Barry Setterfield
Barry Setterfield is a young earth creationist from Australia who is known for proposing that the speed of light was faster in the past. [1] In 1999, John Webb, a professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and his colleagues reported astronomical observations suggesting that the value of the fine-structure constant (which is related to the speed of light) may have changed (They subsequently published their observations in 2001 in Physical Review Letters).[2][3] If correct, then various theories that constants have always been the same may need to be changed.[4] When Barry Setterfield took the position that the speed of light was much faster in the past the main objection was the purported constancy of fundamental laws.[5]
Mr. Setterfield also lectured at the Astronomical Society of South Australia for six years. [6]
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References
- â http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/2551/
- â http://www.nature.com/physics/highlights/6849-3.html#ref1
- â http://www.answersingenesis.org/news/fine_structure.asp
- â http://www.answersingenesis.org/news/fine_structure.asp
- â http://www.answersingenesis.org/news/fine_structure.asp
- â http://www.setterfield.org/bio.html