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August 14th, 2007

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ATTENTION! YOUNG COSMOS HAS MOVED!

August 6th, 2007

YoungCosmos has been overhauled and upgraded into 3 websites, and has also moved.

YoungCosmos is now split into 3 websites;

1. www.YoungCosmos.com (main website, and portal to everything else)

2. www.YoungCosmosBlog.com
(the replacement for the blog you are now reading)

3. www.YoungCosmosDiscussion.com (professional level YEC science forum)

The current www.YoungCosmos.com is located at:

http://smartaxes.com/blog/

If you are viewing this site, then it means the links you are using are out of date. But don’t worry. Simply go to this URL to go to the 3 new websites:

www.YoungCosmos.com

Salvador

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Bold prediction of CDK possibly confirmed!!!!

July 25th, 2007

[Advanced Creation Science]

This morning, after much searching I may have found confirming evidence of a VERY VERY bold prediction of Barry Setterfield’s light speed decay theory. Light speed decay (CDK) theory predicts that we will see celestial objects move in slow motion (time dilation) depending on an equation calculated by Dr. Stephen Cheesman. For example, the degree of time dilation predicted when we start to look at objects at say about 30,000 light years is about 59, their physical motions will appear to be slowed down by factors of 59!

In a survey of Visual Photometric Binary stars and Visually accessible Spectroscopic Binary stars, I have found confirming evidence of this time dilation! Astronmers have acknoweldged the anomaly and tried to explain away the fact that as one looks farther out from Earth there is an increase in population of slow visual Binary Stars (Stars which orbit one another), or apparently no binary stars at all. Actually, with extreme time dilation, binary stars will look frozen, and this is actually what we are seeing in globular clusters 30,000 light years away.

I have also asserted that there are only supposed eclipsing binaries detected by micro-lensing techniques which are not binaries at all.

I would welcome review of the current work on this subject as it would confirm:

1. Intelligent Design
2. Recent Special Creation

Visit www.YoungCosmosDiscussion.com

regards to everyone, especially my brethren,
Salvador

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RSS Feeds For the Forums

July 24th, 2007

For those who use an aggregator, there is now an RSS Feed for the forum. It is:

http://www.virtual-creations.net/~youngcos/phpBB2/rss.php?t=1

This will get you a feed that displays all new topics as though they were posts on a blog.

If you want all posts (i.e., not just new topics, but also the follow-ups), then leave off the “?t=1″ at the end.

This is a nice way to keep up on the activity at the forum. There is a way to format the url to limit it to just a particular forum category, but I haven’t quite figured that out yet.
I haven’t put an icon there for it, though. I’ll need Rick’s help for that.

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YoungCosmos Discussion Forum is Working!

July 15th, 2007

YoungCosmos is about to split in 3 websites:

1. Main Portal
2. Blog
3. Discussion Forum

One of the 3 new websites is now up and running. It is the Discussion Forum, and the Discussion Forum I consider to be the heart of YoungCosmos mission, where serious ideas and long term projects can be explored, discussed, and collaborated.

To access it, please visit:

www.YoungCosmosDiscussion.com

This forum is for collaboration and exploration of important long term topics.

For example, there is a new discussion of an Advanced Creation Science topic of interest:

Revision to Setterfield and Dzimano 2003 paper, Eq. 25

Many thanks to Rick and JB for their help. The discussion forum also has latex capability so we can do really cool things with math equations!

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Greatest find in 100 years confirms the book of Jeremiah

July 11th, 2007

The geneaology of Christ makes bold claims about human history. So too, do the other books of the Bible:

Tiny tablet provides proof for Old Testament

The sound of unbridled joy seldom breaks the quiet of the British Museum’s great Arched Room, which holds its collection of 130,000 Assyrian cuneiform tablets, dating back 5,000 years.

But Michael Jursa, a visiting professor from Vienna, let out such a cry last Thursday. He had made what has been called the most important find in Biblical archaeology for 100 years, a discovery that supports the view that the historical books of the Old Testament are based on fact.
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Face lift and new website

July 3rd, 2007

I had to give a quick facelift today to the website since certain browsers are making a mess of the texts. Rick, JB, and myself have been working on the new website which will be composed of 3 parts, and we hope to roll it out soon. The parts will be:

1. Main Portal (something like the www.ARN.org)

2. Blog for news, articles, and sort term discussion (basically a continuation of this blog)

3. Discussion Forum for long term discussion and collaboration

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The relative poverty of the most important creationist and ID organizations

June 29th, 2007

Jim Lippard (who is no friend of ID) made an analysis of creationist and ID organization finances here: Creationist finances: some conclusions.

