RE: Satirical logic for the atheistic mind
May 23, 2018 at 2:22 am
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2018 at 2:59 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
(May 23, 2018 at 12:49 am)Godscreated Wrote: I never said we had not discovered planets, that very well may be the truth, the real problem is no one has seen a planet outside our solar system. The Hubble telescope can't even take a clear picture of Pluto and it is the best we have so how is it that any true conclusions can be drawn for a planet that we can't see. We have no idea what those great distances do to our view in deep space. Guess work is all it is.
Visible light isn't the only way to peer into space. The ALMA radio telescopes for example measures radiowaves to see things obscured by gas clouds. This is used for learning more about star formation.
Astrophysicists do have a very clear idea of what those great distances do to their view. They use this knowledge all the time. For example by taking into account red shift and gravitational lensing. This has all been worked out, tested and works consistently. Occasionally some idea comes up raising the possibility that it doesn't work the way everyone thinks but then it gets tested and found to be incorrect.
I am not an astrophysicist so I can't explain quite why they know the things that they do. But I have worked with them and I do know that they can.
