[Rebel_Ace]

Nephi,

You said, "...but your arrogant dismissal of his point doesn't hide the complexity of aligning the axis of the sun/earth orbit and the moon/earth orbit and the distance of the sun, moon and earth required to create the solar eclipse..."

Let's say we were discussing something like The Flu. I look around and notice lot's of people with the flu having chicken soup. I then make this assertion:

"The same conditions that cause Chicken Soup, also make the flu possible."

Someone with a clearer head might disagree, and in order to prove my assertion false, he need only show ONE instance where chicken soup appears without the flu. So this person says in rebuttal to my assertion:

"They served chicken soup yesterday in the school cafeteria, and no one there had the flu. Chicken soup conditions seem to have nothing to do with flu occuring."

So, to counter the assertion that the conditions that make Solar Eclipses possible, I showed an example that illustrated that planet/moon eclipse alignments also occur on barren, frozen planets. His assertion is demonstratably false. Even worse, it is demonstratably false using no more than high school level astronomical information.

"Arrogant"? I prefer the term "Colorful".

[Nephi]

Let's say we were discussing something like The Flu.

Can't you make your point by discussing the subject instead of flu and chicken soup?

I am intrigued by Gonzalez's "solar eclipse" example and I wonder what the heck he means by it. It doesn't seem that you know either, but that didn't stop you from dismissing it. I'd be truly impressed if you could explain what Gonzalez's example refers to and why you disagree.

If you don't know, then that would explain why you would resort to your flu and chicken soup analogy.