Religious loonies
I seem to attract them for some reason. Especially young Earth creationists. Foaming zealots to a man, and I find them highly irritating. I decided one day to see how mad one of them was. The answer, as can be predicted, was batshit insane. Our conversation had taken a turn to a point when I asked "If the Universe is only 6000 years old, how can light from galaxies 13 billion light years away have reached us?". His response was that "Maybe light used to travel faster".

Oh dear.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Sat 29 Sep 2012, 12:39, 2 replies)

Laugh at creationists
Have you seen the series of videos on Youtube called "Why do people laugh at creationists?" by The remarkable scientist Dr Phil Mason ( aka Thunderf00t ). I think he has done about 37 now. They are totally brilliant. The first one for example, www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS5vid4GkEY refers to a guy (With the rather weird youtube moniker Venomfang X) who thinks The Grand Canyon could have been formed in about 5 minutes. You should see how he shoots this idiot down in flames!
(Mackeson_drinker, Mon 1 Oct 2012, 7:19, closed)

I suspect...
.. that we only know they are 13 billion light years away due to assumptions that are made about the formation of stars etc. I expect that they are very sound assumptions but if the universe is only 6000 years old then all assumptions of that sort fall away. Just like fossils etc you have to fall back on "it was made that way to fool you".

Personally, I would much rather consider myself a minuscule artifact of a colossal and fantastic universe than believe that the whole place is one giant fake; the creator's equivalent of a distressed table. But each to his own I guess.
( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Tue 2 Oct 2012, 11:15, closed)