Distant Starlight Revisited

Issues in Creationism: If Clocks Ran Faster in Deep Space, Were Genesis Days Really Ordinary?
Dr. Joel Duff | 6 May 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQIR6C7BxS8

Hi!

I discovered distant starlight, probably 23 of August 2001. 24 of August, St. Bartholomew's Day, I had solved the problem.

No, not "took four days on earth but billions of years out there" or whatever it was he was saying.

Geocentrism.

Have you heard the expression "von Neumann chain"? We use an already small measure to introduce an even smaller measure, then that to introduce an even smaller one than that ...

In the reverse, one of the links is "main series are roughly the size of the sun, because Sirius is 8.6 LY away and looks as big as the Sun (or a moderately bigger star) would look from 8.6 LY away" ...

Before you come to distances that are problematic ever so slightly for a young earth, this is more important than parallax ...

But the link before that is "Sirius has a parallax of 0.379 arc seconds, and that means, since we are moving, since 2 AU is a known side of the triangle, it's 8.6 LY away"

And this presupposes "we are moving, so 2AU is involved in the triangle, and the parallax angle is physically on the other side, between two positions of earth" ...

Which is totally superfluous if:

• Galileo was wrong
• Sirius is moved by an angel, both for annual aberration and for annual parallax.

Now, an Atheist would have no problem refuting that ... from Atheism, for other Atheists. How would you (if at all) refute it?

Joel Duff bailed out, at least under his own name.
Some half educated tribalist partial to modernity didn't:

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Fulminato

@ilFulminat0

using big word without knowing their meaning is child-like behaviour, if you want the growup take note you should, at least, learn what are you babblering

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@hglundahl

@ilFulminat0 I think you just did what you accused me of.

For instance, the word grown-up doesn't legitimately mean agreeing with your views, nor does the word "knowing their meaning" however opaque that may be to you.

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Adam Redwine

@adamredwine774

You are welcome to choose whatever position you like as being "fixed." Now go do the calculations to work out the orbits of the bodies in solar system. I'll wait.

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@adamredwine774 For some reason, my answer to you disappeared.

Giovanni Battista Riccioli, a Jesuit Father, already did the observations namely:

• each day Moon, Sun and Fix Stars go around Earth, directly
• Moon and Sun also go around the Fix Stars in periods known as month and year, along a plane that specialists call the ecliptic and one could reasonably describe as the Zodiac
• planets other than Sun and Moon go around the Sun as around one of their foci, in elliptic orbits.

I don't need to do his job over for him.