On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, David Campbell wrote:
> 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.
>
If the speed of light really was faster when the supernova in the
Magellanic cloud occurred, then the recalculation of its distance would
give a greater distance since the light year at that time would have had a
greater value. Thus it would be an even greater problem for YEC.
Gordon Brown (ASA member)
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