Dear Christopher Hitchens
Nov. 12th, 2009 08:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Observation of red light is not the same as observation of red shift and the separation of objects caused by the expansion of space is not the same as their separation caused by motion through space.
The Andromeda galaxy does not "fill the sky", the disc has an apparent diameter of approximately 3 degrees, the bulge has an apparent diameter of roughly 0.25 degrees and an apparent magnitude of 4.4. Barely brighter than Ganymede, and totally invisible unless you're up a hill in the middle of nowhere. M31 is not going to collide with our Galaxy in 5 billion years, it is going to collide with our Galaxy in 2.5 billion years, assuming it collides at all on its present pass which isn't certain.
Our Sun will indeed evolve into a red giant, however it will not evolve into a red dwarf. The ultimate fate of our Sun is a white dwarf.
None of this has anything to do with God, and I have no idea why you would want to waste your opening remarks in a debate on the existence of God by stating facts which are false and demonstrating how little you understand elementary cosmological concepts.
Good day to you sir.
The Andromeda galaxy does not "fill the sky", the disc has an apparent diameter of approximately 3 degrees, the bulge has an apparent diameter of roughly 0.25 degrees and an apparent magnitude of 4.4. Barely brighter than Ganymede, and totally invisible unless you're up a hill in the middle of nowhere. M31 is not going to collide with our Galaxy in 5 billion years, it is going to collide with our Galaxy in 2.5 billion years, assuming it collides at all on its present pass which isn't certain.
Our Sun will indeed evolve into a red giant, however it will not evolve into a red dwarf. The ultimate fate of our Sun is a white dwarf.
None of this has anything to do with God, and I have no idea why you would want to waste your opening remarks in a debate on the existence of God by stating facts which are false and demonstrating how little you understand elementary cosmological concepts.
Good day to you sir.