I can never really figure out why time perception slows with each doubling I would think it would be the opposite because the size has increased it would seem like it's longer.
I thought this was pretty interesting. Any thoughts?
Great stuff.
Time will pass slower in denser environments. Thus six days and 15 billion years can be viewed equivalently.
I’m a big fan of Gerald Schroeder.
Genesis is literal. There is no poetry like Revelation. A day is a day. If your human intellect must try to comprehend the math, then realize that sin broke the world and reshaped everything. What was the speed of light before sin corrupted existence? You can not look back at time and apply today’s knowledge like our reality has always been relevant. Before sin entered the world, we have no way of comprehending what that may have been like.
I read Hawking’s Brief History of Time and all I got from it was that time was hard to measure in the few moments after creation.
Since noone was standing there with a stop watch, I knew that already.
I am, among other things, a scientist and I believe the universe was created in 6 literal days, starting with “light.” I am not at all embarrassed by saying that.
Too many people have given up literal belief in God’s word because of the flimsiest of pseudo-science.
They are afraid they will appear backward, so they punish themselves, the opposite of Galileo’s persecution!
More people should read Gerald Schroeder. He can give them some clarity, leading to courage and a realization that science does not rule out anything important in God’s word, but in fact often supports it.
A leap of faith is still needed in this life, but it is not the naive leap the fearful think it is. Faith is both less and more than their unexamined and casual assumptions about it.
A problem I’m having with the “10,000 year old Earth” theory is that 10,000 years is 100 hundred-year lifespans back to back. As I gain perspective on what a century is, I realize 10,000 years really isn’t very long, and the world & universe we look at doesn’t fit in that box.
Brilliant. This solidifies my thoughts on Einstein’s relativity and the relation to the 6 days.
I wish I could find a pastor that I disagreed with on the creation of the world in 6 days and apologize (I was a lot younger and less wiser then) to him. He would have loved this article.
And how does it just so happen that the God that created this universe is a holy God without sin? Perfect in every way?
How did we get that fortunate?
Could it just as easily have been a god of evil?
That’s what I wonder.
Drivel would be a polite word.
Bmfl
Of course this is a perfectly legitimate position but it suffers from the fact that it is an artificial conglomeration of mutually antagonistic narratives. No scientist that I am aware of has ever agreed to accept the Biblical chronology if all scientific theories were placed into the "Six Days," nor do any of them grant the historical reality of the Flood, the Dispersion, the genealogies, etc.
Schroeder's conglomeration is like (as pointed out on another thread) mixing Calvinism with Pentecostalism or something.
And as Forrest Gump said, that's all I have to say on this topic.
wmfights,
Thanks for this OP... I have for a very long time been fond of the idea that time is not constant, and in fact follows the same rate of decay as everything else - This Schroeder guy fits hand and glove with that assumption. What that does to everything is exceptional and profound. Nearly everything from the calculation of work, to the assembly of mass, to the calculations of the expansion rate of the universe. Almost anything we have done in science relies upon time being constant in some way or another.
In addition to the introduction of entropy at the moment of sin, one must also point out the physical ramifications thereof - the sudden growth of weeds, the difficulty of harvest - something changed then that was profound and immediate - Almost an IF/THEN equation which did not alter man, or only man... But rather, the whole environment... perhaps reality itself...
One then is left with the suggestion that we cannot possibly perceive the whole of the truth from within the fishbowl, because everything we can perceive or be made aware of is altered from it’s perfection. What is a lion but that it has tooth and claw? Powerful, and made to kill, but perhaps the lion, in it’s perfection is not that at all. How can one conceive what a lion might be without them? It’s very nature depends thereon.
http://www.geraldschroeder.com/AgeUniverse.aspx
Boils down to “it’s a matter of perspective.” Right?
But, “whose” perspective.
Anything outside space and time as opposed to anything inside space and time...of course, this makes sense and something I’ve always inherently known but have never seen explained.
Thanks for this!
This article is very interesting but in my mind it is impossible to measure. I think Christians have a harder time believing in a real Adam and Eve then they do in believing the world was created in six days.
Hm. We know the age of humans because we know what a newborn human looks like.
How can we know the age of the universe if we’ve never seen a newborn universe?
Don't believe me regarding democRATs et. al? Just ask one what they had for breakfast yesterday morning, and they won't be able to tell you.
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