Falsifying a young Universe. (re: Supernova 1987A)

His presence is not separable from his posts - I won't call them arguments, they're pure ignorant, trolling drivel.I can't respect anyone who behaves as disingenuously and stupidly as this.

The young Universe position is logically on a weaker footing than an old Universe stance.
The YEC arguments base themselves as providing an alternative explanation for old Universe evidence.They do not provide any 'facts' that categorically prove a young Universe, just supposed new interpretations that allow for a young Universe.This being said, you only have to provide a single example of an old Universe that cannot be argued with and, ergo, you have falsified the young Universe position.As I see it, there can be no way around the older Universe interpretation of the distance to supernova 1987A.And I am talking about the GEOMETRICAL method of calculating the distance. This doesn't involve anything like standard candles, or relativistic redshifts but on good old trigonometry. (I do hope the YEC's accept trig.)No way of varying the speed of light (one of the lamest concepts in YECdom) will at the same time explain this supernova being nearby and yet not changing the observed radioactive decay rates of the nickel and cobalt from the explosion.This, and I stress, GEOMETRICAL distance gives a value of approx. 170,000 light years. No if's and's or but's about it.Therfore, this supernova occurred 170,000 years ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!And again, let me repeat, no tinkering with the light speed can get around this method of getting the distance whilst preserving the radioactive decay observations.Thus we have a piece of evidence that directly FALSIFIES a less than 10,000 year old Universe. Now I accept that this on it's own doesn't give a 13.7 billion year old Universe, BUT it does the job with respect to falsifying creation being some 6-10 thousand years ago.

creation writes: If ideas are revealed to be false, people can change ideas, regardless of the beliefs and ideas they once had...one hopes.

creation writes:Of course God set it up so man could see stars. They are made for us to see!