An evolution question I've often wondered about.

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highwaystar101 said:

Khuutra said:
I think the bigger question (for Young Earth Creationists) is how the Hell can we see the Hubble Deep Field image if theu niverse is only six thousand years old, since thte light from the vast, horrifying majority of the universe wouldn't have reached us yet.

But that would be cool too, wouldn't it? Every night, more and more of the sky would come exploding to life.

Young Earth creationists tend to try and get round that fact by asserting that the speed of light used to be much faster, and that it has slowed down over the past few centuries... It's crap to be honest, there is no evidence to even suggest the speed of light has slowed down. did something happen to all the photons at once? Did the laws of physics suddenly change?.

Well to say that there is no evidence the speed of light has slowed down isn't exactly true.

I mean afterall there are some galaxies that are assumed to be moving away from us at speeds faster then light due to the expansion of space.

Theoretically if we were a part of this pehenomena caused by the expansion of space more at one point then another, then theoretically light that was younger would look older.

For example if space worked like a bunched up bedsheet.

 

Not so much the speed of light being faster... but it'd cause the same effects.

 

Not very likely, but i wouldn't rule it out, since there is a lot yet still unknown about space expansion and it's properties.

 

It makes it even more interesting when you realize that means we'll never be able to explore all of space... since large parts of it are actually moving away faster from us then we could ever catch up.