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The speed of light was observed to have changed over the years. Now, they use instruments for measurement that require light, so they slow at the same rate light slows and would not observe the slowing of the speed. Setterfield's hypothesis was not what I was referring to, however, I have posted a link to its summary above.

Uh, NO, you would notice, as a matter of fact, if the speed of light were not constant, you would be dead, nothing would be able to survive or function if the speed of light were not constant.

The laws of physics themselves would break down as light decelerated, atoms would not be able to hold themselves together, the molecular bonds that keeps your body together would come apart at the seams and you would cease to exist.

The speed of light is a constant, it has to be, or nothing would funtion correctly.

The speed of light was observed to have changed over the years. Now, they use instruments for measurement that require light, so they slow at the same rate light slows and would not observe the slowing of the speed. Setterfield's hypothesis was not what I was referring to, however, I have posted a link to its summary above.

Ahh, but did Setterfield include the errors of the experiments that he used as data points? No, he did not. Remember that the measurements he is using, some of them are fairly old? What do you think the errors are of those measurements? Just because Joe Bob Physicist came up with 320,000,000 meters per second 100 years ago doesn't mean a thing if his error was +/- 40,000,000. Here's a A HREF="http://homepage.mac.com/cygnusx1/cdecay/cdecay.pdf">work that I've found useful when thinking about the cdk model. Unlike Setterfield's work, it actually goes through the math and shows WHAT the effects of a changing light speed would do to physical constants, and observable effects that astronomers can detect. Setterfield doesn't do this. Note that even the ICR has problems with Setterfield's work, see ICR Impact 179.

Also, Setterfield likes to quote Tifft's quantized redshift work. Remember, the only person to every have observed quantized redshift is Tifft, and Guthrie and Napier. Here's a paper using a larger sample of galaxies, and they don't find any quantization. Their sample size is an order of magnitude larger, and they find zero quantization.