The problem I see with the “chi” reference is that the planet is not 6,000 years old
Again, that depends on from where in the universe one is measuring. The planet is billions of years old from where we stand. Time does not flow at a constant rate everywhere. The age of the planet from elsewhere in the universe will not be the same as it is here.
so much of what constitutes biblical tales are directly in conflict with science evidence.
The Bible isn't science text or a history text. It's a religious text meant to teach about God and morality. Any conflict between science and the Bible is, ultimately, irrelevant to both religion and science. My point here is that using science to legitimize atheism or deny the truth of the Bible is a mistaken endeavor. The Biblical account of creation and the Biblical timeline, while mythological, don't conflict with modern, legitimate science. A person need not eschew science to accept the Bible as truth, nor vise versa.
A god created existence in only 6 days, but did so in such a way to make it look immensely old and left massive clues to support that belief... and this god put forth a test to only two humans without(at least in terms of the Judeo-Christian god) giving them either the ability to make a considered choice nor did he bother to tell them the consequences would extend to every person born after them... and this god then inspired a book but did not allow the original to last in case the condemned to damnation by definition humans worship those texts... and allowed copies of copies to multiply so that huge civilizations would clash with one another over interpretations... and this god then comes down to earth as a human to act as a mediator to experience human weakness and pain and sin that he created in the first place anyway, and he's letting billions upon billions of people suffer thusly and choose eternal damnation on an ongoing basis in order to satisfy this need to experience the aforementioned... and finally in a climactic battle wherein agony and suffering will spread over the globe this god will battle his nemesis that he himself created and could blink to make disappear if he really wanted to...
I don't believe that way and Christianity doesn't demand one believe that way. None of that is any basis for rejecting God or Christianity. We could go into how 6 days can conform to modern science, too, but it would, at this point, be only a distraction. If you or anyone chooses to reject belief in God or Biblical religion, that's your choice, but using science or the dogmatic belief system of Fundamentalist Christianity as the rationale for that choice isn't legitimate.
Existence is natural, patterns form out of the exchange of energy, life evolved in some places, competition for that life implemented social structures, sentience ignited that social structure to a more and more complicated degree
All good. Now add that all that was initiated and guided by a higher intelligence ... viola ... religious faith.
and allowed for technology to extend the perceptions of humans to further and further reaches, chipping away at old, perhaps poetic and elegant but nonetheless outdated beliefs created by a ruling class that knew the power of ignorance and fear in people made them vastly more controllable?
We'll disagree that the beliefs are outdated. The narrative portions of the Bible such as creation and the flood were never meant to be taken literally. The lessons they contain are eternal.
While Christian (specifically and initially, Catholic) dogma may have been created by a ruling elite, I don't believe that's true of the Bible text. If you want to say it was altered or such, I again would argue for a guiding intelligence.
Knowing the speed of light one can measure distances, showing billions of years is required to establish the size and distances we see.
Definitely so ... from our perspective. That time doesn't flow at the same speed everywhere is established science that's been thoroughly tested.
It is 4.54 billion years old
You've taken refuge in quibbling over millions among billions. Regardless...
any point in the universe appears to be the center of the universe to an observer at that point.
I'm familiar with that literature and might have been happy to discuss it with you if not that...
nor have you read any science saying there is.
You really cannot go a single post without lying, can you?
...you persist in calling me a liar. Perhaps one day you'll learn the difference between being correct & being honest / being incorrect & being dishonest, and develop a modicum of civility. Then we might engage in conversation. As of now, we're done here.
(You are now free to tell yourself that I've run away from your blinding brilliance and congratulate yourself for a false victory, as bullies like you always do.)
So my question is is the rate of expansion constant?
Present cosmology says it is.
How do you measure the different rates of time in different locations
By measuring the wavelength & pulses of the background ratiation present throughout the known universe.
How do we find the universe's origin point?
Mathematical extrapolation based on the rate of expansion.
What defines a spiral? We use pi r squared to define circumference?
All circles can be described with pi. Some spirals can be described with chi. Look up "chi" and "golden ratio" -- it's some interesting stuff.
You lost me at Earth being 4.75 B yrs old while our clock says it is 6000 yrs old at the location of BB.
Solid science based on relativity theory has demonstrated that time doesn't flow at a constant rate everywhere, despite our perception that it does. If you're standing on Earth, the planet is billions of years old. If you were observing from elsewhere, time would be flowing at a faster or slower rate than it does here. It flows faster the further out from the Big Bang you go. So if the age of the earth is measured at the origin point of the universe, it would be younger. Using chi to establish the ratio, roughly 4 3/4 billion years on Earth would measure as roughly 6000 years at the theorized site of the Big Bang.