant objects. It's absolutely beautiful how it all fits together, like a Bach concerto.
I think you might enjoy watching this.