An evolution question I've often wondered about.

[appolose]

highwaystar101 said:

appolose said:
I don't believe the speed of light decay idea is held by a majority of creationists anymore. It had some popularity, but they couldn't really get it to work.
The newer idea today is that the Earth was caught in the event horizon of a white hole for billions of years, thus giving light ample time to reach Earth while the Earth remained quite young.
I think that's how it goes.

White holes are hypothetical, we have little/no evidence to support or deny them yet I'm afraid.

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Anyway, that point aside. About the time period you gave, "caught in the event horizon for billions of years". I'm assuming you are referring too an idea held by old Earth creationists in that case? The argument wouldn't work in the case of young Earth creationists as it requires extensive time periods. Especially as a white hole hypothetically causes both time reversal and matter ejection.

If the Earth was subjected to time reversal from a white hole whilst the rest of the Universe went along at a normal pace, I would assume that if it was anything like a black hole the the time reversal would be extremely extended and we wouldn't really feel the effects, kinda like how time extends to become almost infinite past the event horizon of a black hole. So allowing ample time for light to reach is an argument I don't think I can accept I'm afraid.

But all that wouldn't matter if we were caught in the event horizon of a white hole that was ejecting matter. I would think we would be either ejected from the white holes event horizon immediately or the solar system would be obliterated.

However, as all of this is hypothetical, no-one can be certain.

 

It's actually a young-Earth idea (although, it doesn't have to be exclusively so):  While it allows for the universe to be billions of years old, it still maintains that the Earth is only several thousand.

I'm not sure I understand your objection about the effects of time reversal.  If I've understood the idea correctly, it's that: 

a) Time slowed down dramatically on Earth

b) The rest of the univers carried on for billions of years while Earth was in this time freeze, so light eventually came to the perpetually young-Earth.

Perhaps that will clear up the objection, if it isn't based on something else I've missed.

I'll provide a link to a more detailed (and accurate) presentation of this hypothesis in a bit.