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Originally Posted by Shaun
The age of the universe is calculated on data that was produced in an experiment that you or I could do again (if we had the money and time). Thus it has credibility and is for me more believable that something written in a dusty book.
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True, although I'm sure you don't mean to gloss over the fact that in such calculations, certain assumptions are made because aspects of the calculation are not measurable in any sense. The speed of light, for example. There is absolutely no way, short of inventing a working TARDIS, of establishing that the speed of light has always been constant. If it has not, then an awful lot of deeply cherished theories about the age and state of the universe are worthless.