Creationism question

[Fire Walk With Me]

Someone on DU mentioned that the light from distant stars is well over the 4-6000-year creation story limitations...

So, if a craft from Earth were able to cross whatever boundary the "fake Old Light" started from 6000 years ago, will the universe unravel? Is there anything in the Bible about not going too far into space? (Aside from a Pope telling Stephen Hawking to not go "too far" in his research.)

[Burried News]

1. Maybe that's when the rapture starts and the music of the sphere's

does Wagner's Gotterdammerung? Beats me I'm still trying to figure out how they are going to do math without imaginary numbers.

[spindrifter]

2. Try Lamdakiah 6:66

[JWS]

3. Yes, the universe would unravel...

Creationism, intelligent design, PHAW! Science has advanced as far as it has because enough people were willing to seperate their religious beliefs from their philosophical pursuits. ID is not based on science at all, it is not supported by compelling scientific evidence and its supporters refuse to hold it up to the scrutinizing light of science.

Oh well, maybe we'll find a cure for cancer before the creationists have their way.

[longship]

4. The light from the other side of the Milky Way is older than 6000

The Milky Way galaxy, our home galaxy is 12,000 light years across. The nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way is about 2 million light years away. The distance to most remote of our local group of galaxies is about 8 million light years. The size of the Virgo cluster of galaxies is about 100 million light years...

I could keep going, but I haven't yet left the local neighborhood...

Well, somebody else has put it somewhat more eloquently:

"The Universe is Big. Really big. It may seem like a long way to the corner chemist, but compared to the Universe, that's peanuts."
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[Terran]

5. Nope. The universe will continue...

and for a very long time, and as long as the Earth keeps failing to come to an end, the religiously insane will continue to predict that it will, ad infinitum. You have to wonder how long they can keep it up, what with all the disappointment they must feel.

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. You can always worry that they'll give it a helping hand at some point.

Disappointment be damned ;-)

[JWS]

7. Uber light speed travel.

If I have a string of zero elasticity, stretching all the way to alpha centauri (4LY) and I pull on the string how long does it take for them to feel the tug on the other end?

Similarly if a spaceship left for earth today at .999 the speed of light, towards alpha centauri, and a ship from alpha centauri left for earth at .999 the speed of light, at exactly the same time, how long would it take for them to pass each other up?