----- Original Message ----- From: "eric dorkin" <eric_dorkin at yahoo.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 8:45 AM Subject: Re: the speed of light redux -- politics
> This is a political story more than a scientific story
> and it is a distinctly american one. The hordes of
> creationists have "long" argued that light has slowed
> down over time as a means of explaining, inter alia,
> the problem of how light from very distant stars can
> reach earth by the present date fromstars too far for
> such a phenomenon to occur using a constant "c."
> Further, I belive they also use it to argue against
> the accuracy of carbon dating.
>
> That c might be slowing does not mane (of course) that
> the "falt earthers" are right. Far from it. However,
> it will be used as a club in the creationist-evolution
> debate
>
> eric
>
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A changing speed of light means that God is capable of changing her mind and is still omnipotent! :-)
Ian