[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by T@T

Still can't rap my head around this 13.7 billion year old universe theory and the big bang!

Hubble is seeing light from Galaxies 13.2 billion years ago,since Galaxies take billions of years themselves to form (they don't) the math doesn't add up. I know some people say all galaxies formed at the same time (people who say that are wrong) (big bang) but I don't buy that either. I wish I was a scientist just to try and come up with a new theory because I have a feeling before too long this 13.7b year old universe will be debunked and expanded.

Over the years:

1800 - 5800 years old (bible)
1900 - 400 million years old
1925 - 2 billion years old
1950 - 6 billion
1994 - 10 billion
1996 - 18 billion (oops)
Current - 13.7 billion

Except for the "oops" year I see a pattern!
Yes the patter was that we used more and more evidence to come up with a better estimate. We now have several pieces of evidence that all come to pretty much the same conclusion. With a really notable example being the cosmic background radiation. It wasn't discovered, and then they used it to figure out how old the universe was, they started with teh 13.7 billion years, figured out that it should exist, and then two guys stumbled across it. The fact that the observed evidence so closely matched the theory that was developed using a totally different method, is an icredibly strong indication that the theory is correct.

Maybe the universe is timeless, afterall "time" is a human concept. (no it isn't, time is no more a human concept than height. We give it a name, and we precieve it, but it would exist just fine without us)

I've noted my problems with what you've said above in bold (obviously).

That being said, is it possible something radical might happen and we'll have to drastically revise our estimate on the age of the universe? Sure that's always a posibility, but it would mean we are wrong about a whole slew of other things that have been confirmed multiple ways as well, so possible, but unlikely.

Either way, saying that the value has gone up since we started at 5000 years from the bible, and that that's a good reason to believe it will continue to, is silly.