God made everything "mature". Adam and Eve, the stars and the trees were all created mature on creation week. God is powerful enough to just speak and the world formed correctly. (Psalm 33:6-9, John 1:1-3) If Adam had the tools to carbon date a rock on day 10, what do you really think would be the result? (1 Corinthians 3:19, Jeremiah 10:11-12, Jeremiah 33:2-3)

No. The universe, just like each of us, exists only to glorify the Creator: God. (Mark 12:28-34, Psalm 19:1-4, Psalm 103:19-22, Psalm 148:1-6, Isaiah 44:22-23, Isaiah 49:13.) What's more, our universe declares that everything is in relationship with each other in the physical, just as we are also in the spiritual (Matthew 22:37-40.)

You are underestimating the power of an infinite God. When we say that God is omnipotent, we do not simply mean he can spread oceans or withhold the rains if He wants, we mean He can do literally anything. As with Adam, God made the universe mature, which includes when he made a star 10 billion light years away he also did the math (or you could say "did his homework")* and made the light at the same time, even the light that was 10 billion light years away (Psalm 74:16-17, Isaiah 46:9-10). As with rock layers (below), we can't always correlate size and age.

* Note that God didn't have to think about creation, He just spoke and everything formed. This is just a cute way of conveying a point and doesn't mean God had to labor to calculate anything.

Evolutionists believe it formed a few billion years ago as a result of dust and gas condensing. This dust and gas also somehow began rotating, which is important to avoid it all just collapsing into a singularity (black hole). The trick is when rotating objects get smaller, they spin faster. Ice skaters are good examples of this. Based on long-age-models our Sun should be rotating every couple hours, but in reality it only rotates once a month (every 25 days). This is great for special creationists but a major downer for long age believers. (Colossians 1:16-17)

The moon is an easily overlooked proof of special (supernatural) creation. Consider that it is moving away from the Earth very slowly, about 1.5 inches per year. This does not pose a problem for creationist time lines but this is a serious problem for evolutionists because it would have been touching the earth less than 1.5 billion years ago. Not only would this require the moon to very slowly pass through the Roche Limit on its way to its current position (causing it to be destroyed) but why would it only be moving away at 1.5 inches per day? Creationists have a perfectly sound scientific answer involving the Law of Conservation of Angular Momentum. (Psalm 8:3-4, Psalm 136:3-9, Jeremiah 31:35-37).

[ AIG: The moon: the light that rules the night ]
[ Wikipedia: Roche Limit ]
[ HyperPhysics: Conservation of Angular Momentum ]

Blue stars burn bright and fast, so they do not last very long (relatively speaking). Yet there are a plethora of them in all observed spiral galaxies, including our own. If you use simple logic this means they can not be very old. The trick is they are mixed in with other yellow, white and red stars which have a much longer estimated life span. Again simple mathematical logic that a grade schooler could deduce says this is evidence that they all came into existence at the same time and recently. (Psalm 147:4-5, 1 Corinthians 15:41, James 1:17-18)

Light has a very small Doppler affect causing it to favor the red end of the spectrum (called a red shift) when it is moving away from us. Astronomers have detected this red shift in all directions from our galaxy. There seem to be two main ways to interpret the evidence.

• The Milky Way is around 2 million light years from the center of the universe (a trivial distance in universal measurements) and the universe is expanding in all directions away from that center.
• The universe is really comparable to a balloon and the Milky Way is a non-unique location on that balloon. As the balloon expands everything only seems to be moving away from us in all directions. (By the way, this would be a 4 dimensional balloon so that the things on the opposite side of the balloon are not visible except by light that has traveled around the surface of the balloon.)

How we prove which one it is without divine intervention is beyond me, but it sure prompts interesting science to be thrown out by both sides. Remember God created science so it cannot accurately be used against Him. Whatever the arch-structure of the universe is is fairly trivial, the real heart of the issue is "is humanity and the earth at the forefront of deliberate divine focus or is it just a needle in an infinite haystack of divine-less random chance?" (Psalm 104:2, Job 26:7, Isaiah 40:22, Zechariah 12:1)

[ Creation Ministries International: Our galaxy is the centre of the universe, 'quantized' redshifts show ]
[ Creation Worldview Ministries: The Decay in the Speed of Light and the truth about Red Shift ]
[ Wikipedia: Modern Geocentrism ]
[ The Theory of Big Bang - a mistake build on wrong precondition ]

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