YEC Review

The theory of Young Earth Creationism (YEC) posits that the Earth and the universe were created by God in a literal six-day period, approximately 6,000 years ago. One of the central challenges to this view is the vast amount of scientific evidence that points to an old Earth, including geological formations, stellar distances, and the fossil record. To reconcile this discrepancy, YEC proponents often employ the concept of "creation with apparent age." This idea suggests that God created the universe not as a "blank slate," but with a built-in appearance of age and history. For instance, Adam was created as a full-grown man, not as an infant; fruit trees were created already bearing fruit, not as seeds. Similarly, stars were created with their light already in transit to Earth, and geological strata were created in a way that mimicked billions of years of formation. A variation on this theme, but one that shares a fundamental similarity, is what has been ...

Jason Lisle’s Anisotropic Synchrony Convention ( ASC ) proposes a specific interpretation of special relativity, primarily to address the “starlight travel-time problem” within a young-earth creationist framework. The ASC posits that the one-way speed of light is infinite in the direction of an observer (like Earth) and half the standard speed of light (c/2) in the opposite direction. While this model is mathematically consistent with the round-trip speed of light being c (which is all that is experimentally measurable with a single clock), it is fundamentally incompatible with the physical phenomena of gravitational waves and their detection. The groundbreaking discovery of gravitational waves by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations serves as a powerful and direct refutation of the ASC . The LIGO experiment relies on two geographically separated detectors, one in Hanford, Washington, and the other in Livingston, Louisiana. These detectors are nearly 3,000 kilomete...