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Speed of light
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Determine the 1 way speed of light and have gravity affects the speed. Determine if the substance of all material existence is information.
Idolater
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You have to identify logically the type of evidence to look for that would, if it exists, be inconsistent with the idea that the starlight we see actually originated with the supposed stars that it supposedly emanates from.
The type of evidence that would be inconsistent with this would be that there is a God, and that He made everything in six days, and, that He did it not too long ago (geologically or astronomically speaking).
So if there's any evidence for that, then that evidence would disprove the idea that the universe is billions of years old.
Christ is risen from the dead.
Idolater
"Matthew 16:18-19" Dispensationalist (Catholic) χρ
Bell's Theorem has never been falsified, which means possibly that uncertainty is elemental to the universe, just as much as are photons and electrons and quarks and other particles.
I say 'possibly,' because the other possibility is that the observed uncertainty is actually God pulling the tiniest strings, something that Bell's Theorem could never falsify.
In fact nothing could falsify that idea, unless we knew absolutely that there is no God.
(Science characterizes God as a 'non-local hidden variable,' as far as I'm concerned. Science cannot rule out the existence of non-local hidden variables.)
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Derf
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Are you saying God could have used an improbability drive to get light here quicker? I like the idea!
Do you think that there is any technical, including solutions humans think are impossible. solution that God cannot solve? He's only "just a tad bit" smarter than humans and has only been at this kind of stuff for an eternity longer than finite, self-destructive humanity. As far as I'm concerned we can't even begin to imagine what God can do. He's too far beyond us for us to even begin to comprehend the entirety of His abilities.
Derf
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I think He's far beyond what we can do*, but He tells us what He's like, that He doesn't lie, and that He changes not, and that we can trust Him.
So if He says He made the whole of heaven and earth in 6 days, I believe Him. However, I haven't been able to figure out the details yet.
*God reasonably thinks we can do quite a lot, however:
[Gen 11:6 KJV] 6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Right Divider
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The verse that you quoted gives limits to the "now nothing will be restrained from them".
Derf
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Haven’t men imagined going faster than the speed of light?
Right Divider
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Not in Genesis 11 time.
Derf
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And which verse told you that?
Right Divider
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Which verse told you that "they imagined going faster than the speed of light" in the Genesis 11 timeframe?
Derf
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Never said one did. But you gave specifics about what they didn’t imagine, so the burden of proof is on you.
Right Divider
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I'm quite certain that they were not contemplating "going faster than the speed of light", regardless of my lack of "proof".
Idolater
"Matthew 16:18-19" Dispensationalist (Catholic) χρ
That's a statement of faith then.
Right Divider
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It's a reasonable deduction.
Derf
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Agreed, but let’s not make it a statement of fact.
Right Divider
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Nobody claimed that it was a proven fact.
Light doesn't have a speed; it's instantaneous. What is known as c is the speed limit of atomic particles.