Bible StudyLooking for guidance on interpretationJohn 10:10 wrote:Those Christians who believe in young age creation are not able to easily accept true science which seems to indicate the universe is billions of years old, and are then left with explaining creation science in terms of thousands of years.
I beg to differ, especially since there are many eminate scientists who are creationists. Science is the search for scientific laws that explain our universe, therefore no creationist has a problem with the laws of motion, gravity, gases, and etc. Where creationists and old age advocates disagree is how science interprets all available observed and tested data. For instance light speed (C) is defined as a constant, however the data accumulated over the last 100+ years does not support "C" as constant over time. Starting with Roemer's 1676 breakthrough endeavors, the speed of light has been measured at least 163 times utilizing a wide variety of different techniques by more than 100 investigators (see Table 1 for a compilation of methods, investigators, and dates). As scientific methods and devices were refined, the error limits of the estimates narrowed, although the speed of light has not significantly changed since Roemer's seventeenth century calculations. Finally in 1983, more than 300 years after the first serious measurement attempt, the speed of light was defined as being 299,792.458 kilometers per second by the Seventeenth General Congress on Weights and Measures. Thus, the meter is defined as the distance light travels through a vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 seconds. In general, however, (even in many scientific calculations) the speed of light is rounded to 300,000 kilometers (or 186,000 miles) per second. Arriving at a standard value for the speed of light was important for establishing an international system of units that would enable scientists from around the world to compare their data and calculations.
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/ligh ... light.html
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