[js1138]

I might add, that you are suggesting tha sun was 8 percent larger 8,000 years ago -- well within the usual constraints for creationism -- but also well inside a significant ice age.

[PatrickHenry]

The good thing about this "shrinking sun" business is that we need all the global warming we can generate. The other good thing about it is that by noticing those who adhere to this bizarre idea, we can identify those who have not yet heard of nuclear fusion. Generations ago, before this energy source was understood, it was widly assumed that the sun could not be very old, because it couldn't keep burning at its observable rate for very long. It was part of the "young earth" line of thinking.

[bondserv]

As PatrickHenry pointed out, larger radius doesn't mean hotter for lets say 10,000 years (if nuclear fusion makes the sun hot, and size has no bearing on temperature). But physical size does become an issue when one extrapolates those percentages further back in time, because of physical proximity.