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Posted on 03/10/2014 8:54:04 AM PDT by fishtank
Asteroid Medley Challenges Naturalistic Origins by Brian Thomas, M.S. *
Data from recent spacecraft flybys challenge the prevailing naturalistic perspective on asteroid origins. Secular astronomers assume that natural processes, rather than miracles, created the sun, Earth, planets, and asteroids from ancient, swirling masses of gases, but this new evidence points to something different.
Writing in the British science journal Nature, Harvard's Francesca DeMeo and the Paris Observatory's Benoit Carry summarized the latest asteroid puzzles.1 For decades, secularists argued that asteroids somehow formed from merging dust particles in a hot nebula. Thus, where they orbit and what they're made of should reflect the material content and temperature of the nebula at the time of their formation.
However, secular astronomers have not yet explained how less common asteroids mixed so thoroughly with more common types. DeMeo and Carry wrote, "The rarer asteroid types, such as the crust and mantle remnants of fully heated and melted bodies, are seen in all regions of the main belt."1 Nor can they easily explain why "the smorgasbord of compositional types of small bodies throughout the main belt contrasts with the compositional groupings at large sizes."1
To help solve the riddle of mixed asteroids, some entertain a notion called the "Grand Tack model." It posits that Jupiter migrated near to Mars' orbit and somehow cleared out and redistributed the main belt asteroids in its mighty wake. "Jupiter then reversed course and headed back towards the outer Solar System," eventually taking up its current residence, according to the Nature study authors.1
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I don’t follow these guys much, but they seem to agree that there once were other planets?
‘DeMeo and Carry wrote, “The rarer asteroid types, such as the crust and mantle remnants of fully heated and melted bodies, are seen in all regions of the main belt.”
What’s Darwin have to do with this?
It happens to follow the creed of pseudoscience:
“There is no scientist but Darwin and Algore is his prophet.”
So nothing, except your vain prejudice.
We simply do not know everything. Some people think that everything can be explained by science. Others disagree.
It is clear that scientists are constantly upgrading and changing theories to obtain a better understanding of the universe.
I do not believe that scientists have provable theories that explain everything, but they do have numerous theories that explain enough to be useful to engineers.
That's not a creed. That's a strawman of the ignorant.
Keep in mind the folks behind the Institute for Creation Research claim to be scientists. The only honest scientists in fact.
They aren’t much interested in discovering things that can be exploited by engineers. They are interested in proving that their literal interpretation of Genesis is correct.
I consider skepticism to be a good start for a scientist.
You do not get many scientists out of Islam, because they believe that God can just change the rules as he goes along, so nothing is actually predictable.
There is a great deal of analogy, metaphor, and parables in the Bible, so It is hard for me to take all of it literally.
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