when i was a young-earth-creationist teen i got my hands on a physics book and read about red shift and cosmic microwave background. i held this knowledge nervously, like the time i learned what sex was by reading one of my parents books for how to talk to ur kids about sex 1/
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i remember not talking to anyone about it. i felt like i had a little grenade in my head, a dirty secret. the first time i tossed the bomb was at a homeschool convention; i went up to some people i didn't know and then skittishly asked them if they knew about red shift
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no, they didn't know about red shift.
'i think it might mean the universe is older than 6,000 years,' i said.
this was the first time i'd said it out loud. i don't remember their response, my ears were buzzing. i felt like a wolf in homeschoolers clothing.
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the thing I am proudest of about my intellectual development is that I read some book -- Hugh someone, a popular apologist at the time, I think -- and he said something about starlight. And i said hey, wait, what *about* starlight?
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For me growing up in a church that believed the creation myth it was learning about plate tectonics and geology.
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Those have no pertinence to the issue.
If God created an Earth, right now, and transported you to it, you would inevitably conclude it was at least millions of years old because you'd look at the rivers and mountains and infer geologic processes. A functioning world looks old.
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I totally get this. I took an astronomy class at my local community college and just like they feared, doubts crept in. Because the science made sense, I understood it, and that was scary!
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Hubble himself admitted the simplest explanation of the redshift was that earth was the center of everything but rejected it on philosophical grounds.
All 3 CMB probes have found the 'axis of evil' which suggests the entire universe is oriented around the sun/earth ecliptic
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