Re: [asa] YEC cosmology question: astro shows

Hi Bernie,

I think that YEC's have no capacity to explain this sort of phenomenon
as their main strategy seems to be to reject ages of the sort in
question on the basis that there are various assumptions and
uncertainties in the conventional scientific explanations. Consider, for
instance, the way this strategy is employed in the following from
Answers in Genesis;

Does Distant Starlight Prove the Universe Is Old? (AiG)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/6zpy9t

On the strength of this, I think a YEC response to this particular
discovery would be something along the lines of; "we KNOW that the
universe is 6000 years old, so if science based on false evolutionary
principles says 88 million years, then we'll just have to wait until we
understand the science properly before we can offer an explanation."

Personally, I'm not the least bit uncomfortable with the principles
being invoked here (i.e. sometimes we DO have to acknowledge ignorance
and wait patiently for greater insight) but I'm not convinced by the
application in this specific instance.

Kindest Regards,
Murray Hogg
Pastor, East Camberwell Baptist Church, Victoria, Australia
Post-Grad Student (MTh), Australian College of Theology

Dehler, Bernie wrote:
> Yahoo news yesterday reported that astronomers have observed a star
> explosion (super nova):
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080521/sc_nm/supernova_dc_1
>
>
>
> Excerpt:
> Soderberg's team looked across space and time to witness the death
> throes of supernova 2008D, found in one arm of the galaxy NGC 2770, 88
> million light-years from Earth.
>
>
>
> How do YEC’s deal with that statement that it is 88 million light years
> from earth? I know they think time and light can be warped, or light
> doesn’t behave in the past as it does now, but a difference of 88
> million compared to 6,000 (their age for the universe)??? Do they
> simply avoid the issue? So modern science thinks this actual explosion
> happened around 88 million years ago… when do YEC’s think it happened?
>
>
>
> …Bernie
>

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Received on Thu May 22 14:41:21 2008