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Q-If God created the world 6,000 years ago or so, why are stars millions of light years away?

A-Brendon, what a question! Yes, we know from the dates God gives us in the Bible that He did create the whole universe about 6,000 years ago. When we hear the term light-year, we need to realize it is not a measure of time but a measure of distance, telling us how far away something is. Distant stars and galaxies might be millions of light-years away, but that doesn’t mean that it took millions of years for the light to get here, it just means it is really far away!

Ken Ham, AIG, AIG 168 Comments [10/20/2010 10:46:20 AM]
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#1249543
ouch

ohmygod. i think my brain just imploded. bye

1/27/2011 11:49:12 AM

#1249564
KR


1/27/2011 12:20:29 PM

#1252040


Know what's not far away? Ken Ham's head from his ass.

2/2/2011 1:20:34 PM

#1253052
478

A light year is the distance light travels in a year, idiot.

2/5/2011 6:04:21 PM

#1254915
CarlSagan

He is actually right guys! On the expressway, my car's speedmeter tells me that I drive at about 100 seconds per hour. Does it means that I've been driving for a long time? Of course not, it just means that I drive very fast...(think of how much seconds there are in an hour!)

2/10/2011 12:39:09 AM

#1254934


There are no dates in the Bible, stupid!

And millions of light-years means exactly that it took millions of years for the light to get here.
"Stupid" seems to be too high up on the intelligence scale to describe you...

2/10/2011 3:05:06 AM

#1262450
Prune Face

Poor Brendon, he's gonna seem like a complete idiot when he relays what he just found out to his entire class.

3/2/2011 12:41:35 AM

#1274191
The Duelist

Any person who listens to a single word uttered by Ken Ham or his associates is a hopeless fuck-tard.

4/1/2011 10:03:26 PM

#1274242


Light year is a measure of distance in the same way as “A four-hour drive” is. It is inherently tied to time as well as distance. So, yeah, it does mean it took millions of years to get here.

4/2/2011 7:18:59 AM

#1274246
whatever

I bet this guy has a tape measure with no numbers or markings, just the words "Really long" at the far end.

4/2/2011 7:44:22 AM

#1276115


"Actually, the 6,000 years BS was decided upon by this French guy, who's name escapes me at the moment, a couple hundred years ago, using circumstantial evidence from the Bible, as well as a metric shitload of assumptions."

Scaliger? I prefer the dating of Archbishop James Ussher, Primate of All Ireland, who was the most famous to put a date to creation, but Bede, Kepler and even Newton also came up with similar dates.

And my understanding is that they actually all used imperial fucktonnes of assumptions, as the metric shitload had yet to be invented - 1 fucktonne being roughly 2.19 shitloads, according to the back of my diary.

4/7/2011 6:55:47 AM

#1276125
Anon-e-moose

"Distant stars and galaxies might be millions of light-years away, but that doesn’t mean that it took millions of years for the light to get here, it just means it is really far away!"

Ken, meet Casshiterides:

http://www.fstdt.net/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=77098&Page=1

You and your pet 'theories' will get on so well together!

@Iczer-Four

"this guy must have shit for brains.."



X3

4/7/2011 7:50:11 AM

#1297880
CrazyBlue

Definition fail.

6/10/2011 5:56:17 AM

#1315164
カラス

There is absolutely no significance to the origin of the word light-year! They just thought it sounded cool.

7/27/2011 2:02:50 AM

#1319721
Quantum Mechanic

Ken Ham phails elementary relativity again.

8/8/2011 12:14:10 AM

#1324316
Quantum Mechanic

Hey Ken, when you get out of sixth grade let us know. Until then shut the fuck up.

8/23/2011 6:43:45 AM

#1324324


But, but, isn't light-year the time it takes for the light to come here?
Does God realy give dates in the Bible? Maybe the dates is in a part of the old texts which the N-something council decided shouldn't be included in the Bible.

8/23/2011 7:00:11 AM

#1328676


IQ seeking equilibrium... help!

9/3/2011 3:58:46 AM

#1364594
racercowan

Yes, alight year is a measurment of distance, not speed. A light year is how far travels in a year.
Light takes two years to travel two lightyears.

1/8/2012 5:13:37 PM

#1364937


Ken , Ken *shakes head sadly* you KNOW that those stars and galaxies are simply lights on a bif crystal sphere that surrounds the earth.


1/9/2012 10:22:34 PM

#1389745
IntellectualsAreSexy

Why hasn't he won a Nobel Prize in physics yet? Ken Ham is CLEARLY a genius.

(Sarcasm.)

4/4/2012 4:43:59 PM

#1392517
Frelus

Thinking is hard, is it not?

4/14/2012 1:54:02 PM

#1409358
Ebon

This is the argument that the universe was recently created to give the appearence of extreme age. This presents two questions:
1) That makes it equally likely that the universe was created last Thursday with the appearence of old age.
2) This presupposes a God who just likes fucking with us. Now, that would fit my conception of God but probably not yours.

6/3/2012 2:54:37 AM

#1431576
whatever

They're not just "really far away", they're really really REALLY far away!

8/6/2012 2:48:05 PM

#1431577
Filin De Blanc

But it's called a lightyear because it takes light that long to...oh, forget it.

8/6/2012 2:50:05 PM
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