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To: backwoods-engineer
Super-rapid evolution

The argument is circular. The claim is that time sped up so that millions, nay billions, of years passed in the time of a few modern years. You cannot prove or disprove this because this is what in physics is called a coordinate change. You get a clock where a million years is represented by a second. So you rescale all of your equations to the new clock, up to about 10,000 years ago when you revert back to our ordinary clock. It isn't even a slight of hand. There is no trick at all.

God gave us a universe where the laws of physics can be written in a form that is immutable under such coordinate changes. The number of revolutions around the sun, measured relative to a very distant galaxy is the same, whatever clock you use to tell years. In fact, that is how astronomers used to define a year [now it is so many vibrations of an atomic clock - but that is to indulge pedantry that makes no difference to the present argument]

7 posted on 02/04/2019 11:24:23 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson
Please get some physics training before spouting such nonsense. Young-earth types like Russell Humphreys have been long-ago debunked by REAL astrophysicists like Dr. Hugh Ross (a Christian pastor too, BTW). So have the super-rapid evolution views of young-earth kook Ken Ham.

Besides, God can't just "speed up" the universe, "run the tape forward" and then slow it down for appearance sake. That would require the one thing God himself cannot do: LIE. Such insanity makes God a liar, and that I won't accept.

13 posted on 02/04/2019 3:20:58 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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