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If you are a Creationist?
I'm looking for an honest answer here, not an atheist/theist debate. If you are a Creationist, and you believe that the Earth/Universe is 5,000 - 6,000 years old, then how does your faith explain:
1. Carbon-14 dating?
2. We can see light from stars that are millions of light years away, but by definition that light can't be seen by us until that light has been traveling for millions of years?
3. Supernovae that can only happen after a star has been shining for billions of years?
And other absolutely overwhelmingly provable science that says otherwise? If your answer that science is somehow evil, then why are you using a computer? If your answer is that Satan injected flaws into science, then why does your computer work?
3 Answers
- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
As a Creationist, my belief is that there is no determinate age of the universe. That might sound weird, but let me explain. When God was creating the universe, all of the natural laws were still "hanging in the balance", so to speak. This includes all the standards we might use to measure time. Suppose our only two standards for measuring time were the decay rate of carbon and the speed of light. If God were to change those two variables, which one would we say was the real measurement of time? Neither, because there is no standard measurement of time that was not hanging in the balance at the time of creation. If you believe in a God who can alter the natural laws, there simply is no single, coherent definition of what a year is. Thus, it makes no sense to say that the universe is X or Y years old.
- hasse_johnLv 78 years ago
It is the earth, and this corner that is recent. It is mankind, and the current life systems that were created about 6000 years ago. (There is one Hebrew word in the creation story that can be understood to mean that YHVH 'reworked' things at that point, rather than created them from nothing.) The concept of carbon 14 dating rests on a number on untestable presumptions,,, that the percentage of carbon 14 has always been the same, and that it's half life has always been the same. There are some observed phenomena that don't seem to square with the 6000 year theory. There are some that don't fit with the evolutionary hypothesis (like the frozen wooly mammoths found near the arctic circle).
- Anonymous8 years ago
1, You have to admit there are flaws in radiocarbon dating. Even most scientists admit that.
2. When God created the stars along with the heavens the bible states several times that "He stretched the Heavens". The starlight was here, the stars moved to their positions during the creation process is one explanation.
Since no one was around during the time of creation we can either go by faith what the bible says and use science to help us along, or come up with our own theories without God being involved.
