Physics proves the earth is only thousands of years old.
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Hundreds of years of scientific observations and data from a wide variety of disciplines (physics, geology, paleontology, astronomy etc.), 99.99% of which explicitly falsifies the hypothesis that the Earth is only "a few thousand" years old, can't just be dismissed as fluff or discounted by a couple of fringe theories from a non-mainstream 'scientist.'
Hello stu
Given the current state of lockdown on all hypothesis contrary to the PTB flavor of the month at the academia country club, I'll guess we shall never know........
If creation could be proven it would take a lot of faith out of religion and become meaningless. On a side note, experimental science needs to be able to be reproduced or it isn't really science. Why don't we spend our time trying to solve world problems instead of debating how we got here. In the broad scheme of eternity... does it really matter? Just my opinion.
Christopher Columbus believed the world was round which is why he tried to said west to get to India. Back then people still thought the earth was flat. Columbus got the idea that the world was round because the bible said it was. If people never believed the bible, people like YOU would still think the earth is flat because thats what the scientists would still be saying.
Yeah, i wish i was intelligenter like you.
I love that this is the main response of all atheists on this subject. Nothing to say so they just say "you are stupid, go read a book" or "if you believe this you are stupid"
The funny thing is most of the them became atheists because some other athiests used these comments and the stupid people, not wanting people to find out they were stupid, decided to become atheists, because as long as you are on the side of the attacker, you wont get attacked. Basically its what cowards do. Just like the bully in High school. If you bullied the same people the bully did, he would not bully you.
I found this. Interesting. http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/07/more_christian_nation_nonsense_1.php
peil. every post you make provides evidence that the religious are
morons. you will fall prey to whatever nonsense some other religious moron says as long as he claims it is biblical. you have no ability to think for yourself. this post is a case in point. now for the facts:
From a Flat to a Round Earth
The History behind the Determination of the Shape of the Planet
The fact is generally well known that at least during some point in ancient history the world was thought by many to be flat. This should come as no surprise to anyone who went to school at any point in their life, or who has ever been told the history of Columbus' revolutionary voyage across the Atlantic, thereby proving wrong the âflat Earthâ theory. There are parts of this which are undeniably true. Columbus did indeed sail to America in 1492.
The world is indeed round.
Any honest scholar of the era of Columbus (that is, Europe of the late 15th century), while appreciating the very real contributions Columbus' exploration made in terms of Geography and exploration would be the first to admit that proving to the scientific world that the Earth was round was not necessarily one of them.
In reality, scientists, even in the 15th century had been aware for quite some time that the Earth was most likely round. Those who may have feared the idea of sailing off the edge of a flat (as many children are taught) world were generally the uneducated of the time, prone to exaggeration and superstition.
The Early Theory of a Round Earth
The truth of the matter is that ever since Pythagoras first postulated that the Earth must be a sphere way back in 570 BC, the theory has been quite alive among scientists, and not nearly as taboo as we may have been led to believe. There were surely some holdouts whose superstitions led them to believe otherwise, but to the scientific elite, there was very little question.
Such famed thinkers as Plato and Aristotle (both performing their work in the third and fourth centuries B.C.) agreed with the Pythagorian theory regarding the shape of the Earth (not to be confused with the Pythagorian theorem regarding right triangles, which is a different story altogether), based on observations of the curved horizon at sea as well as the shape of the Earth when seen casting a shadow on the moon during a lunar eclipse.
In the third century B.C., the Greek mathematician Eratosthenes even measured the circumference of the Earth using the shadows cast by the sun during the summer solstice at different locations and performing a bit of clever geometry. His estimate is thought to be within 10% of todayâs value, which is truly remarkable for the time.
From this point on, the shape of the Earth was in constant debate among philosophers, astronomers, Mathematicians and general thinkers alike (during the middle ages, many people fell back into a belief in a flat Earth). While it took Columbus' voyage to finally allow the divergent opinions to mesh together into a unified whole, he wasn't exactly breaking any new ground, scientifically â just proving what had already been theorized for more than two thousand years.