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Author Topic:   Doesn't the distance of stars disprove the young earth theory?
ZenMonkey
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Message 26 of 138 (549154)
03-04-2010 11:20 AM
Reply to: Message 23 by misha
03-04-2010 8:56 AM


Evaluating the evidence.
Now, I'm not by any means a physicist, and I did not by any means grasp all the maths and such that the author used in the article you cited However, I do see something interesting in the conclusion that is perhaps a clue as to the validity of this creationist arguement. (Emphasis mine.)
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A new model, of a type similar to Humphreys’, has been described that allows billions of years to pass in the cosmos but only 24 hours on Earth during Day 4. In this model, the laws of physics are suspended while creation is in progress and enormous time dilation occurs between Earth clocks and astronomical clocks. This solves the light-travel-time problem faced by creationist cosmology and makes all astronomical evidence fit the Genesis account. No non-physical requirements are placed on the model.
And there's more reasoning like this throughout.
Any model that requires the suspension of reality in order to work has very little explanatory value, so far as I'm concerned.

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