Debunking Creationist BS Part 1: Formation of the Solar System

Original Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pkz_x4YNr8

Recently, I found this creationist video, and it was so dense with utter BS that I had to make a video debunking all of the false and/or misleading claims. The claims are as follows:

1) If the planets were formed naturally, they should have a similar composition to the sun
2) If the planets were formed naturally, they should all rotate in the same direction
3) If moons formed naturally, they should all orbit around their planet in the same direction
4) If planets formed naturally, they shouldn't be spinning because the forces of collisions would cancel out.
5) Gas planets couldn't formed naturally, as they would dissipate.
6) There was never enough hydrogen to form Jupiter naturally.
7) We don't know how rings formed and planets are too unique to have formed on their own so God did all of it.
8) The moon's composition is too dissimilar from Earth's and its orbit is too circular to have formed on its own.

Lots of false claims for one 4 minute video, eh? And they weren't to difficult to debunk, either.

LINKS:
Composition of the sun:
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/sun/composition.html

Star and Planet formation:
http://www.nrao.edu/index.php/learn/science/starandplanetformation
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/COMPLETE/learn/star_and_planet_formation.html

Planet rotation:
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=416

Venus (and Uranus) rotation
http://www.astronomycafe.net/qadir/q50.html
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CE/CE260.html

Ring formation:
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=326

Moon formation:
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question38.html

Other interesting articles:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090701103008.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100611093611.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810161208.htm

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[chthonios]

Very well done.

It also irked me how he mentioned 'evolutionists' when talking about the formation of planets. WTF has evolution got to do with it?

[njb444]

@chthonios I know, right?  Especially when he kept saying "If the solar system evolved..."

[PaladinswordSaurfang]

the word evolve doesn't always refer to evolution of plants and animals. Solar systems evolved from massive clouds of dust.

[MikeNitro94]

If God created the Earth...then what the fuck is all of the rest of the universe for? What are the other stars for? Your viewing pleasure? What about the trillions of galaxies that contain trillions of stars? Here's a thought, if the universe didn't explode, maybe it is growing. Have you ever seen the structure that the galaxies combine to make? But...no! The entire fucking universe exists just for that lil bitty bunch of God's children. But the people who study cosmology and physics are fools?

[speedkills4life]

IN order for matter to exist there has to be a cause look how intelligently the universe and echo systems are designed some one had to thought of that 75% of the people one this earth believe its god!

[Emaniac69]

If anything, you can always be certain that these 3 things are real: 1) death 2) the universe. 3) Creationist lunatics

[JarJar88forever]

@MikeNitro94 God created the universe for you. Accept His gift. Embrace His love.  Plunder his creation.

[darkosminos]

mmm flesh... but god loves you... right?

[darkosminos]

@Tre6686 I'm sure you have plenty of evidence that your particular god created the universe? And the declaration "I am a religionist" suppose to mean what? it adds no value to your statement. And its not "Big Bang Theory ever happened" but "Big Bang ever happened" - The theory is there, what you're trying to say is that the event never happened.

[ReasonableAtheist]

There is no physical law that states that when an explosion occurs all particles will be spinning in the SAME direction. Angular momentum will be conserved, so if the original object was spinning, the SUM of the spinning mass will equal the original angular momentum. The SUM can include negative values.

Religion is cancer of the brains. Its time to develop a permanent cure.

[hokazeraimizutsuchi]

I would recommend for you this video:

[[Our Solar System: Evidence for Creation, Part 1 of 9]]

It addresses all of those claims by an actual scientist.

[Demonicvoice1]

BRILLIANT!!!