A Young Earth Hypothesis:  Speed of Light Variation

January 20, 1996

 

• The interpretation of the Bible & nature will ultimately agree.
• A recent discovery regarding the speed of light (c) illustrates how this may occur.
• Variations in c have been noted in measurements taken over the last 300 years.
• This takes into account the advancement in measurement accuracy over time.
• The empirical equation is as follows:

Speed of light as a function of time (kilometers per second)

• c variation affects many things including radioactive dating (carbon-14, uranium-238, etc.).
• When graphed together, radioactive dating and literal Biblical dating closely align:

• A far reaching hypothesis such as this could explain other phenomena:

red shift of incoming light waves from space
the missing mass in the universe
the missing fossils in the geological record

• This hypothesis illustrates how origin data in the Bible and in nature can ultimately agree.
• " Constancy of the Speed of Light " web site.