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The Five Reasons Galaxies Can’t Exist

June 28th, 2007

In this post, one of our readers, Benkeshet ask about James Trefil’s chapter entitled: “The Five Reasons Galaxies Can’t Exist”. It was chapter 4 of The Dark Side of the Universe. Trefil, an opponent of ID, actually did much work that unwittingly led to the ID-friendly Privileged Planet hypothesis and unwittingly led to various YEC cosmologies!!!! He writes:

The problem of explaining the existence of galaxies has proved to be one of the thorniest in cosmology. By all rights, they just shouldn’t be there, yet there they sit. It’s hard to convey the depth of frustration that this simple fact induces among scientists.

Trefil, The Dark Side of the Universe, p. 55.

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Another paradigm on the brink of extinction? Mantle plume theory in crisis

June 27th, 2007

Elementary and High School texts describe the origin of lava as pictured below. The books present the origin of lava as the result of mantle plumes, where hot rocks move all the way from the molten earth’s core to the surface. The transport time is something on the order of 30 million years. Does that sound believable that a temperature differential could be sustained for that long? Some geophysicists have finally revolted and said the textbooks are wrong.

Many readers may not realize, that no one has drilled down very far at all. The deepest drilling has only been about 14 miles down. From the surface to the Earth’s core is almost 4000 miles. We have barely scratched the surface, and we really don’t know what’s down there. On the picture below, the deepest we’ve drilled could hardly even be seen on the picture!

The demise of the mantle plume hypothesis will improve the chances of various YEC geologies, particularly Walter Brown’s hydroplate theory. If lava flow and plate techtonics can be refuted, then there is room for YEC geology to succeed. Hydroplate theory ties current volcanic activity and lava flow to the mechanisms that caused the great flood. Plate techtonics have a passing relation to mantle plume theory, and thus the demise of plumes furthers the chances of Brown’s hydroplate theory prevailing over old Earth, plate techtonics.

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A time for war and a time for peace, ideas for civil discussion

June 27th, 2007

In the creation/evolution wars, there is also a time for peace. One can certainly read my polemics against evolutionary theory in the past, and one may be surprised how different my tone is at YoungCosmos. Let us recall the words of Solomon:
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Dr. Cheesman’s question about the moon, objections to YEC

June 26th, 2007

I would again like to thank Dr. Cheesman for participating with us. I consider him a brother, and having himself signed the Discovery Institute dissent from Darwin list, I consider him a special comrade. He forwarded the following scientific and philosophical questions concerning the moon. I post it with his permission:

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Teaching ID and Creation Science may become illegal in Europe

June 26th, 2007

Teaching ID = A crime against humanity

Last week, a German court sentenced a 55-year old Lutheran pastor to one year in jail for “Volksverhetzung” (incitement of the people) because he compared the killing of the unborn in contemporary Germany to the holocaust. Next week, the Council of Europe is going to vote on a resolution imposing Darwinism as Europe’s official ideology. The European governments are asked to fight the expression of creationist opinions, such as young earth and intelligent design theories. According to the Council of Europe these theories are “undemocratic” and “a threat to human rights.” . . .

(HT Bill Dembski)

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Was there a Big Bang?

June 22nd, 2007

[Advanced Creation Science]
Here is a rare dissenting voice regarding the Big Bang from the Discovery Institute:

Was there a Big Bang? by David Berlinski.

NOTWITHSTANDING THE investment made by the scientific community and the general
public in contemporary cosmology, a suspicion lingers that matters do not sum up as they should. Cosmologists write as if they are quite certain of the Big Bang, yet, within the last decade, they have found it necessary to augment the standard view by
means of various new theories. These schemes are meant to solve problems that cosmologists were never at pains to acknowledge, so that today they are somewhat in the position of a physician reporting both that his patient has not been ill and that
he has been successfully revived.
….
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Young Galaxies imply a Young Cosmos

June 22nd, 2007

[Introductory Creation Science]
Although the existence of single young galaxy does not in and of itself prove a specially created Young Cosmos, if all the galaxies are shown to be young, even the ones which secular scientists argue are the earliest since the beginning of time, then the most natural interpretation is that the universe is young. The inference is almost inescapable.

