Notwal I have answers but am tired of this thread. I think we all are.
Or would we like to do age of the earth research now 
No that is still religion..... evolution / Big Bang etc predicts existence of aliens, creation pretty muchs rules them out.
BTW I don't remember us talking abotu religion in this thread at all?
creationism was mentioned a few times.
but ultimately it was sausage that mentioned nuns.
problem is now i can't think about aliens without thinking about robby williams. 
Creationism was not mentioned in a religion sense by me: it was referring the scientific data that is contrary to accepted 'fact' or doctrine or theories etc.
I can't think of aliens without thinking of the hot one in Galaxy Quest, and how the guy ended up with her and got it on with her, but she was in fact an octopus looking thing that just had a humanoid appearance due to some electronic appearance-changing device 
No don't want to talk about that.
Can anyone explain the Twins Paradox?
The classic paradox in a nutshell :-
A pair of clever twins called Gloria and Jeffrey grow up, get their doctorates and go and work for Star Fleet Command. Gloria gets a job at HQ and Jeffrey gets a job crewing on an old impulse drive space craft and they head off to Alpha Centauri. They stay in touch through the marvel of sub-space communication (a theoretically impossible form of instantaneous communication). Jeffrey accelerates up to ~90% light speed.
When Jeffrey talks to Gloria on the subspace videocom Gloria appears very slow. In fact her time has slowed in accordance with special relativity. At the same time Jeffrey appears slow to Gloria.
They continue on like this chatting occasionally for 10 years, the time for an entire round trip. For the entire time they experience this mutual time discrepancy. However when Jeffrey gets back he's a couple of years younger than Gloria.
How can this be ? Surely they should be mutually affected (although how they could be younger than each other is another conundrum.)
Why is it so?
Frame of reference: he appears younger upon return to earth as he is the one who was travelling (ie time chnaged for him)
If he returned to earth and then you transported both of them instantaneously to Alpha Centauri, then she'd appear younger.
So NotWal is aging slower than me cos he's closer to the equator and moving faster?
Well ... I don't get it. Relative to each other they each have the same experience except that Jeffrey accelerates and turns around.
Exactly. They have different experiences and age differently so where is the paradox?
Makes sense - people who run down the street and then run back home live longer .... cos they have aged less than the person who stays home (where is the tongue in cheek smiley face?)
Went to Wikipedia and saw a page full of maths. Its high school stuff but I don't remember it. Time for a maths update.
All right then. Tell us about the young Earth. I'd be very much surprised if I need maths for that :)
they both age the same amount but the one traveling the speed of light ages slower relative to the one not travelling the speed of light.
because as you approach the speed of light time slows down.
time dialation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity
edit,
the paradox is that if you went back in time and killed your father you would not be born.
solution is as you have been born there must be another version of your father in a paralell timeline.
nope it's about aliens.
must be the mormans again. 
i just figured out why speed sailors are so happy,
as they are travelling faster than all of us they are infact slowing down time and therefore an hour for us on the water is actually 3 hours for them;.
^^ Do you eat bananas? - now that's scientific proof we evolved from monkeys. Very similar to the logic of the Young Earth proponents.
ali g is gold
this one is a little more topical. bill hicks is the master.
is the world 10000 years old?
