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To: Gritty
Neither does the Big Bang or the "billions and billions of years..." schtick.

Until you make your first measurement of parallax of a distant star (I have), you should stop attacking other people's work as "schtick". You are sadly misinformed if you believe the star light from, says, Cassiopeia A, appears instantly to us rather than taking roughly 11,000 years to get here. That's longer than the hard-core young-earth types say the whole universe has been in existence.

And if God created that light 'in transit' as the young-earth know-nothings say, then that makes God a liar, showing us something that does not exist.

The God I serve is mighty enough to marshal a 13-billion-year-old universe, and constitutionally cannot lie, as He is Truth.

52 posted on 02/03/2014 5:03:46 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: backwoods-engineer
Until you make your first measurement of parallax of a distant star (I have), you should stop attacking other people's work

Well, I'm not a backwoods-engineer so I will defer to your expertise and the accuracy of your measurements and data you have successfully collected. I am not attacking your work.

No, I don't question your work or your data. What I question are the conclusions which may or may not be drawn from your data - again, assuming it is correct.

The supposed conflict between the apparent age of the universe vs. the apparent Biblical record has long been a source of discussion. Just a quick search got me to this page which addresses some of those questions from a young-earth creationist standpoint. Read them and draw your own conclusion as you will.

There is one article there (an older one, for sure. "Starlight and the Age of the Universe") that tackles it head on. As I say, draw your own conclusions.

It is unlikely this argument will be settled in our lifetime, given our necessarily limited and incomplete knowledge of exactly what went on and how. However, I have no problem believing in a God that can create in ways and time frames which may to us seem out of the box and perhaps illogical.

I also have no problem believing God's word, given to us as a roadmap in this world. Occam's Razor also applies here. As far as I know, whatever has been historically proven has never contradicted the Biblical account. It is just that some things can't be historically proven - nor can they be scientifically proven. There are always assumptions. I will base mine on what appears to be the clear Word of God.

After all, when is the last time anybody walking around here has been able to raise someone from the dead?

56 posted on 02/03/2014 6:41:24 PM PST by Gritty (Inside every liberal is a totalitarian screaming to get out! - David Horowitz)
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