1. No bird has ever overcome gravity. Sooner or later they all land.
2. “Perhaps the speed of light could be changing?” and it is not.
3. The Bible does not ‘plainly declare’ that the earth is 6,000 years old. This is something that fallible men calculate from the Bible. Fallible men for generations have also calculated the Last Days and, so far, every one of them has been wrong. Since men are batting .000 on the End Times it’s probably not too wise to think that men are going to bat 1.000 on the day the universe was created.
4. God did not lie to us when He revealed His wisdom. What fell short was the understanding of the people to whom that wisdom was revealed. The arrogance of every generation is to think that WE are the wisest generation EVER and that we can fully understand knowledge that may not be truly understood by men for maybe ten thousand more years.
While I’m still new to Christianity I’m not so new that I can’t see the hubris in the many people who admonish me “not to put God in a box” right before they tell me all the rules that God has to abide by in order to be worthy of their faith.
I’m content to let God be God. If He wants us to know how He created everything then in due time we’ll find out.
For now I am content to be still and know...
2. Perhaps not, but earlier measure had it faster, perhaps erroneously.
3. Read Genesis 1, 5 & 11, and do the math.
4. Then why ignore the plain reading and meaning? Perhaps your observations and subsequent conclusions of the universe could be flawed? Is that not as plausible as my "misunderstanding" of plainly written scripture?