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Humphreys
In his 2002 article:
[http://creation.com/our-galaxy-is-the-centre-of-the-universe-quantized-redshifts-show], Humphreys does not make any claim about whether the center of the universe is in the solar system, but says it is "near" the Milky Way Galaxy.
He argues that the center of universe is within 100,000 light years, which is the diameter of the Milky Way Galaxy. He doesn't argue that it's closer than that. Interestingly, he makes an argument that the probability of that happening by chance (that is, without God's intervention) is less than 1 in a trillion. Using that same reasoning, the probability of the center of the universe, having been located within the Milky Way Galaxy, is actually inside the solar system (more specifically, inside the orbit of Neptune), is 1 in a septillion (trillion trillion). He makes no claim that God caused that to happen.
He then makes a completely unsupported and ''ad hominem'' attack on the motives of people proposing the "big bang" cosmology, saying "Thus, Christians who support the big bang theory should realize that they are unwittingly denying their God and compromising with a godless worldview."
Humphreys' writings have been widely refuted, not just by "secular" scientists, but by Evangelical Christians, as [http://www.reasons.org/unraveling-starlight-and-time here], who ask him to stop distracting people:
::Dr. Humphreys, I am praying that you will turn your attention fully toward reaching the lost with the Gospel of Christ and cease making the age of the universe a big issue between us and between you and unbelievers. The time is too short, and the Lord has called us to use it wisely.
and pointing out that both James Dobson and Paul Crouch have asked to be removed from the controversy.
In his 2007 paper [http://creation.com/images/journal_of_creation/vol21/5181creationist.pdf] he now claims that the center of the universe is inside the solar system. But his equation (9) is just the Schwarzschild metric, which he claims is correct for anything within a radius of "R", which he sets to 13.8 billion light years. Since we are inside that region, his "waters above the expanse" phenomenon has no effect. In fact, his equation (3a) says as much. He then claims that "faster radar pulses cause the Pioneer effect", even though
:*The effects, on time dilation, of General Relativity and the Schwarzschild metric are well known.
:*Those effects are 1/1000th as large as the Pioneer anomaly.
:*He fails to explain how these phenomena would affect only the telemetry data for the Pioneer spacecraft but not other bodies, such as planets, that have also been measured with exquisite accuracy.
[[User:SaraT|SaraT]] 13:32, 6 December 2009 (EST)
[http://creation.com/our-galaxy-is-the-centre-of-the-universe-quantized-redshifts-show], Humphreys does not make any claim about whether the center of the universe is in the solar system, but says it is "near" the Milky Way Galaxy.
He argues that the center of universe is within 100,000 light years, which is the diameter of the Milky Way Galaxy. He doesn't argue that it's closer than that. Interestingly, he makes an argument that the probability of that happening by chance (that is, without God's intervention) is less than 1 in a trillion. Using that same reasoning, the probability of the center of the universe, having been located within the Milky Way Galaxy, is actually inside the solar system (more specifically, inside the orbit of Neptune), is 1 in a septillion (trillion trillion). He makes no claim that God caused that to happen.
He then makes a completely unsupported and ''ad hominem'' attack on the motives of people proposing the "big bang" cosmology, saying "Thus, Christians who support the big bang theory should realize that they are unwittingly denying their God and compromising with a godless worldview."
Humphreys' writings have been widely refuted, not just by "secular" scientists, but by Evangelical Christians, as [http://www.reasons.org/unraveling-starlight-and-time here], who ask him to stop distracting people:
::Dr. Humphreys, I am praying that you will turn your attention fully toward reaching the lost with the Gospel of Christ and cease making the age of the universe a big issue between us and between you and unbelievers. The time is too short, and the Lord has called us to use it wisely.
and pointing out that both James Dobson and Paul Crouch have asked to be removed from the controversy.
In his 2007 paper [http://creation.com/images/journal_of_creation/vol21/5181creationist.pdf] he now claims that the center of the universe is inside the solar system. But his equation (9) is just the Schwarzschild metric, which he claims is correct for anything within a radius of "R", which he sets to 13.8 billion light years. Since we are inside that region, his "waters above the expanse" phenomenon has no effect. In fact, his equation (3a) says as much. He then claims that "faster radar pulses cause the Pioneer effect", even though
:*The effects, on time dilation, of General Relativity and the Schwarzschild metric are well known.
:*Those effects are 1/1000th as large as the Pioneer anomaly.
:*He fails to explain how these phenomena would affect only the telemetry data for the Pioneer spacecraft but not other bodies, such as planets, that have also been measured with exquisite accuracy.
[[User:SaraT|SaraT]] 13:32, 6 December 2009 (EST)