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DMcFadden · #**201** (**permalink**) 02-01-2008, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by solifide

I'm somewhat lost as far as what has and hasn't been said on this post, but to address the original question:

- Christian astronamer Hugh Ross makes an interesting observation in regards to the distance of stars from earth in relation to the speed of light. He asserts that if we can measure how long it takes for light from distant stars to reach earth, we can accurately measure the age of the earth. Ross argues that his findings actually supports creation and refutes evolution! Whether or not his assersion is correct I do not know, but I thought I would include it. P.S. Ross is an old-earther.
- In reference to the use of yom, I would point to the KJV Bible, specifically Genesis 2:4. Here, yom is used not as a day, but as an expanse of time.

I'm interested to hear your thoughts!

1. As to Hugh Ross . . . he bases his apologetic on the fact of the Big Bang. However, the Big Bang was not the prevalent view in cosmology until a few decades ago. And, his argument about light is a double edged sword. The Big Bang has its own distant starlight problem, the horizon problem. While some scientists have attempted to come up with work arounds, the problem remains that you cannot fit observational distances in the known universe into the time frame of the "assured" findings of science according to the Big Bang (i.e., 13.8 billion years or so is not more than a quarter of the time needed to account for known distances).

Several physicists have proposed explanations that account for the distant starlight problem within a young earth time frame (e.g., gravitational time dilation).

2. Young earth creationists agree that "yom" means differing things, depending on the context. "Back in my day (when I was 8), my parents took four days to drive all day to Illinois on vacation." In that one sentence the word means three different things. The same is true of the Bible. In Genesis 2 the word refers to more than one 24 hour period. However, whenever you have the linguistic limiters ("day and night," day one, etc.) that specify a 24 hour period, it should be taken in the normal sense. Thus, I have come to believe in a young earth creationist postion (cf. Answers in Genesis - Creation, Evolution, Christian Apologetics)