On Apr 28, 9:51*am, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply
wrote:
In article , "Robert L.

It is YOUR assumption, that the initial formation was due to capture,
but hardly the assumption of the authors of the paper you quote. *YOU
assume that ionization somehow implies that formation was via capture.
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No. I have not said or assumed that the initial formation or
subsequent evolution of the system involved capture events.

I am merely open-minded to that natural possibility.

You are using your straw-man debating tactic again.

I merely pointed out that you appear to assume that the initial
formation and subsequent evolution of the system prior to ionization
of the planet did not involve capture events. There is no evidence
one way or the other on this issue.

Basically, I am just asking for a more open-minded approach to science
when key issues rely on inadequately tested and/or intrinsically
untestable assumptions.

Robert L. Oldershaw
Discrete Scale Relativity
http://www3.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a
faithful servant. We have created a society that rewards the servant
and ignores the gift." - A.E.