RE: The dates given by AOS for past events may actually disprove evolution entirely
October 8, 2013 at 8:09 am
(October 8, 2013 at 7:59 am)max-greece Wrote:(October 8, 2013 at 7:52 am)SavedByGraceThruFaith Wrote: That will not help you on the age question though.
Remember, you cannot use the "no God" assumption for dating the age of things.
Except that if you accept the size of the universe you are accepting the age.
Andromeda, the nearest spiral galaxy to us and the only one we can see with the naked eye (ignoring dwarf galaxies - yes Stimbo - I know) is 2.5 million light years away from us.
That means it took light 2.5 million years to get here.
That we can see it (without a telescope no less) means, immediately, that the universe is at a minimum 2.5 million years old.
This leaves you in something of a quandary. You will now have to disprove Einstein's theory of relativity to get to your own age estimate to pass. Good luck with that.
The theory of relativity holds, but there are different possibilities depending on initial conditions.
You are assuming the shape of space over large distances and the speed of light over large distances.
Those assumptions are based on the already proven false assumption of "no God"
