RE: [asa] 10 Evidences for the Age of the Universe

The best argument I heard was to put this page up on the ASA web site as a
wiki accessible to ASA members only and allow it to grow along a prescribed
outline that Jon could establish. We could link our own web pages to it and
promote it through normal channels. That would need the coordination of
Ted, Terry, Randy, and Jon. It would be a good service to our Christian
Community and a ready resource when we are queried on that particular
question.

Dick Fischer, GPA president
Genesis Proclaimed Association
"Finding Harmony in Bible, Science and History"
www.genesisproclaimed.org

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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
Behalf Of gordon brown
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 3:09 PM
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Subject: Re: [asa] 10 Evidences for the Age of the Universe

On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Jon Tandy wrote:

> I am putting together some summaries of scientific evidences, possibly as
a
> PowerPoint, etc., as a quick summary of the most powerful evidences that
> need to be dealt with by any creation science theory that wants to take
> science seriously. Except for the first one, I don't have all the items
> identified, so I'm not sure what quantity that I'll end up with. For
> instance,
>
>
>
> 10 Evidences for the Age of the Universe
>
> 20 Evidences for the Age of the Earth
>
> 20 Evidences against a Global Flood
>
> 20 Evidences for the Fossil Record
>
> 20 Evidences for Common Descent
>
> 20 Evidences from Human History
>
>
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>
>
> For my "10 Evidences for the Age of the Universe", I have the following so
> far:
>
> 1. Speed of Light - distance to objects much further than 4000 light years
>
> 2. Stellar Parallax - using geometry to measure distance, independent of
> speed of light
>
> 3. Size of Astronomical Objects - another geometry issue, huge galaxies of
> billions of stars that appear to us only miniscule
>
> 4. Star formation and death - time and space required for life cycles of
> stars
>
> 5. Detailed history of stellar events - details of supernova explosions,
> etc., indicate real history over real time
>
> 6. Light echoes from supernovas - geometry of space from reflections of
> supernovas
>
> 7. Redshift of Galaxies - confirmation of expansion of the universe
>
> 8. Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation - confirmation of Big Bang theory
>
> 9. Age of moon rocks - radiometric dating of rocks from the moon
>
> 10. Age of meteorites - radiometric dating of meteorites agrees with moon
> and earth rocks
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> Any other thoughts?
>

I don't know what type of audience you intend to present this to, but I
would suggest that you think about which arguments will be most easily
understood by that audience. Simple arguments that don't go over the heads
of those with little knowledge of science would be most effective for a
general audience.

Gordon Brown (ASA member)

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Received on Thu Apr 2 18:23:10 2009