In time

  Our best guess from the scientists is that the world is about 4.5 billion years old. If we use carbon dating from ice core samples we can measure climate changes as far back as 600,000 years. Sounds impressive doesn't it ? Well not so much when you consider that amount is a mere .013 % of the history of the planet. So, why do so many believe they can predict what is happening with the global weather pattern based on a .013% sampling ? Doesn't seem very scientific or factual to me at all. Of course I'm no scientist.

I admit I sometimes think the same way, believing I have a reasonable chance at winning the lottery. With a one in three hundred and two million chance. It was once explained to me that if I were to purchase 100,000 tickets the overall odds of me getting that winning ticket, the jackpot, would change in my favor by 1/10 of one percent. And that is possible because I could have a 100% sampling size. A computer can generate every possible combination and display every combination that has ever appeared. Well "hope springs eternal in the human breast, man never is, but always to be blest." Guess that's true, I haven't won that lottery, yet.

The truth is we really do not know how old the earth is. It's a guess based on observation. Could be we're not seeing the whole picture even with out latest telescopes. If the science is correct what we are seeing happened light years ago anyway. One light year is about six trillion miles away. If you stacked one trillion pennies one atop another it would be a stack about 860,000 miles high! Now consider the national debt is about 37 trillion dollars. Consider the fact that the scientists say we can see back in time about 46.5 billion years, to the edge of the galaxy. Has the world collapsed 46.6 billion years ago and we just can't see that? Maybe, but the scientists are telling me they can predict the weather twenty years from now. I don't think so.

Now if we could travel at the speed of light and get far enough away we could see exactly when the earth was formed. The birth of stars has been observed as well the collapse. Those mysterious black holes may hold the answer as well. If the gravity in them is so great that not even light can escape how fast is the light traveling in the other direction? The big question being, where does it go? We have no clue. I wonder why they have gravity at all, I'm told no other place in space has gravity, only celestial bodies. It's a guess. We don't even have a sampling size of .013 to base that guess upon. Could be we are inside a black hole trying to look out!

Time is something I believe that man can not fully understand. We measure it in various ways. Mostly it is based on observation. It's dark outside or it's cold. We have watched the position of the stars and planets before we named them as such. The Bible speaks of people living hundreds of years. The calendar itself has been modified many times. Same thing with clocks and the measurement of time passage itself. Daylight savings time, and twenty four time zones around the globe. Yes, each one represents an hour.

The earths rotation is slowing down so the days will be longer, although the distance traveled will be less. How fast was it spinning 4.5 billion years ago? We don't really know that answer. Still the fact that it was spinning faster would explain why those old people in the Bible lived longer. Methuselah lived to be 969. The earth may have spinning nine times faster back then. Currently at the equator we are spinning about 1000 miles per hour. In order for us to be thrown off the globe, that is escape the force of gravity at the equator, we would have to spin at 17669.93 miles per hour. Do you think we would notice an decrease of almost half over 4.5 billion years? Only thing I've noticed is how much faster times appears to pass. Yeah, we don't understand time at all.