WRONGO. Completely wasted argument.
The millimeterites are not going to accept an age of the earth very much over 7,000 years.
In fact, it may have been created as lately as this past Tuesday, when the antichrist was re-elected.
not religious… discovery/nat geo/tlc .. one of those . it was a woman.. she may have had an accent.. I’m sure it will come around again
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what’s wrong with a perfect rectangle it;s the shape I am talking about not the size.
vy
My apologies; I thought you were talking about the proportions. i.e., a perfect square is obvious, and a Golden rectangle is well-defined, but I didn’t get what the proportions would be in a rectangle to make it perfect. (Two consecutive perfect numbers?) Anyway, my bad, sorry.
I mean the shape. A parallelogram where all of the corners are just a little bit off 90 degrees could be called an “almost perfect rectangle” in the same way that an ellipse with semi-major axis only very slightly different length from its semi-minor axis is an “almost perfect circle”.
Besides the Earth’s eccentric orbit, it’s also moving away from the Sun at about 15 cm/year. So even if it were exactly the right distance (within 1 mm or even 1 inch) one year, it’d be wrong the next.
If one millimeter made that much of a difference, then we wouldn’t be able to have any structures on the surface facing the Sun any taller than one millimeter without bursting into flame.
Just throughout the course of a day, as the Earth rotates, your distance from the Sun changes by 12,000 kilometers (the diameter of Earth). A small fraction of the Earth-Sun distance, but much greater than a millimeter!
Okay, I think this gives me an idea of the science that is being mangled here. Over very long periods of time, the solar system exhibits chaotic behaviour. It’s impossible to predict exactly where the Earth will be along it’s orbit in a hundred million years time. Moving a planet a few metres could have a large effect in a few million years. However, the planets have remained in a fairly stable configuration for about 4 billion years, and are expected to remain so until the Sun evolves into a red giant in another 5 billion or so.
(Supercomputer simulations suggest there is about a 1% chance Mercury’s orbit will become unstable within the next billion years. This could lead to it being ejected from the solar system, or it could collide with Venus or Earth. This would be bad.)
But the Earth is warming up, so exactly the right distance will also be increasing.
God is truly amazing!
Now that’s just a little silly, Slim. 
Question for the OP: Did this same “documentary” happen to also tout that bit (I forgot what the bit is supposed to be) “proving a missing day so the Bible must be true”?
This little (false) factoid has been around a long time. I heard it when I was in first or second grade, when my sister told the family that her teacher told her class this tidbit. I can’t remember if it was one inch, or one foot, but it was some implausibly small amount. This would be around 1966 or 1967, well before the introduction of millimeters to back-woods East Texas.
Looking back, I can see the seeds of my skepticism even then. I remember thinking that it didn’t sound right, and filed it under “maybe” in my memory. I think that’s why I remember it.
Another thing that I recall my sister saying, which I thought was complete bullshit, was that her teacher told them that if you look up in the night sky, that the stars are really far apart, and that the closest of the stars are still thousands of miles apart. I thought this was BS because you can look at them and see that they’re not really very far apart - they’re just right there!
If I may hazard a guess: The OP might have seen a bit on one of the other Fine Tuning Problems, and misinterpreted it. For instance, if the gravitational constant were to increase just a bit, it would cause both the Sun to be hotter and the Earth’s orbit to be smaller, with the result being to scorch the planet beyond habitability. Of course, that one would only be a problem if it actually changed: If it were that little bit stronger all along, then there’d be some other planet which is somewhat further from a somewhat smaller star which could support life just fine.
This was my first thought too. Imagine half of the earth stooping slightly and the other half on their tippytoes perpetually in fear of bursting in flame.
DAYBREAK, YOU FOOLS! HUNCH! BUT DON’T HUNCH TOO MUCH FOR YOU SHALL FREEZE! AND HUNCH IN ACCORDANCE TO HEIGHT!
I think you may be talking about the Joshua missing day that NASA found notion.
Very popular back in the 80s, but now that Answers in Genesis is all scientific, even they debunk it.
One wonders if believers persuaded by this sort of thing issue retractions on their belief upon subsequently learning the item was bogus…
i don’t remember anything about the bible in the doc. maybe next time it comes up i will pay more attention
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That is brilliant. Thank you for sharing. How dare he post facts on her facebook??
Well, actually no.
Mass of the earth: 5.972 * 10^24 kg
Mass of the sun: 1.9891 * 10^30 kg
Radius of earth orbit: 149,600,000,000m
So the gravitational force between the earth and the sun is approximately 3.54 * 10^22 N
The amount of energy to move the earth by 1mm away from the sun would be approximately
3.54 * 10^22 N * 0.001m = 3.54 * 10^19 J
According to World energy supply and consumption - Wikipedia, the world consumed 474 exajoules (4.74 * 10^20 J) in 2008. So the amount of energy to move the earth by 1mm is about 7.5% of global energy consumption in 2008. Not a very small amount. Now the amount of *power *that you’d need to move it instantaneously, of course, infinity.
You’re only calculating the energy of slowly moving the Earth. You’re not including the kinetic energy of an Earth moving 1 mm in zero time (“instantaneously)”.
Well I saw this documentary where a guy in a police box moved the Earth halfway across the universe and all it did was rattle the teacups a bit.