Let’s first consider the problems of the Big Bang cosmology creating galaxies. A former professor of mine, James Trefil (no friend of ID and had debated William Dembski in 2005), had this to say about galaxies:

Five Reasons Why Galaxies Can’t Exist

The problem of explaining the existence of galaxies has proved to be one of the thorniest in cosmology. By all rights, they just shouldn’t be there, yet there they sit. It’s hard to convey the depth of frustration that this simple fact induces among scientists.

Trefil, The Dark Side of the Universe, p. 55.

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The state of the stalemate, evidence for and against YEC

June 22nd, 2007

[Introductory Creation Science]

jb asked that I post my thoughts on evidences for YEC. He asked in comment #3, Wavelength behavior at a fixed location, Jellison and Bridgman’s critique…

Maybe you could make a blog post elaborating on this in layman/popular-audience terms. What are the specific physical evidences that have moved you more toward accepting a YEC model? What are the problems you’ve identified with galactic, stellar and planetary evolution?

I will offer answers over several threads as the topic is deep. So let me introduce the topic.
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Redshift may change over time

June 22nd, 2007

[Advanced Creation Science]

Although I think YEC theory has a ways to go, there are various anomalies reported from secular quarters that continue to give hope to YEC proponents. One paper cited is a 1991 peer-reviewed paper by Tifft: Properties of the Redshift III: Temporal Variation. In this paper, Tifft argues that changes in redshifts from the same have object have been detected by historical measurements. It is like looking at an object and seeing its color change before your very eyes. This would throw some doubt on the standard interpreations of the Big Bang.

Comparisons between new 21 cm redshifts and older data, especially older 300 foot telescope data, are used to demonstrate the presence of systematic deviations, toward higher redshifts, in all the older data.

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Wavelength behavior at a fixed location, Jellison and Bridgman’s critique…

June 21st, 2007

[Advanced Creation Science]

Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny — and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do).

— Stephen Jay Gould

[Gould was the beloved mentor of creationist Kurt Wise]

I will try to put a mix of advanced creation science with topics of interest to the general reader. YoungCosmos will be set apart from other websites in its willingness to invite and discuss serious challenges with various YEC hypotheses.

However, I recognized, exclusive focus on specialty topics will discourage interest in the website. So, I’ll try to maintain about a healthy mix of interesting topics and specialty topics. This post deals with an attempt at clarification of both Setterfield’s work and Dr. Jellison and Bridgman’s work regarding wavelength behavior with respect to time at the same general location and at various locations….
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Open thread #2…

June 21st, 2007

The readers are invited to speak their mind freely on any topic. Within the limit of civil and polite discourse, speak freely on any topic you wish.

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Nobel Laureate Albert Michelson’s speed of light measurments support YEC CDK

June 20th, 2007

Encyclopedia Britannica
In 1878 Michelson began work on what was to be the passion of his life, the accurate measurement of the speed of light.

One of Michelson’s last measuring devices is depicted by Barry Setterfield here:

Wherever one may stand on the cdk (slowing of light speed) issue, I thought Barry had a wonderful article on the history of speed of light measurements here: Rotating Mirror Experiments. Michelson’s measurements may have detected a slowing in the speed of light.
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A Young Cosmos and Space Travel

June 19th, 2007

Much of the speed of light discussion focuses on something known as Zero-Point Energy. Here is an article that explains what Zero-Point Energy is and how it might solve the world’s energy problems and take humans to the stars. It was featured in the premeire areospace journal, Aviation Week and Space Technology. Enjoy!

To the Stars.

PS
Setterfield references the work of one of the scientists, Hal Putoff, at www.Setterfield.org

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Science against Evolution

June 19th, 2007

[Introductory Creation Science]
Here is one of the websites from where I took my first steps into creation science. It is highly entertaining: Science against Evolution.

Sample
ALL my friends with Ph.D. degrees who are college professors believe in evolution. NONE of my friends with Ph.D. degrees who work in the defense industry believe in evolution.

