how can we see the stars that are over 10000 light years away? We shouldn't be able to see such stars as the light from them would not have reached us yet. There are stars much much further away and yet we can still see those. We know light travels at a fixed speed and that nothing travels faster, so how can this be?
Some stars have been shown to 50 million light years away which mean that it takes the light 50 million years to reach us. How can we possibly see these stars if the universe is only at best 10,000 years old?
2007-10-11 21:54:32 · 26 answers · asked by penster_x 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We can measure the distances to the stars using various mathematical techniques. Do people who question the distance to the stars question a map that shows the distance to another country even though they have never been to that country? Do they question the distance to the sun? To the other planets. We have never been further than the moon and yet yeveryone trusts those measurements. It is based on the same concepts!
2007-10-11 22:22:29 · update #1
Scientific evidence indicates that our planet formed 4.54 billion years. The dinosaurs died out 65 millions years ago and the animals that are apart of our Family (Hominidae) appeared 2 millions ago.
Mind you our species nearly died out 74000 years ago, when Toba erupted.
2007-10-13 03:54:07 · answer #1 · answered by ravenclawdragon 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually we can see 14 BILLION light years away. The Genesis account is commonly misinterpreted, especially by New Earth Evangelical Fundamentalists.
The Hebrew word for day, Yom, can mean a 24 hour earth day, or a space of time, or era. The Bible also teaches that with God a day is as a 1000 years and a 1000 years is as a day, meaning God is timeless. 14 Billion years can seem like a blink of the eye to God. Part of the creation occured before the day and night earth day. It only makes sense then that God created all things in "God days" or in 6 Eras which easily could have been 14 or so billion years.
Fundies say "Well yeah but God could have created the light photons as well as the stars so that we could see all the stars" etc. which makes no sense. Most of the stars cannot be seen with the naked eye and why would God create things like that or dinosaur bones just to place a stumbling block before us? There are even galaxies that have crashed into each other and the speed and direction proves beyond any doubt that this occured way way over the 10,000 year New Earth theories.
I believe in the Creation, but not in false theories and misinterpretations of the Bible.
2007-10-11 22:14:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I disagree, when I look around me I see all kinds of beauty and evidence of God's hand in creation. As far as this 6,000 years ago stuff. Why would you grasp at some some balderdash that some silly evangelical spouts. I do not know of anyplace in the bible that states the earth is 6,0000 years old. The bible does not indicate how long each of the seven creation days quoted were in terms of what we now call a day. Each of those 'days' could well be millions of years. The bible does nothing to disprove science and by my personal reckoning science keeps proving to me that God is indeed all powerful. However I am certainly not trained in theology nor am I any sort of world renouned scientist. I am just a run of the mill person..fairly well educated, over 60 guy who is also a Christian.
2016-05-22 01:05:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because God made the earth millions of years ago, but man has had a problem understanding how? And how other things could exist before man. Remember in the days that the earth was made there was no such thing as a day, a year, so man would have no idea how about time, the closest man got in those days was how many moons cycles did take to do something, and in truth only an idiot would believe that the earth was only 10.000 years old, and we can prove thr fact.
Love & PEace
2007-10-11 22:06:56 · answer #4 · answered by ringo711 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
God actually created the Universe "Instantaneously".
Its all to do with "The Law Of Relativity".
The Universe cannot be measured in human term because it is so vast.
Everything moves in "Relation" to its "Size" the bigger you get the slower go in Relation to something of a smaller size.
Thus 1 Universal millisecond would be millions+ light years in Earths equivalent.
The Universe being 10,000 years old is only a Scientific assumption, it cannot be detemmined because we cannot measure the Universe.
2007-10-11 22:43:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good question, but if we take what the Bible says, God also made sure the lights were switched on before we moved in.
Genesis 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Think of it this way, the light was `fast-forwarded` to us... yeah I know, you'd never hear Carl Sagen or Aurthur C Clarke with that one huh!
Now, if you really want to make your mind go all ga-ga-ga, think of this: Before God created something, he had to make `nothing` so it could be filled in with `something`.....
Divine metaphysics - gotta love it!
Cheers - Brad M
2007-10-12 01:07:45 · answer #6 · answered by brad m 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
who said god made the earth 10,000 years ago, dinasaurs lived on earth millions of years ago, so that tells me god created the heavens the earth the stars a lot longer then 10,000years ago, and i dont think 50 million light years means 50 million years in our years.
2007-10-11 22:48:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
From my understanding in history class is that time know and back then is different . a day to us could be a week for them or a year. the calendar was set in so many different ways in so many different time lines. SO could god make everything in 6 days. yes and no to us in this time no 6 days is not that long back then 6 days for all we know could of been 6 years or 6 millennium think about that.
2007-10-11 22:11:13 · answer #8 · answered by Wyldfire 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This question has been tried before. The creationists will tell you that when God made the stars, He also made their light so as to span the gap between the star and the Earth.
2007-10-11 21:57:57 · answer #9 · answered by Pull My Finger 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
God is a symbolic term for 'energy'.
Read Genesis while keeping the Big Bang Theory in your mind. You will see the direct similarity, except everytime you read the word GOD in Genesis, replace it with the word ENERGY - now it reads as a scientific article of sorts.
2007-10-12 01:51:23 · answer #10 · answered by Constantine 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