Starlight and Time Streaming
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Starlight and Time Streaming.
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The absurdities necessary to sustain a Young Earth Creationist (YEC) worldview are literally cosmological in scope as the DVD version of “Starlight and Time” (derived from the book of the same title) painfully attests. Forcibly mating biblically induced fundamentalist dogma and magical thinking with General Relativity and Cosmology is an act of intellectual and scientific rape - but contemporary YECs never have let their sense of morals prevent them from doing what is ‘right.’
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“Starlight and Time” purports to show how light could travel billions of light years from distant astronomical objects during the passage of only a few thousand years of Earth time. Even YECs admit that the universe is vast - beyond any biblical cosmology however burlesque their exegetical exertions - but dogmatically refuse to cede that the earth is old - a paradox of their own making, a single snowflake in the blizzard of ignorance that typifies so-called ‘creation science.’
Humphreys and Baumgardner posit an alternative cosmology to solve the light travel time problem and assuage febrile creationist sensibilities. Humphreys’ white hole cosmology has been reviewed and found universally wanting by the reality-based scientific community and old earth creationists! Even YEC stalwarts, who routinely swallow shallow sacro-scientific swill, entertain substantial doubts, although leading purveyors of misinformation such as Answers in Genesis (AiG, employer of Baumgardner) and the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) continue to disingenuously pimp “Starlight and Time” - even while they subtly admit that it is ultimately flawed.
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Humphreys jettisons the cosmological principle in favor of a non-uniform universe that takes the shape of a sphere with a finite radius. In this metaphysical morass only charitably described as a model ‘god’ stretches a primordial black hole, located at the center of the sphere, and by so doing magically converts it into a white hole with bizarre time dilation consequences. Essentially Humphrey’s model enshrines numerous misconceptions about what the Big Bang actually says about the origin of the universe.
He then attempts to determine the physical consequences by applying General Relativity to the resulting matter distribution, and claims that gravitational time dilation causes time to pass more quickly the further you are from the center of the universe. By placing the earth close to the center of the cosmos, Humphreys claims to solve a fundamental problem for Young Earth Creationists - reconciling the numerous lines of evidence for a 13.7 billion year old (+/- 200 million years) universe with their biblical claim that the earth was only created some 6,000 to 12,000 years ago.
The gospel-motivated gerrymandering of General Relativity hawked in “Starlight and Time” places the earth and a white hole, the inverse of a black hole (white holes emit matter and energy, black holes voraciously ingest matter) at the center of the universe. Humphreys traipses over the inconvenient fact that X-ray and energetic particle emissions from a nearby white hole would incinerate the earth, but happily for the planet no observational evidence of a nearby white hole has been discovered - another laughable lacuna. Other problems stem from a bizarre misapplication of time dilation; for time to pass more quickly in the distant reaches of space earth would need to be close to a black hole, not a white hole. Humphreys later tried to revive his moribund model by positing a time dilation effect inside the white hole, but this approach was equally unphysical. His faith-based fantasies also fail to explain astronomical observations ranging from the cosmic microwave background radiation and its anisotropy to light element abundance. Amateur-hour apologetic astrophysics ala Humphreys fails to correlate with reality and can be safely discarded.
Humphreys’ findings are, to borrow a phrase from the Nobel Prize winning physicist Wolfgang Pauli, “not even wrong.” Humphreys later publication “New Vistas of Spacetime Rebut the Critics” orphans his original arguments by inventing fresh fallacies to replace his former fantasies - an unfortunate pattern that permeates all of his work.
Ultimately Humphreys is wrestling with a preposterous hypothesis. His failure is spectacular and totally expected. Any YEC universe consistent with General Relativity must display extraordinarily rapid decreases in the observed redshifts of distant galaxies and cannot contain visible objects which are more than a few thousand light years away!
The redshift anomalies predicted are not observed and objects billions and billions of light years away are routinely surveyed and cataloged. General Relativity and the Big Bang as utilized by reality-based mainstream science trumps the hermit hermeneutics endemic to the ‘genesis is an incontrovertible history of the universe’ claque of credulous YECs.
If you enjoy convoluted and elastic reasoning as an art form, or wish to build a video library of classic YEC calumnies and conceits by all means purchase “Starlight and Time” - it is a tendentious treasure. By any other metrics the demon-haunted universe is brain dead and so is this DVD. If you prefer reality-based science purchase NOVA - Origins by Neil Degrasse Tyson or the genre defining Cosmos by Carl Sagan.
I’m amazed at how simple he makes his case for a young earth and the creation of the universe. He’s basically saying that because of the earth’s position at an event horizon of a black hole on the 4th day of creation, time would have been developing for billions of years light years away while just 4 days passes on the earth. Very compelling work yet easy to understand by a lay person like me. He also has some interesting thoughts on the waters at creation and how they were separated. He made me think. I’ve always wondered where all the ice in space came from and I think this could be a good explanation, as good as any I’ve heard.
If you’re interested in creation, space, time and light then buy this dvd. Some unusual special effects attempt to keep your attention but they end up being kind of amusing in a lame sort of way.
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