On Friday, September 6, 2013 3:01:39 PM UTC-7, oriel36 wrote:

A biochemist should be capable of explaining to any interested observer how the body reacts to the changes in a 24 hour cycle as the Earth turns once each 24 hour day and I never stop taking this angle with people that they do not need a telescope and empirical bluffing - their bodies and all creation as it ebbs and flows with the cycles of the Earth is what makes astronomy worth pursuing and makes them natural astronomers even without knowing it.



Your contrived 1465 rotations in 1461 days is at variance with what the body experiences and that makes for a form of insanity and not the actions of a biochemist.

You are talking about this...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm

.... and no one here will argue about it, it is fact, we all agree.

We WILL argue, however, that 1465 sidereal rotations are equivalent to 1461 solar rotations, it is not insanity, just as (for today, at least) 1465 US dollars are equivalent to 1627 Australian dollars and to 1526 Canadian dollars. Is the monetary exchange system contrived, too? These dollars simply have different definitions, just like sidereal and solar rotations have different, but very compatible, definitions.

Why do you have SO much difficulty with such a simple concept? You already have admitted that you have difficulty with the understanding of various perspectives, why can't you accept that there a folks who understand things that you do not? Aren't you paranoid that virtually the entire scientific community does not agree with you? If not, you should be...

\Paul A