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Title: creationist astronomy
Post by: Kosh on May 23, 2009, 10:05:09 am

 Click here for a good laugh (http://www.creationastronomy.com/preview/)

Title: Re: creationist astronomy
Post by: The E on May 23, 2009, 10:14:06 am

As Phil Plait said, all I could hear was bla bla bla evolution bad bla.

Title: Re: creationist astronomy
Post by: Galemp on May 23, 2009, 10:20:28 am

WTF? Evolution is not astronomy.

Title: Re: creationist astronomy
Post by: Flipside on May 23, 2009, 10:21:10 am

:wtf:

Since when did Astrophysics and Evolution become interchangeable terms?

@Galemp - Exactly...

Title: Re: creationist astronomy
Post by: The E on May 23, 2009, 10:23:38 am

Astronomy = Science
Evolution = Science

So Astronomy and Evolution must both be connected! And since Evolution is wrong, Astronomy has to be as well!

Note: This does not represent my actual opinion.

Title: Re: creationist astronomy
Post by: Flipside on May 23, 2009, 10:26:01 am

Difference is, Science enjoy the challenge of the unexplainable, whereas these people seem to be terrified of it, it's like reverting back to the days where Thunder was blamed on Thor because no-one was sure what really caused it, so it was easier to blame a big beard in the sky.

Title: Re: creationist astronomy
Post by: karajorma on May 23, 2009, 10:35:54 am

Dumbest thing I've seen in ages.

Title: Re: creationist astronomy
Post by: Spicious on May 23, 2009, 10:57:27 am

Sounds like someone got paid on a per evolution(ist/ary) basis.

Title: Re: creationist astronomy
Post by: The E on May 23, 2009, 11:01:57 am

Quote from: Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy Blog

The nonsense pouring forth from those videos would carve the Grand Canyon in just days. It would be interesting to debunk the garbage presented point by point– in the sense that it would be interesting to slowly push a red-hot knitting needle into my ear — but there’s no need. Debunking that video is like trying to cure chicken pox one scab at a time. It’s all "god of the gaps" nonsense, "science can’t explain this or that", with them always and forever forgetting the one word that changes everything:

"Yet".

Title: Re: creationist astronomy
Post by: Flipside on May 23, 2009, 11:12:16 am

I seem to recall theories that Jupiter used to be far more massive than it is even now, but shed a great deal of it somehow, creating the 'ice skater' effect? That's sort of how Pulsars get started, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was something along those lines...

In fact, it does make one stop to wonder what a Pulsar would look like after several Billion years, as it loses momentum and heat, it would become a large, slightly warm body which rotates rapidly and is a heavy source of X-Rays, it would have thrown heavier elements out early in its life, and therefore consist mostly of light elements such as Hydrogen, Helium etc...

Title: Re: creationist astronomy
Post by: Aardwolf on May 26, 2009, 09:59:42 am

I'd laugh, but I can't. Too worried about how many nuts like that are on the loose.

Title: Re: creationist astronomy
Post by: haloboy100 on May 26, 2009, 11:39:56 am

I bet these guys voted for bush.

and Hilary.

Title: Re: creationist astronomy
Post by: Scotty on May 26, 2009, 01:20:26 pm

Pick something to argue about and stick with it, don't bring politics into a religion argument, and (usually) vice versa.

That said, those guys are a few pieces short of a full puzzle.

Title: Re: creationist astronomy
Post by: StarSlayer on May 26, 2009, 01:52:15 pm

Astronomy is math, you can't fight math win.