Using Unobserved Events to Explain the Rings of Saturn

The last time we turned our telescopes toward Saturn, we saw how a rescuing device was devised to keep the moon Titan seeming old despite contrary evidence. Similarly, secular scientists cannot explain the planet's tilt nor the youthful rings.

Now a fantasy is being promoted to deal with those two problems, especially the formation of the rings. An imaginary moon named Chrysalis was under stress and went to pieces. Literally. That is how the orderly, detailed rings of Saturn formed.

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Sounds like something from the Golden Age of Science Fiction. However, this stuff is science because it falls under the domain of Making Things Up™, full of perhaps and maybe. Sure, because computer scenarios were used...but only .04 percent gave the result they wanted. It's all right to use unobserved events to explain some things (people do it all the time), but they need to have a plausible basis and not be used to excess. Once again I will mention that a great deal of time, money, and effort are wasted trying to keep the Creator out of his recent creation. In fact, evidence shows that all of the planets are much younger than cosmic evolution requires.

“A catastrophic event could have created Saturn’s rings while the dinosaurs were still roaming Earth.” Well, it could have, but did it?

At Space.com on 15 Sept 2022, reporter Keith Cooper cheerfully echoed the latest idea coming from planetary science wizards at their computers. “Saturn’s rings might have formed 100 million years ago when one of its icy moons was ripped apart by the planet’s gravity.” But does might make right?

Reporters’ imaginations launched into metaphorical wonderland. Theorists have even given a name to this unseen moon: Chrysalis, suggestive of an abiotic transformation that made Saturn the beautiful planet it is today, its shimmering rings shining like the colorful wings of a butterfly hatched from a caterpillar.

To see the Just-So Story and learn when its valid to use unseen happenings, fly over to "Saturn and Unobserved Events."