(February 14, 2016 at 7:43 am)FebruaryOfReason Wrote: I pointed out that the distance of those planets from the earth was not constant, and indeed not constant in exactly the way we would expect if all of them - including the earth - was orbiting another body that occupied the exact position that the Sun happens to be in.
None of the planets have "constant" distances from the Sun though. All the planets have elliptical orbits, so their distance from the Sun fluctuates over the course of the year.
Quote:We moved on to evolution, and I invited him to visit the Smithsonian to review the mountain of evidence. His reply was "what evidence?".
What makes that odd is that the Catholic Church accepts evolution as fact, so he's going against his own church.
