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Old 16-February-2007, 05:25 PM
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theres a guy that posts on Talk origins, John McCoy. He thinks Staller Parallax can't be measured because the stars are so far away that the engle will be too small to measure
He's mostly right, there. Most of the stars in the sky are too far away for parallax to be measured. But there are plenty of nearby stars for which parallax can, and has been, measured.

Parallax is useful only out to a certain distance; after that, you have to use different methods.
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so scientists are just guessing about most of Astronomy to support Evolution.
He's completely wrong there.

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