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About the science of energy - 8/26/2008 2:21:35 PM
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RonBaird
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Greetings,
Since man can only see visible energy (light) which is a part of the electromagnetic spectrum, yet science can see, use, and explain, the rest of the spectrum, Which shows that how can accept that light from the stars has been traveling toward earch for millions of years? If what we are seeing has been in transit for millions of years, then how does that play into other beliefs.
Does it make sense that God created everything with a plan that included evolution and the mystery of the stars and technology? Are we simply learning more as we go in Gods plan?
This is a question I have had for a while.
Ron
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RE: About the science of energy - 8/26/2008 3:49:48 PM
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DanJames
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Hey, Ron Baird! Welcome to the forum!
You're not the only person to wonder how we see starlight when the stars are so stinkin' far away. It's one of the best objections to our understanding of energy period because energy is uniformly distributed throughout the voids, not just light. I'm not sure whether or not Big Bang Cosmologists have an explanation for the even distribution of energy or not, so I'll let them speak for themselves, but there are a couple of explanations that I have, much of which is from Dr. Jason Lisle, an astrophysicist from AiG.
1: God made the light already on the way. The default position of a lot of apologists who don't mind the philosophical implications of God creating light but no object. Since we see stars have gone or are going supernova all the time, the implications of this belief is that that star never existed. I don't want to believe that God created a light show, but no star itself.
2: Universal time zones/conventions: God created the stars billions of years ago during the 3rd day in their time zone. I don't like this one, but it is one way to allow for a gazillion year old universe, and I haven't thought extensively about "He made the stars also." it to disprove it.
3. Gravitational time dilation: since Einstein proved that the simplest explanation isn't always the correct one contra Occam's Razor, enter Gravitational Time Dilation. This one is my preferred explanation. Per this theory, the earth is and has always been at the center of a gravity well since things are observed to be all equally spaced out around. If stuff was closer to the earth during the creation events and were "stretched out" (Jeremiah 51:15 et al), that would put the earth in the middle of an enormous gravity well and light would have reached it instantaneously as observed from earth. I probably did a pretty pour job explaining that, but that's the general idea. I like it because it allows for the light to get here, and it allows for lots of neat stuff to happen in the galaxies that might have taken long periods of time, and it accounts for the even distribution of energy.
4. The speed of light is different now. Basically this is the other side of the coin. Since the time it takes for the light to get here is a function of speed and distance, we can either change the time, the distance, or the speed. Some say that there is no good reason to believe that the speed limit of the universe has properly discredited the possibility of the light having traveled the full distance in 6-10 thousand years.
Thanks for the question! Again, welcome and happy posting.
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