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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
My hypothesis was if time is relative could how the earth experience time have shifted since the creation of the earth?
I fully expect the answer to the "no".
My thought was "if time is relative, it's relative to what? And therefore could that what change?"
But I want to reiterate I do fall on the evolution side of the debate, but want a better understanding of this theory and why it debunks creationism.
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As you say when we say time is relative, relative implies something to be relative to.
Time, passes at one second per second relative to itself, and I don't see how that would help much in terms of the earth's apparent age, since the "clocks" you are using to measure the passage of time are subject to the relative stuff you speak of.
At best you could use that to explain the apparent age of the visible universe vs. a 6000 year old earth, put the earth in a magic bubble that experiences 1 day for every 100 million years outside the bubble, or something like that.
But inside the bubble time is moving at 1 second per second still, so things like radioactive decay or tree rings or coral reefs would still appear the same rate for those watching those "clocks".
At that point it boils down to just invoking "magic" to explain a host of inconsistencies.
Better to just say the earth was created to look old (i.e. Adam was created a man and was given a belly button, God got used trees from Value Village, etc). That opens a different can of worms about God intentionally being deceptive and not saying anything about it though.