Proposal
Another paper of mine at this conference shows evidence that the biblical cosmos has finite boundaries, and that our earth is near the center. If we put those boundary conditions into the equations of Einstein's general theory of relativity, we get an expanding cosmos in which clocks (and all physical processes) tick at different rates in different parts of the universe. The physics is that of a universe-sized "white hole" (a black hole running in reverse), with a shrinking event horizon and matter expanding out of it. At the event horizon, clocks would be momentarily stopped relative to clocks further out. At one critical moment of the expansion, the event horizon would reach the earth, and clocks there would also momentarily stop.
I propose that the critical moment arrived on earth during the fourth day of creation. During that day, billions of years would elapse in the distant sky, allowing light from galaxies to reach the earth within one ordinary day of earth's time. This theory also explains the red shifts of galaxies and the cosmic microwave background. As measured by clocks on earth, the age of the universe today could be as small as the face-value biblical age of about 6000 years.
Keywords
Cosmology, general relativity, age of universe, galactic red shifts, cosmic microwave background, black holes
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Recommended Citation
Humphreys, D. Russell
(1994)
"Progress Toward a Young·Earth Relativistic Cosmology,"
Proceedings of the International Conference on Creationism: Vol. 3, Article 34.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/icc_proceedings/vol3/iss1/34