Creation-Evolution Headlines on why our solar system is said to be bizarre

Oh com' on. Don't you know it's ok to teach false things as long as it teaches the right basic idea? Eugenie Scott will set you straight. tragic mishap

Thanks for this excellent article. Wouldn't it be amazing to see candid admissions like this in high school textbooks? But they are probably afraid that facts like this could be misused by anti-evolutionists so they simplify it to give students the impression that science has or certainly soon will be able to solve all these mysteries just like they have solved others in the past. Perhaps, but perhaps not. I find it intriguing that even though there are so many problems in understanding our own solar system which we can observe and even visit, we think we can accurately understand the universe and galaxies billions of light years away. However, to me at least, given that we can't even figure out the mysteries in our own backyard that don't fit with our pet theories, I find it highly doubtful that our theories about the distant universe, meaning both physical distance and historical distance, can be trusted to be accurate. Seems pretty arrogant to me and also, it seems the more we do learn, the more surprises we find, which again calls into question the accuracy of our theories. Researching is a good thing, but claiming to have answers, even when some things do fit certain aspects of our theories, seems presumptive to me. Even the Big Bang has many unsolved problems and is propped by various theory saving ad hoc assumptions including the a priori assumption that the universe is unbounded and that there is no center of the universe which obviously means that our universe, solar system, and planet cannot possibly be special in any sense of the word or near the center of the universe. This article is a good reminder that perhaps we don't even know what we think/hope we know. It calls for more honesty and humility by cosmologists and even the historical sciences in general. tjguy