homunculus writes:
Figurative to illustrate; 1 mile closer to the sun we would burn up, 1 mile further away we would freeze.
Where did you pick up this statement which is totally debunked before it is stated. Since the earth's orbit is an ellipse with the sun a on focus, there is about a 3 million mile difference in distance at the aphelion to the perihelion, aphelion 94.5 million miles, perihelion 91.5 million miles. That is a lot more than 1. Your point sound like a hovindism (something stupid that Kent Hovind would say)
I'm replying this to your post since homunculus apparently removed that claim after your reply to him.
Yes, it is indeed true that over the year the earth's distance from the sun varies by 3 million miles and that does indeed debunk his and creationists'/IDists' false claim that the slightest shift in the earth's distance would eitehr make it too hot or too cold for life to exist. But you forgot the icing on the cake, especially then the creationist/IDist lives in the Northern Hemisphere.
The earth is at perihelion, its closest approach to the sun, in the first week of
January, in the
dead of winter. I'm sure that homunculus (assuming he lives in the northern hemisphere) has been outside this month and has noticed how intensely hot it's been, too hot for any life to exist. Just as I'm sure that in the beginning of June, when we're farthest away from the sun, he could not help but notice how all life was frozen dead from the surface of the earth ... at least when he could wipe the sweat from his eyes.
Isn't it amazing how much embaressment they could avoid if they were to only stop to learn something first?
Edited by dwise1, : No reason given.
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