<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119</id><updated>2011-12-25T03:41:02.992-08:00</updated><category term='paleobotany'/><category term='darwin'/><category term='myth'/><category term='botany'/><category term='female choice'/><category term='strange'/><category term='astronomy'/><category term='visual aide'/><category term='cults'/><category term='holy spirit'/><category term='louis agassiz'/><category term='grace'/><category term='heaven'/><category term='soundgarden'/><category term='antichrist'/><category term='hypothesis'/><category term='supernatural'/><category term='vendian'/><category term='flood geology'/><category term='theology'/><category term='rogue black hole'/><category term='noah'/><category term='photosynthesis'/><category term='globalization'/><category term='creationism'/><category term='evolution'/><category term='intelligent design'/><category term='karl marx'/><category term='apocalypse'/><category term='agassiz'/><category term='satan'/><category term='biology'/><category term='plants before sunlight'/><category term='dragon'/><category term='eternal'/><category term='day three'/><category term='jim jones was an Atheist'/><category term='jim jones'/><category term='science'/><category term='socialism'/><category term='salvation'/><category term='phenomena'/><category term='theory'/><category term='bible'/><category term='jesus'/><category term='spiritual'/><category term='soviet anthem'/><category term='creation'/><category term='God'/><category term='3-d'/><category term='young earth creationism'/><category term='genesis'/><category term='atheism'/><category term='people&apos;s temple'/><category term='linnaeus'/><category term='day'/><category term='yec'/><category term='falsehood'/><category term='sign'/><category term='divine'/><category term='cult'/><category term='fundamentalist christianity'/><category term='communism'/><category term='spirit of truth'/><title type='text'>Genesis and Science</title><subtitle type='html'>"Religion itself has little to do with worshiping an entity. To me a religion is a group of people with a single cause who work﻿ to convert others to their cause and think they are the only ones who are right. I've seen Atheists as well as Christians, et cetera, who fit this bill. Just a thought." - YellowPianoGirl, Toni Lynn, and by the way, Toni states, "I respect religious beliefs, but I myself, am agnostic." Does it ever occur to zealots people don't want Atheism forced on them?</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>57</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-8892722423565261807</id><published>2010-10-17T07:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-18T22:22:09.229-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='atheism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='communism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='antichrist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='satan'/><title type='text'>My Least Favorite Atheist - Marilyn Manson</title><content type='html'>In light of my post, "&lt;a href="http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2010/03/eddie-vedder-may-be-atheist-but.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;My Favorite Atheist&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;" which incidentally deals with Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam's meaningful lyrics/video about bullying in the song "Jeremy," I thought I'd post here about my least favorite Atheist, Marilyn Manson. I did not arrive at this conclusion overnight, but after years of observing the effects he has had on people I've known, reading his anti-religious, hateful  rhetoric in interviews, and then witnessing his violent tyrades on-stage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LBBsXVziSJA?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LBBsXVziSJA?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.anti-communist.net/mediaplayer.swf" width="400" height="325" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="height=325&amp;width=400&amp;file=http://www.anti-communist.net/fail/attacking_ginger_002.flv&amp;image=http://www.anti-communist.net/fail/attacking_ginger_002.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Drummer "Ginger Fish" being carried off stage by roadies after &lt;em&gt;Marilyn Manson&lt;/em&gt;, aka birth-name, Brian Warner knocked him unconscience for no apparent reason than a need of anger management classes... some have posted upon seeing such video, that its "fake" or "acting". I'm afraid, this may be Hollyweird, but its real.&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/TLsKAHG1x8I/AAAAAAAAFVk/bikg5zdWYnc/s1600/ginger-fish.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 133px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/TLsKAHG1x8I/AAAAAAAAFVk/bikg5zdWYnc/s400/ginger-fish.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529023964551432130" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;This was only one of many, many injurious acts by the on-stage bully and thug, Brian Warner. "Marilyn Manson" or Mr. Warner has made quite the icon of himself among kids who feel they "don't belong," part of the "outside". Kids should wake up to the harsh reality: Marilyn Manson is THE bully... THE jock... THE in-crowd there to pick on, tear down and maim, not the "good guy" who's sticking up for kids who get preyed on by the school-yard thugs. Seems the media ran to Manson for interviews after the Columbine school shootings. Every time there's an issue of bullying the media turns to Manson and ilk, as though they actually had a reasonable answer or solution to the problem of bullying. The shooters expressed feeling of connectedness to Manson's "Goth" music. They were tired of being bullied by the "jocks," but when do you cross the line from being bullied, to becoming the predatorial bully yourself? Do two wrongs, make a right? If anyone is under the delusion that Manson is just a nice guy sticking up for the downtrodden and abused, these visuals should bring to light, what Manson's real world view is about:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to &lt;em&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Fish" target="_blank"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Fish&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kenneth Robert Wilson (born September 28, 1966), known by the stage name Ginger Fish, is an American drummer who is primarily known for playing drums for Marilyn Manson.[1] Like Marilyn Manson, which combines the names of an iconic beauty with a serial killer, his name combines those of Ginger Rogers and Albert Fish.[2]&lt;br /&gt;References&lt;br /&gt;^ "&lt;a href="http://news.google.ca/newspapers?id=MJ8sAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=cP0DAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=3646,9027441&amp;dq=ginger-fish&amp;hl=en" target="_blank"&gt;Marilyn Manson Drummer Injured at Concert". Lakeland Ledger. November 29, 2000&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/blockquote&gt;That injury was not a "joke" nor was it acting, nor was it "fake" as some remarked who couldn't believe their own eyes... it's incomprehensible for some to believe Manson is one of his own "horrible people, horrible people..." after so much rhetoric against the bullies, the in crowd, the predators.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If anyone thinks the video is fake, it may or may not be the incident reported by media. Here's an article which pretty much sums up Manson/Brian Warner's true violent-prone, criminal mentality:&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/TLsPDyDx1nI/AAAAAAAAFVs/T9kDaXnJ8zc/s1600/ginger-fish2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 164px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/TLsPDyDx1nI/AAAAAAAAFVs/T9kDaXnJ8zc/s400/ginger-fish2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529029525179061874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The video clip where Manson deliberately threw a mic stand at "Ginger Fish" &lt;u&gt;wasn't an act&lt;/u&gt;. That's how Manson is in real life, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. A bonafide self-centered jerk, bully and thug. Those who were in doubt, posting it was "acting" and "fake" for publicity are sadly looking at the obvious: what it is like to be in an ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP, and thier eyes telling them, "Manson is an abusive bully" but their brain tells them, "It's Hollyweird, therefore it can't be real." A clear case of cognitive dissonance. Behavior so unfathomable, that the brain doesn't want to believe what the eyes are seeing. The camera doesn't lie in this case. It may have been a separate event, but the "Lakeland Ledger" cite on Wikipedia, clearly states his collarbone was broken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why does the media (Donahue, et al) keep running to this person, Brian Warner, aka Charles Manson as though he's actually got any kind of positive message in the music mix? Do our eyes deceive us THAT badly, as though he has &lt;u&gt;anything&lt;/u&gt; positive to contribute to society? The media are definately under the Anne Frank delusion, that basically, there's good in every human. No, some people are thoroughly nihilist; mind, body, soul, and out to destroy the world and write songs of their love affair with destruction: the total collapse of civilization through amoral, immoral degeneracy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looking at the violent scenes on youtube, various individuals filmed of Manson, I began asking myself, "Now, if this were Mel Gibson beating up people, just what would the media say!?" Or, try to imagine if it were any average guy on the street beating up on his wife, or his kids in the manner Manson beats up on his band members... oh, but we think to ourselves, "Boys will be boys!" and excuse this kind of behavior because its male on male violence, therefore "acceptable"? If boys are to ever learn that bullying is not the right way to act, then a clear message needs to be sent across to such people that it is NOT socially acceptable behavior for males to bully males.