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From: John Harshman <jharshman.diespamdie@pacbell.net>
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Dr. Jason Gastrich wrote:
> John Harshman wrote:
>
>
>>So how far are you willing to take this? Did God create the world 6000
>>years ago with light on its way here from supernovae that never
>>actually happened?
>>
>
> Light in transit is one theory. I prefer the theory that light is not a
> constant and the speed of light has slowed.
This despite the great evidence against that theory? And if the speed of
light has changed so drastically in only a few thousand years, wouldn't
you expect massive differences in the behavior of physical objects long ago?
>>Miles of sedimentary rocks containing fossils of
>>organisms that never lived? Igneous rocks with radionuclides in
>>various stages of decay?
>
> These don't prove the evolution of species of an old earth.
Did you mean "or an old earth"? Well of course dating rocks doesn't by
itself show evolution; we have other data for that. But it certainly
does show an old earth. What other possible interpretation (sensible
interpretations only, please) do you have?
>>In fact is the entire universe consistent with an age of billions of
>>years, through creation, a few thousand years ago, of all the evidence
>>for that age?
>
> Yes.
Fine. That's a perfectly consistent viewpoint. It's known as the
omphalos theory, and is akin to Last Thursdayism, the belief that the
world was created last Thursday with the appearance of age. Both these
theories have the advantage of being impossible to refute with any
conceivable set of observations, and the disadvantage that they are
impossible to confirm with any conceivable set of observations. Your
position is hence outside of, and irrelevant to, science. You are free
to hold it, but you can't at the same time claim that there is
scientific evidence for your position or against the standard scientific
position.
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