On behalf of Peter:
Adam and Eve seeing all stars on the day they where created, a certain
view is that for the 6000 years since Mans creation, 7000 including
Jesus 1000 year reign before he hands the restored creation back to his
Father in perfection, that we are therefore still in Gods 7th day of
rest, and that therefore, the previous days of creation would logically
also have each been 7000 years, what are your thoughs on this view and
would it make any differance to your model of the small universe?
This is the Jehovah's Witnesses standpoint. My own view is that the universe is less than 10,000 years old, based mainly upon the rate of decay of the World's magnetic field, but certainly I can see no astronomical reason why the cosmos being > 48,000 years old would adversely impact on the 'small' geocentric universe model that I advocate.
A second point I have allways been interested in, before the flood, the
Earth was said to be in the midst of Water, yet standing compactly out
of water, and it was by these means that the flood came, or as Genisis
says, the waters above the firmanent, so I wonder, if Adam was viewing
the stars through a water mantle in say the position of the
thermasphere, do you think the stars would have looked differant to Adam
than to us?
Such a water canopy would produce serious refraction, but no magnification (because the stars are point light sources), hence my opinion is that the stars would be offset from where we see them, and would have a sort of shimmering motion which would depend on how far they were off zenith, but that they would not be any brighter.
Neville
Kind regards
Peter Charlton
