# Local Young Earth Creationist Family Makes Unique Decision to Avoid Night Sky
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Chapter 1: A Conviction to Ignore the Cosmos
In Williamstown, KY, shop owner Dalton Briggs gazed at the night sky for what he claims will be the last time on Tuesday evening. “This is about our beliefs,” he stated. “We’ve eliminated all references to ‘billions of years’ from our home, and now that includes the so-called Woke sky.”
This choice was made following the striking visuals released by the James Webb Space Telescope on July 12. “We spent weeks in prayer, contemplating which aspects of God’s Creation we needed to disregard to maintain our faith in the Bible’s teachings. As a family, we’ve reached this decision and will remain steadfast in our beliefs, regardless of what those on the left may say.”
As advancements in optical technology have allowed astronomers to delve deeper into the history of our universe, they’ve revealed images of galaxies dating back to within 329.8 million years of the Big Bang. “This is absurd,” Briggs argued. “If God intended for us to glimpse the past, He would have provided us with time-traveling telescopes, not these so-called space telescopes.”
Briggs, who has donned a T-shirt from Williamstown’s Creation Museum that states, “I believe in the Big Bang. God said it, and bang it happened,” for the past two weeks, perceives NASA's recent images as part of a broader campaign to undermine, vilify, and marginalize Christians like himself.
“They toss around figures like four billion years or forty billion years; next week, it’ll be eighty billion years—just to make us look foolish,” he remarked while browsing images on his phone. He was searching for a photo staged with his daughter, in which he shielded her from all numbers exceeding 6,028. “Anyone who can read and has a Bible knows that the Earth was created on October 23, 4004 BC—6,028 years ago.”
After their decision, the Briggs family began sporting wide-brimmed hats at sunset to prevent accidentally looking upward. Their first attempt to cover their property with a massive cloth proved too costly. “We considered the bucket hats from the Ark Encounter, but they were $40 each and not wide enough,” he noted. “Even with the hat pulled down over my eyes, I could still see some of those so-called stars.”
Briggs maintains that the perceived age of the universe, as shown by WMAP satellite, Hubble, JWST, and CMB imagery, as well as various dating methods like Radiocarbon, Potassium-argon, Uranium-lead, and Fission-track dating, is a test of his faith. “I’m akin to Abraham,” he expressed. “God wants to see if we’ll trust what He has revealed through His creation, which glorifies Him, or if we’ll accept the words of John C. Whitcomb, author of The Genesis Flood from 1960.”
“As for me and my household,” Briggs concluded, “We will rely on Whitcomb and focus on the six-thousand-year-old dirt.”
Section 1.1: Distant Starlight and Young Earth Beliefs
The video titled Why Is There Distant Starlight If The Earth Is Very Young? - Dr. Danny Faulkner - YouTube provides insights into the conflict between astronomical observations and young Earth creationist beliefs.
Section 1.2: Social Media and Young Earth Perspectives
In the video This Young Earth Creationist Makes Very Silly TikToks - YouTube, viewers can explore humorous portrayals of young Earth creationist viewpoints through the lens of social media.