Friday, October 15, 2010

Star FAIL

Posted at CARM on October 14th, 2010. Creationist: Dad.

Here is a series of posts by Dad. Just...read and enjoy.

Stars will fall to earth. Says the bible. A third of them. How big could they be??

Mt 24:29 -Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
Re 6:13 -And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Re 12:4 -And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth

how big could they really be if they fall to earth?

(In response to "you don't know what a star is): Why don't you tell us then, and give an example of one a million ly or more away?

If stars are composed of more than, or other than physical only material, your scenario is trashed. How many little demons falling to earth would boil the seas??

Someone responds. Here are Dad's replies to the post.

"Stars show distinctive gravitational effects, and we can look at their composition from a distance"

Example of these 'gravitational' effects? You guys are one piece of work, Hawking credits present gravity with no less than creation.

"Like our own sun, they are composed of a great amount of matter, much of it in a plasma state."

Let's see the evidence for that claim. Story telling.

"Both their mass and energy output can be measured quite well, and of course their distance with different tools."

great, so measure all that for Alpha Centauri.

"Even assuming a bare minimum in size - and with marble-mass stars i'm being incredibly intensely careful - you're talking about an incredible event. Actual stars of any size falling on earth is really not worth calculating, since any single one would destroy the planet many times over already."

False. Not if they are not physical.

Alrighty then. Chalk up Astronomy as another scientific discipline that most YEC's don't know JACK about.

-Erin

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