(June 26, 2018 at 8:34 pm)CDF47 Wrote: This was a scientific thread with religious implications.  Then I was asked religious questions which is understandable.

(October 21, 2018 at 9:20 pm)CDF47 Wrote:

(October 21, 2018 at 9:33 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: You wouldn't be able to get a sock onto The Thinking Atheist Forum.

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C'est la vie.  

I wouldn't want to get anything onto TTA.

Fact: Minnows have teeth in their throat.

(October 21, 2018 at 4:30 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote:

(October 21, 2018 at 2:08 pm)Rahn127 Wrote: I tried to argue with my 7 year old niece last night who kept saying that the sun and sun down were two different things.

She wouldn't accept that it was the Sun that was going down. She saw the two events of a normal sun shining overhead and the Sun about to set as two separate things, not as one thing seen from different points of view.

It's going to be a rough day when I explain that humans are indeed animals and that one day an alien will implant it's egg in her stomach and she'll be pregnant.

She's actually correct. 
The sun stays put, shining in place. 
The Earth rotates and creates the appearance of "sun down". 

Actually the sun is orbiting the galactic centre which is itself moving in relation to other galaxies.

(October 22, 2018 at 1:34 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:

(October 21, 2018 at 4:30 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: She's actually correct. 
The sun stays put, shining in place. 
The Earth rotates and creates the appearance of "sun down". 

Actually the sun is orbiting the galactic centre which is itself moving in relation to other galaxies.

I was aware of that. The sun is not "going down".

The earth moves in a corkscrew fashion (from a vantage point of the center of the galaxy) as it revolves around the sun when that motion is added to the sun's revolution around the galaxy. Similarly, the sun moves in a corkscrew fashion (from a vantage point of outside of our galaxy) as it revolves around the Milky Way when that motion is added to our galaxy's motion through space. This is why wine is put in wine bottles.

(October 23, 2018 at 1:38 pm)sdelsolray Wrote: The earth moves in a corkscrew fashion (from a vantage point of the center of the galaxy) as it revolves around the sun when that motion is added to the sun's revolution around the galaxy.  Similarly, the sun moves in a corkscrew fashion (from a vantage point of outside of our galaxy) as it revolves around the Milky Way when that motion is added to our galaxy's motion through space.  This is why wine is put in wine bottles.

I saw a video graphic of how the solary system was moving through space and rotating and orbiting.  It looks pretty cool in the video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jHsq36_NTU

Of course our solar system is a corkscrew. You know what else is corkscrew?

(October 23, 2018 at 4:55 pm)Nay_Sayer Wrote: Of course our solar system is a corkscrew. You know what else is corkscrew?

You're a Pastafarian?

(June 26, 2018 at 8:34 pm)CDF47 Wrote: This was a scientific thread with religious implications.  Then I was asked religious questions which is understandable.

(October 23, 2018 at 5:05 pm)CDF47 Wrote:

(October 23, 2018 at 4:55 pm)Nay_Sayer Wrote: Of course our solar system is a corkscrew. You know what else is corkscrew?

You're a Pastafarian?

Devout and Ordained.  We are always welcome to converts

Pasta exists. Case closed.

(October 23, 2018 at 11:18 pm)Nay_Sayer Wrote:

(June 26, 2018 at 8:34 pm)CDF47 Wrote: This was a scientific thread with religious implications.  Then I was asked religious questions which is understandable.

(October 23, 2018 at 5:05 pm)CDF47 Wrote: You're a Pastafarian?

Devout and Ordained.  We are always welcome to converts

Thanks but no thanks.