Re: Cosmic fingerprints pt. 5

If you’ve noticed my tone for Perry Marshall’s emails they’ve gone from neutral (I hope) to outright frustrated. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4)

However, in this last email (titleless) he finally credits most of his ideas with the [fill-in your own anti-creationist adjective here], Hugh Ross.  Ross is (shamefully) a Canadian-born Old Earth Creationist and astronomer who started “Reasons to Believe.”

Marshall talks about how he listened to a talk from Ross from 1994 and was inspired.  After that he advertises listening to Ross (or himself, I’m not clear) speak further on the topic (since the complete idea wasn’t given away in five emails).  He then claims that it’s amazing that Ross’ “theory” (I’m not sure of what, that God exists and evolution is a damning lie?) is still “New Scientific Evidence” even though it’s “11 years old” (I guess Marshall hasn’t updated his email in a while).  Well I got news for you Perry, quantum mechanics and general relativity are still relatively “new” sciences.  If you want “old” science you have to look at Newton’s laws of motion, or Boyle’s Law.

I’ll leave Marhsall and his “proofs” with this quote from the end of his last email:

One of the hallmarks of a successful scientific model is that it holds up for years and even decades, even while scholars debate it.  I’ve been following Dr. Ross and his work, and virtually every fact he discusses here has been further strengthened and validated by all the physics and astronomy discoveries in the years since.