Saturday, February 7, 2026

Once Again, Light Speed Shown To Be Inconsistent

 


A supernova called SN Ares shows that the speed of light is not as consistent as evolutionists have claimed.  According to science publication, Live Science, the light coming from the supernovas is not traveling at a constant speed.
 
The publication reports that “the Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources (VENUS)   treasury program survey employs the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe 60 dense galaxy clusters, which act as cosmic lenses that split and focus the light from extremely distant, otherwise invisible sources such as supernovas” [1] which the publication calls “gravitational lensing.” [2]
 
Gravitational lensing is when light is bent by other cosmic objects, especially large objects such as galaxy clusters, which then causes the object from the light originates to be magnified, or larger and even closer, than its actual size or distance.
 
Live Science went on to report that “SN Ares is the first lensed supernova discovered via the VENUS program. The explosion occurred almost 10 billion years ago, when the universe was around one-third its current age. The warp in space-time caused by a foreground galaxy cluster, MJ0308, split the light from SN Ares into three images.
 
One image has already reached our telescopes. But the light from the other two images passes much closer to the massive center of MJ0308, so it experiences a much greater slowdown due to gravitational time dilation.” [3]
 
Evolutionists have long touted speed of light measurements to be evidence of an old universe as they claim that the speed at which the light traveled from that object to reach our respective location reflects what the state of that object might have been when its light first reach the earth.  In other words, according to evolutionists, whatever a star appears to be from our location is what it was when its light first emitted from that point of origin.
 
For example, according to evolutionists, when we see a star that is a million or a billion light years from our location, we are not seeing the star as it presently is, but what it looked like in the past, but this is based upon the assumption that the speed of light is constant and that its speed is not being slowed or accelerated.
 
But it appears that the light that has traveled from the supernova is not as consistent as evolutionists would assume it to be.  The cluster galaxy that the light from the supernova is divided into three different images and the images are traveling at different speeds which means no one can really know what speed the light from the supernova is traveling and if there is one stellar object influencing the speed of the light from the supernova, then there are other objects influencing its speed as well and the light emitting from SN Ares is not the only light whose speed is being manipulated by other external forces.
 
A little over four years ago, I had written a blogpost about an astronomical observation that threw the lightspeed dating method upon which evolutionists have relied into doubt [4] for any of you out there who are interested in reading it and how beforehand, it was a tough challenge for creationists to answer scientifically but now, evolutionists are challenged to explain how speed of light measurements can ever be trustworthy in determining a rough age for the universe when the speed of light is shown to be inconsistent due to its speed being manipulated by external forces and thus making the actual speed at which light travels unknowable and if we cannot know for certain at what speed light travels apart from any manipulating forces, then we certainly cannot reasonably trust in the accuracy of its current measured speed and if we cannot trust in the accuracy of its measured speed, then we cannot rely on those measurements to present an accurate age of the universe.
 
But I must also admonish my fellow young earth creationists who are attempting to explain the speed of light challenge from a scientific perspective is that it really cannot entirely be explained from a scientific perspective as the existence of the stars, as is the case with the existence of all things was not an act of the natural, but an act of the supernatural and that the present laws of nature and physics were not set in place until after all things had been created.
 
Evolutionists believe that the planets and the stars came into existence independently of any centralized source but I am afraid that even creationists have made the mistake of assuming that God had created the celestial objects independent of any source and have not considered that the celestial objects may have been created by way of a dispersal or decentralizing of the light that God had spoken into existence on the first day of creation to divide the day from the night (Gen 1:3-5) before the creation of sun, moon, stars, planets, and other celestial objects (v. 14-18) and if this is what happened, then the light would not have had to travel from the sun, moon, and stars to the earth as their light would have already reached the planet since their light would have been created from that light which had beforehand divided the days previous from the night.
 
 
 
End notes:
 
 
 
1.  Ivan Farkas, “Astronomers spot 'time-warped' supernovas whose light both has and hasn't reached Earth,” Live Science, January 31, 2026
https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/astronomers-spot-2-warped-supernovas-whose-light-both-has-and-hasnt-reached-earth
 
2.  Ibid.
 
3.  Ibid.
 
4.  D.H. Manheim, “A Flaw In The Lightspeed Time Dating Method,” Contender’s Edge, December 18, 2021
https://contendersedge.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-flaw-in-lightspeed-time-dating-method.html
 
 
 
Scripture references:
 
 
 
1.  Genesis 1:3-5
 
2.  Genesis 1:14-18


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