Reddit reviews Taking Back Astronomy: The Heavens Declare Creation

You just love making up numbers don't you. Whatever furthers your antisemitic and hateful agenda, I guess.

And you keep talking about these two books, as if a book has some sort of special credibility that a website doesn't have. You know what it takes to publish a book? Convincing people to pay money to publish it. That's it. Why just look here:

http://www.amazon.com/Taking-Back-Astronomy-Heavens-Creation/dp/0890514712/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1404444409&sr=8-1&keywords=taking+back+astronomy

That's a book about how astronomical evidence confirms a 6000 year old universe as told in the christian bible. An idea which rational people all know is complete bullshit. And it's published and available on Amazon. Oh, but surely the guy who wrote this is not credible, right? Wrong. His name is Jason Lisle, and he has a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Colorado, one of the top 10 astrophysics programs in the United States. Amazing how someone who should be an expert on something can be completely wrong about the entire field in which he has an advanced degree, huh? And they can even write a book about it! Books don't have any credibility. They aren't peer reviewed. Now, if this douche Jason Lisle tried to publish his garbage in a peer reviewed scientific journal, it would get destroyed, as it should.

As for your Israel books, I really couldn't care less what is in them. I'm sure that there are people out there with advanced degrees in middle eastern studies who are just as antisemitic and anti-Israel as you (even Jewish people, as you have already pointed out several times). Being a scholar doesn't preclude them from being ignorant or wrong, as my example of the creation astrophysicist demonstrates.

And if you think that Jason Lisle is the only one, you're wrong again. Here's a list of all the "scholars" from AiG that believe in biblical bullshit that is completely contradicted by overwhelming evidence:

https://answersingenesis.org/home/area/bios/

So yeah, there are plenty of really ignorant people who have Ph.D.'s. It's possible for intense emotional feelings (be they religious, nationalistic, racist, etc.) to trump all reason and logic in someone's mind, even if that person has the training that comes with a Ph.D. that one would think would prevent that.

tldr, your books prove nothing.

I found some of his books while browsing Pinterest astronomy Pins. Someone had posted screenshots of his book "The Stargazer's Guide to the Night Sky" and captioned it "Creationist resources for homeschooling moms." I find this concerning, so I did some research and dug up more of his works:

Ultimate Proof of Creation

Taking Back Astronomy: The Heavens Declare Creation

Old Earth Creationism on Trial: The Verdict Is In

Big Problems with the Big Bang

Exposing Progressive Creation: Serious Biblical & Scientific Errors That Promote Billions Of Years (Co-written with Ken Ham

And here is a link to a discussion of his paper where he attempts to resolve the starlight problem, and rationalizes (very poorly I might add) the issue of stars being billions of light years away in a purportedly 6000 year old universe. The best quote from his paper: "The overwhelming majority of old-earth, or old-universe arguments are fallacious because they are based on faulty, unbiblical initial conditions." It doesn't seem like he's studied the Bible or physics.