How do Young Earth Creationists account for the stages of stellar evolution?

Question

we have seen stars in every stage and know that it typically takes hundreds of millions to billions of years (depending on the star's mass) to go from one stage to another.

Answer 1

easy they dont-even old ones at best say they were made old-logical isnt it----smile and enjoy the day

Answer 2

I am a Creationists, I can honestly said this earth & all things is millions of yrs old. If people will study the bible instead in just reading it, They will see the hidden mysteries in God's word. Now I guess you are an evolutionists & thought maybe you can fool all Christains, Not me, I have been serving God for over 37 yrs & I know God has shown me many hidden things in his word. So you trying to prove that this earth & stars are very old & not young, Saying that the stars & this earth is old just proved God's word again, because it is in God's word, So when you all try to disprove something of God, God will have a Christian rather it be me or someone else prove that creation is True .

Answer 3

I think most Young Earth Creationists generally believe that the methods used to determine the age of stars must be wrong because "nobody lives long enough to see a star go through all its stages."

I suppose it's because they think that it is bad science to make inferences about things based on data and scientific laws.

Answer 4

They tend to ignore them, usually by stating that "God made the stars look older" (aka 'God the Deceiver' defense), that "evolution doesn't happen" (ignoring the fact that biological & stellar evolution are different), or by saying "it's just a theory."
[Fun fact: scientific theory is a set of facts; it is not the same as the common usage of 'theory.' Some people refuse to learn this.]

Fortunately, rational Christians are the majority, and tend to see YECs as the embarrassing cousin that gets drunk & loud at the family reunion.

Answer 5

HA HA HA HA HA. Mutual respect? They don't respect you, and you shouldn't respect this one belief of theirs, because it is absolutely, 100% wrong. Where the hell are you going to draw the line if not here? Just tell them what science teaches. If the topic is stellar evolution, teach what the accepted science is. If they ask some BS religious question, tell them you are teaching them the scientific view.

Answer 6

A 'young earther' I know says that God created some things to appear older than other things . . .

I then asked . . . "is God trying to trick scientists?"

His response, "well, No!"

I'm thinking . . . Why would God do that?

He wanted to go to the argument that "God could do it" . . . "create things that appear old but are not" and he used the "water into wine" out of the marriage story.

. . . switching the to this point does not prove anything, except that Jesus wanted the wine to be good wine . . . but has nothing to say about the stars in the cosmos . . . "because he wanted them to be good stars for our consumption?"

Answer 7

Omphalos!

(Or, why Adam had a navel, and there were mature trees in the garden of Eden)

The Omphalos hypothesis is that the earth was created with apparent age.
This would extend, presumably, to the appearance of the sky, with light reaching the earth that would appear to have been thousands of years in transit from its source star.

You can therefore have any *apparent* age you wish.

Answer 8

no one has ever seen a star being born. we only assume it happens. however stars have been seen at there end. that being said, could we assume that from there beginning the stars have been headed for destruction. thinking about it isn't everything in the known universe dieing and not being born right before our eyes.

Answer 9

Funny how a being that will live at most 100 yrs is knowledgeable with certainty of things that take billions of yrs to occur. LOL.

Answer 10

They believe that their God is deceptive and created them in mid supernova.