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

[Wyrd of Gawd]

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Looking at the night sky is like looking at the lights on Earth at night. While you can calculate the distances between the lights it's an error to think that that distance means that the objects are a certain age. In other words, distances does not translate into age. We are supposed to have local star clusters that are almost as old as the alleged age of the universe.

A more reasonable statement might be that if you could travel at the speed of light and didn't hit anything it would take you 13 billion+ years to reach the farthest object you saw 13 billion years ago. By then you would have a whole series of new problems.

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(hold)
The characters in the Bible thought that the stars were tiny points of light that could fall to Earth like they saw meteors do.

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probably should have said the greater the object's distance the earlier it's stage of development. all basic elements are the same age, how they are arranged is reflected by distance. the U. is around 4 times larger then currently viewed.

Well, we've come a long way since the 1920s when people thought that the universe consisted just of our own galaxy.

The problem with the universe is that we still don't know what it really is or how large it is. Chances are the visible universe is comparable to a typical room in a house while the actual universe is comparable in scale to the visible universe. It's endless and beyond imagination.