<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d7db8a65-d022-43ee-aee0-b2744997a697/2E6B0C2A-9D6A-4A64-BFFF-2B3694ABBB0B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/06/24/braking-news-for-creationism/" href="http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/06/24/braking-news-for-creationism/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.badastronomy.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/06/24/braking-news-for-creationism/"><H2 id="post-733"><A title="Permanent Link: Braking news for creationism" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/06/24/braking-news-for-creationism/">Braking news for creationism</A> </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/06/24/braking-news-for-creationism/"><DIV id="stuff"> <H2>The BABlogger</H2> <A href="http://www.badastronomy.com/info/whois.html"><IMG width="150" height="128" alt="Image of Phil Plait and Space shuttle" src="http://www.badastronomy.com/pix/bablog/phil_shuttle.jpg" /></A> <P> I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I like reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is <A href="http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/06/24/braking-news-for-creationism/mailto:badastro%20at%20badastronomy%20dot%20com">Phil Plait</A>, and I run <A href="http://www.badastronomy.com/intro.html">the Bad Astronomy website</A>. </P></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/06/24/braking-news-for-creationism/"><P>Creationists who bang the pulpit about the Universe being young tend to use old, outdated, and long-debunked arguments. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/06/24/braking-news-for-creationism/"><P>The astronomy ones just crack me up. Sometimes they are based on faulty data, sometimes on twisting or misinterpreting the results, sometimes on outright lies. They are most pernicious, perhaps, when there is a kernel of truth in what they say… though generally they leave out a HUGE amount of information that shows they are wrong.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/06/24/braking-news-for-creationism/"><P>One argument has to do with angular momentum. This is a tendency for a rotating object to stay spinning unless acted upon by a force of some kind (that "acted upon" part is important later). Mathematically, it depends on how big an object is and how fast it spins. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/06/24/braking-news-for-creationism/">What does this have to do with creationism?</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2E6B0C2A-9D6A-4A64-BFFF-2B3694ABBB0B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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