| It must be understood that belief that Earth is billions of | | | | 10,000 light years away to appear more than 200,000 |
| years old is crucial to the survival of evolution theory. | | | | light years away. Imagine the chaos to be expected |
| The tactic is to teach that evolution always takes | | | | when using this method to measure the distance of |
| millions or even billions of years to happen so no one | | | | stars that are supposedly billions of light years away? |
| will ever be able to observe it. This sounds like a plan | | | | There is also a time factor that simply will not allow an |
| for the perfect lie. | | | | intelligent mind to accept stellar distances determined |
| Evolutionists claim that man can know the Earth is | | | | by such haphazard methods. Hollywood's movies |
| billions of years old because light from stars billions of | | | | about time travelers becoming lost in the past or in the |
| light years away can be seen from Earth. Therefore, | | | | future, do have an element of truth. It is the technology |
| Earth must be at least as old as the time it took star | | | | of today's jets that have given man a glimpse into |
| light to reach it. But, the methods to determine cosmic | | | | real-life time travel. If a person flies non-stop by jet just |
| distances used by scientists and evolutionists must be | | | | across the United States from California to New York, |
| looked at to judge their validity and effectiveness. One | | | | he will cross several time zones. In essence, he |
| such technique is known as the parallax method | | | | becomes a time traveler. A jet can make such a |
| whose basic concept is simple to understand. Some | | | | journey in four hours. If his watch says 3:00 p.m. when |
| stars are close to Earth, others are very far away. It's | | | | he leaves California, it will say 7:00 p.m. when he |
| believed that stars very close to Earth such as the | | | | arrives in New York. Nevertheless, the true time in |
| sun, can be accurately measured. In the parallax | | | | New York will be 10:00 p.m. Although his actual travel |
| method, a scientist who wants to find how far away a | | | | time is only four hours, due to the passage through |
| very distant star is from Earth would start by choosing | | | | time zones, it will appear as though he made a journey |
| a close star such as the sun. He would then choose | | | | of seven hours. Considering this powerful impact that |
| the star far away, whose distance he's trying to find. | | | | the passage through time zones has within a small |
| Earth revolves around the sun causing things in the sky | | | | part of the Earth, imagine the huge distortions of the |
| to look different at various times of the day and year. | | | | telling of time when speaking of the passage through |
| Scientists look for how the position of the close star | | | | the time zones of outer space! This telling of "time", |
| changes in relation to the distant star while Earth is | | | | along with the inaccurate parallax method is used to |
| rotating. If the near star's position doesn't change much, | | | | determine as scientific fact that there are stars that |
| the distant star is said to be very far. If the near star's | | | | are billions of light years away from Earth. The new |
| position changes a lot, the distant star is not said to be | | | | Cepheid method of determining stellar distances is said |
| very far. | | | | to be improved and absolutely accurate. How can this |
| However, this "scientific" method of measuring stellar | | | | be when it still relies upon the aforementioned parallax |
| distances is so terribly flawed that someone once said | | | | method and the telling of time? This hardly seems a |
| it would require more faith to believe in it than to | | | | viable argument in favor of evolution's big bang, old |
| believe the miracles of the Bible. Evolutionists believe in | | | | Earth theory. The physical and scientific evidence that |
| the Big Bang theory, which states that all heavenly | | | | technology allows man to gather is overwhelming in |
| bodies are a spin off from a massive explosion and | | | | support of an earth whose age is roughly 10,000 years. |
| that the universe is constantly expanding at | | | | It's interesting to note that an approximate age of |
| unimaginable speeds. This means that Earth and the | | | | 10,000 years for Earth perfectly corresponds to the |
| nearby and distant stars chosen for study, are all | | | | biblical account of the Creation. |
| moving at rapid speeds. How can stars that won't | | | | God gave man the freedom to choose to believe His |
| keep still be accurately measured? What is more is | | | | word or to reject it. However, most people like to think |
| that the parallax method is performed over a period of | | | | of themselves as intelligent beings. A man may say |
| six months before calculating a distance. That means | | | | that he chooses not to serve God simply because |
| that six months of rapid expansion takes place during | | | | that is not his desire, or because he dislikes God's law. |
| measurement. The supporters and inventors of such | | | | However, he does not make himself appear foolish |
| method didn't take into consideration this point before | | | | because of the exercise of his free will. But, when he |
| declaring that the Earth is billions of years old. In fact, | | | | says that he chooses not to serve God because he |
| Earth's age has been calculated over and over again, | | | | would rather place belief and reliance on man's twisted |
| and changed several times. | | | | theory of evolution, his intelligence should be |
| Also, the so-called mathematical formula used to | | | | questioned. Science is not in opposition to the Bible. |
| calculate these stellar distances based on the parallax | | | | Science only verifies what the Bible has already said. It |
| method does not allow for differences in results that | | | | should always be remembered that Evolution is not |
| the bending of light would make. It is inconceivable to | | | | science. It will twist and break even long time |
| think, with the gravitational belts in space, that light | | | | established laws of real science in a desperate |
| would not bend at any point during the measurement | | | | attempt to make a falsehood appear as reality. In |
| over six months in a universe that evolutionists claim is | | | | essence, it truly does require a greater faith to believe |
| expanding. Such failure to consider the bending of light | | | | in the ludicrousness of evolution theory than it does to |
| into the calculation could cause a star approximately | | | | believe in Jesus. |