05.28.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 11:36 am by Administrator
I seem to only sporadically post anything around here, but when I do, I tend to have a long list of possible interests to from which I must choose to write about. First off, the Answers in Genesis Creation Museum is having its grand opening today. Protestors are quite numerous around the internet, and a group has even pitched camp at the gates of the museum in opposition to the structure. Funny how the evolutionists, who have a monopoly on public education, who have multimillion dollar museums all over the country and all over Europe, and who have pretty much complete control of Hollywood should feel so threatened by one single museum that presents an alternative view of the scientific evidence. You’d think that evolutionists, who profess to believe in scientific inquiry, would welcome other takes on the evidence. Apparently, a lot of people think that one dogmatically held theory having a monopoly over public presentation is good science. Anyway, today’s a good day for freedom of speech, but more importantly for the glory of the Creator. For info on the museum, head to:
http://www.creationmuseum.org/
While lurking around the internet this morning, I came across an article from The Telegraph entitled “Speaking in tongues.” In short, it’s about a number of Christian denominations that believe in the modern day gift from the Holy Spirit to speak in tongues. What really caused me to roll my eyes was their definition of “speaking in tongues.” Basically, they say it’s babbling in a language no one understands. Obviously, adherents to that definition have never read the verses dealing with the phenomenon.
All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard them speaking in his own language. Utterly amazed, they asked: “Are not all these men who are speaking Galileans? Then how is it that each of us hears them in his own native language? Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome (both Jews and converts to Judaism Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!” Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?” (Acts 2:4-12)
Clearly, those speaking were not speaking gibberish. To the contrary, they could be understood quite well in everyone’s home language, and maybe even without an accent! I considered posting a comment on the site, but decided I’d just say a little something here. Checking back right now, I see that someone else has already pointed out the poor research. The article can be found here:
http://www.thetelegraph.com/onset?id=1993&template=article.html
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Posted in reviews at 11:31 am by Administrator
Well, I recently saw a movie that I feel I must share on here. The movie was Déjà Vu starring Denzel Washington, and it’s one of those time travel themes that have wasted many hours of my life. Anyway, the following contains *spoilers*, so read at your own peril.
The plot of Déjà Vu is of the kind that starts off with the feel that the story could be a run of the mill detective thriller. ATF Agent Doug, played by Washington, is investigating a ferry explosion in New Orleans and quickly determines that it was an act of terrorism. Yet in the course of his investigation, some abnormalities begin to appear in the investigation. The most striking is the find that one woman’s body was found washed up on shore with burn marks and shrapnel wounds, despite it having been two hours prior to the explosion. While I originally hypothesized that she had somehow been warped back two hours (boy I have a hyperactive imagination), the woman really did turn out to be murdered earlier than the explosion. Doug went on to check out her history in a bid to find the bomber, since only the bomber would have known to fake her manner of death in that way. Yet in his investigation, he does end up finding strange things, such as the woman calling the ATF office before the explosion asking for Doug and an odd recording on the woman’s messaging machine. Most interesting of all is the sentence made out of magnet on the refrigerator, “You can save her.”
After this point, Doug is recruited by another government agency due to his keen deductive abilities. They show him a device that is able to view into the past, but with the catch that it is always exactly something like four days and sixteen hours behind the present. It’s basically a second chance to see what happened back in the past from any angle, but the viewers would have to be sure to be looking in the right spot when something happens, since they can only record what is on screen. I enjoyed the concept, although I’m sure that the equal distance time displacement idea has been around for a while.
Yet being able to view the past does not necessarily open up a string of paradoxes. Instead, that comes about when things start getting sent back to the past. When Doug attempts to send a note to himself in the past so that he can stop the attack, the message ends up being intercepted by his partner. This in turn leads to his partner’s death at the hands of the terrorist, and he really had been in the original timeline. In a nutshell, in tampering with the past, they ensured that things would turn out the way they did. In fact, because Doug’s partner had put bullet holes in the bomber’s car, the bomber now had no choice but to steal the car of the woman he would eventually murder. This is actually the type of time travel theme I prefer, since I think it deals the best with the time travel paradoxes.
Once the bomber was captured, however, things began to take a bad turn. For one thing, the bad guy was portrayed as a fanatical Christian and American patriot. Next, during the interrogation he was almost echoing what I had been writing elsewhere just this past week. Now that was kinda weird. What was the terrorist saying? Basically that one cannot change destiny/fate, and that any attempts to do so will only serve to bring it about. (For the record, while I agree with his statement there, I do not in any way condone the use of violence. Christians are commanded to fight in a war of the spirit and not a war of the flesh, as per Ephesians 6: 12.) Now, the Christian bashing out of the way, the movie went on to defy the laws of cause and effect. Doug ends up traveling back in time himself, and although the movie continues along the path that everything Doug does actually occurred in his original timeline, he ends up rendering it all pointless by taking away the motivation for time travel in the first place. He saves not only the ferry, but the woman as well, thus changing the course of time and making it so he will have no reason to go back in time, which in turn ensures that the day will not be saved, despite the happy ending. This part of why I don’t write time travel stories. The Time Machine did it a lot better….
