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To: jimmyray; allmendream
"Maybe this should have been qualified, or explained or something. Simple Newtonian physics won't support that assertion."

Yeah, I suppose so.

Moon has twice the influence on tides as the sun

220 posted on 08/27/2008 6:05:15 AM PDT by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: GourmetDan
"Moon has twice the influence on tides as the sun"

On the tides, yes, all will agree with that. Interestingly enough, the motion of the planets can be explained by either model (geo or heliocentric), but the apparent reversal of the orbital patterns of the planets can better be described by a heliocentric model of the solar system. Even so, from our perspective on earth, the sun rises and sets, as does the moon and constellations, as well as the equinioxes, and thus we have the lunisolar calendar used by many ancient peoples. However, one must assume some reason for the origin of a 7 day week, which has been almost universal in it's use from the earliest recorded history. The only "scientific" explanation that I have seen is a subdivsion of the lunar cyle into 4 parts. However, the Judeo-Christian belief system references the 7 day creation week. Thus, each is left with a chicked-egg conundrum. Did Moses adopt the 7 day week that was in use into his creation account, or... was the creation account the basis for the 7 day week. Neither proposition can be proved conclusively, each must be accepted on faith! The Big Bang-er takes a Darwinian approach to social development, and must support the former explanation, or some other "rational" theory. The Biblical Creationist, obviously, accepts the latter.

223 posted on 08/27/2008 6:56:32 AM PDT by jimmyray
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To: GourmetDan
“Do you realize that the moon exerts twice the gravitational force on the earth that the sun does?” GDan

Wrong. The Sun Earth gravity is one hundred seventy times as strong as the Moon Earth gravity.

“Moon has twice the influence on tides as the sun” GDan

Correct.

Do you understand the difference between the two? How are we supposed to take your Astrological model of Geocentricism seriously when you are so mathematically incompetent?

225 posted on 08/27/2008 7:01:55 AM PDT by allmendream (If "the New Yorker" makes a joke, and liberals don't get it, is it still funny?)
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