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And yet, miraculously, these are the same people who can dictate exactly what God's will is, even when there is nothing in the Bible to support them.
Our knowledge about it might be limited, but not as much as your thinking possibilites.
We know that hydrogen and helium were the only elements present at the beginning of the universe. Therefore, they were the components of stars. Stars burn what they are made of, you know. That's called Nuclear Fusion.
I heard some fundies are sending a manned rocket to the sun, something to do with being closer to heaven.
They realise that there will be a bit of a heat problem - but they have a solution. They are going at night.
Our understanding of nuclear physics is actually quite good; thus our ability to produce weapons based on the concept of nuclear fusion.
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas,
Yeah, EWT certainly displays limited knowledge.
Science is garnering more real information on a continuing basis.
Education is the solution to this, EWT.
"Question.....How does anyone know that our Sun burns Hydrogen?"
A branch of science called astronomy, prehaps you've heard of it?
...so is there any particular reason why EWT is denying science? Basically his point is: "I know about all the evidence there is, but what if, just WHAT IF there was something out there that made all our readings wrong for no particular reason?"
Oh way to blow the whole scam EndWelfareToday! Now no astronomers are going to get any more funding. How are the illuminati going to cover up the real purpose of those STEREO satellites now?
I really shouldn't feed the trolls :)
I was gonna call poe. Maybe even trojan poe ('cause, y'know, way to mimic creationist argument on something well-established and well-accepted -- basically it's the standard "replace evolution with gravity and see how it sounds" approach, but more devious).
But no. Sadly, he seems to be serious. It also appears that he's not a True Scotsman. (All that spectrometer crap is Not True Science, y'see...)
How can anyone get through life without ever getting a shred of scientific knowledge to stick in their brain?
I get all my science from Star Trek . Thus, I know that stars burn hydrogen, that when they go nova or form a black hole it is a process taking only a few tens of minutes to complete, and that you can travel in time by plotting a specific course around any mainline star at high warp speeds. This is useful if you need to teach a lesson about conservation to audiences across America about 300 years before you were born.
The post by Physicist is a wonderful explanation of the whole thing, including why a sample of the sun's material would be no better than what we have now.
Wonderfully written and it addresses all of this idiot's objections.
Actually, the sun doesn't "burn" hydrogen at all -- it used nuclear fusion to turn it into helium.
"Burn" is a decent way ti simplify it for the non-scientist, though. (But jeez, I learned about the sun using nuclear fusion in middle school...)
There is a thing called radiotelescope, satellites, mathematics, analysis from the earth of the particles which have been sent from the sun..................?. Don't use double standards, you are not so smart as to make us believe that you can prove that snakes speak.
And the fun part, at least as far as fundies are concerned, is that some uppity chick was the one who figured it out (can't remember who, but I want to say Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin).
We have the neutrinos.
We win.
not a bad question if he has not studied much science.
The light from the sun gives spectral lines that show what matter it contains.
There have been a few satelites put into space to study the sun, and a fair bit is known.
High school was a zillion years ago, but i do recall that when Mr. Physics told us the sun’s fuel, he also explained how we knew this. Like everything he presented. The history of the knowledge and what experiments we could conduct to verify it.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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