Explain light from stars that has been traveling for over 1 billion years and is just now reaching us...How could light from stars that are farther than 10k light years be reaching us right now?
2006-12-29 13:11:37 · 12 answers · asked by Capt. Kirk 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A) i asked my question first
B) i'm not claiming to know those questions
2006-12-29 13:15:39 · update #1
Damnit...I'm not trying to convert anyone. I just feel like debating faith
2006-12-29 13:19:32 · update #2
Your average creationist response will be that God made the light already traveling here. This isn't disprovable, but if God exists and made the light already traveling here, it says God isn't too honest.
And you might as well ask them to explain the numerous, independent results (from fields such as archaelogy, anthropology, geology, astronomy, etc.) which all yield an earth being approximately 4.5 billion years of age.
2006-12-29 13:15:05 · answer #1 · answered by Nowhere Man 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
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2016-11-24 23:58:58 · answer #2 · answered by magnusson 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's all those iddy biddy angels shaking those iddy biddy candles my friend :)
The real problem is so may people want to take two completely different and distinct disciplines and fuse them together and make the issue "black and white". It has to be "easy" or they become uncomfortable. Faith can be like that with some folks. It's uncomfortable for many of faith when being questioned about their faith. They become intolerant because they view it as disrespectful. They want the answers to be safe and simple.
In truth, science is a discipline of fact. Faith is a discipline of belief.
I have absolutely no issues with any person of faith stating that they absolutely believe in salvation and I respect the moral strength if provides them. That is something to be honored and respected.
At the same time scientific fact is irrefutable. It's tested, retested, and retested, against scientific theory.
Frankly,
I am a Christian. I believe in my faith and Christ as my personal savior. I also respect each person and their individual right to believe or not believe as they choose. That's simple respect for individual dignity. I simply don't have all the answers. I'm imperfect.
What I also understand as an educated man, is that science and evolution and it's theory have been proven. If you truly spend time studying the research and discoveries of the past 20 years, it's impossible to come to any other conclusion. The same follows for space and time theory. We can debate the minutia but Einstein's theory is solid science. Judging the passing of time through the ultraviolet shifts in the light spectrum is irrefutable fact. What then is an educated man to assume?
Man (and his interpretations) from 2000 years ago are imperfect. God is not. We simply are misunderstanding his intent and message and getting caught up in language translations that have gone through various languages over time and are interpretations of interpretations.
A wise Jesuit told me many years ago:
Man is in the words. Man is imperfect. God is in the spirit. God is perfect.
That's about it.
2006-12-29 13:14:24 · answer #3 · answered by JC 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If God put a star the equivalent of 1 billion years from us to reach it.doesn't prove the star is 1 billion years old just that it would take us 1 billion years to reach it.God is without Boundary's we will never know all the knowledge of of his creation. Go back to Iraq and look at the temple that is still standing today which was during the time that Abraham walked the Earth. made by the Chaldean's.you can accurately measure the age of this Earth with the ancestry of the Bible.
2006-12-29 14:25:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
"By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible."
Hebrews 11:3
lol no just joking. i was trying to use the type of argument that they believe is valid to prove their points. then i couldn't keep it going.
ps: to the creationists who keep trying to use the tired argument that evolution is just s theory, GET WITH IT. the only theories at this point are minor issues within the greater occurrence of evolution. to deny evolution conclusively because you get off on saying it is a theory and somehow you think it is insulting you by saying humans and chimps share a common ancestor, is just plain lack of knowledge and blind ignorance.
there are smart people who believe in god, and they also understand that evolution occurred.
the argument that evolution cannot be proven is weak and inaccurate.
2006-12-29 13:18:02 · answer #5 · answered by iwa 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wow you ask if the earth is 8000 years old and then say, explain the stars!
How does claiming the earth is any age have anything to do with the age of the stars?
dumm as s s
2006-12-29 13:50:30 · answer #6 · answered by Tim 47 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Wow, look at all those creationists dodging and weaving. It's like watching a flock of migrating birds.
2006-12-29 13:20:05 · answer #7 · answered by Scott M 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the truth is that all are theories, we can't prove that certain stars are a certain distance away until we have been to them..
there are several theories questioning the realativity of distance in space....
we don't know..
Even if we did, it doesn't mean that God didn't place them where he wanted for them to be doing exactly what they are doing now...God isn't bound by time!
We do know that in Genesis it says that God put them all in the sky for light for us during the night and used them to guide to the birth of Christ.
Going by how stars in all their magnificance are not as important as us on a tiny little planet, shows how amazing and awesome God is and how important we are to Him.
2006-12-29 13:23:32 · answer #8 · answered by Ben B 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
first of all its just a theory. Nothing has been proven. Carbon dating isn't as precise as you may think. the universe is an old place. there may have been many civilizations like ours on earth that have destroyed themselves many times over.
2006-12-29 13:16:09 · answer #9 · answered by Jerry 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋
how can natural fossils remain under intense pressure underground for "millions of years" when in fact they couldn't remain in that state for more than a few thousand years>
2006-12-29 13:14:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