Alter2Ego writes:
ALTER2EGO -to- HUNTARD:
Of course words have meaning. And the last source I quoted said Pluto is a "dwarf planet.' Remove the word "dwarf" and what are you left with?
Why would we remove the designation "dwarf", other then to fulffil your misconception that Pluto is a planet?
ALTER2EGO -to- HUNTARD:
The confusion is yours. That's what happens when one decides to play along with the game of semantics that those in the scientific community tend to play.
Since Pluto is in fact a dwarfplanet and not a regular planet, I'm not the one who is confused.
As you can see, NASA, the last source I quoted, used the expression "just like other planets" when describing Pluto. That can only mean one thing: Pluto is indeed a planet.
No. As I explained to you, it means that it exhibits similar characteristics as planets. As you can read in your own quote, the difference between a dwarfplanet and a planet is that "A dwarf planet is so small it cannot clear other objects out of its path".
The first source I quoted was referring to the largest among the 13 when it said there are 9 planets in our solar system, obviously.
If they had done that they would've mentioned Eris, not Pluto (since Eris is bigger). So your quote is still wrong.
The routine of the scientific community is to exclude the smaller planets aka dwarf planets during the count.
That's something you've made up, because the routine when counting planets is
counting planets, as well as wrong. It would've been Eris then.
Somewhere down the road, they may discover even smaller planets, at which point, they might decide to play more games of semantics with the word "planet."
They are not semantics, but important distinctions. Science changes to become ever more accurate.
In any event, the argument over what is a "planet" does not have any effect on the point of this thread: that precision in nature is evidence of intelligent design.
No, it does, however, demonstrate that your sources can't even get the simplest things right. Why should we trust them on anything at all then?
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