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Old 12-30-2001, 01:50 PM   #11
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Come on, it's a valid statistic that over half the students that study genetics in universities no longer see evolution as possible!

Yeah, about as valid as the claim that the sun is shrinking 1m/yr, which is to say totally fictitious.
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I don't often pass by this forum, to be honest I know very little about science/evolution. But...

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Even if it were 1000km closer the temp on earth would have risen to unbearable levels.
...seems as though davidH might have copied someone elses mistake. 1000Km? What's that, 600, 700 miles? I bet the orbit of the earth varies by loads more than this each and every year we orbit the sun. Sheesh.

Any astronomers out there with accurate numbers for this feature of our orbit?

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Old 12-30-2001, 02:02 PM   #13
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You wont get any reference for that claim because its false. Either DavidH made it up himself, or he's regurgitating a falsehood he heard elsewhere.</strong>
Actually, this claim and just about everything else in DavidH's post smacks of Hovind. I wouldn't be surprised if the post is just cobbled together from various things found at Hovind's site.

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Old 12-30-2001, 02:07 PM   #14
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<strong>Even if it were 1000km closer the temp on earth would have risen to unbearable levels.</strong>
So decreasing the distance from here to the sun of 1000 km would make life on Earth impossible? Even though during the course of a year the distance varies from 152.6 million km to 147.5 million km (refs <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/07/04/sun.distant/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.hao.ucar.edu/public/education/general/general.html" target="_blank">here</a>). I'd like to see a reference for this "fact" as well. Or the maths.

Maybe you need to find another website to get your facts from. I suggest <a href="http://www.talkorigins.org" target="_blank">this one</a>.

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Actually, this claim and just about everything else in DavidH's post smacks of Hovind. I wouldn't be surprised if the post is just cobbled together from various things found at Hovind's site.

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Agreed, but he didnt say that "Evolutionists think we came from a rock."
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Agreed, but he didnt say that "Evolutionists think we came from a rock."</strong>

Well, we'll see if we get told that chicken cytochrome C is closest to human cytochrome C.
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davidH, you might want to stay indoors on January 2nd. We'll be only 147,098,058 km from the Sun then - over 1000 km closer than today. Use lots of sunblock, too.
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<strong>davidH, you might want to stay indoors on January 2nd.</strong>
I just hope he's got air conditioning.
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Agreed, but he didnt say that "Evolutionists think we came from a rock."</strong>
Yes, but he did say, "Who did the experiment to show that something formed out of nothing?" Only Hovind is so brilliant as to have come up with that objection.

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Well, we'll see if we get told that chicken cytochrome C is closest to human cytochrome C. </strong>
Ah, come on. Everyone knows that sunflower Cytochrome C is the closest to human CC. Sheesh, silly evolutionists . . .
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