What do YEC's think of Hubble pictures? Are those galaxies really that far away?

Question

I know there are plenty of Young Earth Creationist's out there (earth is 6,000 years old or less). When you look at those amazing pics from the Hubble and the explanation of some huge galaxy that has been colliding with another for 300 million years or something, do you think the scientists are deluded?
Example: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2006/46/

Do you think the galaxy is even as far away as they claim? (541 million light years away or so). Do you think it's closer? I'm honestly curious

Answer 1

If I understand their position correctly they believe in a variable speed of light. A very sharp curve as you go back in time, so that at the moment after the Creation instant the speed of light was virtually infinite.

Now to me it starts to give me a big headache to try and think of it that way since E=MC^2. If you move C toward infinite then that mean the amount of Mass needed for a critical nuclear event approaches zero. Picture trillions of little nuclear bombs spontaneously occuring all over the place. I'm not sure what this would mean to the nature of earth in the early hours of its existance.

The next thing that gives me a headache is that I'm not sure what this would mean to the visible light spectrum and how the human eye would react. Would people have been able to see the color blue with the speed of light being faster?

Answer 2

It appears that a number of people taking the same class (and asking the same homework questions without doing their own reading) are online tonight. I guess that reading a textbook or assignment and just thinking about it is too hard for the current generation of students. Such a shame - we will have a lot of people flipping burgers when they graduate from school and find out that the real world is not like school. If you just read the 4 options, only one is correct so only one is the answer to this question. We are not located at the centre of the universe, since there is no centre. The universe is not contracting. Our galaxy can't repel others (even without reading your textbook this should be obvious). That only leaves one (I'll let you figure out which one - maybe get Dion or Ana to help).