Astrophysicist Debunks YEC 'Speed of Light' Arguments...
I'm posting this for anyone who may want to comment or debate this issue. If nothing else, the resource will be listed here for people to refer to...
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Below is a link to Astrophysicist Tom (W.T.) Bridgman's main website, as well as links to a few of his articles.
Frankly, these articles ” even the topics themselves ” are way above my head. So I'm not going to personally try to argue their points. Perhaps those who are scientifically advanced enough to understand these issues can read the articles and make some sense of them.
(I used to be a dedicated YEC, and I'm still furious that I bought the lies and staunchly defended them, until I decided to look at objective science, and realized I had been duped.)
Tom (W.T.) Bridgman, Ph.D. (astrophysicist)
Main site entitled: Dealing with Creationism in Astronomy
Main site link:
http://homepage.mac.com/cygnusx1
Some article links from the site:
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A Changing Speed of Light?
A proposal by creationist Barry Setterfield to solve the problem of seeing galaxies billions of light years away in a 6000 year old universe was that the speed of light was much higher in the not-so-distant past.
[Barry Setterfield's website:
http://www.setterfield.org or simplified version here:
http://www.setterfield.org/simplified.html +
Lambert Dolphin's website:
Constancy of the Velocity of Light apparently used as a posting location for some of Barry Setterfield's analysis - "On the Constancy of the Speed of Light".]
Issues on Barry Setterfield's Claims of a Recently Decaying Speed of Light, 2nd Edition (DRAFT)
by W.T. Bridgman
June 10, 2006, 1.99MB, 76 pages: SHA1=8513f5fa98e49a303b5ae9df2a47930cd3b55722)
http://homepage.mac.com/cygnusx1/cdecay/cdecay_e2d1.pdf
Analysis of the implications of a rapidly changing speed of light. Creationists advocating that the speed of light has changed rapidly in recent history seem to avoid dealing with these problems, even though it takes no more than basic calculus to demonstrate it. This is presented as a PDF file to present the full mathematics of the problem.
A Quick Reference to the Problems with Setterfield's c-Decay Claims:
http://homepage.mac.com/cygnusx1/cdecay/cdecay_quickref.html
Here's a short reference to the problems inherent in Barry Setterfield's c-Decay claims.
Presentation Graphics (Graphics from the document suitable for printing.):
http://homepage.mac.com/cygnusx1/cdecay/presentation.html
Sample Data
CSV Data files (suitable for spreadsheet importing):
Setterfield A:
http://homepage.mac.com/cygnusx1/cdecay/SetterfieldA.csv.zip
Setterfield B:
http://homepage.mac.com/cygnusx1/cdecay/SetterfieldB.csv.zip
Setterfield C:
http://homepage.mac.com/cygnusx1/cdecay/SetterfieldC.csv.zip
Setterfield D (under development)
Setterfield E (under development).
Under Development for the Next Edition (Items that didn't make it in the last big release but hopefully will make it into the next):
http://homepage.mac.com/cygnusx1/cdecay/nextedition.html
More on these issues here:
http://homepage.mac.com/cygnusx1/cdecay/index.html
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Dr. Tom Bridgman's site (
http://homepage.mac.com/cygnusx1/index.html )
covers all these issues related to YEC claims:
[The question mark after some of these is how they are listed on his site, meaning 'supposed' because they are provably false YEC claims]
- New Redshift Interpretation?
- Polonium Halos
- Accelerated Radioactive Decay?
- Solar Claims
- A Shortage of Supernova Remnants?
- Decaying Planetary Magnetic Fields?
- Quantized Extragalactic Redshifts?
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Again, Dr. Tom Bridgman's main site covering all these YEC arguments is here:
http://homepage.mac.com/cygnusx1/index.html
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