The Speed of Light, Time, and the Bible

[Welsh cake]

At this point you might ask: So what?

Indeed, and I'm still asking that.

The lack of imagination some of you Young-Earth Creationists, like "Robert Newton" display in that you can envision a god who created space-time and can place the stars themselves wherever and whenever he desires, yet simultaneously, you can't possibly accept the notion that the universe is vast and billions of years old fucking astounds me. How can you dismiss astronomical systems of units yet still try to sound remotely credible in relation to physics?

Robert (Jason Lisle) is a hopelessly intellectually bankrupt individual for stating utter nonsense such as big bang theorists are not allowed to speculate about the origins of the universe because they weren’t around when it happened. He incredulously goes further to dig himself into a deeper hole by asserting our attempts to investigate the cosmos is "beyond the scope of science" since only God was present at its creation. Seriously, by that logic we're also not free to calculate the orbit of Pluto because no one will live to see one rotation – I'm surprised his peers in the American Astronomical Society haven't already laughed him out. I also particularly loved the manner in how he ignores the phenomenon of time dilation whenever it suits his argument to build up a case for the Genesis depiction of events.

Thanks for the laughs rjh4, this'll keep me up all night. ^^