Hello HiTech RedNeck,
Thanks for your interesting incites.
" 'Did the article mention anything about the sun shrinking because of burning?' "
"Neither did I."
This exchange was addressed to Pat. I included you just as a heads up because you have been involved in our sub discussion.
As to post #842 I don't know how large the sun would need to be to remove chance of life on earth. It does seem logical that if the sun is contracting by all observable data, that it would be larger further in the past. You mentioned oscillation, which there may be evidence for of which I will look.
Be sure to check out Lambert's site, He is a Class A physicist.
http://www.ldolphin.org/asstbib.shtml
Particularly:
http://www.ldolphin.org/update.html
God Bless