GaryGaulin
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| Quote (jeffox @ June 30 2016,16:36) | | Quote | | Young children may at first be confident that they are the center of the universe and the sun and moon fly through the sky to follow them around. But with further visual testing of how distant objects move in relation to closer ones that hypothesis eventually tests to be false. |
Actually, I think they ask Mommy or Daddy. It's a lot easier . . . :) :) :)
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I'm relatively sure that before developing the language skills needed to ask their parents anything infants can on their own figure out that the sun and moon are far away objects that only seem to follow them around like a puppy does.
From my recollection the reasoning that leads to that conclusion was gained from things like being in a moving car watching a distant train and telephone poles moving in relation to each other. Sorting out the visual information was very challenging, but by then I had most of it figured out. What I was seeing was like the sun and moon, which are examples of the same thing just further away.
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The theory of intelligent design holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.
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