Do YE creationists "think" the whole scientific field of astronomy is wrong?

Question

Astronomers know that stars are millions of light-years away so that implies that the universe had to exist atleast millions of years so that the light from these stars could travel to earth.

So do you think all the astronomers are lying about their scientific findings?

Nevermind about all the geologists and biologists you also think are lying.

How long was a day before the Earth was created?

I thought about it, YE creationists still think the earth is 6000 years old and it took 6 literal days for the universe to be created. Maybe you're not a YE creationist. But you're also very wrong.

Answer 1

Many of them have never been confronted with this argument, but those I have talked to have said all sorts of crazy stuff about light (effectively sayinging that they don't much care for Einstein).

One guy I spoke to in a bookstore even told me he thought light was "conscious" or something. I never did get him to explain what he meant.


Young earth creationism requires rejecting pretty much all science, so it's not surprising that its followers (even those who use technology like computers but reject the science behind that technology) are incredibly skilled at various kinds of doublethink.

Answer 2

I belive that anything in science will line up with scripture if we look closely enough.

I heard an intersting theory once that after the big bang (which I believe was caused by God) that time also expanded at a logarithmic rate. So back then, 24 hours in our time now would have equalled billions of years on the first "day" of creation. Which makes sense to me. I don't think the world is really only 6000 years old like most creationists.

Answer 3

i ask your self the place in the international you get the thought any of the sciences you state have been "torn down". while and how? i think of a few creationists opt to delude themselves (or are in simple terms in denial) that the writers of Scripture (and the 1000's of scribes and translators over the centuries) have been fallible human beings able to blunders and misinterpretation. at the same time as the source of Scripture could have been divine, the lack of ability of awareness and know-how of those historical human beings led to human-interpreted writings as suitable they could comprehend and communicate. Then there is technological information - it has strict regulations for experimentation and information and has inflexible standards for documenting and reporting guidance. And technological information is self-correcting - new documents, while independantly shown to be precise, will replace or revise older theories.

Answer 4

You're asking a question of people that don't get the relative size difference between a galaxy and a galactic cluster, much less Doppler effects and red shifts. It is precisely because of these phenomenon that we know the universe is over 14 to 20 billion years old.

Answer 5

There are YECists who have their Ph.D.s in astronomy, geology & biology! If what you're saying is true they wouldn't believe themselves. You're making your argument too black & white.

My father who is a YECist has his Ph.D. in agronomy (soil science, related to geology) & another degree in environmental science. He's not an idiot. He is discerning.

They don't deny those fields of science outright, but discern which things within those fields are viable, verifiable, falsifiable and which things aren't. Astronomers do not "know that stars are millions of years old", they assume the age from the fact you state above--this fact is interpreted through naturalistic/materialistic glasses. Contrary to popular opionion, observational science doesn't depend on an a priori committment to the false man-made philosophy of naturalism or materialism. Science gets along just as well if not better with a foundation of supernaturalism.

No we don't think they are lying, but we know that most scientists have an a priori commitment to naturalism/materialism which taints the interpretations of the facts. The facts always must be interpreted. The same facts can be interpreted from either point of view.

So your accusation is false. Most YECist if you actually sit down & listen to them would prove your accusation false.

For some articles from some real live YECist astronomers (e.g. Dr. Jason Lisle, Ph.D.), geologists (e.g. Dr. Terry Mortenson, Ph.D.), biologists (e.g. Dr. David Menton, Ph.D.) I suggest you take a look at these sites:

* articles on astronomy: http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/astronomy.asp
* articles on geology: http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/geology.asp
*take your pick of different topics: http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/qa.asp

Answer 6

why are you bothered by other peoples theorem about the origins of life on earth? since you chose astronomy as the basis for your argument let me point out to you that in the known universe things tend towards disorder? so how can you reconcile such an easily provable fact with events that brought single celled organisms into the complex array that is mankind. to any logical person this would be impossible ,,,without divine intervention.
perhaps god lived for trillions of years before he got bored enough to create the race of humans for his own amusement .SEE SOURCES

Answer 7

There are some who believe the earth was created 6,000 years ago but that the stars were created long before that....and that this is compatible with Scripture (though in a quite profound and mysterious way).

Answer 8

I'm not strongly in the creationist corner, but I do think Astronomy is a fake science. They just make stuff up when they are proved wrong. A planet isn't moving like its supposed, or one isn't found where it should be... Oh that must be dark matter... whats dark matter you ask? anti-matter, or matter that is invisible because we don't actually understand why nothing is there. Astronomy should not be the science that you trust to prove or disprove any theory, its too young, and way too unproven right now.

Answer 9

What is troubling is that 65% of American adults believe in astrology. That's slightly more than believe in biological creationism or Young-Earth geology. How has our educational system failed us so?

Answer 10

These people clearly have a desperate emotional need to believe in the things religious belief offers - A blissful afterlife, a father figure to worship, divine justice, a helping hand in this life and so on. Anything that endangers such belief *has* to be wrong.