(January 10, 2012 at 6:32 pm)JudgeDracoAmunRa Wrote:(December 8, 2011 at 12:21 pm)Voltair Wrote: One thing I am curious to know though is if you have a star that is 5 million light years away and we are seeing the light from it now how in the world can people say the earth was made 6,000 - 15,000 years ago? I have heard that people believe God created the light inbetween so we could see them or the idea that 6,000 - 15,000 years ago the speed of light wasn't the constant that it is now.
Oh not this old chestnut again. Let me ask you something very simple. How does science know for a fact that the light we're seeing now was actually emitted from the star you claim it was emitted from?
Science doesn't know that as a fact yet. Science assumes that the light we're seeing now was emitted by these very distant stars.
We know this by virtue of the fact that we can see them.
Do you have an alternate explanation?