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From what I gather at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zsa_Zsa_Speck" target="_blank"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, just a few of the people who couldn't stand performing with the verbally and physically abusive Brian Warner, aka Marilyn Manson... resulting in a revolving door of musicians who could barely tolerate his outbursts, or have left the band over time, include, but not limited to : &lt;em&gt;Twiggy Ramirez • Andy Gerold • Ginger Fish • Chris Vrenna Wes Borland • Rob Holliday • Tim Sköld • Madonna Wayne Gacy • Mark Chaussee • John 5 • Zim Zum • Daisy Berkowitz • Sara Lee Lucas • Gidget Gein  • Olivia Newton Bundy • Zsa Zsa Speck&lt;/em&gt; )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Manson is teaching the next generation of thugs, how to become the biggest, meanest, nastiest bully on the block. Not coping skills, and certainly not how to make the world a better place, and least of all, Marilyn Manson is not doing a thing about the "bully problem". Marilyn Manson is the epitomy of THE bully problem.&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/TLsaJ9GoqnI/AAAAAAAAFV0/DBq7n1955y4/s1600/Tyler-Clementi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 225px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/TLsaJ9GoqnI/AAAAAAAAFV0/DBq7n1955y4/s400/Tyler-Clementi.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529041725850954354" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;Males beating down and abusing other males... like was done to the Rutgers University kid, &lt;em&gt;Tyler Clementi&lt;/em&gt;, who committed suicide. I'm sure Mr. Brian Warner, aka Marilyn Manson in all his Atheist morality thought it was "all in good fun," that "boys will be boys" as one &lt;a href="http://www.mansonwiki.com/wiki/John_5" target="_blank"&gt;Manson band member had to say&lt;/a&gt;, the nicest thing Manson ever said to him was, "Happy birthday, f*gg*t."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fallout with Marilyn Manson&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John 5's reasons for leaving Marilyn Manson were cited as being mutual, despite the mysterious nature of his sudden firing by Manson's manager in 2004. John was quoted at the time as saying about the incident, "I don't know. . . I was nothing but nice to him," he continued. "I never screwed up onstage — well not really badly — and I did everything I could to get along with him. Maybe, just maybe, it had something to do with the fact that I don't drink or do drugs, and he's not like that at all. Maybe he held that against me. I don't know. He never said." John 5 was notorious among fans as being drug and alcohol free. Before the incident, Manson had assaulted John on stage, notably, Manson kicked John in the face during a televised performance, leading to a brief confrontation in front of a packed and roaring audience. This was during the intro to "The Beautiful People", when played at the Rock Am Ring 2003. Also, during the tour John maintains that Manson spoke about matters other than business only once, "It was on my birthday, and he turned to me and said, "Happy birthday, faggot" — then walked away."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just "making it up"?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's clips of Marilyn Manson, aka Brian Warner bullying "John 5". &lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CL9AhJO2CKI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CL9AhJO2CKI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.anti-communist.net/mediaplayer.swf" width="400" height="325" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="height=325&amp;width=400&amp;file=http://www.anti-communist.net/fail/attacking_john5_002.flv&amp;image=http://www.anti-communist.net/fail/attacking_john5_002.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another clip of the regular harrassment and bullying of John 5 &lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OMw7trK_vpw?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OMw7trK_vpw?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.anti-communist.net/mediaplayer.swf" width="400" height="325" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="height=325&amp;width=400&amp;file=http://www.anti-communist.net/fail/attacking_john5.flv&amp;image=http://www.anti-communist.net/fail/attacking_john5.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's nothing fun about being a victim of male-on-male bullying, whether you're a male or female.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;By comparison you can say Manson has done for schoolyard bullying, what Al Gore has done for the environment!&lt;/strong&gt; Yet the media continues to go to this monster for his opinion on "how to solve the world's male-on-male violence issues"... why just yesterday, I watched a 2 part video on that very subject! None other than Marilyn Manson providing his personal philosophical insights on just that: the root of male-on-male violence. =/ and of course he was blaming religion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take a moment and listen to his "wordly wisdom" and blame-game, and more of his anti-bullying spiel, when he himself is in desperate need of a long-look in the mirror of soul-searching and hypocrisy! &lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JlGGoE2LlFQ?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JlGGoE2LlFQ?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why doesn't Mr. Brian Warner, aka Marilyn Manson take responsibility for his own actions and &lt;u&gt;stop blaming&lt;/u&gt; others for his behaviorial issues with bullying? No televangelist put that mic stand in his hand to break his drummer's neck. He's a lowlife bully. A thug. When will the media wake up to the blood and broken bones they can see with their own eyes? Realize almost everything (supposedly philosophical) that ushers from the mouth of this atheist "Marilyn Manson" has been and is, and will be, a lie. In show biz terms, Brian Warner is a SELL OUT on the cause he claimed to defend in the beginning. His rhetoric against bullies? He has proven himself to be one of the music industry's biggest bullies. Mr. Warner is not there to promote any kind of tolerance, social responsibility, morality or solution to male-on-male violence, as can be seen in further clips of Manson's outlandishly childish outbursts and tyrades of flaming uncontrolled temper tantrums against his "friends".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marilyn Manson hurls mic at band member Zim Zum&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/d2ZXqnK6Rwg?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/d2ZXqnK6Rwg?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.anti-communist.net/mediaplayer.swf" width="400" height="325" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="height=325&amp;width=400&amp;file=http://www.anti-communist.net/fail/attacking_zim_zum.flv&amp;image=http://www.anti-communist.net/fail/attacking_zim_zum.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marilyn Manson attacks band member Twiggy at :44&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KV5hobe-1Bo?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KV5hobe-1Bo?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More senseless aggressions and violence against drummer Ginger Fish&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9zV2lUj6_Tk?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9zV2lUj6_Tk?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.anti-communist.net/mediaplayer.swf" width="400" height="325" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="height=325&amp;width=400&amp;file=http://www.anti-communist.net/fail/attacking_ginger_001.flv&amp;image=http://www.anti-communist.net/fail/attacking_ginger_001.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just what are we teaching the children by our behavior? Mr. Brian Warner needs to know his actions speak far louder than all his empty words and rhetoric. Male on male aggression and bullying is NOT acceptable, and NOT appropriate as an example to young men. If the Marilyn Mansons of the world cannot be brought under control by their own peers then just how do we expect children to get the schoolyard bullies under control?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Manson's solution is violence: Eye for an eye, from which we end up with a world of blind people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now back to Manson's continued attacks on "Christian Morality"...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vSOSRif8arQ?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vSOSRif8arQ?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;I wish I could personally ask Marilyn Manson aka Brian Warner, what his definition of socalled "Christian Morality" is? I think he's referring to the hypocrisy of televangelist adultery, two faced crony xtianity that steals from widows for﻿ their small pensions and builds gold enamel pipes in mansions, pedophilia and all the sins that have driven people of all walks of life away from faith. These same things Jesus condemned, so Marilyn Manson is confused when he speaks of "Christian Morals". or the problem with hypocrites in "the inner circle" of churches, who prey on the downtrodden, relegating the "untouchables" to the corner of a sunday school room with their mouths shut, carrying the burden of projected inadequacies by those individuals, all to self-exalt a﻿ few in positions of staff with thier fine cars, jewelry and social prestige; deacons, there for social-networking, NOT to help the poor, widow, orphan. That is not "christian morals". Those are the attitudes Jesus condemned.&lt;br /&gt;True Christian teachings were as Jesus put it, "Love God with all your soul, and Love your neighbor as yourself." What Manson is pointing his finger at, is neither  Christian nor morality&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Footnote&lt;/h3&gt;... I want readers to know, I was *personally* of my own free opinion *disgusted* by what I saw of this atheist's abusive tyrades and antics, as he basked in his bully-fest &lt;em&gt;-nobody, irregardless of race, religion, sexual orientation or otherwise&lt;/em&gt; deserves to be treated like Manson treats his colleagues. I could see and sense the frustration in John 5, as he had probably dealt with the excessive bullying for the 1000th or more time, on-stage as he'd dealt with it off-stage. Ready to blow. So clearly, John 5 is not a professional boxer or professional wrestler &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;and more importantly, what law says he has to be?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Brian Warner was way out of line.&lt;br /&gt;John 5 didn't sign up to street brawl. He's a musician by trade -- but with blockheads like Manson you're stuck deciding between &lt;em&gt;"Do I forfeit the contract, do I throw down, right here, and whip this loser in front of the audience and risk getting my own busted up in the process? &lt;strong&gt;or&lt;/strong&gt; do I do fulfil on my obligation to contract?"