Just like the Bible says of Adam, the tree with fruit and everything else?
Why would that be?
No it does not. Seeming that way (as in the case of Adam and the tree with fruit) is all we see.
In fact we are told that it just seemed that the tree and Adam and Eve were older than they were. Believe God or not on the matter.
No it does not.
It gives evidence of the effects of age when aging didn't happen. Just as we are told in the Bible account.
No it does not. They may well not exist now - but we have no way of knowing either from science or from the biblical account.
Simply not so.
The argument simply tells us that other things are just as they were with Adam and Eve, the tree, and the fruit in the Bible account.
No - it would be like God creating the universe fully grown and functioning just as He did Adam and Eve.
The Bible?
The following is an image taken of the Andromeda Galaxy located 2.5 million light years away.
In 1885 astronomers observed a supernova within Andromeda, the massive death of a star now called S. Andromedae.
The speed of light in a vacuum is constant (known as
c), c = 299,792,458 meters per second, or about 671,000,000 miles per hour.
The distance light travels in a year is known as a light year.
When photons leave the sun and head toward the earth, the light we observe has already traveled about eight minutes. So if, for example, the sun suddenly disappeared from existence we would not know about it for a full eight minutes.
The closest star to us (other than the sun obviously) is Proxima Centauri, located 4.22 light years away. So if Proxima Centauri suddenly disappeared, we wouldn't know about it for 4.22 years, that is the delay between the event and our observation of the event, due to the speed of light.
The Andromeda Galaxy is located 2.5 million light years away, and so when in 1885 observers saw S. Andromedae go supernova, they were witnessing an event that had taken place 2.5 million years ago in the past. When S. Andromedae went supernova there weren't even Homo sapiens around, it was before Homo erectus, and even before Homo habilis.
Here's the problem, if the universe is only ~6000 years old then that means the supernova observed in 1885
was of an event that never happened.
If the Omphalos Argument is true then S. Andromedae
never existed.
That means light from a star that never existed from an event that never happened was created
in situ, mid-transit between the Andromeda Galaxy and earth.
That is a lot more than being like Adam simply having a navel, that is like Adam having memories of a childhood that never happened.
We are observing
memories of the universe that never happened.
Do you not see how that is a massive problem?
-CryptoLutheran