The universe appears "old", but it is still less than 10,000 years old

[Zen Badger]

Ah Statler, still an overly verbose liar for Jesus I see.

Ah Zen, still lying about me being a liar I see. What are you going to do though? When you’re beat you’re beat.

How's the ol' anisotropic light propagation thingy going for you buddy

Still going strong, did you finally understand it?

For those who weren't around at the time, Statler offered up anisotropic light propagation as a way of explaining why the universe looks old when it is only young.
This(what we will laughingly refer to as a) theory was originally spewed forth by one Jason Lisle, a YEC astronomer working for ICR as I recall.

The "theory" goes like this. Since it impossible to accurately measure the one way speed of light because of relativistic effects, the only way to to do it is to bounce light off a reflector and divide the result by two.
Lisle uses this to claim that light travelling away from Earth travels at half c while lightspeed travelling towards Earth is at infinite velocity.
Thereby using the loophole that you can't "know" for certain that light is travelling at the same speed to and from the reflector.

The theory overlooks one minor(glaring) problem however.

It used to be thought that lightspeed was infinite, because of course we had no way of determining otherwise.
But in 1726 Ole Romer, a Danish astronomer discovered that light did indeed have a finite velocity when he found discrepancies in the transit times of Io behind Jupiter.
Light coming towards Earth.

Incidentally, destroying Lisles "theory" centuries before it was even postulated.

Now, if Lisle was a real scientist, he would have known about this. But professional liars for Jesus have never let minor details like facts get in the way of their bullshit and deceptions.