Assuming the spaceship does not breakdown, missing all space debris
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Kevin O'Malley <kevmol...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm a creationist, and even a literal 6-day creationist at that. But I > think Carbon 14 dating and all the other radiometric dating is reasonably > accurate. I also think that light that has travelled 100M light years is > 100M years old. > > Here's how I resolve it: Using Einstein's Twin Paradox. A twin that steps > into a space ship and goes around at the speed of light for a year, comes > back to visit his brother who has aged 100 years in that same period. And > this is proven science -- physicists took a particle that only lasts a few > milliseconds, accelerated it to near C, and its lifespan went from > milliseconds to seconds. > > So, God zipped around the known universe at the time, and spent 6 days > creating the heavens & earth. Do we have any reason to think that He is > limited to going only the speed of light? Nope. He undoubtedly zipped > around the universe at far faster than the speed of light. From His > perspective, it took 6 days. From the perspective of someone sitting on > the earth at the time, it took 14Billion years. God's own little twin > paradox, written in language of normal humans 3500 years ago. Pretty > amazing. > > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Chris Zell <chrisz...@wetmtv.com> wrote: > >> I used to be a Creationist and point out obvious errors in Radio Dating >> results. Eventually, I was forced to conclude that errors here or there in >> various methods do not contradict the essential point that radioactive >> decay is an extremely reliable phenomena taken as an aggregate. >> >> I found it dishonest to point out different potential defects in >> different dating methods while ignoring the whole of the subject. >> Eventually, I was forced to conclude that there must be something wrong >> with radioactive decay rates themselves - to save my faith. >> >> While I am still somewhat skeptical about such rates, the burden is on >> Fundamentalists to come up with a radically different version of physics >> that allows for such variability. I think C-14 rates have been generally >> correlated with Egyptian history. >> >> Actually, if you think about it, if Fundamentalists could demonstrate a >> convenient method of upsetting such decay rates, it would radically upset >> the world as the equivalent of 'free energy'. >> > >
