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Evolution and christanity.

Do you believe in evolution.

  • Yes evolution is true.

    Votes: 15 50.0%
  • No evolution is false.

    Votes: 12 40.0%
  • Not sure.

    Votes: 3 10.0%

  • Total voters
    30

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It doesn't have anything to do with evolution itself, but it does have to do with the age of the universe and the earth.

The speed of light in a vacuum is a constant. This constant is known as c. c = 299,792,458 meters per second. Things can certainly affect light, gravity for example, light passing through a medium is likewise different if only fractionally. But passing through a vacuum light always remains c. This means that we can be rather confident that if you, an earthbound observer, peer through a telescope and see stars shining in our next door galactic neighbor, Andromeda, you are seeing light that left that galaxy 2.5 million years ago. Because the light that came from those stars has had to travel the entire distance from its origin to your eyes, and while the journey to your eyes may have been a bumpy one, cosmically speaking, it could not arrive any faster than 2.5 million years.

Yes I know all of this, and again this has nothing to do with evolution.


And most arguments against old age largely hinge either on insisting that the speed of light is not constant (which throws out special relativity which consistently has held true) or else offer some variant of the Omphalos Argument, thereby accusing God of being some kind of cosmic jester or fraudster.
-CryptoLutheran
I am still not sure why the speed of light has anything to do with evolution.
 
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