Fascinating! Thanks for sharing!
Though I'm not as invested personally in the issues surrounding the earth and space as I am in the subjects of evolution and dinosaurs, they're ultimately important scientific issues one should look into to learn the truth about these things and not be fooled by establishment "science".
There was a time I was a heliocentrist and evolutionist. My wife was a geocentrist and creationist. I put that down to the fact I got a better education than she did. One day she brought me home a book on anti-evolution given to her by Tom McFaddon who had a little book stall in a church in Dublin. It took me ten minutes to see I was the idiot and my wife was the Catholic. I began to study the subject and got to correspond with many creationists including a man called Paul Ellwanger (RIP) who at his own expense sent me years of information. I began to write essays and a book for Catholics like myself who were 'educated' as evolutionists so that they would know the truth. Then Pope John Paul II came out with his 'evolution is more than a hypothesis.' I gave up writing my book saying who are Catholics going to believe, me or their Pope.
It was only then Paul Ellwanger told me evolution was the child of heliocentrism. After more study I learned that the first modern (evolution goes back to Pythagoras (570-496BC) theory on evolution was based on Isaac Newton's solar system. That was the nebular theory (1755-1796). Once the evolution of the heliocentric solar-system was established all other evolution theories were put forward as facts of science.
So, when Catholic churchmen fully accepted heliocentrism in 1820, it was an evolved heliocentrism. Having committed themselves to an evolved solar-system they could no longer condemn natural evolution as a heresy that contradicts the ex nihilo immediate or 6-day creation of tradition. Not even St Pius X's Pascendi condemned the scientific evolution that had grown out of heliocentrism. He condemned the intrinsic evolution of dogma but never referred to the false theories of natural evolution that had crept into the womb of the Church as the cause of Scriptural evolution by way of Genesis first and then into doctrines and dogmas resulting from Genesis.
There was a time I was a heliocentrist and evolutionist. My wife was a geocentrist and creationist. I put that down to the fact I got a better education than she did. One day she brought me home a book on anti-evolution given to her by Tom McFaddon who had a little book stall in a church in Dublin. It took me ten minutes to see I was the idiot and my wife was the Catholic.
What was the key argument that convinced you evolution was false?
Is it the same argument still? What would you bring forth to falsify evolution nowadays?