Is it reasonable to assume that the sun has remained in a constant state of heat outpul for the past 4.5 billion years? Given the second law of thermodynamic, i.e., the law of increasing entropy, I'm finding it very difficult to just assume that everything as been stable for that length of time. What sort of theory of stellar evolution would allow the Sun to be in a constant state for 4.5 billion years?... I think such a theory would defy all known laws of physicis.
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possibly, Springer is right.
That's easy to disprove, Yahweh. It's been experimentally confirmed in the laboratory that hydrogen atoms compressed closely enough will fuse into helium atoms, and the mass of the sun is enough to produce that pressure at the center, and mass spectrometer readings show that the sun is made up of mostly hydrogen and helium. Of course, tell a fundie to put 2 and 2 together and they'll end up with 666.
This fellow and his fellow YEC ilk needs to listen to "Why does the Sun Shine" by They Might Be Giants:
Let me put it this way.
The Earth (yes, our whole effin' PLANET) can easily fit about a million times in the Sun. That's a really, really big nuclear reactor. And it does, therefore, takes an awfully long time until it needs a top-up.
"physicis(sic)."
Whatever that is.
It probably hasn't been generating the same amount of heat it is outputting now for the past 4.5 billion years, no.
It takes a while for it to heat up . . . it being the size of THE SUN.
What the hell would he know of cosmic dynamics? The scientists say this is sound physics, I'm inclined to believe those who are qualified and study these things then those who aren't.
"I think such a theory would defy all known laws of physicis"
you know nothing of physics, you can't even spell it
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