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1 posted on 02/15/2013 12:08:21 PM PST by fishtank
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2 posted on 02/15/2013 12:23:37 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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Creation Scientists Puzzled by Science.


4 posted on 02/15/2013 12:26:01 PM PST by Kozak (The Republic is dead. I do not owe what we have any loyalty, wealth or sympathy.)
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Secular researchers are also puzzled by the methane in Titan's atmosphere. Because sunlight degrades methane, Titan's atmospheric methane should have been depleted after only a few tens of millions of years. Yet methane is still present in Titan's atmosphere.

Space Cows......

5 posted on 02/15/2013 12:29:36 PM PST by Red Badger (Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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When a person says this or that “should have happened” it indicates they think they have a much deeper understanding of the cosmos than they really do.

What if the planetary rings are a million years old instead of a billion or more? Does that make the cosmos or the earth only a few thousand years old?

Much of science is speculation but speculative error is also the error of the young earth people.

9 posted on 02/15/2013 12:36:34 PM PST by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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Mainstream astronomers are going to learn some new stuff that heretic astronomers have been hooting about for ages:

1. Saturn’s rings are recent
2. Io’s eruptions are electrical discharges
3. The sun (and all stars) is the remnant of a galactic Birkland current Z pinch
4. Big Bang, Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Black Hole are mathematical hallucinations.
5. Almost all life was wiped out in North America 10,000 years ago by a comet impact
6. The sun (and all stars) are electrical arc discharges not H-bombs
7. 99% of all matter in the Universe is in the plasma state and hence is electrical in nature
8. The “solar wind” would be more aptly named the solar electric current
9. Radiometric dating is heavily skewed in the presence of static electrical fields thus all geological and archaeological dating relying on isotope decay is unreliable.
10. Gravity has an electrical component

www.thunderbolts.info


10 posted on 02/15/2013 12:37:21 PM PST by Yollopoliuhqui
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Nonsense. This was debunked long ago.

Earth is not young. Accept it.

19 posted on 02/15/2013 12:51:29 PM PST by backwoods-engineer ("Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the gov officials committing it." -- K. Hoffmann)
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Likewise, the extreme volcanic activity on Jupiter's moon Io seems incapable of being sustained for extremely long periods of time.

Io is frictionally heated by the gravitational changes of its elliptical orbit close to massive Jupiter; that energy never "runs out."

This author is either an idiot or a liar. Probably some combination of the two.

21 posted on 02/15/2013 12:52:05 PM PST by Strategerist
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I’m sure that it puzzles priests, doctors, welders and cab drivers too. What the in bloody heck do “evolutionary scientists” have to do with astronomy? Evolutionary scientists would be ones who study evolution, right? Evolution only deals with the diversity of life on earth. Evolutionary scientists would have no great expertise on the age of objects in the solar system, at least not any more than anyone else.


23 posted on 02/15/2013 12:55:23 PM PST by stremba
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“The brightness of Saturn’s rings is puzzling because after billions of years, they should have been darkened by dust from comets and asteroids. Yet these rings are still brilliantly beautiful.”

Are these people really this stupid? The moon is covered in dust and last I checked it reflects light just fine. Where in “God’s plan” does it indicate that dust is flat black? Stuff like this just makes creationists look stupid. My God did create the universe but he is not a Luddite. When “creation science” beliefs are so clearly ignorant it makes it easier for people to doubt other religious teachings and thought. People like this are truly doing Satan’s PR work.


29 posted on 02/15/2013 1:01:34 PM PST by azcap (Who is John Galt ? www.conservativeshirts.com)
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“The brightness of Saturn’s rings is puzzling because after billions of years, they should have been darkened by dust from comets and asteroids. Yet these rings are still brilliantly beautiful.”

Are these people really this stupid? The moon is covered in dust and last I checked it reflects light just fine. Where in “God’s plan” does it indicate that dust is flat black? Stuff like this just makes creationists look stupid. My God did create the universe but he is not a Luddite. When “creation science” beliefs are so clearly ignorant it makes it easier for people to doubt other religious teachings and thought. People like this are truly doing Satan’s PR work.


30 posted on 02/15/2013 1:01:52 PM PST by azcap (Who is John Galt ? www.conservativeshirts.com)
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The article says “should .... yet” a lot. Shows the muddy thinking that has become common.
The universe “should” not do anything. The universe does what it does, and it’s up to us mortals to figure it out - but we don’t seem to be doing a very good job of it.

There are no anomalies in the universe. The universe is working quite well the way it always has.


38 posted on 02/15/2013 2:11:03 PM PST by I want the USA back
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Economy of explanation, or parsimony, is an important principle in science. A single hypothesis that can simultaneously explain multiple phenomena is more likely to be correct than multiple hypotheses needed to explain those same phenomena.

There is also the requirement that the hypothesis have predictive explanatory power. It must be able to give a further explanation for something we don't know yet, but on investigation, turns out to be the case.

"ITWASALIENS" and "GODDIDIT" do not apply.

41 posted on 02/15/2013 3:46:51 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (I think, therefore I am what I yam, and that's all I yam - "Popeye" Descartes)
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Maggie's article is here.
73 posted on 02/17/2013 6:00:43 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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