Real world scientists—those who do not overly concern themselves with religious fairy tales—often invoke the speed of light as an incontrovertible proof against the concept of a “young” Earth/Universe. The logic is simple and straightforward: young Earth creationist insist the whole sheebang is no more than 10,000 years old, while astronomers point out that the Andromeda galaxy is about 2.5 million light years away and we can see it. Which means light from Andromeda has traveled for 2.5 million years to reach us.

In scientific terms this is what is known as TRUE. Sorry young earthers.

But….

There’s a bit of Biblical business that gets overlooked. According to Genesis I the first thing God made was LIGHT. He filled Creation with light. Light that existed as its own self, without needing anything to generate it. The Sun, the Moon, Andromeda—they didn’t exist yet. Light simply WAS.

THEN God created them, days later.

Now, given that God can do literally ANYTHING, how tough is it to imagine that, starting with Earth at the center, he simply grabbed handfuls of the already existing light and stretched it out, like pulling taffy, so that humans, when he got around to them, would look up into the sky and be looking ALONG those strands, making them appear as points. The light from Andromeda actually filled that 2.5 million light year distance BEFORE Andromeda existed.

See, this is why we can’t argue science against religion. “God did it” trumps (don’t) everything.

Now, let’s talk about why Genesis I and Genesis II tell entirely different stories…….?