On a final note, the Bible does actually ensure that at least some aspects of the future are unchangeable. Perhaps sometime later I may delve into that, Lord willing.
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05.21.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 3:44 pm by Administrator
A theory is being proposed by evolutionists that is to explain the extinction of a number of animals (such as the mammoth) and human cultures during the ice age. Much like their popular theory regarding the extinction of the dinosaurs, a big rock from space is supposedly to blame. As evidence, they apparently have tiny diamond fragments as well as high levels of iridium that have been found around North America. The diamond fragments point to a carbon rich comet exploding over the continent, but this space rock left behind no crater either because of the thickness of the continental ice sheet or because the comet exploded in the atmosphere.
Did this actually happen? Who knows? The reason I’m bringing this up is because it brings to mind a certain hypothesis floating around concerning ancient high technology. Some believe that there is evidence that the ancient world experienced some sort of nuclear war. Besides interesting desert glass found around the world, a kind which was perfectly reproduced during the US’s atomic testing programs, there are such things as descriptions of a nuclear holocaust in ancient Sanskrit. Could this “comet” idea be further support for the concept of an ancient war after Babel? Instead of it being a comet, might it have been a nuclear warhead from the time of Peleg, in whose day the earth was divided? Perhaps in this way the technologically advanced societies of the past were brought to an end? I’ve got no idea, but it’s interesting to consider.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6676461.stm
http://s8int.com/atomic1.html
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05.20.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 12:09 pm by Administrator
Although organized Creationists use basic and popularly accepted operational science as their backbone of support, after the Bible of course, a rather intriguing aspect of Creationism involves the unique predictions it makes. One of them in particular, though not so advertised, is of great interest to me, and I believe should be of great interest to UFO archeologists. However, the starting point of this prediction is not Creationist models. It goes back over two thousand years, not to the modern proponents of special creation, but to the writings of the wisest man ever to have walked the earth. The prediction was made by one King Solomon, son of David and the third king of Israel. It was recorded in the first chapter of the book of Ecclesiastes and it stretches across three verses as part of the book’s introduction.
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one can say, ‘Look! This is something new’? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time. There is no remembrance of men of old, and even those who are yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow.” (Ecclesiastes 1:9-11)
What exactly is the prediction being made here? After doing a Google search some time ago, I came across some page or other that was discussing how the phrase “there is nothing new under the sun” meant that whatever man designed, the principles of that design can already be found in nature. That’s something that Creationists have been saying for some time, that God’s designs found in nature will always be more efficient than anything humans can dish out. But I think that takes the verse out of context. At the very least, that phrase goes along with all the sentences from verse 9 through to 11.
“It was here already, long ago.”
“There is no remembrance of men of old.”
Do not the emphasized parts above seem to indicate that this is not simply referring to man being outdone by nature, but rather to man being outdone by men of the past?
The Bible indicates people before the Flood as well as a little while after had extended life spans, and that it was not uncommon for people to reach six hundred years of age. The record holder is the well known Methuselah, who lived an incredible 969 years. Unlike evolutionists, who believe that things evolve from less complex to more complex (despite any word games they might like to play), Creationists believe that the world is deteriorating. In fact, the farther back one goes in time, the more likely one will be able to find people capable of mental and physical feats of strength. We today are only a shadow of what once was. Our ancestors of several thousand years ago were not unintellectual brutes barely stepping out of the fog of the “caveman” life, although they sure were capable of great atrocities in the same way we today are capable of. Contrary to what fish to philosopher evolution would predict, we find such “anomalies” as the great Egyptians starting out with the grandest of pyramids and then deteriorating in architectural skill until the newest structures were able only to stand short for a little while before crumpling into jumbled mounds.
And this brings the topic to what Solomon may actually have meant. Every kind of technology that we have today was already invented and implemented before the time of Solomon. That’s right, we lost the space race before we even started for us. This is a ridiculous claim for sure, but only if one does not stop and consider what a mind such as Edison’s or Tesla’s or Einstein’s or da Vinci’s would have been able to achieve given several hundred years with which to work. Adam had a quick enough mind that he was able to name all the kinds of animals in less than a day, and he eventually reached the age of 930!
But wait. This is all fine and dandy as a religious or philosophical hypothesis, but the idea of advanced technology in the past doesn’t float when looking at the archaeological evidence. Or does it? Aside from the example of the pyramids given above, there is ample evidence from all over the world. The link on the blogroll to the right has a site called s8int.com, which is devoted to compiling stories of “out of place artifacts” (ooparts) that support such things as past technological sophistication. The list of evidences is actually quite astounding.
So everything that we have today is nothing new. This isn’t the whole picture, since Solomon didn’t say only that there is nothing new. He actually started off by saying that “What has been will be again.” What he did was to effectively mark the line of symmetry in the timeline of the world. Before the time of Solomon, mankind had already advanced as far as he was allowed. After the time of Solomon, it would all be repeated. What we have today was in the past, and what was in the past we will have sometime in the present.
I admit that I’m a sci-fi nut, and this may have theoretically skewed my reasoning in some way, but hey.
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