How can we?

Question

How can we see stars that are millions of lightyears away if the world is only 6000 years old?

The only explanation is that the stars existed before the Earth?

Please explain to me how this is flawed thinking.

I don't understand your analogy gmcfayden.

Answer 1

It's the "if the world is only 6000 years old" bit that is wrong with your logic.

Science claims that the universe is between 10 and 20 billion years old. Science claims that some stars are billions of light years away. Neither of these claims contradict each other.

You claim the world (do you mean universe?) is only 6000 years which would mean that stars can't be more than 6000 light years away.

That means there are several possibilities:
1. The universe is more than 6000 years old
2. The universe in 6000 years old and the light just slowed down in the last few hundred years
3. The universe is 6000 years old and the farthest star is only 6000 light years away

Based on the latest scientific evidence 2 and 3 are wrong. That leave #1, the universe is more than 6000 years old.

Answer 2

I thought the world was created in 6000 years, that dosnt mean its just 6000 years old.

Answer 3

Your education about the Earth and space is flawed!
If you want to see some stars go and buy a telescope.

Answer 4

Does not Genesis show that before the earth, God made the starry heavens?
Therefore, ipso facto.

Answer 5

If you had a car that could travel faster than the speed of light, would you still use the headlights?

Answer 6

Not necessarily......

You can take a handful of rocks and throw them all out at once.... Certainly, they will fall in diverse places, and you cannot say, you threw the one closest to you, last.......


Your sister,
Ginger

Answer 7

I sense a creationist mindset.....

I find it hard to supress my irritation at such a thing.

Answer 8

Try science/astronomy. This is religion.

Answer 9

How many pebbles are there on earth.?

Answer 10

That is true