Amazing! These folks still have their own teeth?
"the fact that if the solar system was anywhere near as old as some claim--our sun would have been so much larger--its gravitational pull would have been so much higher--that the innermost planets by now would have spiraled into it by now...."
Fact? Your physics doesn't work.
As stated earlier, my hypothesis about the gravitational effect on planets by a somewhat larger "old-earth" sun/solar system is just that: my hypothesis, based on my layman's knowledge and interest in astronomy and physics. I have no Alice's Restaurant VW van full of 141 8x10 glossies, PowerPoint presentations or other implements of evolutionary destruction to show the blind judge and seeing eye dog ;) I do have my own teeth, Spunkets, perhaps rather than derogatory jeering we can show mutual respect and raise the level of discourse a notch or two above the Barbara Boxer level....
Whether the 'fire' of the sun is by oxidization or nuclear, the fact remains that energy is radiated away from the sun; it is not a closed system. Estimates about its probable reduction in size (estimated only about 1% over estimated millions/BILLIONS of years, etc.) are ESTIMATES--some including I would say biased to fit a particular set of presuppositions. Nevertheless, I have been duly corrected in my statement about the type of reaction about the sun. I'm man enough and intellectually honest enough to acknowledge that I made a statement in error. Now I am slightly the wiser. I stand corrected.
Now I will refer you back to my post #71 and ask the anti-Creationists: why only glom onto my one point and conveniently sidestep a more salient issue? Why have you not replied to my assertions and valid questions about not removing Buddhism, Roman and Greek mythology etc. and the Koran in public schools? Have you written, or will you write, letters to your local school board to help an all-or-none policy be implemented and enforced? If you are consistent, you have integrity. If you are inconsistent, you either lack the courage of your stated convictions--or are willingly and knowingly a hypocrite. Sorry, no dodging that bullet.