Actually, if I had unlimited power (for 6 days), I probably wouldn’t bother thinking up clever ways to fool the puny mortals that I haven’t created yet into thinking that the universe I’m creating was older than it really is. And I wouldn’t bother with making my verb tenses agree, either, since I would exist in the past, present, and future simultaneously.
But, it seems that my previous post is indicative of my lack of Divine Prowess, since I am only capable of concentrating on a few things at a time – said post not being one of them. I suppose all of the “future light” could be created at the same time as everything else, thus preserving the illusion, while also allowing the Creator to kick back after the alloted time.
I think we should all take a lesson from ken ham (I believe) and say very loudly and annoyingly and repeatedly to the voice of reason, “Were you there?”
Lolo,
The other lesson we should take from Ken Ham is this: “I’m not interpreting, I’m just taking it literally!”
What a bozo.
Of course, astronomers are just “taking it literally” when they infer the vast distances in the universe, and the millions of years it takes for light from distant galaxies to reach us. Seems strange that God might set up such a universe to provide the appearance of immense size and age, then cause a book to be written to explain that it’s merely an illusion.
…Is one that says “There are things called stars which you can’t see, because they are so far away that their light hasn’t reached you yet. But in Year X, a star will appear in this part of the sky. In Year X+1, another star will appear. By year X+n, you will see a pattern resembling Y. Praise be unto me!”
Interesting related note. In another thread (I forget which), another Doper (I forget who) noted that humans have witnessed supernovae of stars that are further than 6000 light years away, which would mean that God would have created those stars in a destroyed state.
if i was a god trying to get off on a “low” bid, i would, rather than creating all these objects, simply create streaming light resembling the image, streching off to infinity, without bothering to actually create the objects.
of course, when i get audited on all these apperent objects that arent actually there, i’ll have to lie through my holy teeth;
“hmm? oh uhmm… yah… er… that’s ‘dark’ Matter. nope, can’t tell you what it does, but it’s important. nope, nope. sorry. no. see you later… um-hmm… bye…”
Well one option for [insert theory here] might be the much-maligned “light used to be travelling much faster” theory, but as Dave Matson points out, that doesn’t help them much…
That only proves that Kent Hovind is as much an expert in astronomy as he is in geology. Doesn’t this clown claim to have been a science teacher at one point?
Sitting around and drinking beer? I think you have it all wrong. I have an ultimate frisbee t-shirt that shows what really happened. It has that famous picture of Abraham (?) reaching out to touch the hand of God, except that there is a disk inserted between their hands [which was obviously airbrushed out of the original ]. And the shirt says, “Rest, schmest…On the 7th day, He played!”
