Re: [asa] Near Starlight Problem; Adam would never see all of Orion's belt?

Decreasing speed of light still has its young-earth advocates. The
claim that Romer's measurement of the speed of light shows that it was
significantly faster a few hundred years ago not only ignores the
margin of error but more fundamentally lies about Romer's measurement,
which actually was about 25% slower than current estimates. Once his
method was published, lots of other people tried it and got values
ranging from slower to faster than current estimates.

Numerous physical parameters relate to the speed of light. It's
claimed that a higher speed of light in the past would help provide
faster radiometric decay. However, with E=mc^2, the energy release
would increase rapidly, such that one atom decaying during creation
week would be roughly equivalent to a small nuclear weapon.

Reasons to Believe has a response to Humphries, though I don't know if
they have addressed the latest version.

-- 
Dr. David Campbell
425 Scientific Collections
University of Alabama
"I think of my happy condition, surrounded by acres of clams"
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