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Dealing with Creationism in Astronomy

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Electric Cosmos

The Electric Cosmos is a distortion of the more mainstream Plasma
Cosmology <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_cosmology> of Alfven and
others. Plasma cosmology enjoyed an upsurge of interest in the late
1980s and early 1990s as a simpler solution to some of the difficulites
plaguing cosmology.

Interest dropped after the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBE> mission confirmed the blackbody
nature of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) to high precision. COBE
failed to detect any radio or microwave emission from the large-scale
electric currents required in plasma cosmology.

A more radical version of this cosmology goes under the name of
"Electric Cosmos". This "science" seems to be a variant of creationism
based around a Greco-Roman mythology but many components are based on
some of the claims of Immanuel Velikovsky
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Velikovsky>. There are several
sites advocating these claims:

* Electric Cosmos <http://www.electric-cosmos.org/>
* Donald Scott's "The Electric Sky" site
<http://members.cox.net/dascott3/index.htm>
* The Kronia Group <http://www.kronia.com/home.html>
* The Electric Universe <http://www.holoscience.com/>
* Thunderbolts.info <http://www.thunderbolts.info/>
* Plasma Cosmology.net <http://www.plasmacosmology.net/>
* Tim Thompson - A Rebuttal
<http://www.electric-cosmos.org/Rejoinder.htm>

Tim Thompson has also written some material on the problems with the
Electric Cosmology claims.

* On the "Electric Sun" Hypothesis
<http://www.tim-thompson.com/electric-sun.html>
* Tim Thompson Responds to Thornhill on the matter of the Electric
Star Hypothesis <http://www.tim-thompson.com/grey-areas.html>

Some of the Electric Universe advocates try to incorporate the redshift
quantization (see problems with redshift quantization analyses
<quantizedz.html>) and discordant redshift claims as well (see problems
with discordant redshift claims <discordantz.html>).

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* /The Electric Sky: Short-Circuited/. A Review (DRAFT 2008-Mar-22)
<ElectricSky_20080322.pdf> of Donald Scott's book, /The Electric
Sky/
<http://www.amazon.com/Electric-Sky-Donald-E-Scott/dp/0977285111/ref=tag_dpp_lp_edpp_img_ex/103-8596630-6847818>.
I cover many aspects of Scott's claims and his misrepresentation
of mainstream science. I also present a few simple mathmatical
examples of how some electric cosmos claims imply effects
inconsistent with measurements and observations. I have yet to
receive any substantive response from the Electric Cosmos
advocates on this critique.

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