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« Reply #20 on: November 03, 2005, 04:16:00 PM »
What is the protostar phase?
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« Reply #21 on: November 03, 2005, 05:19:55 PM »
I see what I said was unclear.  By 'opposite view' I meant in contrast to catastrophism.  Thus, we are in agreement on our assessment (more or less) about Lyell and Hutton.  Its been too long since I've studied that to push it further.
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« Reply #22 on: November 04, 2005, 04:39:02 AM »
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What is the protostar phase?


Well without sounding like a text book. The protostar phase is the evolutionary phase of a star when gravity causes gas to condense and the nuclear process starts in some scientific way involving the laws of physics http://www.dtm.ciw.edu/akir/Seminar/seminar.html
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During this phase is the time thought, our solar system began forming.

But as this is a mute point, because. If we were to go this far why not go back further to a point when some other type of planetary nebula or super nova may have expelled the elements known to have been used to form our type star. So then how far back would we go? The begining of our galaxy? Why not further back? After all, it's not called our universe for nothing.
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« Reply #23 on: November 04, 2005, 04:01:35 PM »
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What is the protostar phase?


Well without sounding like a text book. The protostar phase is the evolutionary phase of a star when gravity causes gas to condense and the nuclear process starts in some scientific way involving the laws of physics http://www.dtm.ciw.edu/akir/Seminar/seminar.html
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During this phase is the time thought, our solar system began forming.

But as this is a mute point, because. If we were to go this far why not go back further to a point when some other type of planetary nebula or super nova may have expelled the elements known to have been used to form our type star. So then how far back would we go? The begining of our galaxy? Why not further back? After all, it's not called our universe for nothing.
I've always wondered about this.
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"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." (Washington, D.C., April 1999) [2]

"One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment." (ibid.)
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