&lt;/em&gt; For whatever reasons, John 5 chose to compose himself, back off and stick with the contract and keep on playing like the intelligent, talented musician he is. I sensed that, having been bullied, deciding between quitting and my job. Been there myself, trying to hold down a job, and people just keep hacking on ya, hacking on ya, hacking on ya... John 5 is a musician who doesn't want anything to do with street level gang warfare (&lt;em&gt;needless to say has probably went on to much better things, like one of the band members went on to build up "Nine Inch Nails" one of the most successful bands of the past decade&lt;/em&gt;). Yet, as expected, all Manson has to offer is more ridicule and ranting against former members.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;... I don't care if anyone's homosexual or not, no human being deserves to be treated the way Brian Warner treats his employees. That level of abuse is disgusting, we put up with it on school yards, in the workplace, unfortunately even  in some churches to some degree or another. Are we intelligent human beings, or animals? Manson needs to point that finger at himself for a change. Himself is where "Change" must begin.&lt;br /&gt;Brian Warner, aka Marilyn Manson is somewhat of a hypocrite even bolstering communism, when he &lt;em&gt;regularly abuses his own employees like chattel, in the manner of a typical greedy capitalist&lt;/em&gt;. (I am referencing his lyrics "Beautiful People" which speaks against Christianity and Capitalism as "the problem"). Exploitation of workers, is all part and parcel of "the problem".&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately, when the day is done, Marilyn Manson, aka Brian Warner is not left with a message. And for posterity, who needs Fred Phelps, when you've got abusers like Marilyn Manson to hate on homosexuals and people with differences? According to former band-mate John 5 (regularly abused / bullied by Manson) : "&lt;em&gt;It was on my birthday, and he turned to me and said, "Happy birthday, faggot" — then walked away."&lt;/em&gt; From the video footage, I have every reason to believe this description of behavior is well within the norm for Brian Warner, and on the question of the recent suicide of Tyler Clementi the Rutgers University kid, due to bullying and harrassment of homosexual men? I'm sure Mr. Brian Warner, aka Marilyn Manson in all his Atheist morality thought it was "all in good fun," "wholesome amusement," and merely that "boys will be boys".&lt;br /&gt;Manson's perversion is not the solution, he is THE problem with society and THE reason males bully males. Until the Mansons of the world &lt;a href="http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/ohios-mentor-high-school-under-scrutiny-after-spate-of-suicides/19667585" target="_blank"&gt;decide to change themselves&lt;/a&gt;, bullying will continue, and sadly, kids like Tyler Clementi will continue to commit suicide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's not "Adult Entertainment," Mr. Brian Warner, and if you refuse to change, don't expect other bullies to. Don't waste your breath or our time preaching to society, about bullies or the parents of bullies willingness to change, because "Change" begins one person at a time, beginning with yourself. &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;"...two families - including the Vidovics - are suing the school district, claiming &lt;strong&gt;their children were bullied to death and the school did nothing to stop it&lt;/strong&gt;. The lawsuits come after a national spate of high-profile suicides by gay teens and others, and during a time of national soul-searching about what can be done to stop it.&lt;br /&gt;If there has been soul-searching among the bullies in Mentor - a pleasant beachfront community that was voted one of the "100 Best Places to Live" by CNN and Money magazine this year - Sladjana's family saw too little of it at her wake in October 2008.&lt;br /&gt;Suzana Vidovic found her sister's body hanging over the front lawn. The &lt;strong&gt;family watched, she said, as the girls who had tormented Sladjana for months walked up to the casket - and laughed&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;"They were laughing at the way she looked," Suzana says, crying. "Even though she died."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- AOL News, more on, &lt;a href="http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/ohios-mentor-high-school-under-scrutiny-after-spate-of-suicides/19667585" target="_blank"&gt;Bullied to Death&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-8892722423565261807?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/8892722423565261807/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2010/10/my-least-favorite-atheist-marilyn.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/8892722423565261807'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/8892722423565261807'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2010/10/my-least-favorite-atheist-marilyn.html' title='My Least Favorite Atheist - Marilyn Manson'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/TLsKAHG1x8I/AAAAAAAAFVk/bikg5zdWYnc/s72-c/ginger-fish.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-352589399690565556</id><published>2010-08-27T17:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-27T18:05:46.942-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='biology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='young earth creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='atheism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='genesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='evolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hypothesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='myth'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='darwin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='intelligent design'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='falsehood'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><title type='text'>Mimicry (A Theory That's Obvious Nonsense)</title><content type='html'>Here's a problem with the theory of "Mimicry".&lt;br /&gt;Just because it looks like a rattlesnake during a very short phase during its lifespan, doesn't mean anything. Snakes.. &lt;em&gt;all of them&lt;/em&gt; have lots of stripes, spots, and in fact, even some trained snake experts have trouble distinguishing between them, so how could a dumb animal?? When I saw it, of course, "&lt;em&gt;rattlesnake&lt;/em&gt;" came to mind, but *why* doesn't it retain those features since they're beneficial during their entire lifespan?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ask yourself that. Why lose features, which would be beneficial through your entire lifespan?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(**)Mimicry doesn't explain anything. Nature happens... so, natural selection happens and &lt;strong&gt;there's nothing but randomness and coincidence&lt;/strong&gt;, and Darwinists made the "leap of faith" and extrapolation that there's actually anything "intelligent" in nature, that one species would try to mimick another, out of self-protection... Darwinist nonsense. Its only coincidence that it turned out that way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who is it looking for "Design" in the choas, catastrophism, and seeking "intelligence" where there is none?&lt;br /&gt;Ah, none but the Darwinists... and Atheists. It "just" turned out that way. I hate to break it to you, but sometimes things happen, they just turn out that way and there's no explanation for it. No design, no thought-process, just random coincidence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;**(&lt;em&gt;Mimicry, resembling a rattlesnake really assisted the eastern hognose in keeping my cat away from this species, didn't it? So much for the Mimicry theory  nonsense&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/THhWpVXL26I/AAAAAAAAEtE/TVdJMQMwKT4/s1600/snake.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 182px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/THhWpVXL26I/AAAAAAAAEtE/TVdJMQMwKT4/s400/snake.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5510249412196817826" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photo 1   LAWA  &lt;em&gt;Juvenile - pattern, coloration and body form bears resemblance to a Pygmy Rattlesnake - perhaps some protection is afforded&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Photo 3   JONE  &lt;em&gt;Juvenile hog nosed snake in red color phase similar to pigmy&lt;br /&gt;rattlesnake&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/THhc93OZeWI/AAAAAAAAEtM/_zf8kriM3QM/s1600/heterodon_platirhinos.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 326px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/THhc93OZeWI/AAAAAAAAEtM/_zf8kriM3QM/s400/heterodon_platirhinos.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5510256361953917282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&gt; The cat dragged this one up. Eager to identify it. Its around a ft in&lt;br /&gt;&gt; length... very small snake.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;On 8/27/2010 1:24:13 PM, Jeff wrote:&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Too bad I can't see much of the head in that shot, but I'll bet it's an&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Eastern Hognose.  Really too bad the cat killed it, as hognose snakes are&lt;br /&gt;&gt; totally harmless to people and really cool snakes!&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Some are nearly black, but some are quite colorful, and yours matches this&lt;br /&gt;&gt; baby hognose I found a few years ago pretty well.  Scroll down:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You're absolutely correct.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for the link. I looked this one up by species name, and found an identical one that matches mine (now in a jar of alcohol).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photo 1   LAWA  Juvenile - pattern, coloration and body form bears resemblance to a Pygmy Rattlesnake - perhaps some protection is afforded.