It's About Time!

Most of the debate over the Genesis account of creation is about time. What is time? Is it constant throughout the universe? Einstein's work with relativity established the idea that time is not constant. Time actually changes in relation to velocity. In other words, the faster that matter travels, the slower time goes. In fact, as matter approaches the speed of light, time stops. Einstein went on to suggest that matter could never reach the speed of light. But, what if during the creation event (Big Bang for the secularists out there), the universe expanded at near the speed of light. Wouldn't God's day (and ours) seem like billions of years after the universe stopped expanding?

So if everything moved out or expanded at the speed of light at the "Big Bang", then slowed to the rate of expansion now, the 6 days of creation would seem like billions of years to us now (or at least the first day). Perhaps things had already slowed when the earth, sun, and moon were created to what time is now. I think that we often put God into a "time box" when, in fact, God is outside of time. The reason "time" is so important to the creation/evolution debate is that evolution needs billions of years to work (in theory). Actually, evolution has never been proven in a lab setting because it is not testable. This is the definition of philosophy rather than science. In fact, this would put evolution in the category of a religion. Interesting...