Dear List,
I recently heard an argument that relativity could
be used to allow for a 6000 year old earth. It is
essentially something of the form of a variable c
argument. There were no numbers, only hand waving,
but let's say that within 23 hours, the heavens
and the earth passed through some 15 billion years
of history (when compared with the uniformitarian
assumption of a fixed value for c).
I _suspect_ such a model would reap havoc
on any cosmological models of an expanding universe
(which the advocate didn't appear to deny). Another
aspect that must be shown is how we obtained the
current distribution of elements given that c was
so much larger during most of this "brief" (23 hour)
history of the universe. Likewise the distribution
of stars and galaxies should be affected.
Finally, I would expect
that we should see some definite evidence of changes
in the H line red shift for very distant stars since
this would be looking at the beginning of time (the
first 23 hours of the universe when c was much larger
than it is now). It would also affect radioactive
decay.
Is anyone familiar with this argument and what YEC
folk would need to show to make it even plausible.
By Grace along we proceed,
Wayne
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