Atheists, why does Venus spin in the opposite direction to all the other planets ?
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I am an atheist. I am a professional in the airline industry. I would love to answer any questions you may have concerning aviation. My lack of belief in a god or gods does not make me an expert in anything. Just as your belief in a sky fairy doesn't make you an expert in anything. My training in aviation makes me somewhat of an authority on aviation matters. Why don't you ask this question in a forum that would be seen by experts that can be expected to answer it. The fields of knowledge that come to mind would be astronomers, physicists and especially astrophysicists.
So if the bible says the earth was vomited up by god, why isn't there puke everywhere? No puke everywhere, therefore, the bible is false.
See, I can make shit up too.
why does Venus spin in the opposite direction to all the other planets ?
Well, it's not unique. Uranus and Pluto do it too. But to get to the question, we're not sure. The most common theory is that it was caused by a massive impact in the past but we don't actually know. Interesting, isn't it?
If the Big Bang actually happened, then all the planets should be spinning in the same direction, that's the law of motion if this singularity was spinning until it exploded.
1) Um, no. It really doesn't work like that.nothing about what actually started the universe, only about what happened in the short time straight after the beginning. A singularity is currently the prevalent theory but if you want to say that it was god who kicked the whole thing off instead, there's nothing in the actual theory that prevents that.
If you really wanted to know the answer to this question, why not ask some astrophysicists?
There's nothing in the Big Bang theory which states that all planets must spin in the same direction.
This is actually an old argument by Kent Hovind.
He confused the formation of a star (rotating cloud of gas that collapses) with the Big Bang (or rather the Singularity before).
The funny part is that his explanations even contained the answer "they keep spinning until they meet resistance" - well gee, if only objects in the universe would interact with each other!
@Ebon
Oh Ebon! You've just invited every creationist on the Internet to say "See I always said evilutionists would have to back down eventually!"
For those who think this is a Poe.
This is something Kent Hovind used to say.
In his version of the BBT, the solar system formed when the BB happened. Also the singularity that exploded was spinning.
Apparently the complexity of having the universe formed before the solar system is too complicated for him to comprehend. So he merged the two, I think he got the spin from the accretion disk that formed the solar system.
If the Big Bang actually happened, then all the planets should be spinning in the same direction
If God created the universe, then all the planets should be spinning in the same direction ... no, wait, God made Venus spin the opposite way for the same reason he buried the fossils in layers and fudged the radiometric data to make us think they evolved - He just likes to screw with our heads.
Why dont all the planets have the exact same eliptical planes? And for that matter, why eliptical and not perfectly circular? And why are all the planet's axes of rotation not parallel? Should I go ahead and ask why the colour blue is blue???? Why cant I ask: Religionist, why does Saturn have rings? And ask it in such a manner as to presuppose that such a phenomenon proves gawd doesnt exist.....
And...even though the big bang was not actually an "explosion" I have seen many explosions in which matter ended up going in all different directions without any seemingly design to them.
Nothing in cosmology requires all planets to rotate in the same direction. It all depends upon the collisions that occurred during planetary formation.
Venus, Uranus and ex-planet Pluto all have retrograde rotations.
ok, that may be true if the big bang was spinning.
Now calculate all the gravitational interactions, collisions, etc that have occurred in the past 13 billion years.
The Big Bang, and stellar and planetary formation are two very different things.
To answer your question about Venus: there are two possibilities. either Venus was struck by a mass at its equator that was large enough to change Venus' rotation to its current state, or it was struck at one of the poles, flipping the planet upside down.
If my explanation uses too many multisyllabic words, here's the simpler explanation: you are an idiot.
Fundieists, why do christians have no understanding of science? For example they think the big bang has someting to do with angular momentum of collapsing gas clouds, or have the unaccountable delusion that the big bang was spinning or something.
The Big Bang has nothing to do with our solar system, at least not directly. The Big Bang is the explanation for where all matter, energy, time, and space, comes from, based on the evidence of background radiation and the observed expansion of the universe.
Look at it this way, the Big Bang happened 13.8 billion years ago, and our solar system is only 5-4 billion years old.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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