On Thu, 22 May 2008, George Cooper wrote:
> Though I haven't read much about the YEC view, I have had a few discussions
> where they suggest these vast distances are legitimate, but the time it
> takes light to reach us is less than the 6000 year limit. Light, in this
> view, is either faster when afar or was much faster in the past. The latter
> view is the predominant view of these two.
About twenty years ago a supernova was observed 168,000 light years away
in one of the Magellanic clouds. This distance was verified by observing
it light up the gas cloud in which it was contained and measuring the
angular rate at which the lighted area spread. This, of course, assumed
that the speed of light was the same when and where this occurred as it is
here on earth now. If it had been faster in the past, then the fact that
it took as long as it did to reach the angular measure that it did would
mean that it was even farther away.
Gordon Brown (ASA member)
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