(December 16, 2009 at 12:03 pm)Eilonnwy Wrote:(December 16, 2009 at 11:49 am)rjh4 Wrote: So maybe I am missing something. Please tell me where I am going wrong?
You are arguing from ignorance.
I wasn't arguing from ignorance. I was asking questions while acknowledging my lack of knowledge about the subject. If you cannot answer the questions I asked, just say so.
Your analogies of murder and Pluto are simply not on point as there are distinctions that can be made. For example, with murder, the time frames we talk about are miniscule relative to the time frames alleged for solar system formation. With Pluto, I can certainly see that over the 70+ years that we have known of its existance, we could have documented its speed and position/trajectory and from that reasonably concluded that it orbits the sun. This also is a far cry from what Void was talking about.
(December 16, 2009 at 12:03 pm)Eilonnwy Wrote:(December 16, 2009 at 11:49 am)rjh4 Wrote: 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.
I could do that...but since Void certainly appears to be an authority on the subject, I figured I would ask and hopefully he would answer so as to reduce the amount of time it would take for me to find the answer on my own. I don't see what is wrong with that.