&lt;br /&gt;Photo 3   JONE  Juvenile hog nosed snake in red color phase similar to pigmy rattlesnake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://149.168.1.195/photos/fromNRID.php?sciName=Heterodon%20platirhinos&amp;pid=88&amp;location=photos/LAWA_2004/10/88.jpg&amp;size=640&amp;source=pub" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Heterodon platirhinos&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Eastern Hognose Snake&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The hognose is also the snake that will roll over and pretend its dead and produce a bad odor, as though it were dead to discourage predators from eating it, isn't it?&lt;br /&gt;A scent like its been deceased for a few days... so one documentary claimed.. showing a coyote losing interest in the hognose snake, because it stank.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They produce a perfume of death when they're playing dead, right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.duke.edu/~jspippen/herps/easternhognosesnake.htm" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.duke.edu/~jspippen/herps/easternhognosesnake.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Jeff&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On 8/27/2010 8:22:27 PM, Jeff wrote:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&gt; Yep,&lt;br /&gt;&gt; that's the one!&lt;br /&gt;&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&gt; Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Jeff&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-352589399690565556?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/352589399690565556/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2010/08/mimicry-theory-thats-obvious-nonsense.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/352589399690565556'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/352589399690565556'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2010/08/mimicry-theory-thats-obvious-nonsense.html' title='Mimicry (A Theory That&apos;s Obvious Nonsense)'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/THhWpVXL26I/AAAAAAAAEtE/TVdJMQMwKT4/s72-c/snake.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-4921875866080835478</id><published>2010-04-29T17:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-30T00:40:32.584-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='biology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='botany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='atheism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photosynthesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='genesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='darwin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><title type='text'>And the Denial Of Science by Atheists Continues...</title><content type='html'>This atheist doesn't even understand the fossil record or the types of extinct  organisms that lived in it, 500-600 Million years ago. He presumes to know more than scientists do! &lt;strong&gt;Non-existent IMAGINARY plants&lt;/strong&gt; that depended on sunlight, &lt;em&gt;he insists&lt;/em&gt;... afterall, &lt;strong&gt;in our modern ecosystem, life-forms that evolved over the past 100 million years, today, depend on sunlight&lt;/strong&gt; don't they?? therefore his Elementary-school level logic concludes "... life-forms in the PreCambrian must have too."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img border="0" align="middle" src="http://www.zoology-quest.net/images/rofl.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This deluded, imaginary 3rd grade version of the fossil record, presumably complete with horses and cats and dogs and everything we see living in the modern world... lived 500-600 Million years ago, too. &lt;strong&gt;IMAGINARY&lt;/strong&gt; PHOTOSYNTHETIC PLANTS that did not even exist during the PreCambrian or Vendian.&lt;br /&gt;Supposed "dependency on sunlight," in &lt;em&gt;an extinct ecosystem&lt;/em&gt; that left few to no fossils? Scientists aren't so bold as to assume they know what the organisms were.&lt;br /&gt;So much for his fairy tale version of a Precambrian and Vendian world "food chain".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All we have to fill in the gaps for "what was," are the earliest life-forms in the fossil record; algae and fungi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's take for example protozoa, which means "first animals"... any Atheist who believes 3rd Grade level elementary school education that "photosynthesis is the 'only' possible way" to supplement a food chain...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img border="0" align="middle" src="http://www.zoology-quest.net/images/rofl.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...have amply proven themselves completely ignorant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Protozoa are variegated, and feed through three means: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. &lt;strong&gt;Holophytic&lt;/strong&gt; protozoa obtain nutrients through photosynthesis. &lt;br /&gt;2. &lt;strong&gt;Holozoic&lt;/strong&gt; protozoa depend on plants and animals for food. &lt;br /&gt;3. &lt;strong&gt;Saprophytic&lt;/strong&gt; protozoa asorb organic matter through the cell wall. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And, what about bacteria which &lt;strong&gt;do not depend on sunlight&lt;/strong&gt; or organic matter for nutrition? Is it possible? Yes, and these organisms thrive around hydrothermal vents in the total absence of sunlight, where scientists are already theorizing life first began, and for good reason! (The &lt;em&gt;same&lt;/em&gt; reasons my entire blog has focused on).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;BACTERIA ECOLOGY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.earthlife.net/prokaryotes/ecology.html" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.earthlife.net/prokaryotes/ecology.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;strong&gt;Organisms which &lt;u&gt;do not get their energy from the sun&lt;/u&gt; get it from the energy already stored in chemicals&lt;/strong&gt;. These organisms are called 'chemotrophs' meaning chemical eating. Most bacteria, and Protists as well as all animals and fungi are chemotrophs. If the food chemicals are large, complicated molecules of organic origin (ie they were once organisms), then we call the bacteria and all the other animals that eat them 'Chemoorganotrophs', but if the molecules are small and inorganic (ie iron, sulphur, hydrogen sulphide, etc) we call the bacteria which eat them 'Chemolithotrophs'. Only bacteria are chemolithotrophs, whereas animals, fungi and many protozoa are all chemoorganotrophs. Chemolithotrophic bacteria are unique in our world, and because they require special adaptations to gain their energy they are quite different to the more common chemoorganotrophic bacteria.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So we don't "need" the sun for the first life on Earth, do we?? We can have entire ecosystems evolving and thriving, &lt;u&gt;in the total absence of sunlight&lt;/u&gt; and even &lt;u&gt;photosynthetic bacteria deriving energy completely and solely from the light of hydrothermal vents&lt;/u&gt;... which was &lt;strong&gt;substantiated&lt;/strong&gt; with the discovery of photosynthetic bacteria thriving (in the absence of sunlight) in the deep sea Pacific... deriving its nutrition solely and entirely from the hydrothermal vent. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where do these Atheists come from? The education system is in &lt;strong&gt;deep&lt;/strong&gt; trouble.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/S9ouZQ3WlYI/AAAAAAAAEEQ/Z2isv9TzA-I/s1600/scientifically-illiterate.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 369px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465732109326259586" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/S9ouZQ3WlYI/AAAAAAAAEEQ/Z2isv9TzA-I/s400/scientifically-illiterate.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Your god &lt;strong&gt;blah blah blah blah blah blah&lt;/strong&gt; sounds like a &lt;strong&gt;blah blah blah blah blah blah&lt;/strong&gt; broken record &lt;strong&gt;blah blah blah blah blah blah&lt;/strong&gt; with a poor grasp &lt;strong&gt;blah blah blah blah blah blah&lt;/strong&gt; of biology&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;erm, you meant &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Botany&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, or more specifically, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mycology&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; but continue :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;blah blah blah blah blah blah&lt;/strong&gt; and astronomy. Fungi are not trees&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This, is a tree.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Suj4oUS3xUI/AAAAAAAAD1Q/RmjF0JU9FWk/s1600-h/Prototaxites_Dawson1888.png"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 139px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397837524929856834" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Suj4oUS3xUI/AAAAAAAAD1Q/RmjF0JU9FWk/s400/Prototaxites_Dawson1888.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~ commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prototaxites_Dawson1888.PNG&lt;br /&gt;Hueber 2001, copied from Dawson (1888) "The Geological History of Plants". Appleton, New York, p290.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So much of a "tree" that scientists themselves classified it as a conifer,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Prehistoric Mystery Organism Verified As Giant &lt;strong&gt;Fungus&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prototaxites has generated controversy for more than a century. &lt;strong&gt;Originally classified as a conifer&lt;/strong&gt;, scientists later argued...&lt;br /&gt;~ sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070423080454.htm&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and, don't be confused, but conifers, are &lt;em&gt;trees&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Tree Identification - The &lt;em&gt;Conifers Identification of conifer trees&lt;/em&gt; most common to North American by their needles and leaves, fruit and flowers. Use conifer and evergreen tree species ...&lt;br /&gt;~ forestry.about.com/cs/treeid/a/con_tree_id.htm&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;blah blah blah blah blah blah&lt;/strong&gt; (or any other type of plant)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or any other type of &lt;em&gt;"plant"&lt;/em&gt; ??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img border="0" align="middle" src="http://www.zoology-quest.net/images/rofl.