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Author Topic:   How do creationists explain stars?
iano
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Message 8 of 297 (289535)
02-22-2006 11:26 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by carini
02-19-2006 1:47 AM


What I wonder is how someone can say a star is 6000 light years away when what they are looking at is the light supposedly emitted 6000 years ago.
How do we tell the distance to anything when it is not there in the first place?
Anyone got and good links (for a beginner) on the principles of how distances to stars and galaxies are measured. I have always been intrigued by the vastness of space and the distances said to be involved. About time I found out about it.

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iano
Member (Idle past 1940 days)
Posts: 6165
From: Co. Wicklow, Ireland.
Joined: 07-27-2005


Message 14 of 297 (289637)
02-22-2006 8:41 PM
Reply to: Message 13 by NosyNed
02-22-2006 12:47 PM


Re: Parallax
If a picture tells a thousand words then a piece of animation a millon. Thanks Ned. And thanks to others who have provided links. Will go a-delving. It truly is mind boggling from my perspective.
I followed the debate a while in Mod's link to start with and noticed in passing that many there aren't here anymore. Where do old the posters go to die I wonder? And what with the flurry of new posters this last couple of weeks or so. It seems every day brings a few more at the moment...

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