Young Earthers: if the Earth is 6,000 years old, how can we see objects farther the 6,000 light years distant?

Question

If your age of the Earth is correct, our night sky would be virtually dark.

Jesus slave: you are hilarious dude. Find me where Dark Matter is refered to as a "law"! The nature of Dark Matter is still highly speculative, but one thing is certain, galaxies don't hold together gravitationally without accounting for some large amount of "lost mass". Human and dinosaurs in the same strata? LOL

Yes, meant universe, not Earth. thanks for correction

IL: you are full of it. no one has adjusted the speed of light. that's just utter and complete nonsense. and no, some fly by night creationist Web site does not substantiate your brain droppings

Answer 1

Actually scientist think that earth is 4-5 billion years old. If earth is 6000 years old, we can still see object farther than 6000 light years. May be you miss-quoted "earth" with "universe". If universe is 6000 years old, we cannot see object farther than 6000 light year.

I think you are confusing between bible and science. Bible is book of truth, but you cannot treat it like a science book.

Answer 2

A light year is a distance, not a time. We already know that the speed of light is not a constant. Harvard and other universities have done many experiments that have sped up and slowed down light to extremes. They even stopped light. It was sped up at an incredible rate (I can't remember) but it definately was done.

So, knowing this, it is bad science to assume that if something is X light years away, that it took that many years for the light to reach earth. Since we don't know if the light we see always travelled at the same speed, you cannot use that as a way to tell the age of the universe.

Go to the link I pasted here and click on the one titled "From evolution to creation" Starting at minute 39 it talks about starlight and time.

So, I have a question for you:
If we observe stars die every 25-30 years and leave behind the supernova rings, why are there only 300 rings if the universe is billions of years old?
We should see thousands of rings given the observed rate of star novas.
And, we have never seen a star form either, so how did they form?

Star observation is more evidence for creation than evolution. So, you need to do a little more research.

***Response to you:
What a typical answer from an evolutionist. You refuse to look at any evidence that might suggest you are wrong. And I am not full of it. It is all over science journals and magazines that Harvard has done this experiment numerous times. I even heard it on the radio not too long ago. It has been going on for a few years. This is from non-Christian sources that you should be familiar with. I'm not making this stuff up.
Here's a link to a regular science website since you're too intelligent to look at a creationist one:
http://www.scienceblog.com/light.html

You refuse to answer my question about the novas because there is no explanation you can come up with to fit the evolution theory. So, like a typical evolutionist, you ignore the evidence. Answer the question...why are there only 300 nova rings?
This is easily answered with creation theory.

Answer 3

I haven't met anyone, creationist or scientist that knew the answer to every question. We simply don't know/can't explain every little thing. But the best possible explanation I have heard (I'm not sure if I believe it or not) is that there could be a huge gap of time between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2. If that were the case, then God created the heavens & the earth, and any number of undisclosed things happened...then the earth was without form and empty. Like I said, I'm not too sure about that but I suppose that's possible.

Another thing that I have recently learned of, is the hypotheses of Dr. Gerald Schroeder who is a professer at MIT. He says that upon the basis of Einstein's theory of relativity, it is possible for the earth to be BOTH 6000 years old, and 4.5 billion as the carbon dating suggests because the perception of time is dependent upon the position of the one perceiving it's passage. I don't know about this theory either, but I have to say it is an intriguing one. One thing is for certain, Dr. Schroeder is a brilliant man, even if he has this wrong.

But as I said before. Nobody has it all figured out. We will all know for sure one day.

Answer 4

"So far scientists have not found a way to determine the exact age of the Earth directly from Earth rocks because Earth's oldest rocks have been recycled and destroyed by the process of plate tectonics"

"Nevertheless, scientists have been able to determine the probable age of the Solar System and to calculate an age for the Earth by assuming that the Earth and the rest of the solid bodies in the Solar System formed at the same time and are, therefore, of the same age." - assumptions are not truths.

"The ages measured for Earth's oldest rocks and oldest crystals show that the Earth is at least 4.3 billion years in age but do not reveal the exact age of Earth's formation."

"The oldest dated moon rocks, however, have ages between 4.4 and 4.5 billion years and provide a minimum age for the formation of our nearest planetary neighbor." - The moon is often described as being a portion of earth that was knocked out of the earth while it was being formed... that is... the moon is younger than the earth. How, then, is it that the moon appears to be older than the earth?

"These primitive objects provide the best ages for the time of formation of the Solar System." - ...are they assumed primitive because they give the best ages to fit their theory? Wouldn't it be strange to see a more advanced rock give an older age? If they found one, can you be 100% certain that whoever finds said rock doesn't dispose of it, letting knowledge of it never reach the light of day, ensuring the continuation of their assumptions?

"...and the age of 10 to 15 billion years for the age of the Universe (based on the recession of distant galaxies)." - Curious. How can they be certain it's 'only' 10-15 billion years... What if the universe is so vast, that beyond what they see as a limit, light simply has not reached from there to here yet? I mean, I have heard it said that the Hubble telescope is the powerful telescope in the world... nearby galaxies appear in amazing detail, and the most distant stars appear as but a faint pinpoint of light. How can we ascertain that there is nothing beyond those faintest stars? How can we be certain that science is 100% certain that the age of the universe is 10-15 billion years old? ...because if a star is discovered beyond those faintest stars, then was not science wrong before? Who is to say they will not be wrong again?

Considering that all matter supposedly came from the Big Bang, is it not feasable that there would be residual elements that would verify the 10-15 billion year-old age of the universe here on Earth? After all, the Law of Conservation says that energy cannot be created or destroyed... hence, why is it that, here, nothing implies a 10-15 billion year-old age of the universe, aside from the light from stars?

Answer 5

Yep - God said I will confuse the wise.

answer me - how much faith do you have in Dark matter - it can't be detected
does not affect light, but only affrects gravity. It is accepted as law, yet all it does is makes the equations work

dinosaur bones in the same rock strata as human bones - want to go there?

As much faith as in that unseen superior being?







http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/~macrae/t_origins/carbbones/carbbones.html
http://www.worldbydesign.org/research/c14dating/datingdinosaurs.html
http://www.allaboutcreation.org/dinosaur-extinction.htm


As A scientist ( I am in the know)-evolution is on the way out. But the only way to get your phd is to kiss butt with professors, and speak evolution. Science museums are putting up creationism exhibits. within a generation, evolution will be replace by another theory


http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/~macrae/t_origins/carbbones/carbbones.html
http://www.worldbydesign.org/research/c14dating/datingdinosaurs.html
http://www.allaboutcreation.org/dinosaur-extinction.htm

Answer 6

I got one for you!
There are objects out there that we can see, that are farther away than the time for the light to have reached us!
And should not reach us for another 50 to 100 million years!

Answer 7

Your wrong, according to an archaeologist dig the world is about and so far 409-million-year-old

Paleontologists announced today they've unearthed the world's oldest, intact shark fossil—a 409-million-years-old specimen of a small, primitive species known as Doliodus problematicus—from a site in New Brunswick, Canada.

Wrap your mind around that one!

Answer 8

Because the universe was created well before that, it likes saying I was only born whatever many years ago, where the hell did the Eiffel Tower come from?

Bit of a silly question.

Answer 9

We are on a timetable, Time means nothing to God other than the timetable He put us on, To the Lord a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as a day.... Same difference to Him

Answer 10

The earth is not 6000 yrs old according to the bible but the human life on earth is 6000 yrs old......