[Cowgirl of Justice]

Speaking of outer space, if you live in Georgia, please look upwards at 266 degrees West and tell me what that pulsating red and green luminous object is with the flashing lights. It has been stationary for 40 minutes so far.

[coloradan]

If they were created only thousands of years ago, the light going out in every direction would also have needed to have been created in place as well, as most of the observable universe, including parts of our own galaxy, are much farther away than 6000 light years away. Just like all the isotopic ratios here on Earth, of certain radioactive ores that sure make it look like they have been decaying for billions of years. Including the complete absence of the so-called “extinct nuclides” (such as I-129) with half-lives that are very long compared to 6000 y but very short compared to the alleged 4.5 billion year age of the Earth.

[albionin]

This article drops several contexts. Namely, that there are also lots of yellow stars and red stars in the universe, we can measure the distance to stars and we know the speed of light is a constant. We know there are stars that are more, much more, orders of magnitude more than 6,000 light years away. Therefore the universe is older than 6,000 years.

[stormhill]

This is frankly nonsense. If the universe is 6000 years old, how can the light from a galaxy a million light-years away reach Earth?

However you answer this, please don't tell me it's a mystery. A more plausible explanation is that your theology is simply wrong.

[tjd1454]

Thank you for posting this. In my own view, it must be admitted that there is a great deal of mystery surrounding the early days of Creation. There is some evidence that what we know as "time" can be stretched or compressed (depending on how you look at it) so that what appear to us to be enormous periods of time were actually very short periods of time.

It is patently clear that Evolution demands vast periods of time to "get everything done" - as if all that is needed is to tack on a few billion years here and there to account for this or that evolutionary process.

A common saying that describes a primary assumption of evolutionists is that if you put a bunch of monkeys in a room and set them in front of computer keyboards, eventually they will type out the Encyclopedia Britannica. This assumption is, I believe, wholly unsupportable.

In actuality, the monkeys will probably only be able to string a few words together, no matter how much time they are given. The vast, almost incomprehensible complexity that we see all around us cannot have come about "all by itself" - no matter how much time is allowed.

This is the central fallacy of Evolution. There is much we do not know about how the world came into being (I am always amused to see Evolutionists speak with confidence about precise sequences of events they imagine to have occurred billions of years ago). The simple, unanswerable truth, which any child instinctively (but not Bill Nye) knows, is that unfathomable complexity does not spontaneously arise.

If you come across some kind of unknown device lying on the path in the forest, do you pick it up and exclaim: "Amazing the confluence of just the right chemical elements and energy perhaps from a lightning strike at this very spot, along with enormous amounts of time for evolutionary development, which produced this interesting device!"

If you spouted such nonsense and truly believed it, you would be a candidate for the insane asylum. What you say is: "Wow, I wonder where this came from - who made this?" While I have more questions than answers, as a Christian I affirm with absolute confidence: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth..."

[Elendur]

But if the universe were 13.7 billion years old, as secularists allege,
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secularists?!?
...there are 10’s of MILLLIONS of devout CHRISTIANS,
who believe in a God who can create a Universe beyond what you seem to believe.
who believe that God talks in many parables in the Bible,
and there is no reason to take words as literal,
that result in the belief that God told us to examine all things, and keep that which is good and true...
yet deceives us, with ALL our studies, in many disciples, from geology to astronomy.

[ROTB]

Sirius was red back in BC.

It is now white.

Word.

[albionin]

http://phys.org/news195999802.html

So much for the claim that scientists have never witnessed a star being born. And being only 800 light years away it is only 800 years old.

[JimSEA]

I’m sorry you are having so much difficulty reconciling faith and reason for yourself.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Please restrain your leaps of illogic.

[fishtank]

Photo from article.

Going from east to west, the stars are named Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka.

Alnilam—the center star in Orion’s belt—is a blue supergiant with a luminosity that is 275,000 times greater than the sun.

Thanks for posting!!