polonium halos

This topic has been of interest to me for some time. It's the only question ever put to me by a creationist that wasn't obviously flawed. I'm still not sure I'm fully up to speed so I don't want to let it go. This is a bump. You'll find that image 222rnhalo1v2ym1.jpg the right hand image with the misaligned circles is originally from Message 205, where RAZD said this about it:Clearly it was originally a test piece rejected for the better fit of this image: which RAZD used in all instances following with the exception of Message 215 where he picked the argument back up after a longish pause. I'll bet you he used the wrong image and your argument's for nought.Razd's method for finding the ring sizes is much more accurate the yours. It's much easier to find the peak of a Gaussian distribution then the edge. Especially since there ain't one.

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Genesis 2
17 But of the ponderosa pine, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou shinniest thereof thou shalt sorely learn of thy nakedness.
18 And we all live happily ever after.

coloration is not uniform; your discrimination is.Someone somewhere in a speciation topic has a nice gradient diagram running from red to yellow. The question being where does red end and yellow begin. Imagine curling the image into a ring. The eye almost automatically finds the center of either the red or the yellow areas by equalizing the orange to either side. Conversely, the eye seems to fight against one if one tries to locate the center of either orange band. And no two people will be able to agree on this as different people have different sensitivities to these colors. Everyone, however, has exactly the same sensitivity to these colors as themselves, so everyone balances the orange bands of opposite side equally, therefore picking the same middles for the red and yellow bands.(At least a part that statement has the potential of not being redundant.)AbE: I forgot what my after thought was.Edited by lyx2no, : To make myself look daft.

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Genesis 2
17 But of the ponderosa pine, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou shinniest thereof thou shalt sorely learn of thy nakedness.
18 And we all live happily ever after.

When one is guessing the edge of the color band, what one is actually doing is making a determination of ones ability to detect the color as having ended. Disregarding a propensity to second guess oneself "I think I see a tinge of red, but maybe I'm imagining it." it's still limited by ones color resolution.Going back to our colored ring: Say the ring has a comfortable circumference of 30 cm. Using a 1 cm wide window slide it along the band. At every point on the band the window will show more red at one extreme and more yellow at the other with two exceptions: when the window is centered over the Max Red or over the Max Yellow; there, both extremes will be equally orange. The 1 cm width for the window can be reduced to three times the width of ones color resolution with the same effect, reducing the problem to ones ability to resolve the center of ones window even beyond ones color resolution. (Reducing the width of the window to dw looks like there might be a calculus problem in there somewhere.)AbE: Speaking of resolution: this technicality needs to be resolved soon so the topic can resume pretty please.Edited by lyx2no, : Allowing me a return to lurkerhood.

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Genesis 2
17 But of the ponderosa pine, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou shinniest thereof thou shalt sorely learn of thy nakedness.
18 And we all live happily ever after.

I took you to mean: Which isn't contradicted by:But if what you meant was: then I stand corrected. Thanks for disillusioning me.Now I'm just confused.Ab2E: Hi cavediver. You've never seen a bell curve? I'd have thought you would have with all that math stuff you do.Edited by lyx2no, : FormatingEdited by lyx2no, : No reason given.

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Genesis 2
17 But of the ponderosa pine, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou shinniest thereof thou shalt sorely learn of thy nakedness.
18 And we all live happily ever after.

I've a cruel-streak all my own. Ha-ha-ha (Does the look like an evil laugh to you? It doesn't look evil to me. Distinctly not evil.)

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Genesis 2
17 But of the ponderosa pine, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou shinniest thereof thou shalt sorely learn of thy nakedness.
18 And we all live happily ever after.

Would you mind telling us what you do think?

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Genesis 2
17 But of the ponderosa pine, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou shinniest thereof thou shalt sorely learn of thy nakedness.
18 And we all live happily ever after.