Seriously, it is a nice try. Mr. Chu-Carroll busts them clean, though.

Aside from that they engage in what I call obfuscatory mathematics. There are a bunch of equations scattered through the article. None of the equations are particularly enlightening; none of them actually add any real information to the article or strenghten their arguments in any way. They're just there to add the gloss of credibility that you get from having equations in your article: "Oh, look, they must know what they're talking about, they used math!".

Earth as the center of the universe? Only if you use bad math.
Posted on: June 10, 2006 3:30 PM, by Mark C. Chu-Carroll

One of my favorite places on the net to find really goofy bad math is Answers in Genesis. When I'm trying to avoid doing real work, I like to wander over there and look at the crazy stuff that people will actually take seriously in order to justify their religion.

In my latest swing by over there, I came across something which is a bizzare argument, but which is actually interesting mathematically. It's an argument that the earth (or at least the milky way) must be at the center of the universe, because when we look at the redshifts of other objects in the universe, they appear to be quantized.