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Re: No Offense, but Atheism Is a Really Stupid Philosophy

By: Zimbler0 in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
Wed, 04 Sep 24 4:34 AM | 16 view(s)
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Decomposed > What jumped out to me is that while the moon does often get between us and the sun, the day that the sun eclipses the moon will be a very, very bad one for the moon . . .


That one I did not catch. Thanks.
But then it didn't take long for me to figure out that the author was some sort of fruitloop and so I was barely reading it. . .
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Re: No Offense, but Atheism Is a Really Stupid Philosophy
By: De_Composed in 6TH POPE
Wed, 04 Sep 24 2:57 AM 		Msg. 57701 of 60008

Zimbler0:

Re: “Yet, from our (temporary) seat in the cosmos, the sun and moon are so perfectly identical in height and width, they can literally take turns completely eclipsing the other.”Good points!

What jumped out to me is that while the moon does often get between us and the sun, the day that the sun eclipses the moon will be a very, very bad one for the moon . . . and for anyone still alive on the Earth when it happens. It's the Earth and the moon that "take turns" casting their shadows upon the other - so the author is flat-out wrong. And the moon's apparent size to us relative to the sun has nothing to do with it.

What if the Earth had multiple moons of various sizes as most of the planets do? It sometimes has in the past. Earth's other moons were small. And what if our oversized moon was actively receding? Would that be taken as a sign of God's declining influence? Receding, by the way, is actually happening to our moon - to the tune of about an inch and a half per year. Eventually there will be no more total eclipses of the sun.

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