"Tom McDonald" wrote in message
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Wally Anglesea wrote:

"Mad Scientist" wrote in message
le.rogers.com...

Hubble gave us the concept of a 'galaxy' being like the Milky Way. (even
though Messier catalogued the Andromeda galaxy before him) Hubble then
'proved' that all galaxies are moving away from us, even though a team of
astronomers worked together with him, and the fact that Andromeda is
headed for a collision with the Milky Way disproves his main theory.



Not at all. The Magellenic clouds, for instance are gravitationally bound
to our own Milky Way.
Plenty of pictures abound showing galaxies interacting.

However, AS HAS ALREADY BEEN SHOWN TO YOU, the large scale expansion of
the universe is correct.

SNIP, as everything following was a fallacy)



Wally,

How could you not comment on the funniest bit in there! It was the first
I'd heard that Hoyle had worked out the math for the Big Bang, being as he
was a great proponent of it. ;-)

This is one of the big reasons not to try to killfile MS. Every once in a
while, we are gifted with a post like this. Is anyone's life so full of
joy and humor that something like MS's latest missive can be ignored?

And then there's the business about Messier cataloging the Andromeda
Galaxy before Hubble. Except, of course, Messier had no idea of galaxies,
and recorded M31 solely as a nuisance, since it got in the way of his
comet-hunting.

Oh, and... But perhaps one ought read his post oneself. Far more jollies
to be had that way.

You are right of course. It was a gem of pure undiluted ignorance.

I was going to put some of his claims in a local magazine as examples of
what happens when you close your mind to knowledge.
Part of a discussion on the passionately ignorant, and the creep of psuedo
scientists
There's a lot of material to choose from.