Did god speed up the speed of light for a few days? If most creationists believe the world was created relatvively recently ~6000 years ago, how did the light from stars reach earth?
There are a number of hidden assumptions in this question, that a believer must first believe. Here they are;
1. We must assume that Genesis is true, despite this belief not being required by Jesus Christ.
2. We must then believe Genesis is a historically and scientifically accurate description of events.
3. We must assume that humans, when writing Genesis, had a suspension of fallibility.
4. We must treat an un-corroborated source as accurate despite knowledge that humans' engage in memory bias, confirmation bias and a whole host of psychological innacuracies.
5. We must assume that even though the bible is only touted as an inspired book, that somehow it becomes as important as God, when reading Genesis.
6. We have to assume that the bible excludes evolution, when it doesn't mention this at all, whatsoever.
7. That the universal clock started ticking at the beggining of the genealogies
A house of cards.
Why would God speed up light, when he could just fail to be interested in a mythical story? That assumes that God is as obtuse as people who automatically assume all of these things. It also proves that God would be a cryptic author of confusion, relying on us assuming very many vacuous premisses.
I can save a YEC a whole lot of energy by telling him that I was a YEC and that it's a waste of time.
P.S. I'm guessing the YEC has to go for 'Humphrey's time dilation'. Google it.
This message has been edited by mike the wiz, 02-22-2006 10:42 AM
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