Exploding stars point to a young universe (was Re: [asa] YEC cosmology question: astro shows)

Hi Bernie,

I found the following after I posted my previous response - it includes
the aforementioned appeal to uncertainty in conventional scientific
explanations but also adds something new; the argument that lack of
supernovae remains imply the universe to be young!

Note that the appeal to uncertainty has not been applied to the YEC's
own arguments (make of that what you will!);

Exploding stars point to a young universe (AiG)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/6mhpwz

Regards again,
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 14:48:27 2008