On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Orionworks - Steven Vincent Johnson < [email protected]> wrote:
What's your best-guess as to the age of the Universe? ***My best guess is 16Billion years. And it is also 6days old. It depends upon your relativistic perspective. I'm a creationist, and even a literal 6-day creationist at that. But I think Carbon 14 dating and all the other radiometric dating is reasonably accurate. I also think that light that has travelled 100M light years is 100M years old. Here's how I resolve it: Using Einstein's Twin Paradox. A twin that steps into a space ship and goes around at the speed of light for a year, comes back to visit his brother who has aged 100 years in that same period. And this is proven science -- physicists took a particle that only lasts a few milliseconds, accelerated it to near C, and its lifespan went from milliseconds to seconds. So, God zipped around the known universe at the time, and spent 6 days creating the heavens & earth. Do we have any reason to think that He is limited to going only the speed of light? Nope. He undoubtedly zipped around the universe at far faster than the speed of light. From His perspective, it took 6 days. From the perspective of someone sitting on the earth at the time, it took 14Billion years. God's own little twin paradox, written in language of normal humans 3500 years ago. Pretty amazing.
