Anyway, he was talking about how vaste the universe is, how many millions of light years away celestial objects are, . . . . .so (I know him personally) I emailed him about how a christian person is to look at the subject of the Biblical genealogy (that being the earth and universe is some 6,000 years old), and how that conflicts with the light year distances, . . . . . . . and this is what he said:
With regard to the time frame question, the evidence is beyond overwhelming, and is now incontrovertible, that the universe is 13-14 billion years old, and that the earth is 5 billion years old. There are many ways that this can be proven. The bottom line, no matter what nonsense you may read on the internet, is that there is not one shred of evidence for a 6,000 year old universe. Any alleged “proofs” of a young universe are all bogus. One of the many death blows to a young universe, as you point out, is the speed of light. We can now measure, with great accuracy, objects out to 100 million light years, and with a fair amount of accuracy out to 13 billion light years. If the speed of light is constant, which we know it is (with perhaps a tiny fraction of one percent deviation over 14 billion years), then this is an insurmountable problem for those who believe in a 6,000 year old universe. They are left with one option – the appearance of age. That is, God deceived us into making the universe look 14 billion years old when in fact it is only 6,000 years old. Of course, this is absurd, and makes God out to be the great deceiver. The Bible says that God cannot lie, so this pathetic attempt to salvage young universe creationism must be rejected.
Sadly, the actual religious leaders of my denomination would (and probably actually do) hold to the YEC. Of course, the person in the quote is VERY intelligent, so I'd be more apt to believe him anyway.
Just thought I'd let you know that not all Christians are uber-pious.
