@DPadenAkaterry Several methods of dating confirm that the Earth is very old. Using the Bible to argue for a young earth is no different than flat earthers using it as “evidence” that the earth is flat.

@AstroJoeB Except the Bible doesn’t say the Earth is flat. The Bible DOES give a rough estimate on the age of the Earth. Denying what the Bible does say, in favor of what science has supposedly “proven”. Is denying the authority of Gods word. These methods you reference, all have

@DPadenAkaterry “The Bible doesn’t say the earth is flat,” ironically, that’s just your interpretation. I would agree with that interpretation, but it’s an interpretation nonetheless. The problem we have here is that the age of the universe as a whole can also be determined without any need

@AstroJoeB You are acting as if you cannot know what the Bible says for sure, because everything is up for interpretation. Lol Words have definitions, and meanings that are independent of opinion. The Bible does not say the Earth is flat, that’s a fact. The Bible does give a rough

@DPadenAkaterry @AstroJoeB C is the speed of causality. It is the maximum speed at which any two things can interact. You can't get around the starlight problem by supposing that 13.8 billion years of events took place in under 6-10,000 years.

@modalsurrealist @AstroJoeB You don’t know the one way speed of causality, only the round trip. This is because you don’t know the one way speed of light, just the round trip. It’s possible that light travels half of c one direction, and is instantaneous the other. We have no way of telling the

@DPadenAkaterry That’s not what I’m doing at all. I’m just pointing out that, for the most part, the logic doesn’t follow. I’m just saying that my interpretation of the Bible is compatible with science, and I still believe in God despite agreeing with scientific consensus. I also used the

@AstroJoeB Well it’s not an apt analogy at the least. The Bible is compatible with science, in fact Christians founded the scientific method as we know it. Let’s use your flat earth analogy. Before the 3rd century AD, the consensus in science in Europe was that the Earth is flat. Yet,