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To: Boogieman

No, the obvious point I’ve been making is that there is no connection between rotational and orbital periods for the earth. There is either some hidden amusement value in adopting a stance of volitional ignorance on the part of people reading my statements on this matter if there is a depressing degree of genuine ignorance for those people.


49 posted on 03/03/2012 4:37:02 PM PST by muir_redwoods (No wonder this administration favors abortion; everything they have done is an abortion)
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To: muir_redwoods
No, the obvious point I’ve been making is that there is no connection between rotational and orbital periods for the earth. There is either some hidden amusement value in adopting a stance of volitional ignorance on the part of people reading my statements on this matter if there is a depressing degree of genuine ignorance for those people.

I’m not sure what you’re point is here. It’s the Earth’s tilt that accounts for the seasons and to some extent, its elliptical orbit around the Sun.

The Earth’s rotation accounts for the time between Sunrise and Sunset but that’s not exactly 24 hours. The Earth orbits the Sun but not in exactly 365 days.

If our current 24 hour day clock and 365 day calendar didn’t account for this with a leap day every four years, eventually Spring would fall on our calendar sometime in September.

50 posted on 03/03/2012 4:54:04 PM PST by MD Expat in PA
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To: muir_redwoods

“No, the obvious point I’ve been making is that there is no connection between rotational and orbital periods for the earth.”

Yes, but that is not the whole point of the argument you’ve been making. You have also been saying that this is some evidence that weighs in favor of randomness vs. design.

I don’t think you’ve made a logical argument as to why that would be so, you’ve only used fallacies to support it.


51 posted on 03/03/2012 5:19:39 PM PST by Boogieman
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