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Edited by Joyaboi: 1/23/2016 12:07:29 AM
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The Universe CANNOT be 10,000 years old

http://imgur.com/a/nPXZ3 Speed= Distance/ Time. So the farthest star (In the Milky Way. So not too far relatively speaking) is 900,000 lightyears away. 10,000 is about how old you say the universe is. So 900,000/10,000= 90 lightyears per year? But the lightyear is the measure of how far light can travel in one year, and scientifically speaking light... cannot move faster than the speed of light. Yet we still see the light produced by that star. And that is just in the Milky Way. We can observe that, as well as entire galaxies thousands of times farther away. Given only 10,000 year to move at the speed of light, we could only see the light from the nearest stars given their current distance. The universe is about 42.6 billion lightyears across, but the OBSERVABLE universe is only about 13.8 billion lightyears across. Every day the observable universe grows as more light is able to reach our eyes. Imagine it as a balloon expanding in a sphere, where the balloon is the observable universe, the sphere is the actual universe, and we are inside the balloon. We are inside the balloon and can only see as far as the balloons expanse. http://m.phys.org/news/2015-10-big-universe.html As the link says, by the time a photon from the edge of the universe reaches us, the universe has expanded, but the photons are still traveling to us. So how could the observable universe be so big if light has only had 10,000 years to reach us? [spoiler]Believe what you wish. But scientifically speaking, it is impossible[/spoiler]

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  • I'm a Christian and I believe the universe is billions of years old. The 10,000 year age of the universe is based on the genealogy in the Bible starting from Adam. Some people believe that Adam was created on the 6th day. I believe the 6 days of creation was Gods way of explaining the sequence of creation, not the actual length of time. Imagine Moses trying to wrap his head around the concept of billions of years. Compare the Biblical sequence of creation to the scientific sequence of the Big Bang. The similarities are significant. 1. There was a void. 2. Then there was light. 3. Matter begins to coalesce into galaxies, stars. 4. Stars age and die. Heavier elements form. Rinse and repeat. 5. The Earth forms and gets impacted by a Mars sized planet. 6. The moon is formed and the earth is tilted 23.5 degrees. This later allows seasons and life. 7. Comets deliver water to Earth. 8. Life is created, animals then man. 9. Adam and Eve are placed in the Garden of Eden. 10. Being immortal, the don't track birthdays. 11. For a very long time they obey God. 12. They done messed up. I hope that apple was good. 13. Adam and Eve are kicked out of the garden. 14. Now mortal, they begin counting the years. This is where we get the 10,000 years. I believe that God spoke the Big Bang into existence.

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