Posted on 07/18/2009 7:17:27 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
The world of human phylogeny has been hit by a bombshell. Although scholars and textbooks are presenting chimpanzees as man's closest relatives, Grehan and Schwartz have revived the case for orangutans. They consider hominoids to be comprised of two sister clades: the human-orangutan clade (dental hominoids) and the chimpanzee-gorilla clade (African apes). They claim that humans and orangutans "share a common ancestor that excludes the extant African apes". Since it is received wisdom that chimps are the nearest relative to humans because we share over 98% of their genes and since humans are referred to as the "third chimpanzee", the ramifications of the new paper are immense!...
(Excerpt) Read more at arn.org ...
“No explanation (for the supposed acceleration of the Sun around the Earth) is needed because no such ‘force’ is needed under GR.”
So objects accelerate without forces acting upon them in GR?
How does the Earth respond to the force of gravity acting upon it from the Sun?
Why do you continue to misrepresent GR? Haven't you been told multiple times that F=m*a is included in CS in GR?
"How does the Earth respond to the force of gravity acting upon it from the Sun?"
Same way it responds to the force of gravity acting on it from the rest of the universe.
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