How do we have starlight from billions of light years away reaching us if the Earth has only existed for ....?

Question

... 10,000 years? Did God just place the Earth in the universe after everything else was here for billions of years?

azn donut: Just because you really mean it, does not make it fact. Please come back when you have something to add to this conversation.

ezero26: Spiral galaxies are not static bodies. They are just swirling around a center mass of gravity. It's kinda the same like how water does not explode in all directions when you flush.

Answer 1

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Seems like the Bible says everything was created at once. Could it be (gasp!) wrong?

Answer 2

The short answer to your question is, No! God did not place the Earth in the universe after everything else was here.
But that begs the question, "Why do you ask?"
I assume you are implying that someone somewhere said that the earth is only thousands of years old and that this someone claimed that God's Word was his or her source for the claim.
I mean, I have to assume because of the way you framed the question.
Regardless, let me put this in the mix. (azn donut notwithstanding), no where in the Bible does it say that the earth is only thosands of years old. That rumor like any other rumor is just a rumor.
When you read the Bible with the intent to prove it wrong or right you are missing the point of the Bible. Man has to verify himself. We have the need to put things in "order", to codify, label, make sense of, etc. That's true even of, and maybe especially of, Bible students. That's why there are so many interpretations of the original texts. Each perspective seeks to explain the observable universe and make that explanation validate their claims.
God's Word doesn't seek validation or verification. Think of it as an explanation.
Here's an analogy:
When I was a child I trusted what my father said without question, as I grew and learned things, I started to question some of the things my father had told me. I grew older still and broke away from my father's governing and became sovereign. Eventually I decided that my perspective was the only one that truly mattered to me. Then I had kids of my own. Now I had to discover what it meant to impart my perspective. Inevitably the cycle continues.
Here's the similarity; If God is the father and if I substitute All of mankind, All of life on Earth with that child I was and ratio the time factor. That child is still too young to be "on his own".
We keep "proving to ourselves how much we know, and consistently we neglect, overlook, and/or refuse to acknowledge, that most of what we know is just speculation.
We are smart! We do know what we know, but what we know is not all there is to know.
Just because we know where something is not, doesn't mean we know where it is.
If one is to find the truth, one must seek eternally and sublimely. Truth seekers don't have the luxury of determining right and wrong, moral or immoral. Those decisions belong to the judges, the referees, the moderators and to society as a whole.
I believe there is a God. I believe that puts me on the correct path to finding the truth.
Now what truth?
Well, your truths are just as good as any place to start. But seek the truth and not contention. Do you really want to know how we have starlight from billions of light years away reaching us or do you want to argue the existence of God?

Answer 3

Well, some of those Creationist weenies speculate that the speed of light was different when the big magical dude in the sky created the universe, and that he fiddled with it along the way. In other words, when he created the universe, the speed of light was millions of times faster than it is now, and only slowed down to its present speed recently... presumably, some time before we learned how to measure it. Therefore, the light from those galaxies 14.5 billion light-years away reached us in something less than 10,000 years... thus, we are FOOLED into thinking that the universe must be around 14,5 billion years old, because we THINK that it must have taken that light 14.5 billion years to get here. That sure was a good one on us, wasn't it? Sure had us fooled. Tricky rascal, that god feller, huh? Sometimes, I think that trickster god, Loki, must have done in all the other gods, somehow, taken over, and set himself up in the cat-bird seat under the assumed name of Jehovah... and he's been playing tricks on us ever since. And, somewhere around 2,000 years ago, he seems to have developed Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD). One of those personalities seems to be a dangerous pedophile, being rumored to have impregnated a 13 or 14 year old girl named Mary, a while back.

Somebody ought to do something about all this. Outrageous.

Answer 4

do no longer confuse time with distance. A "easy-3 hundred and sixty 5 days" is a length of distance, no longer time. additionally, God might have created all of the stars as seen from Earth from Day 4. This grew to become into reported in Genesis a million:14-15. They have been created to be lights seen from the Earth for determining seasons and guidelines. It does no longer make experience for God to make a celebrity that does no longer be seen for thousands and thousands of years.

Answer 5

NO! God made the whole universe in 6 days and rested on the 7th. The age of the earth is about 6000 years.

Answer 6

This is a science q? No earth has existed the same amount, r u young or u didn't pay attention? the earth has existed for 4.5 billion years you imbecile!!!!!!!!
Minus the imbecile thing, but yeah. It is well known it's been 4.5 billion years so yeah.

Answer 7

Because God made everything, inclucding Adam and Eve with age already built in. He didn't create them as newborn babies...they would have died. He created them as young adults. The same goes for the universe, he created it with age already built in, including all physical properties that would be in place...including light.

When he created the stars, he did it completely, including the light that we would need.

Answer 8

Earth is much older than 10,000 years.

No, God did not.

Answer 9

The people who believe in a young earth have already renounced all logic. There is no way to reach them. No matter how incorrect they are, they don't care.

Answer 10

that's a funny question . . . nice one.

I have another one: When god exiled Cain (son of Adam and Eve) for killing his brother, he said his name would be cursed in all the towns and cities.

Where did all the towns and cities come from?

Answer 11

You think too much. It's Friday! Go have a beer and relax!