Re: orion foundation

In message <i1q5rl$br9$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, carlip-nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes
static ice <lksiet16@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, I'd just like to know if anyone has heard of these guys?
http://www.orionfdn.org/

Robert Gentry has been promoting crackpot cosmology for quite a
while. At one point, he actually got a paper published in a real
journal -- "A new redshift interpretation," Mod. Phys. Lett. A12
(1997) 2919 -- although he carefully left out any references to
creationism. Ryan Scranton and I learned about this through
talk.origins, and wrote a response: "Remarks on the 'New Redshift
Interpretation'," Mod. Phys. Lett. A14 (1999) 71, available at
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9808021. If you look there, you'll
find a fairly thorough demolition of Gentry's model.

So instead of a 13.7 billion year old expanding universe, he's proposing a 14 or more billion year old static universe? And that's supposed to be Genesis-friendly?

Gentry has since then written some *really* nutty papers, which
have been rejected by all reputable journals. His website lists
several presentations at American Physical Society meetings, but
the APS has a policy that essentially any dues-paying member can
submit an abstract and be given a slot. Three of the four listed
presentations are "poster sessions" -- people whose work is not
judged important enough for an oral presentation are allowed to
put up a 4'x8' "poster" in a special session. Sometimes a meeting
will also have a "crackpot" session, where various cranks are
given a room and told to talk to each other; Gentry's one 10-minute
oral presentation at an APS meeting looks like one of those.

(If you look at the titls of these talks, you can see that they're
getting progressively nuttier -- the last one is "Session M's Speakers
Promote Evolution and Deny Creation Without Reference to My
Widely Published Evidence of Earth's Rapid Creation and Without
Reference to My Recent Discoveries Disproving the Big Bang:
Congress Should Investigate Why They Did This.")

Steve Carlip



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alias Ernest Major

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