If light travels at a constant speed of ... ummm light...?

Question

how can the light from a gallaxy billions of light years away reach us if the earth is only 6000, or even 6 million, years old?

I said "or 6 million years old"... or did you miss that part? Why don't you just admit the age of the universe is what scientists say it is, and work your religion around that?

Answer 1

Goddidit! or it is a trick of satan! or maybe it is an evil atheist conspiracy!

Answer 2

Two things are believed (with experimental support) to distort time in relativity theory—one is speed and the other is gravity. Einstein’s general theory of relativity, the best theory of gravity we have at present, indicates that gravity distorts time.

...all modern secular (big bang) cosmologies... make arbitrary assumption (without any scientific necessity) that the universe has no boundaries—no edge and no center. In this assumed universe, every galaxy would be surrounded by galaxies spread evenly in all directions (on a large enough scale), and so, therefore, all the net gravitational forces cancel out.


if the universe has boundaries, then there is a net gravitational effect toward the center. Clocks at the edge would be running at different rates to clocks on the earth. In other words, it is no longer enough to say God made the universe in six days. He certainly did, but six days by which clock? (If we say ‘God’s time’ we miss the point that He is outside of time, seeing the end from the beginning.)10

While this is exciting news, all theories of fallible men, no matter how well they seem to fit the data, are subject to revision or abandonment in the light of future discoveries. What we can say is that at this point a plausible mechanism has been demonstrated, with considerable observational and theoretical support.

Answer 3

The Bible doesn't contain such teaching -- just as it never stated that the earth was flat.

The Bible tells us that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth!

When is the beginning in billions, millions or some other number of years?

There must be a lot of people out there that never went to school, never learned to read! How else can such easy dogma keep on being vilified?

See this page for a discussion about the creative days and other seeming paradox:
http://bythebible.page.tl/Creation.htm

Answer 4

Hardly anybody subscribes to a 6,000 year old Earth. That was a figure calculated by Bishop Ussher in the middle ages. It's not required that Christians believe that time-frame, and most don't.

I wish people would stop saying this as if it's the prevailing Christian view. It isn't.

Answer 5

And why can there be a supernova remnant over 6,000 light years distant, whose light reached Earth almost 1,000 years ago? It means it exploded before it was created. Literal Biblical Creationism cannot survive scrutiny.

Answer 6

What you see is questionable. Light travels along optic nerves as impulse and the pictures are seen in the brain. How can you give so much validity to "what you see".

Answer 7

If you know that God is not real, why do you feel you have to prove your point? Shouldn't the burden of proof be on us Christians?
Are you trying to reverse-avangelize us, or are you trying to justify your own beliefs? Ask yourself that.

Answer 8

God created an old universe. The same way he created a fully adult Adam and Eve. He created a universe that appeared to be billions of years old.