> At 04:13 PM 12/19/99 -0800, Bert Massie wrote:
> >A Tale of Two Physisists:
> >
> >For those on this line who have it all figured out, I would like to pose
> >a question.
>
> I don't have it all figured out, but I will tell you what I would do with
> this.
> >
> >Consider that God put two physicists into the Universe about 100,000
> >years after the beginning according to the Big Bang cosmology. These
> >physicists have identical clocks on them and are immune to the insults
> >of radiation, gravity gradients, and the lack of a Journal to publish
> >in. By some means their clocks are synchronized and set at zero. One
> >happens to be located at a point in space which eventually becomes a
> >very massive neutron star. The other happens to be at a point which
> >becomes intergalactic space. By some further means we at current epoch
> >read their clocks (I will ignore the consequence of how this comes
> >about.) The neutron star physicist states that his clock has elapsed
> >400,000 years and the intergalactic physicist says his has elapsed
> >10,000,000,000 years. Again, I ignore the details.
> >
> >Please integrate this result with Genesis..
>
> Since I place Genesis 1 as the planning stage prior to the clocks and
> physicists even being created, this experiment has no effect on Genesis 1.
> In Genesis 1 the universe was planned--nothing was created.
****
Glenn
This view is not widely held which is of course not a reason to believe it or
not. But, for those of us who do not see Gen 1 in this view and for those of
us who believe that General Relativity is a good theory of gravity, there are
certain issues of how time is measured. Bert M.
*****
> And since I
> believe that Genesis 2 is the account of the ACTUAL creation of man, this
> occurred at least 2 billion years after the clock reading 10 billion years
> was red. Therefore, I see no implications whatsoever to Genesis. What is
> the problem?
> glenn
>
> Foundation, Fall and Flood
> Adam, Apes and Anthropology
> http://www.flash.net/~mortongr/dmd.htm
>
> Lots of information on creation/evolution