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counter-critique of Dr. Jellison’s CDK boltzman distribution

June 19th, 2007

[Advanced Creation Science]
I’m opening this thread for a more detailed and mathematically rigorous discussion of the Boltzman distribution objection to CDK. This a critique of paper by Dr. Jellison introduced here. I welcome civil, academic discussion and civil treatment of the subject matter. I thank the participants in advance for their restraint in holding back their frustrations with each other. The discussion will move forward as we stick to the facts and theories.

I’d like to thank Dr. Jellison for raising important question regarding CDK which I expect many others will have and which I hope CDK supporters will consider carefully.

I would like to offer my counter-critique in defense of CDK pertaining to page 29. The traditional Boltzman distribution is:

traditional boltzman

Dr. Jellison’s interprets Boltzman under CDK to be:

jellison cdk boltzman
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Dr. Gerard Jellison’s critique of CDK

June 18th, 2007

[Advanced Creation Science]
I am great supporter of Barry Setterfield’s work. See www.Setterfield.org

Part of advancing the his work involves exposing it to scientific criticism. Though facing criticism may be difficult, if a theory is true, it will prevail in the end.

With that in mind, I present the hard work of two scientists (Jellison and Bridgman) who have written a critique of an idea I really like, namely CDK. I do not expect the discussion to be settled anytime soon, and the work of these two scientists is worthy of consideration. I’d like to thank them for making their work available online. The issues here could take years to settle, and I think it unfair to Barry to make any demands he respond anytime soon.

I must sadly assert, rather than condemning Old-Earth Creationists as being compromisers or finding flaws in OEC theology, it would be far more productive (for science and the cause of the gospel, if indeed CDK is true) to solve scientific problems such as the ones outlined by Dr. Jellison. For as long as these scientific problems linger, there will be those who will accept an Old Universe, and I for one can’t blame them…..
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YEC Resources

June 18th, 2007

I put together a resource page that contains links to various YEC-related web sites that I’ve collected, mostly from various posts on this blog. I’ll keep this updated as I learn of more (Salvador, you might want to review it from time to time to make sure you agree with linking to them, and that they are of the quality you would endorse):

http://smartaxes.com/blog/yec-resources-online/

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A new journal for exploration and application of origins theories

June 17th, 2007

I and johnnyb have interest in starting a journal which will invite critical analysis of various origins theories. More importantly, I welcome investigations toward empirical detection, industrial applications, and medical advancement. I envision as the journal evolves, it will attract better editors than myself.

Another journal (perhaps) for theology, archaeology, philosophy, and rhetoric will be in the works, since it is so much on people’s minds.

Some of us (like myself) in the creationist community would prefer a journal free of strong theological premises. For example, any statement such as, “it’s true because in Genesis it says….” would defeat the purpose of an objective scientific inquiry and would probably not be what I’d like to see in a scientific journal. Walter ReMine’s Biotic Message and Walter Brown’s Creation Science are role models in terms of scientific writing. Such a journal does not mean we have any less reverence for our beliefs.
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BSG conference, June 13-15, 2007

June 16th, 2007

Much has been made of the Baraminology Study Group’s (BSG) activities.

In fact, the BSG’s activities have reached the very halls of the Unted States Congress and the Office of Special Council in the Richard Sternberg affair. See: www.rsternberg.net

Here are my reflections of Thursday, June 14, 2007:
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Is Biotic Message a Creationist or ID theory? And other questions…

June 16th, 2007

This is a continuation of the discussion at Uncommon Descent. 15 June 2007
“Turbulent times in the world of phylogeny”, post #20

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Dinosaurs Contemporaneous with Humans?

June 14th, 2007

[note: this is jb writing this post, not Salvador]
A discussion started in the comments of the previous post (”more proof of the great flood”) which concerns dinosaurs. That was slightly off-topic there, so rather than continue that conversation there, it was pointed out that maybe we should start another thread to discuss it. So I’m creating this post to recap the conversation and open the floor to further discucssion.

If the YEC timeframe is correct then donosaurs must have lived at the same time as humans. This is occasionally hit upon in creationist literature from time to time, and occasionally some writers set out to demonstrate that this is indeed the case by referring to ancient art, legends, etc. which depict dinosaurs living contemporanously with humans.

