Positive Atheism

[Eilonnwy]

So maybe I am missing something. Please tell me where I am going wrong?

You are arguing from ignorance. You can't imagine how we could make claims about the past because you assume that in order to make empirical claims, we have to be able to observe it happening. As stated above, that's not the case in a murder. It's also not the case with the Universe.

For example, Pluto was discovered in the 1930s, yet we know Pluto takes about 247 Earth years to orbit the sun. Since we have known about the existence of Pluto, it has not made a complete orbit of the sun, so we have not observed this. Yet, we can make the claim that it orbits the sun.

Also, I would like to know where all these millions of solar systems are documented along with all the data (types of data and measurements) for each of these. Note, I would just like to look at all that information. Did the information from all these millions of solar systems go into the model of how solar systems are formed?

Note, I admit I am just a layman relative to this issue so all these questions are not rhetorical. I really would like to hear the answers.

Go to your local bookstore and look in the astronomy section and have at it. Wikipedia is also well sourced in it's articles when it comes to the sciences, so explore those sources. Honestly, just read some science books not published by the Discovery institute but by accredited scientists.