carini writes:
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?
Most visible stars in the night sky are less then 3000 light years away which goes in creationists favor, but what about those stars and galaxies more then 6000 light years away, how are these visible with telescopes? Unless god changed the laws of physics from their current values, how are these visible?
This is a good topic, carini, and I welcome you to EvC, by the way!
In fact, even as a believer, this logic has compelled me to abandon any theories in support of a Young Earth.
From the argument of the other side, however, God could have done the initial act of creation any way He saw fit to do so. God is not bound by laws and observed scientific behaviors. He simply is not fully understood! Even putting God out of the picture, however, we have a universe of 100 billion stars per galaxy and 100 billion galaxies.
It is premature to assume that one species on one planet that is a mere speck in the grand scheme of things can argue that our 200 years of scientific wisdom can and will give us an accurate picture of the behavior of this universe through time.
From the perspective of a believer, the same can be said of a God whom we believe in and have perceived, yet cannot comprehend the significance of!
Believers are so quick to casually mention how God does things, when in perspective, God by definition must be even more complex than 100 billion galaxies!
There is MUCH that is not yet known!
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart, and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. Even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained; and even in the best of all hearts, there remains a small corner of evil. --Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago