I was sent a video clip about how a man leaves scientists speechless when he answers the age old question 'Where did God come from?' Maybe you have had it land in your WhatsApp some time?
Geological time is calculated using radioactive carbon dating and such like - it seems to me as though the assumption is always that things have always been the same as they are now. I ask myself questions like:
- How long was a day 6000 years ago?
- What Sun were we orbiting 6000 years ago?
- What were the levels of radioactivity 6000 years ago, and what impact would significantly higher levels of radioactivity have on genetic mutation and on rates of decay?
If our daylength is determined
by the orbit of the Earth around the Sun, and that orbit is governed by the
masses of the Earth and Sun, and the distance between them (a principle taught
me in 1st year Physics at Wits), then with the Sun losing billions
of candlepower every second of every millennium, and the Earth absorbing
energy, and energy is converted to and from mass (another principle taught me
in 1st year Physics) then the distance and orbit must have changed.
When I burn a gas lamp the gas
bottle gets lighter and I have to refill it. Who keeps on refilling the gas
cylinder of the Sun to keep it all stable?
If many biological clocks, such
as many flowers blossoming and other biological processes, are dependant on
daylength, what would a daylength have been 6000 years ago?
I use 6000 years because that is
the ballpark figure given in the Bible – so what if the levels of radioactivity
or daylength are to be determined for 600 million or 200 billion years ago???
Ja well, no fine… What does this ignorant Les Powrie know anyway???
Read more in my blog The faith of this scientist and thoughts about a question someone asked me on a beach near Kwelera a few years ago.
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