I was asked this question: Many times, in distant galaxies, we see a supernova. This is the dying flash of a star that blew itself out of existence. The star is often millions of light-years away, and so the light must have originated millons of years ago. If not, God created light on the way to Earth, having faked evidence for a star that never existed.
Since there is no scriptural basis for a young universe, I would have to conclude that God is not deceptive,and the Universe is quite old. Do you agree?


And someone else said: I think you are neglecting the fact that we do not know how light actually operates in space. Also, expansion theory postulates that as the fabric of space expands, light is carried along with it.

Bing bangers postulate that during the formative period of early galaxies that the fabric of space expanded, in all directions, the matter furthest away from other expanding matter appeared to be expanding at a rate faster than the speed of light, yet the light from those galaxies was visible the entire time.

Fact is, it appears now that the speed of light is not the constant it was once thought to be."

So I was lying awake last night thinking of this.

How to explain this here... hmmm...

Ok, FIRST: Drop a rock in a pond... that would be the big bang (Creation of the universe by God)... ok?

Second: Watch the ripples go out from the point of impact, that's the expanding universe... OK?

Third: Pick a point--any point--inside that expanding wave, and let that be as the point where the planet earth is right now.


Fourth: Measure a point from earth directly across the point where the rock hit the surface to the expanding ripple opposite. That would be a point where science says they can see to the edge of the universe, some 13 billion years or so.

Fifth: Notice that it took time for the ripple to eminate from the point of impact to that point where we say we see light from 13 billion years ago.

Conclusion:
So it, likewise, must have taken time (untold trillions of years) for the galaxies to migrate from the point of creation to the point where we see light that is supposedly 13 billion years or so.

Discussion:
So, if the scientists are correct and we're actually seeing light from 13 billion years ago, how long did it take for these galaxies to reach that point, knowing that the light previously eminated in that journey would have transversed past us long ago?

That kept me awake all night last night.
Russ