Question

As you know scientists measure the distance of stars and planets in light years. If the universe was created six to seven thousand years ago, how can there be stars whose light we are now seeing, which has taken 5 billion years to get here, if they didn’t even exist 6000 years ago?

Answer

I can give you a simple answer to that question. God not only created the planets, but He also created their light and He not only created their light but He created the full span of their light to reach the earth instantaneously. In other words, if God is able to create the universe, He certainly can stretch the light as far as He wants in that creative act. Do you understand what I am saying? In other words, God doesn’t say, “Well, I have the power to create the light, now I’m going to have to hang around for 10 billion years until the light gets where I want it to go.” The point is that if God can create the light, He can create the light, not only where it originates but where it reaches. And there is evidence to that effect.

I am not a scientist. You can come to the college and ask George Howe, the head of the Science Dept., who is the former head of the Creation Research Institute, and he will probably sit you down and give you a 4-hour lecture. That’s a big question, it’s a bigger question than it appears, because what you are saying is true in every part. For example, when God created Adam, did He create an embryo? Did He create a fetus? Did He create a child? Did He create a young man or a full grown adult? Well, He created a full grown adult. And when He created Eve, He didn’t create a little baby and say, “Adam, she’s nice, but you’ll have to wait 21 years.” He created a grown woman. And when God created animals, He created grown animals. When He created creation, for example on the day that He created all the plants, did He create all the seeds in the ground and then everybody waited until the plants grew. No, instantaneously He created a full mature creation, so when you look to the stellar heavens and you look at the space and the planet and the stars and the light and all of the things that are a part of that, He instantaneously created that in it’s full maturity, so that there is no necessity to have time for all of those light years to bring the light to our vision.

The system of measurement assumes uniformity, but we believe in catastrophe and catastrophe is the fact that God creates instantaneously a whole universe of fully mature creation, so that the universe is six days old after He starts, as fully mature as it is right now. It’s instantaneously created in its maturity. It’s not created in a series of embryonic forms which must evolve and evolve and evolve to get where they need to be. So, it’s a fully mature world an universe that He has created.

Question (continued)

Well, I guess I don’t understand that.

Answer (continued)

Well, of course you don’t. Nobody understands that. But we believe that and you see the evidence from every angle, indicative of the fact that we live in a very new world and a new earth and a new universe and that’s what science is over and over again demonstrating. The only way that can happen is to have a fully created universe. Now, let me take you a step further. 

There are only two possible views of creation. One is that creation, as we know it today, is the result of a sequence of time and uniform change. Right? Which is the evolutionist’s view. You have uniformity. In other words, you look at a bunch of strata, you look at a cliff with all the strata, right? And you say, well it took so many billion years for this and then so many billion years for this…either that or there was a tremendous catastrophe. A catastrophic event that literally shaped the face of the earth in an instant, and biblical creationists believe that there were two great cataclysmic events that shaped the earth. Event #1 was a six day creation of a fully matured earth and universe. That is catastrophic. Now science looks at that and based upon the theory of uniformity, they’re looking at the world and they’re seeing it change right now and so they project the changes back into time and they want to take them all the way back until there was nothing and that strings them out billions of years because they don’t allow for a catastrophic event. But uniformity is not necessarily true. You can’t prove that that’s true. 

The second great catastrophe was what? The flood. The universal flood, which in one fell swoop, when God drowned the entire world, shaped and reshaped the whole earth and out of that flood came the great ice age and the icebergs…the whole shot. The earth was dramatically shaped instantaneously in the catastrophe of the flood. So as a result of that, you cannot apply to all of the past history of the earth and the universe a uniform system of change. You have to allow for catastrophe. An instantaneous catastrophe in creation and an instantaneous catastrophe in the flood. Instantaneous is a little bit longer.

Question (continued)

But, even if it was catastrophically created…that star…the light would still take as long as the scientist says it would.

Answer (continued)

No, not if God created the light in its full span. He didn’t just create it here. He created it in it’s full span. He created it all the way along the path.