GD: "...consequently there is no evidence for local (~1AU) scale expansion of the solar system."
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Thank you for parading your ignorance and dishonesty for all on FR to see.
You used the same dishonest YEC trick they use in quoting scripture, You excerpted and cited a scientific paper (wrongly) out of context. Here is the entire statement:
"The search for a time variation in the gravitational constant results in \dot G/G=(4 +/- 9) x 10^{-13} yr^{-1}, consequently there is no evidence for local (~1AU) scale expansion of the solar system."
You obviously do not know what an Astronomical Unit is. (It is considerably smaller than the scale of the solar system as a whole.) Look it up; you might actually learn something...
If you were capable of comprehending powers-of-ten notation, you would understand that, with currently-available measurement techniques, we admit that we are simply unable to measure inflation at scales on the order of 1AU -- no matter where we measure. That does not invalidate measurements at greater scales. Nor does it imply that our solar system is a "special case". (Just because you can't "put a ruler to" the diameter of an electron, does that mean you can't know how many miles you drove? Or know how many miles it is from Phoenix to Boston -- even if you are in LA?)
At least scientists -- even Christian ones -- (unlike your ilk) have the intellectual honesty and integrity to admit and publish the limits of their abilities, their measurements, their data -- and their understanding...
Applause.
Excellent post, TXnMA. I can see why GGG doesn’t like you. He hates being confronted with the truth.
I know what an AU is and the excerpt I quoted is not enhanced by your addition. There is no evidence for any expansion of the solar system. That experiment simply proved it on the scale of 1 AU.
"At least scientists -- even Christian ones -- (unlike your ilk) have the intellectual honesty and integrity to admit and publish the limits of their abilities, their measurements, their data -- and their understanding..."
Then I await you and your ilk's evidence for the observed expansion of the solar system.