If a star 6 Billion light years away goes supernova and the light from the star is reaching the Earth now then the Universe must be at least 6 billion years or older.
Did the star supernova before God existed?
SOURCE:
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/snr.html
2007-09-19 06:33:31 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ultimate?
So god made light travel faster than itself? And in doing so broke the laws of physics that he himself created? Ah, no.
2007-09-19 07:01:19 · update #1
No. Only if you take the "days of Creation" as literal 24-hour days. If you consider Genesis reasonably (as the allegory it was intended to be) - then - it all makes perfect sense....
All that is truly necessary for the student of Scripture (as a Christian or Jew) to believe is...
"In the beginning...God."
2007-09-19 06:40:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Here is what is so cool about Genesis.
It was written long before man had a scientific understanding of the universe. Yet the sequence of events as stated by Genesis and science is the same.
For example, both Genesis and science place the following events in the same order: Creation of light (the big bang), the creation of our sun, the creation of plants, creation of sea animials, creation of land animals, creation of man.
I just don't get why more people don't realize that science and Genesis both teach us about the origins of life, just from a different point of view.
I can only imagine that too many people get hung up on the idea of the 7 'days' of creation being 7 24-hour periods. This is logically ludicrous. For starters, a modern 'day' is defined as the time it takes to have the earth rotate once. So how can you measure days before the earth is created? Next, Genesis sort of pauses between each 'day' to allow for evening to come followed by morning. The 'problem' is that it is ALWAYS moring, noon, evening, and night all at the same time SOMEWHERE on the earth. So how can you talk about the creation of the earth in terms of the days being seperated by evening and morning?
So to me, Genesis CAN NOT be taken litterally because it logically does not fit together. But here is what I do see. Genesis being written by a man (that didn't know the world was round) limited to his understanding of the natural world. But devinely inspired because so much of Genesis and science parallel each other.
2007-09-19 07:37:57 · answer #2 · answered by HooKooDooKu 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What you haven't realized that if you believe in something in which there is tonnes of proof against such as natural selection and carbon dating. This little supernova won't be a problem. Christians can say God made the star older than it is or that God made the star explode. Just as they said that fossils were planted by God to question our faith or that they were killed in the Great flood.
2007-09-19 07:27:40 · answer #3 · answered by Monkey Man 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Supernovas Certainly discredits Genesis as well as many other events that occur in space such as gamma ray bursts
2007-09-19 07:35:04 · answer #4 · answered by Imagine No Religion 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A lot of things discredit a literal interpretation of Genesis. Examples include the speed of light, lack of evidence for a global flood, and of course everybody's favourite, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.
2007-09-19 06:42:00 · answer #5 · answered by Scumspawn 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I wonder why God took the energy from that star so it could be a supernova sight for us. Maybe it is as simple as that. God said the heavens would declare the glory of God. Six billion years away, yet God can get an angel here within seconds. There is something that man doesn't know about the universe. Keep trying because you haven't got it right yet.
2007-09-19 06:47:56 · answer #6 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 5⤋
No. We see stars blow up all the time; we never see a single one form. Even what some scientists think are "star nurseries" are nothing of the kind. They are just a gassy cloud dissipating to reveal stars behind it.
When God created the Earth, He created everything mature. Adam and Eve didn't have to plant seeds to get plants; they were already there, fully grown. Likewise, light from the stars was already there as well. It was a mature creation. "Six billion light years" is a measurement of distance, not time.
2007-09-19 06:42:01 · answer #7 · answered by FUNdie 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
You atheists never understand anything. Genesis was in the old testament. The universe was only a few thousand years old in the old testament. In the new testament Jesus changed everything and made the universe billions of years old. How you atheists do not understand this is mind boggling.
2007-09-19 07:11:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
My favorite is the one where the guy said god created the universe so that the light was almost here when we saw it. It takes all kinds.
2007-09-19 06:40:30 · answer #9 · answered by bocasbeachbum 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Are you talking about Johnny Storm or something? He was Badass in the Fantastic Four when he went Supernova.
2007-09-19 06:38:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