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Subject: Re: Scientific Creationist speaker - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 9-Nov-83 00:23:49 EST
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uokvax!andree    Oct 30 16:56:00 1983

/***** uokvax:net.religion / cwruecmp!decot /  8:41 pm  Oct 25, 1983 */
	This phenomenon explains the very large red [Doppler] shifts of many
	galaxies and also explains the blue shift of some nearby
	galaxies (Ed. note:  Can anyone verify that some galaxies
	have a blue shift in their spectrum?  I thought that all
	observed objects in the universe were apparently moving
	away from the earth.)
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The above is quoted wholesale from a letter from cwruecmp!decot. The editorial
note is his, the rest of the text is from a message he was quoting.

In answer to his question, there ARE galaxies that are approaching earth. These
are the local group; that group of galaxies gravitationally bound to Thiswhirl.
It wouldn't make sense if they were all receeding from us. The best example of
an approaching galaxy is M-31, the brightest galaxy around (~ 4th magnitude).

	<mike