Originally posted by Starlight
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Random side note: This thread reminds me of a 100-year old YEC book I once read at my grandparent's place, one of their arguments for a young earth was that since the sun produced energy via gravitational contraction (they hadn't discovered nuclear fusion at the time of writing, so it was thought that the sun gradually contracted to generate energy) it had to be less than 10,000 years old else it would have used up all its fuel.
I am not a YEC, by the way. I am pretty agnostic about the genesis time frame, but I believe the universe is 14.5 billion years old.
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