Creationist writers Setterfield nad Norman claim the speed of light was 200 billion times faster than it is today!!
Is this true? Or are creation scientists lying to me? A school kid?
2006-12-08 12:53:42 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, you are being lied to!
This info is a mathematical forgery built to explain the whole "earth is only 6000 years old" theory.
Sorry kid, your book is probably full of scientific inaccuracies designed to explain away historical discrepancies brought about by the bible.
Read here:
http://www.skepticfiles.org/evolut/lightdoc.htm
show that to a real mathematician and he will explain it to you.
2006-12-08 13:07:28 · answer #1 · answered by southswell2002 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are talking about Barry Setterfield and c-decay...the idea that the speed of light has been changing throughout time.
His theory is not widely accepted, even within the creationist community.
2006-12-08 21:03:12 · answer #2 · answered by KED 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I knew that the speed of light was thought not to be constant, but 200 billion times faster that it is today would be tough to measure. What book and page number? Are you sure that they actually state that as a fact??
2006-12-08 21:01:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The term "creationist scientist" is an oxymoron.
The speed of light is a constant, it doesn't change.
2006-12-08 20:57:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Given there's no actual proof of it, and it was probably adopted to fit their beliefs and cram them into modern physics some how or another, I'd have to guess, lies.
I'd suggest using it as a door stop, it'll do less damage that way.
2006-12-08 20:57:17 · answer #5 · answered by distind 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Creation science is a figment of their imagination, just like their creator
2006-12-08 21:00:29 · answer #6 · answered by Nemesis 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Your creation science book is lying to you more than you probably know.
2006-12-08 20:55:54 · answer #7 · answered by . 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
the speed of light is a constant
2006-12-08 20:56:32 · answer #8 · answered by Dr. Brooke 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Creationists don't read up too much on science.
Study on your own regular science books, learn to conduct your own experiments.
- 16 yo Pagan
2006-12-08 20:55:22 · answer #9 · answered by Lady Myrkr 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
no, and you are reading a very bad book, try the fiction section.
The theory of relativity proves the speed of light is constant.
2006-12-08 20:56:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