RE: The universe appears "old", but it is still less than 10,000 years old
January 6, 2014 at 3:17 pm
(This post was last modified: January 6, 2014 at 3:22 pm by orogenicman.)
Moreover, even if we ignore the physics and concede an instantaneous one-way speed of light, you'd still have the issue of the two-way speed giving you no less than half the distance that is actually calculated, which still gives you a universe that is 6.85 billion years old, far older than warped one's biblical claims. Of course, we aren't supposed to notice that little problem with his claim.
For instance, we know that it takes about 2 seconds for laser light from the Earth to bounce off of reflectors on the Moon and travel back to its source, which gives us the distance of the Moon from the Earth with very high precision. If this measurement was wrong, we'd have no chance of sending probes there because our calculations would always send them to the wrong location.
For instance, we know that it takes about 2 seconds for laser light from the Earth to bounce off of reflectors on the Moon and travel back to its source, which gives us the distance of the Moon from the Earth with very high precision. If this measurement was wrong, we'd have no chance of sending probes there because our calculations would always send them to the wrong location.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
