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To: Amish with an attitude; Doctor Stochastic
Nice link.

From the link:

Then while browsing through the NASA documents in the university library (fortunately, we have open stacks), I spotted Meteor Orbits and Dust, pulled it off the shelf, and immediately saw that it was dated 1965! Not wanting to jump to conclusions, especially since it was "Volume 11", and not "Vol. 2", I doublechecked the presence of the quoted passages; they were right there. Slusher had misrepresented the date by 11 years! Upon further examination of the referenced text within the document, I found that his single direct quote was a gross misquotation (on the basis of which he had included one factor), that he had badly misused the basic mathematical procedures for handling that included factor, and that he had included another factor which his referenced text clearly stated did not apply. In all, he had inflated his figures for the earth by a factor of one million (which when corrected yields an infall of a measly 214 tons -- far too little) and for the moon by a factor of 10,000 (which when corrected yields a layer of dust 1/3 inch thick -- far thinner than we found).

Not surprisingly, another lie from Creationist Central. How can they even read their Bibles if words have no meaning???

92 posted on 05/05/2004 9:17:49 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
Perhaps it was just another Creationist of pulling numbers out of the air to support something he really wanted to fly.

It could have been worse. They could have claimed the computations were done at Stoney Brook.
94 posted on 05/05/2004 9:22:30 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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