"Apperance of age" vs Light Speed

Intro:

God tells Job that light has locality. That it has paths and it moves to a final home. There's no indication that God created it in place giving an illusary "mature" appearance.

Job 38,

"Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?.. "Where is the way to the dwelling of light?..That you may take it to its territory And that you may discern the paths to its home?

The Speed of light problem for YEC

The young-earth creationism appearance of age model is a way of explaining how the universe appears to be billions of years old, even if it was created in a much shorter period of time. Proponents of this model believe that God created the universe with the appearance of age, including light from distant stars that has taken billions of years to reach Earth.

There are several problems with this model. First, it requires God to violate the laws of physics. God establishes them as a promise linked to his second coming.

Jeremiah 33

Thus says the Lord, 'If My covenant for day and night stand not, and the FIXED patterns of heaven and earth I have not established, then I would reject the descendants of..David My servant, not taking from his descendants a ruler (Christ) over the descendants of Abraham, (Christs millennial rule)

The speed of light is a fundamental constant (fixed law of heaven), and there is no known way to speed up or slow down light. If God created the universe with the appearance of age, then he must have somehow accelerated light from distant stars so that it would reach Earth in a much shorter period of time. A problem is as God fixed the law of the speed of light "C" if God accelerated it then the energy output according to E=MC^2 would increase to the square of "C". Indeed every star would explode. Our sun would destroy our planet. In addition to this all the light from galaxies would be "blue shifted" rather than the observed "red shift."

Second, the young-earth creationism appearance of age model is not supported by evidence. The red shifting of spectral lines from telescopes indicate that light traveled from distant sources. Hubble noticed the further a galaxy is the greater the red shift. It is in agreement with the 12 old testament passages which states that God "stretches" apart the heavens with it's stars eg

Isaiah 45:12

I made the earth: and I created man upon it: my hand stretched forth the heavens, and I have commanded all their host.

Gods "stretching" is illustrated here,:

Most distant galaxies that we can see are billions of light-years away, YEC agree with this. However Jeremiah and Isaiah holds that their light has taken billions of years to reach us. This evidence suggests that the universe is billions of years old, not thousands of years old as young-earth creationists believe.

Finally, the young-earth creationism appearance of age model is not necessary. There are other explanations for why the universe appears to be billions of years old, such as the Big Bang theory.

This theory is described by:

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.  And

Hebrews 11:3

By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.

Space time theorems have proved that mass and time begin at the beginning of the universe out of nothing (the invisible), just as these passages said.

Adding the verses of God "stretching" the heavens yielding red shifts we are left with this illustration:

The Nobel Prize-winning scientist who with Wilson discovered the cosmic background radiation reacted with the statement: 

"The best data we have are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five Books of Moses, the Psalms, the Bible as a whole."

The Big Bang theory is supported by a wide range of evidence, including the expansion of the universe, the cosmic microwave background radiation, and the abundance of light elements in the universe.

In conclusion, there are several problems with the young-earth creationism appearance of age model. It requires God to violate the laws of physics, it is not supported by evidence, and it is not necessary. There are other explanations for why the universe appears to be billions of years old, such as the Big Bang theory.

Moses wrote psalms 90 before Genesis as much of the phraseology of Genesis occurs first in Psalms 90. In it he first states that God's days are different than man's days. Einstein was the first to develop the relativity of time view which Moses described first 2,500 years ago. Moses explains in Psalms 90 at the beginning :

Psalms 90:

Before the mountains were born Or You gave birth to the earth and the world, .

For a thousand years in Your sight Are like yesterday when it passes by, Or as a watch in the night.

We can see then it's reasonable to take this view of long days (YOM) in our reading of Genesis 1. After all it's author did.

To do otherwise is to believe this: