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if you add up all the bats in the Book
of Genesis for example you get an age
for the Earth 6,000 years old plus or
minus so little the universe is said to
be exactly as old as the Earth this is
still the standard of Jewish Christian
and Muslim fundamentalists and is
clearly reflected in the Jewish
calendar but so young a universe raises
an award question how is it that there
are astronomical objects more than 6,000
light years away
it takes light a year to travel a
lightyear 10,000 years to travel 10,000
light years and so on when we look at
the center of the Milky Way galaxy the
light we see left its source some 30,000
years ago the nearest spiral galaxy like
our own M31 in the constellation
Andromeda is 2 million light years away
so we're seeing it as it was when the
light from it set out on its long
journey to Earth 2 million years ago and
when we OB erve distant quazars 5
billion light years away we're seeing
them as they were 5 billion years ago
before the earth was formed they are
almost certainly very different
today so if despite this we were to
accept the literal truth of such
religious books how could we reconcile
the data the only plausible conclusion I
think is that God recently made all the
photons of light arriving on the earth
in such a coherent format as to mislead
gener ations of astronomers into the
misapprehension that there are such
things as galaxies and quazar and
intentionally driving them to the
spirous conclusion that the universe is
vast and
old this is such a malevolent theology I
still have difficulty believing that
anyone no matter how devoted to the
divine inspiration of any religious book
could seriously entertain
it Beyond this the radioactive dating of
rocks the abundance of craters on many
worlds the evolution of the stars and
the expansion of the universe each
provides compelling and independent
evidence that our universe is many
billions of years old despite the
confident assertions of revered
theologians that a world so old directly
contradicts the word of God and that at
any rate information on the Antiquity of
the world is inaccessible except to
Faith these lines of evidence as well
would have to be manufactured by a
deceptive and malicious deity unless the
world is much older than the literalists
in the judeo-christian Islamic religion
suppose
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