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Thread #142452   Message #3308238
Posted By: Penny S.
14-Feb-12 - 06:58 AM
Thread Name: BS: Young Earth Creationism Eureka!
Subject: RE: BS: Young Earth Creationism Eureka!
And I've just looked up Answers in Genesis on starlight travel time. It claims to refute the argument from distant galaxies by, if I have grasped it properly, one or some of the following:

1. The speed of light has changed since creation.
2. The flow of time varies across space, and there is a cosmic local time in which light is transmitted instantaneously. I couldn't get quite where this was local to - the Sun's light takes 8 minutes to reach us.
3. The Earth is at the bottom of a gravity well, which we would not notice, but which accelerates light approaching us.
4. Because creation was supernatural, there could be supernatural means for light to reach us as if from longer ago than creation.

No experimental evidence was cited for any of these ideas. They did, however, accept that when we observe changes in stars and galaxies these must have originated in the apparent source objects, because it would not fit the character of God to produce such features, which would be art and misleading, rather than facts.

Penny