Janice brought up the Ica Stones and the Acambaro Figurines. However, while I do not discount the idea that dinosaurs very well could have lived contemporaneously with humans, I am skeptical of this particular bit of evidence. I will admit, however, that I’m not in any way an expert in this area, and I could very well be all wrong. However, after reading something like this…

http://skepdic.com/icastones.html
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More proof of the great flood….

June 13th, 2007

Janice alerted me to this article at UD. We will talk of it more when I have time. Enjoy!

After the Flood

Whoa!

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Behe Wednesday, BSG Thursday, Tunica Friday

June 13th, 2007

Dear friends,

I please keep the discussions going. I’ll be tied up most of the rest of the week, but I’ll check in occasionally. I’ll be meeting Michael Behe, Kurt Wise, Gordon Wilson, Tim Brophie, David DeWitt, Paul Nelson, etc. etc. this week…There is the big Discovery Institute event today in DC, and the Baraminology Study Group (BSG) tomorrow in Lynchburg, Va and more activity for me in Tunica Mississipi this weekend….so I’ll hope you’ll excuse my sporadic participation until next week.

We are getting offers from authors and contributors. I will also seek top talent from both sides to offer articles. I’d like to thank everyone for their participation, especially the adminstrators who are helping rebuild the website, weblog, and discussion forum.

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“Scoundrel? Scoundrel…I like the sound of that”

June 11th, 2007

Here’s my take on a USA today poll which shows 66% accept a recent creation of humans: “Scoundrel? Scoundrel…I like the sound of that”

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DI Herculis anomaly may support Setterfield cosmology

June 7th, 2007

[Advanced Creation Science Topic]

In Criticism of CDK from brother Stephen J. Cheesman, I was confronted with some of the sobering difficulties of a particular YEC Cosmology known as CDK (speed of light decay). In that discussion, the topic arose as to what would constitute an empirical support or refutation of Barry Setterfield’s ideas.

It appears aerospace engineer George Sanctuary independently derived a time-dilation equation and found several anomalies that appear to support the Setterfield cosmology.

GENERAL RELATIVITY or NEWTONIAN TIDAL EFFECTS?

1) Quite surprisingly, the derived nominal tidal effects model duplicates general relativity precessions for all celestial bodies in the solar system. However, for two binary stars, (DI Herculis and AS Camelopardalis), GR predicts double the measured orbital precessions, while the NTE model duplicates the measured values.

Nominal Tidal Effects (NTE) combined with the Hyperbolic Creation Model (HCM) described in this paper offer a reasonable alternative to a universe cosmogony which is explained using general relativity (GR). The HCM cosmogony is heliocentric (sun-centered), as also is the well-known background Red Shift. The cause of the Red Shift frequencies could be a decaying transit super-speed of light. Finally, the possibility that the age of the universe is just a few thousand years has been demonstrated.

To understand a bit more, see Einstein’s nemesis: di herculis

DI Herculis is an 8th-magnitude eclipsing binary about 2,000 light years from earth. These two young blue stars are very close — only one fifth the distance from earth to our sun. They orbit about a common center of gravity every 10.55 days. So far, no problem!

The puzzle is that, as the two stars swing around one another, the axis of their orbit rotates or precesses too slowly. General relativity predicts a precession of 4.27°/century, but for DI Herculis the rate is only 1.05°/century. This does not sound like a figure large enough to get excited about, but it deeply troubles astronomers. D. Popper, an astronomer at UCLA, says:

“The observations are pretty clear. I don’t think there’s any question there’s a discrepancy and, frankly, it is an important one and it’s unresolved.”

The solution may be a Young Cosmos and YEC CDK cosmology.

[Note: I’m on vacation till Monday, June 11, 2007. Sorry I can’t joint the fun for a few days. ]

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ANNOUNCEMENT: MAJOR WEBSITE(S) OVERHAUL

June 7th, 2007

Please visit this thread for continuing announcements. I will keep this first post in the blog updated with the latest information.

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good creationist vs. bad creationist

June 4th, 2007

For those who have been in the church for a while, and who read about the church in scriptures and in history, we know that ongoing flaps between church members is nothing new.

