C DeSalvo
Is the universe about 6,000 years
old as the Bible suggests or 15 billion years old as modern science says?
Science has evidence that shows
the universe had a beginning about 15 billion years ago. Creationists argue that the God-inspired
Bible claims the universe is about 6,000 years old. Obviously those crazy creationists are wrong. False!
Thanks to Einstein, they are not wrong.
Time (or the passage of time) is
what a clock measures. Time is a
property or characteristic of all matter (and antimatter). Einstein's special relativity teaches that
time passes more slowly the faster matter moves (Search Web for "Twins Paradox."), and time passes more
slowly for matter the higher the gravitational field of the environment in
which the matter is located (Search Web for “Does Gravity Slow time?”).
In the small, early universe,
matter was very hot which caused it to move very fast. And that early universe had a very high
average gravitational field. Those two
effects (fast movement and high gravitational field) caused early matter to
have a very slow flow of time.
As the universe has grown larger,
its matter has cooled, and its average gravitational field has decreased. Those effects have caused the time flow of
matter to originally flow very slowly, and to gradually speed up greatly. Today, modern time flows about a trillion
times faster than it did in the early universe.
The Genesis description of the six
days of creation uses the variable time flows of the universe since its
beginning. Modern science falsely
assumes the time flow of modern, earth-bound clocks applies to the whole life
of the universe. Gerald Schroeder’s
book, “The Science of God,” compares the time flows of the universal
variable-time-flow clock with those of a modern, fixed-time-flow clock and
shows that the six days of creation using the varying time flows of the
universal clock equals about 15 billion years on a modern clock. The first Biblical day (on the universal
clock) represents eight billion years on a modern clock, the second day
represents four billion years, third day represents two billion years, fourth
day represents one billion years, fifth day is one-half billion years and the
sixth day represents one-fourth of a billion years. Eight, plus four, plus two, plus one, plus one-half, plus
one-fourth equals 15.75 billion years.
Here’s an analogy that may be
helpful:
A carpenter who uses our common
decimal (Arabic) number system (uses digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9)
says that one plus one equals two.
The carpenter counts like this: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,
12, 13, …
But an assembly-language
programmer, whose work requires the use of binary arithmetic (uses digits 0 and
1 only), says no, one plus one equals ten. The programmer counts like this: 0, 1, 10, 11, 100, 101, 110, 111,
1000, …
Both are correct in the number system he is using. In the carpenter's decimal number system one
plus one equals two. In the
programmer's binary number system, one plus one equals ten.