If the Earth is only a few thousand years old...?

Question

then how can we see the light from stars that are millions of light-years away?

Answer 1

Firslty you mixing science with religion, so it is never going to make sense.

Answer 2

While I appreciate the effort...your argument doesn't show anything one way or the other about the earth's age.

IF the earth was indeed only a few thousand years old, as long as those stars have been around for millions of years we'd still see their light the same way. The age of the earth has no bearing on the age of OTHER things in the universe.

The earth *isn't* just a few thousand years old, though. It's about 4.5 billion years old. That's verified by evidence from biology, cosmology, astronomy, geology, archaeology, paleontology, genetics, physics...and pretty much every other branch of science. There is no evidence of any kind that shows the earth is only a few thousand years old.

Dude, there's plenty of real proof how old the earth is -- you don't need to make up arguments that don't make sense :)

Peace.

Answer 3

The current Creationism Science (lol) view is that since the Earth, or at least the Solar System, is at the center of the universe, it must be sitting in a massive gravitational well. This implies that they believe in a bounded universe even though there's no evidence at all for it, but anyways.

Relativistic effects would in such a scenariou over-exaggerate the red-shift to make relatively near objects look billions and trillions of light years away.

This fails to realize that under the same contraction, Proxima Centauri would be closer than the moon, but HEY... no one said they'd thought it all the way through.

Answer 4

The earth isn't a few thousand years old.
And if it were, that doesn't mean light traveling millions of light-years away is a few thousand years old as well...

Answer 5

There is only one answer but 3 possibilities.

If God doesn't exist then with the evidence at hand the Universe is older than we have believed in the past.

If God exists and the evidence only appears to be factual then God is lying to us by making something appear to be true when it is really false. The Universe is very young was created to look old that makes that God a liar as He wouldn't have the luxury of not knowing that we wouldn't find out and therefore is not worthy of worship.

If God exists and the evidence actually is factual then the Bible is incorrect and the God that exists is none of the the Judeo/Christian/Islamic god/gods at all.

Any way one looks at it the major religions aren't worthy of consideration but it would be simpler and more realistic to believe that there is no God at all.

Answer 6

What? If dinosaurs roamed the earth 65 million years ago, how do you figure that the world is only a few thousand years old?

Answer 7

it's not.

not that that question really works, because if the earth popped into existance right this second, we'd still be able to see light from stars that are millions of light-years away. anything circling those stars wouldn't be able to see us because we'd be brand new, but we could see them, because their light has been traveling for millions of years.

Answer 8

Because God created the light also. A light year is how far light can travel in a year. How fast can God speak that light into existence? In the twinkling of an eye, the light was from there to here at the whim of the Almighty.

Answer 9

gravitational well (as mentioned above) is one option. Another possibility is 'White Hole Cosmology' by Dr Russell Humphrey. Another is that God created the light in mid-trajectory (to give the appearance of age, as a test of our faith in Him and in Scripture). another is that modern physics is wrong.
basically, if you believe the earth is only 6000 years old, then you must think modern science is wrong or God is deceitful. From either of these you can probably deduce all sorts of theories.

Answer 10

Although I think you're right that the Earth is older than that, it isn't absurd to think that God made the world in such a way that it would appear to have existed longer than it has.

Answer 11

The Earth is over 3.5 billion years old. Jesus was here around 2,000 years ago. Just because he was here then doesn't mean that this is when the Earth was new.