That's crazy talk. Obviously the light from distant stars was created in transit to fool heathen astronomers, just like the fossils of prehistoric creatures were implanted on Earth, to fool paleontologists.

As a kid growing up in Texas, my Methodist church basically just squared the creation myth as metaphor. "What is the length of a day to god?" Essentially equating the scientific explanations, as simply the way god did it. So there wasn't really any controversy about learning about evolution and the age of the universe.

I was a closet atheist, but never realized there was much controversy about evolution until I was in high school and terminally online.

It's the same logic as God burying dinosaur bones 6000 years ago to test our faith.

One of my shining moments as an atheist was leading a coworker to realize that the above reasoning was bullshit.

She was already part way there just by asking me about it, I just answered her questions until she arrived at the right conclusion.

I was homeschooled for most of K-12, and all my peers were crazy fundies. I have so many stories.

Guys... Youre trying to apply physics/logic to a supposedly all power deity. Just say the world was just created as is last Thursday or something in its current state. Like if your going to make shit up you don't have to make it so complicated. It's all BS anyway...

i think i became a little stupider after reading that

I mean that or just pre-calculate it and place the light at the same time you place the stars

It's obviously a race condition in the simulation software. The stars database is loaded before the c constant.

This will be patched in a future update, however current simulation will need a data wipe for the updated behaviour to show.

Something about the simulation getting its CPU time shaped.

Analysis of the light from SN1987A suggests this has not happened. By observing light traversing two paths to reach earth, we can work out how far away the supernova is without relying on a particular value of c, and then work out what c must be out there.

This still makes some assumptions on the speed of light, but it would have to vary in a very specific way to give this same effect.

When you're trying to look at science but the delusion won't get out of the way.

God might have allowed literally anything.

There are plenty of things God “might have done,” But this sort of thing is neither scientific nor scriptural.

lol such a trickster.

In which case the distances astronomers have measured based on light travel time are insanely larger than thought and the problem of a big universe isn't solved.

God damn they've been vomiting the same bullshit for at least 50 years and it's just as dumb as it was from the get go.

Imagine all the cosmic background radiation and starlight of 4 billion years, as measured in the outer universe, landing on Earth in a time-dilated period of only 7 days. Earth would be cooked. By my calculation, the surface of the Earth would get up to 1900 Kelvin.

my response to this kinda argument is "ok cool. math still the same"

Everybody knows that the speed of light used to be way higher but then spacefaring civilizations brought down the local speed to prevent surprise attacks.The current c is what it is because of millennia of space war

Have there ever been any stars or planets, that we see in the night sky, just disappear? I always wondered if that has happened during the last 4,000 years or so of celestial observation. When I was a kid I was told that some stars are so far away that they were dead but the light we are receiving from them is still continuing to arrive as starlight. Have we seen that dead star light wink out? I know the universe is very old and the last 4,000 years was just a blink of an eye, but I'm curious if anyone knows if this has happened.