RE: Easy arguments against the Bible, and religion as a whole
January 8, 2012 at 2:35 am
(This post was last modified: January 8, 2012 at 2:43 am by Jackalope.)
(January 8, 2012 at 2:25 am)TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote: As to your other two links - note that light is always passing through a medium to do that, which involves physical processes that don't technically slow down light because of the way that photons pass through various materials.
Regardless of that, they don't support his speculation that light might have traveled faster in the past - unless he's further implying that there's something fundamentally different about the matter in interstellar/intergalactic space now vs. then.
Also - it's worth noting that the scientific consensus on the age of the universe rest on the speed of light. There is a lower constraint of 12-13 billion years based on the cooling rate of white dwarf stars (Chaboyer, Brian, Pierre Demarque, Peter J. Kernan, and Lawrence M. Krauss. 1996. A lower limit on the age of the universe. Science 271: 957-961).
That is, unless one wants to argue against the laws of thermodynamics as well.
