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100 Reasons to Choose Biblical Creation Over Evolution
46. Venus and Uranus Retrograde Rotations
The nebular origin of the solar system predicts that all of the planets should be rotating the same way. In reality, Venus, Uranus and probably Pluto, all have retrograde (backward) spins.
Venus' movements are very strange indeed. According to one scientist, Venus' rotational and orbital period has a direct relationship with the movements of earth, almost like gears in a machine A. This scientist confessed that all theories attempting to explain these movements are "confused."B
46.Venus and Uranus Retrograde Rotations - Notes and References
A. "Like a machine with gears almost perfectly meshed to Earth, Venus spins around it's axis five times between every close encounter with us. But why? For some reason that we haven't been able to determine yet (but there should be one), Venus' spin, like it's orbit, also sustains a rhythmic relationship to Earth's orbit…These obvious synchronizations are a bit bothersome…We have some theories about how the spin of Venus may have been pulled into sync with Earth. Unfortunately, they don't really work, at least not yet." David Harry Grinspoon, "Venus Revealed", Helix Books, Addison-Wesley Publishing,1997, p.204
B. "…We haven't exactly learned to decipher these clues yet, and the theory of the origin of planetary rotation is currently slightly confused." Grinspoon, p.47. He concludes on p. 193: "It seems we will never have a theory predicting in detail how a solar system arises from a disc."