[Rev. Jim Osborne]

Re: Ridiculous make-believe pictures

These pictures are wrong on so many levels, I have no idea where to begin.

1. If the sun was hundreds of times bigger than Earth like in those pictures, we would burn up. The sun is no more than 500 miles away, as proven by mathematics. If this were true, the whole sky would be made up of the sun and the earth would be devoured in intense heat.
2. Stars are not giant balls of red gas, but actually diamonds. Again, if stars like Arturus and Betelgeuse were so big, why do they look so small in the sky? Also when you look at them, they are not red. They are twinkly and silvery-white, just like diamonds.
3. The Earth is not a sphere. That's just a bogus old wives' tale that spread around so heavily that everyone believes that nonsense. If the Earth was really a sphere, then people in Australia would fall off into space. Gravity is a downwards force.

I'm just glad that schoolchildren in our town are learning the truth about astronomy, and not being spoon-fed that scientific nonsense that atheists cook up to destroy children's faith in Jesus.

[Drizzle]

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Scientists are so dumb sometimes! If we say the Universe is infinite, (let's play devil's advocate with them) Then anyplace would be the center! They have to admit the bible is right!

Now, those picture above show accurate scales of our planets, sun, and neighboring stars. They are not the real celestial objects, they're computer generated using the latest scientific information.

But anyway, I hadn't thought of your point before. The universe is infinite, so really, any given point is the middle. Good argument.

[Cranky Old Man]

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so really, any given point is the middle

So your opinion is that you have no opinion?

[michele]

Re: Ridiculous make-believe pictures

These pictures are wrong on so many levels, I have no idea where to begin.

1. If the sun was hundreds of times bigger than Earth like in those pictures, we would burn up. The sun is no more than 500 miles away, as proven by mathematics. If this were true, the whole sky would be made up of the sun and the earth would be devoured in intense heat.

hate to break it to you but i think you'll find the distance of the sun has already been proven to be further away than 500 miles using mathmatics!

1. Stars are not giant balls of red gas, but actually diamonds. Again, if stars like Arturus and Betelgeuse were so big, why do they look so small in the sky? Also when you look at them, they are not red. They are twinkly and silvery-white, just like diamonds.

if you were to take an orange. place it 1 meter in front of you. take a picture. then place it 10 meters in front of you. and take a picture. the picture at 10 meters makes the orange look smaller than it actually is. its a similar principal for the stars. they are so far away that only a tiny bit of light reaches the earth which is why they seem so tiny.

1. The Earth is not a sphere. That's just a bogus old wives' tale that spread around so heavily that everyone believes that nonsense. If the Earth was really a sphere, then people in Australia would fall off into space. Gravity is a downwards force.

yes gravity is a downward force. where are you coming from exactly? in space there is no "down" as such. down and up only exists on planets. and as such if you went to australia you would not fall off because the centre of the earth is our "down".

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[hopeneverdies]

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he laughed

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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he laughed

He isn't laughing now I can tell you. I have it on good authority that satan has Carl Sagan in the deepest pits of hell, where he is sodomized by rabid monkeys day in and day out.

[Jedediah]

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Carl Sagan smoked the marihuana; therefore, he has no credibility. He's in Hell now, with all the other users and abusers.

[SUV]

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Praise JESUS that this thread is only about BALLS

I thought Sure© I'd have to look at Richard Dawkins' mormonic Creation the "dugong" again:

[Aristotle]

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Carl Sagan smoked the marihuana; therefore, he has no credibility. He's in Hell now, with all the other users and abusers.

And to think that Sagan will be in Hell for:

" billions and billions" of years.

[Alpine]

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To mock an illustration because the picture of the sun has a shadow is preposterous. In da Vinci's Verrocchio, Jesus nor John have a shadow, even though the sun is directly behind them. It's a picture, not a photograph.

And have none of you been on air planes? If the Earth were flat, there would be no horizon when you look out the window.

[Iamfred]

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So if the earth is flat.. there must be an end somewhere? Where is this according to you guys?

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

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It is "at the ends of the earth".

Edit: Isaiah 40:22
It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;

[Nobar King]

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It's a picture, not a photograph.

And have none of you been on air planes? If the Earth were flat, there would be no horizon when you look out the window.

Can you explain the difference between a picure and a photograph?

Also what do you think one would see if not for the horizon?

[Iamfred]

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It is "at the ends of the earth".

Edit: Isaiah 40:22
It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;

That doesn't answer my question... WHERE does it end, like near Australia, at the Atlantic see... give me a specific location please, and what would be even better would be a REAL picture showing it, rather than some random drawing.

[Alpine]

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I meant picture as in an illustration, a drawn or painted or digitally created image, rather than a photograph. I assume you all know what photographs are? And don't say that a photograph is a digitally created image because they are taken on digital cameras, because I'm sure you know the difference between a digital photo and a picture I draw on Microsoft Paint.

Secondly, if the Earth is flat and has definite end points, how is that someone from the West Coast of North America can fly west and reach Japan, yet someone on the East Coast can fly east and also reach Japan? Is the end of the earth somewhere between New York City and Los Angeles?