Are Supernova Remnants evidence of a young Universe?
All of the YEC literature on the WWW concerning supernovae and supernova remnants originates from one article written in 1994 by a Canadian, Keith Davies, entitled “Distribution of Supernova Remnants in the Galaxy”. This article is part of the Creation Discovery Project. Various versions and summaries of this article appear on various other YEC web sites including Answers in Genesis (by Jonathan Sarfati), Creation in the Crossfire (by Jon Colley), Creation Online and He Comes….24. According to the Creation Science Association For Mid-America, Davies’ article is based on a presentation25 he gave at the Third International Conference on Creationism in 1994. The first line of the Creation Online article sums up the YEC argument nicely: The results of observations done by astronomers indicate that there are not enough supernovas to justify an old galaxy. The numbers observed are consistent with a young galaxy of thousands of years old.” Sarfati elaborates further: …a young universe mod
