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To: Terriergal
OH yeah I guess God forgot to create light FIRST... and to create it already arriving here for our benefit.

in addition, if you look the closest star and figure out how we measure its distance away, you realize that we are trying to measure with our hugely (relatively speaking) inaccurate instruments, angles which are infinitesimally small. Making for astronomically sized errors.

In a word, WRONG! Does this include the gravitational lensing we observe, the light from a supernovae that gave us an incredibly accurate distance, the alpha lyman forest, the cosmic microwave background, etc.

90 posted on 04/04/2002 1:42:06 PM PST by RadioAstronomer
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To: RadioAstronomer
In a word, WRONG! Does this include the gravitational lensing we observe, the light from a supernovae that gave us an incredibly accurate distance...

Unless you've been to that supernova and checked the mileage, then you've got no real basis to claim that any of our present distance measurements is "incredibly accurate". The same misconceptions which paint scientists into ideological corners like the "big bang" idea is present in some of these measurements of distance.

169 posted on 04/04/2002 8:32:34 PM PST by medved
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