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALGAE&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Although they seem plant-like&lt;/em&gt;, scientists have classified them in a group of their own, outside the plant kingdom. They have been classified in a separate kingdom called &lt;strong&gt;Protista&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;~ naturegrid.org.uk/biodiversity/plants/crypalga.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img border="0" align="middle" src="http://www.zoology-quest.net/images/rofl.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FUNGI&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Five Kingdoms of Life: Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia&lt;br /&gt;Scientific classification sorts all life forms on Earth into five kingdoms: monera, &lt;strong&gt;protista&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;fungi&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;plantae&lt;/strong&gt;, and animalia. Together they form the tree of ...&lt;br /&gt;biology.suite101.com/article.cfm/five_kingdoms_of_life&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fungi are not "plants" and "plants" did not exist during the earliest period of the fossil record, *rolling eyes*... back during the the Vendian/Pre Cambrian... what are you talking about?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;blah blah blah blah blah blah&lt;/strong&gt; but they are, like virtually all life forms on Earth, still part of a food chain that ultimately depends on photosynthesis.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On "Fruiting fungi" with spores (seed) within itself... and they state,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;blah blah blah blah blah blah&lt;/strong&gt; ...depends on photosynthesis.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;"Moreover, they provide &lt;strong&gt;an alternative pathway for the production of food, &lt;strong&gt;without having recourse to sunlight&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;u&gt;independent of the photosynthetic&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; route."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On "Fruiting fungi" with spores (seed) within itself... and they state,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;blah blah blah blah blah blah&lt;/strong&gt; ...depends on photosynthesis.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;"Moreover, they provide &lt;strong&gt;an alternative pathway for the production of food, &lt;strong&gt;without having recourse to sunlight&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;u&gt;independent of the photosynthetic&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; route."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On "Fruiting fungi" with spores (seed) within itself... and they state,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;blah blah blah blah blah blah&lt;/strong&gt; ...depends on photosynthesis.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Moreover, they provide &lt;strong&gt;an alternative pathway for the production of food, &lt;strong&gt;without having recourse to sunlight&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;u&gt;independent of the photosynthetic&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; route."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On "Fruiting fungi" with spores (seed) within itself... and they state,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;blah blah blah blah blah blah&lt;/strong&gt; ...depends on photosynthesis.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;"Moreover, they provide &lt;strong&gt;an alternative pathway for the production of food, &lt;strong&gt;without having recourse to sunlight&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;u&gt;independent of the photosynthetic&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; route."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On "Fruiting fungi" with spores (seed) within itself... and they state,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;blah blah blah blah blah blah&lt;/strong&gt; ...depends on photosynthesis.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;"Moreover, they provide &lt;strong&gt;an alternative pathway for the production of food, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;without having recourse to sunlight&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;u&gt;independent of the photosynthetic&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; route."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And _&lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt;_ "food chain" could you be implying from your very limited knowledge of our modern day? &lt;strong&gt;What could you possibly know about an extinct ecosystem, hundreds of millions and billions of years ago?&lt;/strong&gt; PreCambrian organisms are all part of EXTINCT ecosystems. Back then, from the few fossil traces left behind, we do know they did not have defenses, they were soft-bodied organisms, lacking protective coverings to shield them against the fatal rays of sunlight, no teeth to "chew" (so what makes you even think "food chain") or claws (to hunt) or a sun for that matter? Scientists remain baffled by the Vendian organisms, wondering "what were they?" They had no "mouths". What were the PreCambrian organisms? &lt;em&gt;Science may never know&lt;/em&gt;... but I'm positive, if scientists don't, you certainly wouldn't.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the time of the PreCambrian the only organisms in existence were algae, fungi, and those "mystery" organisms the Vendian is famed for. But organisms like the Prototaxites (ancestors thereof) did exist, but were too soft to leave fossil impressions. Scientists KNOW things like fungis and algaes existed during the Vendian/Precambrian, but did not leave fossils... and have cautioned, just because they don't find fossils (soft bodied), does not mean they didn't exist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't know much about Science &lt;em&gt;esp. paleo-botany&lt;/em&gt;, do you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SulEWvAosBI/AAAAAAAAD1g/7WXieLOo6Ms/s1600-h/fruiting_fungi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 379px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397920785747193874" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SulEWvAosBI/AAAAAAAAD1g/7WXieLOo6Ms/s400/fruiting_fungi.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Foods and feeds&lt;/em&gt; - Google Books Result &lt;em&gt;by Dilip K. Arora, K. G. Mukerji, Elmer H. Marth&lt;/em&gt; - 1991 - Science - 621 pages&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;These structures are aptly designated as the "fruiting bodies," and such fungi are called the "fruiting fungi." In nature, as many as 2000 edible species ...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;books google com/books?isbn=082478491X...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;blah blah blah blah blah blah&lt;/strong&gt;....depends on photosynthesis.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are "fruiting fungi" with spores (seed) within itself... and they state,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"Moreover, they provide &lt;strong&gt;an alternative pathway for the production of food, without having recourse to sunlight and &lt;u&gt;independent of the photosynthetic&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; route."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In the total absence of sunlight&lt;/strong&gt;... a "fruit" bearing seed (spores) in itself... and is edible by humans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;blah blah blah blah blah blah&lt;/strong&gt;....depends on photosynthesis.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are you talking about???&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;blah blah blah blah blah blah&lt;/strong&gt;The Sun is OLDER than the Earth.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wow... you are ignorant. Science doesn't know anything about this so-called age of a nuclear-active sun and the precise date when the sun became nuclear. All Scientists have to go on to know about the age of the sun's nuclear fusion and a photosynthetic role with earth is a &lt;strong&gt;3.5 billion year gap in the fossil record&lt;/strong&gt; which if anything, (along with all those soft-bodied organisms they theorized in the Vendian) indicates &lt;u&gt;the sun was not providing a source for photosynthesis&lt;/u&gt;, and the cambrian explosion is approximately the time when the sun went nuclear. We have a record of the sun's activity, via the fossil record on earth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;blah blah blah blah blah blah&lt;/strong&gt;The Sun is OLDER than the Earth.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Older than the Earth? Where did you pull that myth from ? &lt;img border="0" align="middle" src="http://www.zoology-quest.net/images/rofl.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Science Fact: &lt;em&gt;"&lt;strong&gt;The &lt;u&gt;Sun and all the planets were formed &lt;strong&gt;at around the same time&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, depending on when you define the birth of the sun. Before the Sun became as it is today it was &lt;u&gt;a proto sun, which had all the elements it has now &lt;strong&gt;but it just had not started the nuclear&lt;/strong&gt; reaction&lt;/u&gt; which fuels today's sun&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;As the sun started to form&lt;/strong&gt; from the debris of the dust/particle cloud &lt;strong&gt;so did all the planets&lt;/strong&gt;."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;blah blah blah blah blah blah&lt;/strong&gt;Without the Sun we would not experience DAY and NIGHT. The book of Genesis does NOT agree with science and its author shows a severe lack of understanding. They said it couldn't be done. They were not kidding.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;I'll share your comments with other atheists. I'm sure they'll &lt;img border="0" align="middle" src="http://www.zoology-quest.net/images/rofl.gif" /&gt; appreciate the humor in your inane "scientific insights" as much as I have.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-4921875866080835478?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/4921875866080835478/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2010/04/and-denial-of-science-by-atheists.