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Old 03-13-2002, 01:43 PM   #1
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I just found out this on a search engine. Anybody familiar with it? Sounds like the latest rage among the "scientific" fundies out there.


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<strong>I just found out this on a search engine. Anybody familiar with it? Sounds like the latest rage among the "scientific" fundies out there.


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This is Russell Humphrey's white hole cosmology. He's a physicist that used to work for Sandia but is now on the faculty at ICR. Basically his idea is that the universe formed from matter spewing out of a white hole and when the earth passed the event horizon of the white hole it slowed down time from the earth's perspective, thus allowing the light from stars billions of light years away to reach earth in a relatively short time period. He argues strongly against any other YEC explanations for distant starlight, such as c-decay, instantaneous light creation, etc. Ironically, it was his cosmology which brought me out of YECism. He showed so convincingly that none of the other YEC explanations for starlight hold up, that when I realized his cosmology was BS there was no where to turn except that the universe was vastly old.
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... when I realized his cosmology was BS there was no where to turn except that the universe was vastly old.
So it would certainly appear. Welcome, Ex YEC.
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