Jason Lisle Young Earth Starlight Paper

Last week Jason Lisle published a paper with the latest Young Earth Creationist view of how the universe can appear 11+ billion years old, but actually be barely 6,000 years old.  You can read the entire thing here.

But the important paragraph is:

But we’ve just seen that what is considered “simultaneous” is relative to the observer’s reference frame. Since God is omnipresent, what reference frame would He choose? The reference frame of the earth is the obvious choice, since the days of creation are described in terms of earth rotations (“the evening and the morning were the Xth day”). Moreover, since the Bible is written for human beings, it stands to reason that the planet on which all humans live would be the reference frame God would use for all time-stamping.

Relativity is a beautiful theory that makes light, specifically the speed of light, the ultimate measure of material reality.  The speed of light is the speed limit of everything and the reference for time and the dimensions of space.

But Lisle reinterprets Einstein and a century of modern physics to make the data fit a peculiar modern American view of Creation.

If you decide to read Lisle and you aren't familiar with relativity physics, I suggest reading It's About Time by W. S. Merwin of Cornell.  It explains relativity using only algebra and geometry.