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Solar System and Extra-solar Planets Questions and Answers

Key articles:

• Our young solar system (available in Greek)
• Solar system origin: Nebular hypothesis [why it is wrong]
• Planets around other stars [problems for evolution] (available in Greek)
• Comets—portents of doom or indicators of youth?

How did our Sun and Moon form, and how long ago? Is there evidence for design?

• Solar system formation by accretion has no observational evidence
• The Moon: The light that rules the night (available in Spanish)
• Problems for ‘giant impact’ origin of moon
• The sun: our special star (available in Spanish)
• Our steady sun: a problem for billions of years
• The young faint Sun paradox and the age of the solar system

Where did the idea of geocentrism come from? Is it biblical?

• Geocentrism and Creation
• Is the Earth at the Center of the Universe?
• Sunspots, Galileo and heliocentrism
• Moving with the Planets

How do the planets in our solar system point to design?

• Mercury—the tiny planet that causes big problems for evolution (available in Spanish)
• Venus: cauldron of Fire
• Earth is ‘too special’?
• Mars: The red planet
• Jupiter: King of the planets and testament to our Creator
• Saturn—the ringed planet
• Uranus: The strange planet
• Neptune: monument to creation
• A lesson from Pluto

What about the ‘water’ on Mars?

• Fountains of the Deep’ on Mars?
• Mission to Mars
• NASA announces evidence for water on Mars
• Water on Mars: A Creationist Response
• Mars’ catastrophic geology

Are there planets outside our solar system?

• Planets around other stars
• The existence and origin of extrasolar planets
• Other solar systems challenge evolution
• First light from extrasolar planets
• Extrasolar planets suggest our solar system is unique and young
• New planet challenges evolutionary models
• Planets and migrating theories

How do comets support a young age of the solar system? How do evolutionists try to answer this problem, and are they successful?

• Halley’s comet—beacon of creation
• Comets and the age of the solar system
• Plomet invasion, Space Day 2004
• More problems for the Oort cloud (semi-technical)
• Kuiper Belt woes for accretion disk models (semi-technical)
• The short-period comets ‘problem’ (for evolutionists): Have recent ‘Kuiper Belt’ discoveries solved the evolutionary/long-age dilemma?
• Evolutionist debater fails to understand young-earth arguments
• ‘Fragile comets’ origins mystery
• Evidence of a watery origin for the solar system
• ‘Backwards’ comet perplexes scientists
• Will comet Elenin destroy us? And: What about the planets lining up in the sky?

Related Q&A pages

• Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Origin of Life

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