I am not trying to be argumentative, this is an earnest
question, as this question got me in huge trouble when I was
growing up attending a southern baptist Christian middle school.
This question (and people's reactions to it) is actually one of
the things that lead my away from the church as a teenager
(which I later came back to). If the speed of light is constant
and we can see distant objects (stars, galaxies, etc) that are
millions or billions of light years away how can we account for
a young age of the universe? - My father, at that time, was
convinced that the speed of light has been slowing down since
the creation of the universe. Although, I have never seen any
credible evidence of this, and it would seem that measurements
taken at CERN (and elsewhere) would be seriously affected if the
speed of light was not a constant. - My 8th grade science
teacher said it was because objects used to be closer than they
are now, and have moved away from each other over time. However,
if the universe was only 10k