Fwd: Stott notes

McCarrick, Allan (MCCARRIC@mailgate.navsses.navy.mil)
Tue, 06 May 1997 08:15 EST

Friday the 25 of April, Philip Stott spoke on (Problems in Astronomy) at
a church in Maryland. The gist of the talk was that all contemporary
theories are wrong, the astronomical community knows it and are covering
it up, and the Bible presents wonderfully accurate scientific models that
the astronomers should use. Those astronomers that sign on to modern
theories are "godless, humanistic, secular, atheistic" scientists.

There is too much to put into one post. So let me start with 10 of his
points for all to comment on. I'll post more later.

1. A couple of hundred years ago, science was dominated by Christians,
who took the Bible seriously, and would not make theories that would
contradict it in any way.

2. Astronomical theories are interpretations of the data. But modern
astronomy has freed itself from any dependency on Biblical constraints.

3. In the Astonomical Encyclopedia (?), Leaf Robinson (?) states that
there are "tidal waves of evidence that modern theories are wrong."

4. John Maddox, editor of Nature, stated in 1989 that the Big Bang model
is "thoroughly unsatisfactory."

5. Standard Big Bang model produces mostly H and He (20% !?), but B type
stars have 100x less He. Therefore B.B. is wrongheaded.

6. The B.B. could not have produced the rotations seen in galaxies
because it possessed only radial velocities.

7. Spiral galaxies must wrap themselves up in a short time. Their
existence proves young universe. The postulate of unseen dark matter is
the astronomers foolish attempt to keep a bad theory.

8. Clusters of galaxies have local velocities that are high enough for
those clusters to disperse. Therefore the universe must be young.

9. The Trapezium stars are moving apart. 10,000 years ago they would
have been at the same spot. Therefore the universe is young.

10. A straightforward interpretation of Hubble's galaxy motion data is
that the earth is surrounded by objects moving radially away. This is
what is meant by the Biblical references to God stretching out the
heavens. See, the Bible had said this millennia before its discovery.
The universe was expanding but it has stopped.

Have fun.

Al
mccarric@mailgate.navsses.navy.mil