There is now apparently a holy war, dare I say, “holier than thou” war betwen two Young Earth Creationists organizations, AiG and CMI. I have no intentions of taking sides in the AiG-CMI holy wars, except I point out, it’s ulikely both sides can be completely right in this dispute. Each side claims to have conducted itself “biblically”. [See: Biblical battle of creation groups.]
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another creation science museum opens July, 2007

June 4th, 2007

We heard a lot about the creation science museum which opened in May in the USA. Another one is opening in July in Canada!!! Canadian Creation Science Museum Makes Front Page News. Check out the video!

(HT: Crevo at Baraminology weblog)

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Why the Big Bang needs VSL theory

June 1st, 2007

See this article by David F. Coppedge The Light-Distance Problem

“Supporters of the Big Bang have no cause for pride, because they have a light-distance problem, too! It is called the horizon problem. And it is serious.”

One solution was offered by secular cosmologist Paul Davies, and that was varialbe speed of light (VSL):

Are the fundamental constants of nature really constant?

“The leftover glow from the Big Bang, known as the cosmic microwave background (CMB), has been observed in great detail. It shows that the entire observable Universe was once at a common temperature. This poses a conundrum because large sections of our observable Universe have never been in causal contact - they have never been able to communicate because light moves too slowly to have crossed the distance between them. If they have never been in contact with each other, how do opposite sides of the observable Universe know what temperature to be? ….But what if there was another solution? What if everything was in causal contact because the speed of light was faster in the past? ”

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Creation Safaris, Inspiration for Young Cosmos

June 1st, 2007

The Creation Safaris Website was a primary inspiration for this website. Many of the articles there are wonderful. I established this site to provide a place to discuss articles from Creation Safaris.

Visit: www.CreationSafaris.com

Let me know if you want to star discussion on any articles you find there.

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Discussion of Genesis and other scriptures

May 31st, 2007

I’m opening this thread to discuss the meaning of Genesis 1. We, being human and fallible, have various choices in what to do with Genesis 1:

1. accept that the words of Genesis came from God, and should be interpreted to mean the Cosmos is young (several thousand years old)

2. accept that the words of Genesis came from God, but should be interpreted to allow the Cosmos to be old

3. reject the Genesis account as coming from God

I am of the opinion study of the physical evidence versus debating theology will help resolve the problem. The scientific method (which incidentally was inspired by verses like Romans 1:20 and other scriptures) is premised on the belief that nature is structured such that the scientific method will be able to lead us to important truths.

I am of the opinion God delights to make bold statements about human history which can be corroborated by physical evidence. He even said ”If Christ is not raised, your faith is in vain”. If certain historical truths are not true, the Christian faith is in vain. I believe God has invited sincere seekers to examine the phyiscal evidence, and follow the evidence where it leads.

That said, I’d like to begin the discussion with something Janice of Uncommon Descent asked here:

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Criticisms of YEC RATE group

May 31st, 2007

Several years ago (before 2003), there was a joint venture by 3 prominent creationist organizations (ICR, AiG, CRS) seeking to find serious flaws in mainstream radiometric dating techniques. The venture was known as RATE (Radioactivity and the Age of The Earth). However, not every creationist (myself included) was enthusiastic with the quality of the work. Consider this post by Helen Setterfield:

Helen Setterfield on RATE

“In response to the RATE material. We disagree strongly with a lot of what they are proposing. They are saying the speed of radio decay accelerated miraculously during creation week and during the Flood. We disagree. The speed of radio decay is linked to the changes in all the atomic constants, which are triggered by the changes in the Zero Point Energy. This article of Barry’s might help:
http://www.setterfield.org/behaviorzpe.html

It summarizes his work for the last ten years.

God bless. ”

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Criticism of CDK from brother Stephen J. Cheesman

May 30th, 2007

The following was offered by Stephen J. Cheesman, a signatory of the Discovery Institute’s Dissent from Darwin list. I wish to give Dr. Cheesman a fair hearing in his criticism of CDK. I would ask the YECs, and those friendly to Barry Setterfield’s work to give Dr. Cheesman a fair and civil hearing. I believe the truth will eventually assert itself. We need to give open discussion and investigation a chance to lead us to the truth.

