FIrst of all, I dont want this to seem, ANTI RELIGOUS, or anything like that. I am simply asking if anyone out there that is smarter than myself can answer this.
I go to Church of Christ. MY preacher basically beleives, all science that has anything to do with the earth being over 6000 years old is false. He tried to explain to me the way you can date the earth according to the bible, that would set the date of creation somewhere in the ballpark of 6000 years. He also made clear to me that EVERYTHING was created then. (Heaven, Universe, Earth, ect...) But I dont think this is true.
I know there are many people out there that are agnostic and so forth, but I am not. I do beleive in something greater, I am just not sure if I beleive what '90% of the religions out there are preaching.
TO get to my question:
We can somewhat accurately measure the distance a star is from earth. I think they use red shift and stuff liek that too measure, Im no expert in the field so correct me if I am wrong. But they say they can measure it to within +- 100 light years or so, or somewhere in that ballpark.
We have measured stars to be somewhere around 500 million light years away. Meaning that the light would have taken 500mil ly to travel from there to earth, So the star would have to be way older then what they say earht is. (6k)So the universe would have to have been created(or whatever) millions of years ago, right?
I am only a junior in high school, and I am no expert in these fields. But I think everyone will get the picture here of what I am talking about.
I go to Church of Christ. MY preacher basically beleives, all science that has anything to do with the earth being over 6000 years old is false. He tried to explain to me the way you can date the earth according to the bible, that would set the date of creation somewhere in the ballpark of 6000 years. He also made clear to me that EVERYTHING was created then. (Heaven, Universe, Earth, ect...) But I dont think this is true.
I know there are many people out there that are agnostic and so forth, but I am not. I do beleive in something greater, I am just not sure if I beleive what '90% of the religions out there are preaching.
TO get to my question:
We can somewhat accurately measure the distance a star is from earth. I think they use red shift and stuff liek that too measure, Im no expert in the field so correct me if I am wrong. But they say they can measure it to within +- 100 light years or so, or somewhere in that ballpark.
We have measured stars to be somewhere around 500 million light years away. Meaning that the light would have taken 500mil ly to travel from there to earth, So the star would have to be way older then what they say earht is. (6k)So the universe would have to have been created(or whatever) millions of years ago, right?
I am only a junior in high school, and I am no expert in these fields. But I think everyone will get the picture here of what I am talking about.