Recent content by Clete

I don't know how any of you tolerate interacting with him.

My post was too short and conveyed hostility that wasn't intended. The simple fact is that neither of us is making any progress toward convincing the other. I present a dichotomy that you call a false dichotomy and then firmly sit on one of the dichotomy's horns. I talk about how much energy it...

We're done.

Oh, yes it does! Pluto and its five moons would have had to leave the Earth together, in close proximity with each other and in just such a way as to end up in almost perfectly circular and very very stable orbits. The three-body problem demonstrates how entirely impossible such an idea is. It...

Why? It's just another way in which a large amount of material can exist in a stable orbit around the Sun. Why is it any more incredible than having another planet there? Ceres is big enough to be considered a planet and, in fact it is a so called "Dwarf planet". It's 940 kilometers across. Do...

The degree to which it is critical to the HPT to believe that the asteroid belt, comets and Pluto have their origin in Noah's Flood is the degree to which I reject the HPT. I simply do not believe it is possible. Nothing I've read in Brown's book or on this website has succeeded in convincing...

This is the only coherent response to such objections that I recall having ever seen. I can't say I'm convinced but that objection seems to have been answered.

No. Orbits are quite difficult to achieve accidentally. That's why all the theories require vast clouds of material to exist at the beginning of such systems. The vast majority of the material either coalesces into larger bodies or gets ejected out of the system and only that portion of the...

I am 1000% not confused at all about what the three-body problem is. The rest of your post is moot.

No! Not because I say so! Ever heard of the three-body problem? Try it with six bodies! The idea that such a system could arise as a result of a steam explosion on a planet some 3 billion plus miles away is NOT PLAUSIBLE! If Pluto was out there by itself, it still wouldn't be plausible. The...

But not in a manner that is convincing. It isn't mere hand waving but it just isn't plausible and it is an entirely unnecessary component to the overall theory. Indeed, if accepting the notion that Pluto and it's five moons (a system that is wildly complex and which couldn't exist apart from...

You know better. Instantly (nearly so) accelerating anything to 160 times the speed of sound would, by itself, rip the molecules into ions, never mind doing so through Earth's atmosphere. No it isn't. There is no logical necessity for any of this part of the theory. Saying it doesn't make it...

I've discussed Mid-Acts Dispensationalism with Chat GPT many times and have had no difficulties whatsoever. Your post doesn't really explain what the issue you had was, by the way.

I failed to finish my thought on that last post but it doesn't matter. I do not deny that there is an argument to be made, it simply falls far short of proof. It, in fact, falls short of even being convincing, if you ask me. Obliterating large quantities of the Earth into ionized gas, doesn't a...

No it isn't vague. You're talking about energies and speeds that wouldn't just rip molecules apart but rip the electrons off the atoms. If Haley's comet came from Earth.