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/4921875866080835478'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/4921875866080835478'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2010/04/and-denial-of-science-by-atheists.html' title='And the Denial Of Science by Atheists Continues...'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/S9ouZQ3WlYI/AAAAAAAAEEQ/Z2isv9TzA-I/s72-c/scientifically-illiterate.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-4208889889003889505</id><published>2010-03-17T21:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-17T22:25:13.135-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='heaven'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='phenomena'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rogue black hole'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soundgarden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='evolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='God'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theory'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='apocalypse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='supernatural'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='astronomy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='myth'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='falsehood'/><title type='text'>Black Hole Sun Lyrics Meaning - Neil DeGrasse Explains</title><content type='html'>Seeing the video on youtube, yields amazing presumptions on the meaning of Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Neil DeGrasse the Astrophysicist and colleagues explain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People will go to amazing lengths to deny the simplest and most obvious things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;This song isnt even about a black hole though.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Never mind that "Black Hole (Sun)" is the title of the song.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"&lt;em&gt;Black holes will never get anywhere near us, because by the time they do, we will have been long gone.&lt;/em&gt;"&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Precisely, that's why scientists added Black Holes as #7 greatest threat to life on earth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Last Days on Earth' mini-series&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2319986" target="_blank"&gt;http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2319986&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are organized from least likely to most likely:&lt;br /&gt;7a. Death of a Star: Gamma-Ray Burst&lt;br /&gt;7b. Death of a Star: Black Hole&lt;br /&gt;Number seven was actually two alternate views of what could happen to a star and how it could destroy life on earth.&lt;br /&gt;6. Intelligent Machines&lt;br /&gt;5. Supervolcano&lt;br /&gt;4. Asteroid&lt;br /&gt;3. Nuclear War&lt;br /&gt;2. Plague&lt;br /&gt;1. Climate Change&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;"The sun would have already died&lt;/em&gt;."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our sun (a star) has nothing to do with a rogue black hole roaming into our solar system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;"And a black hole would be nothing like this video, the earth would be stretched flat before the black hole got anywhere near this close&lt;/em&gt;."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where does this joker get his information? See end of video. The Earth, subjected to the gravitational pull of a Black Hole retains the shape of a sphere, until the last remnants of Earth's core are vaccuumed into oblivion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yXS1afwF0gE&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yXS1afwF0gE&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In my eyes, in disposed, &lt;br /&gt;In disguise:as no one knows &lt;br /&gt;Hides the face Lies &lt;br /&gt;The snake, the sun &lt;br /&gt;In my disgrace &lt;br /&gt;Boiling heat, Summer stench &lt;br /&gt;'Neath the black &lt;br /&gt;The sky looks dead &lt;br /&gt;Call my name &lt;br /&gt;Through the cream &lt;br /&gt;And I'll hear you &lt;br /&gt;Scream again &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Black hole sun &lt;br /&gt;Won't you come &lt;br /&gt;And wash away the rain &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Black hole sun &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Won't you come &lt;br /&gt;Won't you come &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stuttering &lt;br /&gt;Cold and damp &lt;br /&gt;Steal the warm wind &lt;br /&gt;Tired friend &lt;br /&gt;Times are gone &lt;br /&gt;For honest men &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And sometimes &lt;br /&gt;Far too long &lt;br /&gt;For snakes &lt;br /&gt;In my shoes &lt;br /&gt;A-walking sleep &lt;br /&gt;And my youth &lt;br /&gt;I pray to keep &lt;br /&gt;Heaven send, Hell away &lt;br /&gt;No one sings &lt;br /&gt;Like you anymore &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Black hole sun &lt;br /&gt;Won't you come &lt;br /&gt;And wash away the rain &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Black hole sun &lt;br /&gt;Won't you come &lt;br /&gt;Won't you come &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Black hole sun &lt;br /&gt;Won't you come &lt;br /&gt;And wash away the rain &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Black hole sun &lt;br /&gt;Won't you come &lt;br /&gt;Won't you come &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hang my head &lt;br /&gt;Drown my fear &lt;br /&gt;Till you all just &lt;br /&gt;Disappear &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Black hole sun &lt;br /&gt;Won't you come &lt;br /&gt;And wash away the rain &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Black hole sun &lt;br /&gt;Won't you come &lt;br /&gt;Won't you come&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-4208889889003889505?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/4208889889003889505/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2010/03/black-hole-sun-lyrics-meaning-neil.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/4208889889003889505'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/4208889889003889505'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2010/03/black-hole-sun-lyrics-meaning-neil.html' title='Black Hole Sun Lyrics Meaning - 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The passion, the drama, the way he expresses himself is﻿ so beautiful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/S5KmLixO69I/AAAAAAAAEDI/59AJJOwLgto/s1600-h/eddie-vedder-01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/S5KmLixO69I/AAAAAAAAEDI/59AJJOwLgto/s400/eddie-vedder-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445597616686427090" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;(cur) (prev) 00:59, 6 March 2010 CKarnstein (talk | contribs) (60,680 bytes)&lt;br /&gt;(Early life: rmv unsourced claim that Vedder's parents divorced because his father was having a homosexual affair.) (undo)&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eddie_Vedder&amp;action=history" target="_blank"&gt;Revision History&lt;/a&gt; on Eddie Vedder, Wikipedia.&lt;br /&gt;**Wonder if it could be something like that** aka Ted Haggard(?)**&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/S5KnV_SUyjI/AAAAAAAAEDQ/-YkaPY4_RD8/s1600-h/eddie-vedder-02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/S5KnV_SUyjI/AAAAAAAAEDQ/-YkaPY4_RD8/s400/eddie-vedder-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445598895651736114" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sad. Liberals I know of want to say its all a huge free for all out there... but what society ends up with, when people flounce around with casual, careless sexual mistakes... mistakes in general; misery, and screwed mental troubles. Sad... I've been reading on the deaths of some of these guys; Layne Staley, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eddie Vedder, Vocalist for Pearl Jam, for the very touching song, "Jeremy" and taking note of the "Genesis 3:6" (at the 1:23 marker) in this video.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MS91knuzoOA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MS91knuzoOA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whatever the case may be, Eddie Vedder began using his Mom's maiden name for his own last name, just as I assigned my kids with my maiden name and refused to use their fathers' names (when I could have). Why? Because of the crap treatment those men dished out. They weren't loyal, faithful, honest companions. Obviously... Eddie Vedder's Mom split up with his biological father.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why do liberals want to promote screwed up lives, that hurt young people... then when kids like Jeremy (the &lt;a href="http://www.sshep.com/jeremynew.htm" target="_blank"&gt;true story of "Jeremy" appears&lt;/a&gt; to be located at this page), are putting a gun to their head and pulling the trigger in front of all their classmates, notice.. the liberals are quiet. But oddly enough... Eddie Vedder was the vocalist for that very song.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sad sad sad world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/S5KoAycS3nI/AAAAAAAAEDY/viwuu8S3IHA/s1600-h/eddie-vedder-03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/S5KoAycS3nI/AAAAAAAAEDY/viwuu8S3IHA/s400/eddie-vedder-03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445599630938267250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another of their songs:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qM0zINtulhM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qM0zINtulhM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"Alive"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Son, she said, have I got a little story for you&lt;br /&gt;What you thought was your daddy was nothin' but a...&lt;br /&gt;While you were sittin' home alone at age thirteen&lt;br /&gt;Your real daddy was dyin', sorry you didn't see him, but I'm glad we &lt;br /&gt;talked...&lt;br /&gt;Oh I, oh, I'm still alive&lt;br /&gt;Hey, I, I, oh, I'm still alive&lt;br /&gt;Hey I, oh, I'm still alive&lt;br /&gt;Hey...oh...&lt;br /&gt;Oh, she walks slowly, across a young man's room&lt;br /&gt;She said I'm ready...for you&lt;br /&gt;I can't remember anything to this very day&lt;br /&gt;'Cept the look, the look...&lt;br /&gt;Oh, you know where, now I can't see, I just stare...&lt;br /&gt;I, I'm still alive&lt;br /&gt;Hey I, but, I'm still alive&lt;br /&gt;Hey I, boy, I'm still alive&lt;br /&gt;Hey I, I, I, I'm still alive, yeah&lt;br /&gt;Ooh yeah...yeah yeah yeah...oh...oh...