The Apostle Peter said ”Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have” (1 Pet 3:15). In like manner we should be aware of the objections to CDK (c-decay) theory.

See:

The Effect on the Observed Rate of Events on Distant Planets

and

Letter from Stephen Cheesman to ICR’s Director of Research

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Hydroplate Theory Baby!

May 29th, 2007

Learning Geology the YEC way.

Here is an animation of the Great Flood. It is narrated by a retired director of a major DOD research Center, Walter Brown, PhD MIT scientist and NSF fellow:
Hydroplate Theory

Here is an excerpt of another person explaining a portion of Hydroplate theory:

Hydroplate Theory Lecture Part 12

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Open Thread #1, Plans and Purpose for this site

May 29th, 2007

This is Salvador Cordova, the owner of this site. I am creating a website/blog/discussion forum to further educate the public about YEC and Intelligent Design from a theoretical and empirical basis. It will also be a place to collaborate and pool research and public relations ideas.

The first order of business is to get the website up and running. It’s not quite where I envision from a technical standpoint, but in the mean time I will be posting topics just to keep things running while the website continues to be improved.

I will post links to various beta test sites that will showcase the look and feel of the envisioned website after the first round of construction is complete.

I welcome your all’s feedback and assistance.

Consider this an open thread to talk about anything (with the provision the discussion is restricted within limits of civility.)

I am a Christian, and I believe the discovery of a YoungCosmos will honor Christ, but the approach, imho, should be through arguing the evidence, and not theology. If the evidence speaks for itself, then the Bible and various theologies will be believable.

Christ recognized in John 10:38 that some will distrust His Words even if they are willing to believe in Him. Imho, He admonished such good-hearted individuals who are doubting His words, rather than to simply stop doubting, begin considering the empirical evidence.

The miracle of the universe and life point to God. And if we discover the Cosmos is Young, the world not only points to the existence of God, but the Christian God. Let us follow the evidence where it leads.

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History of the Light-Speed Debate by Helen Setterfield

February 19th, 2007

Here is an excellent article highlighting the Speed of Light Debate:

History of the Light-Speed Debate by Helen Setterfield

[Ed Note: We have been following Barry Setterfield’s research on the speed of light since 1993.
It is interesting that both evolutionists and creation scientists can be blinded by their own presuppositions…]

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The Setterfield-Brown Young Cosmos Cosmology

February 18th, 2007

This is a continuation of the discussion at TelicThoughs: Relativity and YEC

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Continuation of uncommon descent discussion and open thread

February 18th, 2007

This thread is to continue the discussion: Bill Dembski is World Famous and any things else.

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Web mechanics and ideas

February 18th, 2007

This thread is to continue discussions on weblog mechanics and ideas from telelogical.org

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“In all your ways acknowledge Him…”

February 18th, 2007

It says in Proverbs, “In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths”. In that spirit, I present my opening thread for the Young Cosmos weblog with a link to the sermon I heard this Sunday morning by Jack Lash, my pastor and pastor of Gainesville Presbyterian Church (PCA).

[The reader is invited o right click the link below and then do a “Save Target As” and then listen to the sermon from the saved file. You may have to turn your volume up to hear it.]

Sermon on Acts Chapter 2:14-21 by Jack Lash

If the cosmos is indeed young, then the literal genealogy of Jesus Christ will be affirmed and all the universe will then be shown to point to His advent. Every molecule, every law of physics will affirm the genealogy of Luke 3:23-37 in a powerful way.

Though I could still accept the genealogy of Luke 3:23-37 even if the cosmos were old, if physical evidence points to a young cosmos, then the most daring interpretation of Luke 3:23-37 will be vindicated, and Christianity’s sacred scriptures will affirmed beyond question. It will show the Intelligent Designer of the Universe has truly spoken to us “in these last days through His Son”.

I cannot imagine a grander discovery for science than to discover a young cosmos. This raises the question then of the problem of suffering and evil in the world. I would respond by saying that a master playwright’s greatest drama will have suffering and tragedy in the beginning of the drama as part of the glorious ending he had in mind. Why should we be surprised the greatest Playwright of all would write the Divine Drama in a manner otherwise?

The sermon by my pastor is 42 minutes long, and I recognize not all will be able to listen to it. But for those that do, I hope you are as blessed as I was this morning.

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