I thought I would go over the whole issue of distant starlight since Evolutionist like to use it to try to debunk a young universe. So in todays post I will be addressing four assumptions we must make when trying to measure the distance of starlight.
Update: I recently came across an ICR article with an insert that says" Currently, scientists are not united enough concerning any broadscale trends to support age estimates based on the size of the sun." This is because since the original publishing of their article decades ago the studies of the size of our sun has yielded various results. Therefore I will highlight the sun-shrinking evidence in red to let the reader know that this may not be the best evidence to use for apologetics, because of the variations in measurement of the sun's size.
The assumptions that are used to deduce an old age from the observation of light from very distant stars is the following. Number one, the vast distances assigned to the stars are accurate. The further one looks out in space the more indirect do the measuring methods become. This isn't really that relevant however, even if we give them a huge margin for error to judge the distance of stars because the biblical time frame only allows 6 to 10 thousand years.
The milky way galaxy alone is said to have a diameter of one hundred thousand light years. The question we should be considering is how far away were the galaxy's when the light started out on it's trip to us? Scripture indicates that God stretched out the heavens (Isaiah 42;5, 45;12, 51;13, Jeremiah 10;12). We can therefore conclude that light started it's journey when the galaxies were alot closer than they are today. This also accounts for what we observe in the red shifting of wavelengths of this stretched out starlight.
The second and third assumptions one must make is that we know for certain how light travels in deep space and that light has always traveled at the same speed throughout history. I will have a post on gravitational time dilation to address the second assumption, while the third assumption will mostly likely always have to remains so unless someone invents a time machine.
The fourth assumption is that the universe couldn't have been created fully mature, with people already seeing the starlight arriving from the beginning. If Adam and Eve were created already mature in the beginning along with the animals and plants then why couldn't the stars and starlight be also. The above information is derived from an interesting little book called
(The Answers Book chapter 11 by ken ham Andrew Snelling and Carl Wieland).
[While we are on the topic of stars I thought that I would bring up some interesting information about our sun. A man by the name of Herman von Helmholtz (1821-1894), who was a German physician brought up the question in 1841 that if our sun is being used up it must have been larger in the past and is constantly shrinking. In 1841 measurements of the sun's diameter began and it was published by Eddy and Boornazian in 1976. The rate of decrease was so big that only half a million years ago the temperature on earth would have made life impossible.
www.creationmoments.com/content/age-earth]
In conclusion we can see that there are many assumptions one must make when trying to get vast ages for distant starlight, which only proves that the ages evolutionist gives for stars isn't factual but their fallible opinion. We see also that the sun itself is strong evidence for a young universe by the facts I have listed in this article.
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