&lt;br /&gt;Is something wrong, she said&lt;br /&gt;Well of course there is&lt;br /&gt;You're still alive, she said&lt;br /&gt;Oh, and do I deserve to be&lt;br /&gt;Is that the question&lt;br /&gt;And if so...if so...who answers...who answers...&lt;br /&gt;I, oh, I'm still alive&lt;br /&gt;Hey I, oh, I'm still alive&lt;br /&gt;Hey I, but, I'm still alive&lt;br /&gt;Yeah I, ooh, I'm still alive&lt;br /&gt;Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/S5Kodaj1v0I/AAAAAAAAEDg/ztZdfwjTzGo/s1600-h/eddie-vedder-04.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/S5Kodaj1v0I/AAAAAAAAEDg/ztZdfwjTzGo/s400/eddie-vedder-04.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445600122743668546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seems even *some* Atheists realize there's screwed up errors, aka "sins" that screw up people's lives... and the innocent affected by those mistake carry the cross, crucified for it (so to speak). The world needs a lot more love, aka accountability, and doing to others what you want done to yourself, that includes counting the consequences your own mistakes will have on your loved ones (if you have the capacity to love anyone at all). It is my belief that God allows (sometimes even tempts mankind) -- into situations like the one in this video, the test and trial to become stronger, better, overcome the world. Putting a gun to your head is the easy way out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/S5KpY431QHI/AAAAAAAAEDo/faV0DHKbOFk/s1600-h/eddie-vedder-05.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/S5KpY431QHI/AAAAAAAAEDo/faV0DHKbOFk/s400/eddie-vedder-05.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445601144492867698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods... So let us celebrate the struggle."&lt;br /&gt;- Swahili song&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I set before you life and death, a blessing and a curse. Choose life, that you and your children may live."&lt;br /&gt;- Deuteronomy 30:19&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...I believe "the gods" give us a choice, and it is called our own free will.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"What does not destroy me, makes me stronger."&lt;br /&gt;- Nietzsche&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Eddie Vedder&lt;br /&gt;AKA Edward Louis Severson III&lt;br /&gt;Born: 23-Dec-1964&lt;br /&gt;Birthplace: Evanston, IL&lt;br /&gt;From &lt;a href="http://nndb.com/people/693/000025618/" target="_blank"&gt;http://nndb.com/people/693/000025618/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gender: Male&lt;br /&gt;Religion: Atheist&lt;br /&gt;Race or Ethnicity: White&lt;br /&gt;Sexual orientation: Straight&lt;br /&gt;Occupation: Singer&lt;br /&gt;Nationality: United States&lt;br /&gt;Executive summary: Lead singer, Pearl Jam&lt;br /&gt;Edward Louis Severson III entered the world in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, where he was greeted right away with a convoluted family life. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Raised to believe that his mother's second husband was his biological father, his actual father (known to him only as a family friend) died of multiple sclerosis before the fact of his parentage was revealed. His adoptive father separated from the family when Eddie was in his early teens, adding more to his emotional troubles and compelling him to find refuge in drugs&lt;/u&gt; and, more constructively, an extensive record collection. While in high school he became active in local garage bands, eventually dividing his time between Chicago and San Diego in order to paricipate in both music scenes. He formed his first band, Bad Radio, during this period, but, due to an inability to expand beyond a regional audience, the project was later dissolved.&lt;br /&gt;Through his friend and sometime Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons, &lt;u&gt;Vedder (who been using his mother's maiden name since learning about his real father)&lt;/u&gt; was exposed to a demo tape put together by guitarists Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament, both formerly of the band Mother Love Bone. Vedder dubbed his vocals over the instrumental tracks and sent it to the duo in Seattle; they were impressed enough with the results that they immediately invited the singer to fly out for a visit. The three individuals meshed well on a personal level, and within days Vedder had made a permanent move to Seattle to begin work on the new band in earnest. Initially, they performed as Mookie Blaylock, the name of a favorite basketball player; before any records had been released, however, this was altered to Pearl Jam, in honor of an aunt's peyote-laced preserves. Blaylock was still given a nod in the title chosen for their debut album: Ten (1991) being the ball player's jersey number. Several months before work on this album started, a short-lived project was undertaken with members of Soundgarden under the name Temple of the Dog, resulting in a single eponymous record at the end of 1990.&lt;br /&gt;Following the release of Ten, Pearl Jam immediately achieved enormous popularity, being one of several bands (Soundgarden, Nirvana, and Alice in Chains amongst them) to benefit from the hype surrounding the initial attle "grunge" explosion. &lt;u&gt;In particular, the song Jeremy -- whose subject matter centered around a boy who commits suicide in front of his classmates&lt;/u&gt; -- gained Vedder and the band both notoriety and a devout fan base amongst alienated teens. The next two albums, Vs. (1993) and Vitalogy (1994) were met with equal success, but by this time a backlash against the "grunge hype" was becoming evident. Around the release of Vitalogy, the band's press coverage was distracted away from its music to concentrate instead on a conflict with (and subsequent law suit against) the ubiquitous ticket vendor/extortion racket Ticketmaster; sadly, the resolution to this conflict failed to bring about much improvement in the situation. With the next release, No Code, a deliberate move away from a commercial sound was made, resulting in a corresponding drop in sales. 1998's Yield made a return to a more accessible style more in keeping with the band's earlier records...."&lt;br /&gt;/Excerpt from &lt;a href="http://nndb.com/people/693/000025618/" target="_blank"&gt;http://nndb.com/people/693/000025618/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Know God?&lt;/h3&gt;Why God allows suffering? Why, sometimes, it is God who creates evil. Even Eddie Vedder knows God, I think.&lt;br /&gt;footnote... in the video where the line is crossed and _chooses_ to take his own life. It is always a choice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/S5LE1RejsSI/AAAAAAAAEDw/qh1UfwVPAmk/s1600-h/eddie-vedder-06.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 304px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/S5LE1RejsSI/AAAAAAAAEDw/qh1UfwVPAmk/s400/eddie-vedder-06.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445631318948032802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.&lt;br /&gt;Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.&lt;br /&gt;Give us this day our daily bread.&lt;br /&gt;And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.&lt;br /&gt;And &lt;u&gt;lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil&lt;/u&gt;: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.&lt;br /&gt;- Matthew 6&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/S5LGg5MtSnI/AAAAAAAAED4/48O7IPBkQ2c/s1600-h/eddie-vedder-07.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 275px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/S5LGg5MtSnI/AAAAAAAAED4/48O7IPBkQ2c/s400/eddie-vedder-07.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445633167856585330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/S5LHdbfagaI/AAAAAAAAEEA/8EorkDNVZUY/s1600-h/eddie-vedder-08.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/S5LHdbfagaI/AAAAAAAAEEA/8EorkDNVZUY/s400/eddie-vedder-08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445634207854002594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me..."&lt;br /&gt;- Psalm 23&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In spite of his Atheism, Eddie Vedder is a beautiful, thoughtful person.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist."&lt;br /&gt;- Gandhi&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-6288158660196197459?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/6288158660196197459/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2010/03/eddie-vedder-may-be-atheist-but.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/6288158660196197459'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/6288158660196197459'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2010/03/eddie-vedder-may-be-atheist-but.html' title='Eddie Vedder May Be An Atheist, But....'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/S5KmLixO69I/AAAAAAAAEDI/59AJJOwLgto/s72-c/eddie-vedder-01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-2760015613642594938</id><published>2010-01-02T00:16:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-03T18:43:44.033-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='atheism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soviet anthem'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jim jones was an Atheist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='socialism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='antichrist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='karl marx'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='myth'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='falsehood'/><title type='text'>Atheists Try To Force Religion Into Classroom</title><content type='html'>I've seen atheists cross the line, but this one is over the top...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Sz8A-Ayn4xI/AAAAAAAAEDA/_dwzzFmzPeE/s1600-h/crazy_insane.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 235px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Sz8A-Ayn4xI/AAAAAAAAEDA/_dwzzFmzPeE/s400/crazy_insane.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422053541741585170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zoology-quest.net/images/rofl.