Ok so a light year is the distance light travels in a year. 300,000 km/186,000 miles per second so 9,467,020,800,000 km a year/5,869,552,896,000 miles a year. Ok now that we have gotten the math out of the way I can get to my point. Now scientists estimate the universe to be about 13.5billion years old. Creationists claim it to be 5,000-10,000 years old. Arguably there are trees almost 7,000 years old but that argument is a bit rough to go about. Now when we look up into the night sky we are literally looking into the past like a time machine. Why? Because the light we see now took thousands, tens of thousands or even millions or in some cases billions of years to reach us. Now there have been cases where we have observed the death of a star, known as a supernova. That supernova literally happened LONG before we ever saw it. Thats because it took how many ever light years to reach us. Stars are formed at different sizes and different points in the span of the universe. Even the largest stars last a few million years. Our star is 4.3billion years old and has at least another billion years left. All this is determined by the mass because the mass determines how much of its own fuel supply is used. Now my whole point is, is that the Earth and the universe is not young. That is 100% false and I can add the finale piece to prove that: if the universe was only between 5,000 to 10,000 years old then most of the observable universe would NOT be visible to us. If everything was created at the same time, and when God said Let there be light, then we would not see most of the stars in the sky because the light from them would not have had enough time to reach us in that 5,000 to 10,000 year timeframe.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 10:46:12 +0000
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