“I remember learning about the Oort Cloud in college and accepted it as it was taught to me…as a proven fact. I had no reason to doubt it. Much later, I was shocked to learn that that fact was based on no evidence. The Oort Cloud ‘has to exist’ only to make the billions of years of cosmology possible.”
-Brian Mariani, AOI Speaker
“Consider this quote from Sagan and Druyan:
‘Many scientific papers are written each year about the Oort Cloud, its properties, its origin, its evolution. Yet there is not yet a shred of direct observational evidence for its existence.’”
“This raises a very important question as to the scientific status of the Oort cloud. Can something that cannot be observed, even indirectly as in the case of subatomic phenomenon, be classed as scientific? While the Oort cloud is often referred to as a theory, given the usual definition of a theory and the impossibility of observation, can the Oort cloud be termed a theory? Indeed, given that it is doubtful that this idea can ever be tested, one has to question whether the Oort cloud is even an hypothesis.”
From Danny Faulkner, Comets and the Age of the Solar System, December 1, 1997, http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/tj/v11/n3/comets. Quoting Sagan, C. and Druyan, A., 1985. Comets, Random House, New York, p 201.
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The Oort has no clothes!
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