6,000 V 13.23 billion?

Question

Starlight problem- According to many fundimentalist chirstians/ Jews the total age of the universe is only 6,000–12,000 years. If this age is correct, it should not be possible to see light coming from stars and galaxies that are millions or even billions of light-years distant.
Get yourself out of this one?!?!

(No views are held by myself in relation to the question, so dont get stressy just need it for a essay.)

Want good answers, not like God made it like that. Or like God put fossils inthe ground, Rubbish!

But in says in Genesis, that he created light within the seven days the calender counts from then.

Ok if you insist onsaying that God created light in mid flight, why would he? Why would he bother!
Did he lie to the prophets who wrote the genesis story?!?! False revelation?!?! how is this in anyway in his nature?

Ok if you insist onsaying that God created light in mid flight, why would he? Why would he bother!
Did he lie to the prophets who wrote the genesis story?!?! False revelation?!?! how is this in anyway in his nature?

Answer 1

Christians will not apply logic to their answers when you question them. It's a lost cause before it's even begun.

Answer 2

Actually the heavens and earth could be over billions of years old. The Bible tells us.. " In the beginning, God created the heavens and earth". They were without form? We don't know if they were without form one day or a billion years. To God a day is like a thousand years, a thousand years is yet a day to the LORD.

How does "man" determine the age of a rock, a tree, etc., etc., and etc. What age they have placed on a tree might in fact be a billion years off from the actual age of the old oak tree.

Since God's time table is NOT our time table, when God created the heavens and the earth... it could have been a thousand years for that "day". See where I'm going with this?

Now, start your essay!!!

Answer 3

Sorry, you won't get good answers.

The "best" answer you're going to get is that God creates the light in the middle of traveling.

So, all the stars that you can see now had their light created 6000 years ago. It was created in "mid-flight" so to speak.

Scientific reason won't help here. When someone quotes, "All things are possible with God," then he doesn't have to give a reasonable explanation for something impossible. He just snaps his fingers and says, "God did it."

Which is pretty insulting to the creator of the universe. It's so complex and grand, and people will reduce it down to a snap of the fingers.

Answer 4

Do people still actually really believe the world is 6,000 years old? In the UK that idea pretty much went out with the Victorians.

But if pushed to answer, I'd like to think the Invisible Pink Unicorn played some part in it.

Answer 5

One very simple explanation is that God actually did create the earth at the center of the universe, and then worked outward.

This would place all things ibcluding light initially in close relation to earth, and only later receeding, as the heavens continued to expand and stretch out at an unknown and possibly variable rate

Answer 6

It scares the hell out of me that you've gotten answers primarily defending the ridiculous notion that the universe is only a few thousand years old.

The scientific evidence in support of the universe being billions of years old is abundant, yet some religious individuals ignore reason, ignore science. The public schools in this country are a dismal failure when science is denied in favor of shifty logic and a "because God says so" mentality.

Oh, and the statement "if it's is 13.23 billion years old, you'd be up to your elbows in fossils" is by far one of, if not the most ignorant statements I have ever heard.

Please, people....study science. Watch the science channel.

Free your mind from stupidity.

Answer 7

God made the starlight en route to earth when he made the whole set up 6000 years ago.

NO, I don't believe that but you can't convince an ignorant theist that God doesn't exist by appealing to their sense of reason - by the same token you can't prove the universe wasn't made 10 minutes ago by an Invisible Pink Unicorn.

Answer 8

You are absolutely correct.

The Bible does NOT teach the universe is only 6,000 years old.

The statement in Genesis 1:1 -- "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Allows for billions of years to have passed before the creative "days" began.

In fact, even these "days are of an indefinite length, and are later spoken of as if they were all one single day. Some people are too literal.

"These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the >>DAY<< that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens." -- Genesis 2:4.

Answer 9

Whos to say that stars are a billion light years away? No one has ever documented that on a star. Each day to God is a thousand years to us

Answer 10

If God creates light, cannot He create it already enroute?

Scientists estimate that the universe is constantly expanding.
So, 6,000 to 12,000 years ago, just how small was the universe?
Were the stars as far away from the earth as they are now?
I don't know either, but it sure helps put God's creation into perspective, and expands the possibilities greatly.
(But that's just so that our finite minds can comprehend.)

Answer 11

This is akin to saying delusion vs reality!

You shouldn't expect Christians ideas to make sense. They love an invisible man that kills children and doesn't like sex!