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From: decot@cwruecmp.UUCP (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Scientific Creationist speaker - (nf)
Message-ID: <767@cwruecmp.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Nov-83 09:52:12 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  2 09:52:12 1983
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The following posting, in between the +-+-+'s, is from uiucdcs!uokvax!andree
(mike):

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/***** 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
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The entire indented part was indeed in an article from me, but the editorial
note is not mine--it was also in the article I was quoting.  As I said in that
posting, ALL the indented material is from the article I was quoting, and
the non-indented stuff was my commentary.  That is an interesting explanation,
though.  Thanks.

Dave Decot
decvax!cwruecmp!decot