The Transplanted Yankee

Several years ago I saw a story about an experiment, where a pair of synchronized atomic clocks were connected to strobe lights. One of the clocks was then loaded aboard an aircraft of some kind, and after reaching altitude the plane flew around for a period of time I don't remember. The significant point is that, over time, the flashing of the strobes became increasingly less synchronized. If I remember correctly the experiment was done to test the hypothesis that time moves at different rates the further you get from a gravity source, and the experiment proved the hypothesis.

Now to the point of this blog. The universe, according to the latest estimates, is around thirteen and a half billion years old. The earth, on the other hand, is believed to be much younger, perhaps only a few tens of thousands of years old. Now consider this: One argument against the theory of the intelligent design of the universe, and particularly the Earth, is the question as to why the universe is so old while the earth is so (relatively) young.

There is an explanation, I believe, that while not provable seems to make sense to me. For the sake of argument, say there is a God, that He created the universe, and for reasons known only to Him created a small rock ball of a planet and created all sorts of creatures to live on it. Now such a creature would be a very potent force, indeed, much more intense than a black hole, and if that force chose, for reasons unknowable to us, to focus it's interest on our planet that could cause time to pass on earth much more slowly than in the rest of the universe. Theoretically that happens inside of the event horizon of a black hole, so why not in the presence of an even more powerful force like the creator of the universe? Although I am a college graduate I'm not a scientist, but to me this seems like a logical explanation.