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To: Terriergal
Comparing the distance to the moon with the distance to the nearest star is kind of silly

Yet again, you are showing your lack of reading comprehension. You complained earlier that the precise angles needed to measure the distances to other stars was beyond human ability. I proved that man's ability to deal with very teeny, tiny angles, while we and the target are in motion, has existed for well over 30 years. Yes you are correct there is a difference between 239,000 miles and 4.2 light years(closest star to Sol) but then again we are not trying to hit an 18 square inch mirror 4.2 light years away.

Here are a couple more links to help you understand what simple geometry and trigonometry can help us do

How to measure the distance to a star < 100 light years away

History of the speed of light - First reasonably accurate guess in 1676

114 posted on 04/04/2002 2:45:19 PM PST by SengirV
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To: Terriergal;SengirV
And not to forget type Ia supernovae which allow measurements of distances to objects that are even farther away.
118 posted on 04/04/2002 3:00:26 PM PST by BMCDA
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To: SengirV
Yet again, you are showing your lack of reading comprehension.

Yet again you show your lack of math comprehension.

But, I am wasting my time, I know. I would rather talk with real brains, like my husband (mensa qualifier and aced college calc in 10th grade - and oh yeah... new earth creationist... his evolutionist college profs didn't like the questions he asked.)

I'm still wondering how life can come from non life... of course, it MUST have happened because of course there can't be a God. Fine. If you admit your faith is what it is I am fine with that. Yes, we have faith that an intelligence without beginning exists that created all this. You have faith that somehow, everything came from nothing, that life came from non-life, that intelligence came from nothing, that everything proceeds at the same rate today as it did thousands of years ago when you weren't there because while at once you say that the world was different X^Y number of years ago, you also assume that things change at the same rates they do right now. (e.g. erosion - carbon 14 deterioration etc.)

I am not going to convince you. Either real life will, or you will learn when it is too late. That's all I can say.

123 posted on 04/04/2002 3:23:23 PM PST by Terriergal
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To: SengirV
Here are a couple more links to help you understand what simple geometry and trigonometry can help us do

I could have slept through geometry and trig and passed them.

126 posted on 04/04/2002 3:34:08 PM PST by Terriergal
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