Science, Creation & Evolutionjust some general logicSince evolutionary biology is not "now" and you were not born "now", the use of probability concerning the past is applicable. What is the probability the human eye evolved? What is the probability that pond scum evolved into all identified phyla? BTW, the probability that I will be sitting at my computer reading your responses is 1 or 100% since the first thing I do every day after walking my dog is turn on my computer, unless a defined constant becomes a variable. For instance I have to assume that a blizzard will not take out the power lines, my health remains good, my computer does not crash, and etc.
I am pleased you brought up Einstein. since his theory dogmatically states that nothing in the universe can exceed the speed of light. However cosmology can and has shown that galaxies are moving at speeds that exceed light speed. The velocity of light plays a central role is astronomy and in physics. According to the Einstein's Theory of Relativity, nothing in our universe can exceed the velocity of light; thus, it is a kind of cosmic speed limit against which all other velocities may be measured. More generally, light is part of what is called the electromagnetic spectrum, which includes infrared radiation, radio waves, gamma rays, X-rays, ultraviolet radiation, and so on. All of these are a form of light; they just have energies that differ from the visible light that our eyes can see. Thus, these forms of electromagnetic radiation all travel at the speed of light too.
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/guidry/viole ... speed.html
Some of the misunderstandings surrounding this topic might come from confusion over what is meant by the universe "expanding faster than the speed of light." However, for the simplest interpretation of your question, the answer is that the universe does expand faster than the speed of light, and, perhaps more surprisingly, some of the galaxies we can see right now are currently moving away from us faster than the speed of light! As a consequence of their great speeds, these galaxies will likely not be visible to us forever; some of them are right now emitting their last bit of light that will ever be able to make it all the way across space and reach us (billions of years from now). After that, we will observe them to freeze and fade, never to be heard from again.
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/questi ... number=575
Einstein's theory also assumes that space is a perfect vacuum, which we now know it not true.
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