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 59px; height: 65px;" src="http://www.zoology-quest.net/images/rofl.gif" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You've heard right, an Atheist (philosophy), claims Science and Atheism are the same thing. &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Technically, a religion is a set of beliefs, to be truly atheistic, you'd have to have no beliefs whatsoever. Sience, on the other hand, has beliefs, for example "I belive that this wall is solid" or "I believe that this chemical and this chemical makes one less science lab *explosion* aaargh I was right!" so if you want to get pedantic, then atheism is the statement that nothing is true. If you don't want to get pedantic, on the other hand, then &lt;u&gt;atheism and scientific belief are the same thing&lt;/u&gt;."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over the top!!! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zoology-quest.net/images/rofl.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 59px; height: 65px;" src="http://www.zoology-quest.net/images/rofl.gif" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Science and Atheism (worthless philosophy) are completely unrelated.&lt;br /&gt;Science does not have any opinion on Religion, but Atheists are often guilty of spreading wreckless FALSEHOODS. Scientists like Dr. Alan Fedducia had to come out blasting Atheistic﻿ Darwinists in the media for propagating their FALSEHOODS such as "feathered dinosaurs evolving into birds". They make so many scientific errors, because... ATHEISM IS NOT "SCIENCE"!&lt;br /&gt;Atheism is classed as a religion, and falls under the uselessness of philosophy.&lt;br /&gt;SCIENCE HAS NOTHING to do with religion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seems atheists are rather hypocritical when it comes to the whining about Creationists wanting to superimpose their views on public education. But Creationists are not half as deluded about the definition of "Religion" and "Separation of Church and State," as Atheists have became.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If Atheists want to force their religion down people's throats, let 'em, at their own privately ran "school for Atheists". But keep the Atheist religion (which is not and never will classify as "science"), out of the classroom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'tis more example how they're dumbing down the nation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The public education system is failing miserably.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This gem widens:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;Actually,﻿ I have not created, or disproved anything, I merely observed that science has a set of beliefs, for example, 'I believe this wall is solid'. I aklso observed that a religion is simply a set of beliefs, therefore one could argue that science is a religion. To be completely without religion, you would have to be without beliefs. I niether created, nor disproved nothing. Though I could perhapps have put it more clearly to avoid the demented honking from the narrow/closed minded. None, actually, because I'm not in america, I never said﻿ sciewnce has anything to do with religion, you're misinterpretting what I wrote."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are confused. Science deals with FACT. However, quoting you 'atheism and scientific﻿ belief are the same thing'. Zat so? Then change your story , 'to be truly atheistic, you'd have to have NO BELIEFS.' But you've already admitted that science has beliefs, by using the term, "scientific belief", then change your story, "..atheism is the statement that nothing is true." hmm.. sir, Science deals with empirical facts, not philosophy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another person chimed in: &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;"You are wrong. You have created your own definition of atheism, and disproved it. Congrats! you have accomplished nothing. Atheism means 'without gods.' That is all that the word means, or﻿ will ever mean.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Answer: Anti-Theism, is rabid foam at the mouth hatred and persecution of the religion, and has EVERYTHING to do with obsession over Theism and bigotry and ignorance. Worse than any religion.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-2760015613642594938?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/2760015613642594938/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2010/01/atheists-try-to-force-religion-into.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/2760015613642594938'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/2760015613642594938'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2010/01/atheists-try-to-force-religion-into.html' title='Atheists Try To Force Religion Into Classroom'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Sz8A-Ayn4xI/AAAAAAAAEDA/_dwzzFmzPeE/s72-c/crazy_insane.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-5061323356494933619</id><published>2009-12-27T18:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-27T18:09:13.353-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='biology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='young earth creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='botany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spirit of truth'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paleobotany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='genesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='evolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='darwin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><title type='text'>Genesis 1 - Where's the Beef?</title><content type='html'>Go to Google Images and type in: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"human tails"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What do you think God will do to people who deny the truth of God? what God himself laid down in the fossil record? Christians deny the simplest truth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;, and would deprive kids of an actual education in the school system? the church doesn't even teach the truth about the Bible (20,000+ sects/denominations) and would be so arrogant as to superimpose their ignorance into Science and Education? denying the empirical all the way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't think so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Evolution is true. In fact, Genesis 1 speaks of early . . . . . . &lt;strong&gt;VEGETARIAN&lt;/strong&gt; . . . . . man (that's ye old primitive hominids, and Australopithecus, etc), they know from dental structure...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And God said, Behold, I have given you &lt;u&gt;every herb bearing seed&lt;/u&gt;, .... &lt;br /&gt;bible cc/genesis/1-29.htm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But ... no beef ?? how interesting. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Where's the Beef?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;( ole Adam arrived late on the scene about a million years after homo sapien and homo erectus and was merely the _FIRST FARMER_ ! As it is written, it doesn't say "there was no man on the face of the earth," rather, it states, &lt;strong&gt;"there was no man TO TILL THE GROUND"&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Genesis 2:5 and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the ...(wahhhhh... it hadn't been created yet.... but every plant &lt;strong&gt;BEFORE IT&lt;/strong&gt; GREW... so some plants existed, while some didn't...Ooooo, oooo, sounds like evolution to me!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"There was not a man to till the ground,. Young's Literal Translation and no shrub of the field is yet in the earth, and no herb of the field yet sprouteth, ...&lt;br /&gt;bible cc/genesis/2-5.htm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yup, no lettuce, no string beans, sorry... -- these things were cultivated by the first FARMERS around 10,000 years ago. God didn't "create" the Lettuce, man cultivated it. Go check the web for verification: "Agriculture = 10,000 years ago Mesopotamia".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've provided you enough information, all of it verifiable by science and a handful of honest theologians.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-5061323356494933619?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/5061323356494933619/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/12/genesis-1-wheres-beef.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/5061323356494933619'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/5061323356494933619'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/12/genesis-1-wheres-beef.html' title='Genesis 1 - Where&apos;s the Beef?'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-5133728346905945728</id><published>2009-12-11T22:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-12T00:26:12.373-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='young earth creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='atheism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='genesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='evolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='darwin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='intelligent design'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><title type='text'>Richard Dawkins Admits Intelligent Design Possible</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wyT_AOtwHa4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wyT_AOtwHa4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;dazco01 wrote: According to your logic, if I show that 2+2 does NOT equal 5, then someone could REASONABLY CLAIM that 2+2 MUST equal 6, if not 5. What we both don't know is that 2+2 equals 4!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To﻿ bring it back to this video: if you've shown that aliens did NOT travel to Earth, then you say you can reasonably claim that God must be the answer. What we BOTH DON'T KNOW, is [INSERT TRUTH ABOUT UNIVERSE HERE]. &lt;br /&gt;To clarify the metaphor:&lt;br /&gt;aliens = 5&lt;br /&gt;God = 6&lt;br /&gt;TRUTH = 4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;do you see what I'm saying?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm wondering when folks are actually going to read the text of Genesis for the first time, instead of all this made-up stuff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Epoch Three of Genesis DOES NOT SAY DESIGN, nor does it say "HAND CREATE".﻿ *smile*. No, it implies God stood afar off and commanded THE EARTH to bring forth the ancestors of plants (algae, fungi, etc). The Earth evolved tender (algae) grass, herb, and trees (ancestors of Prototaxites, a fruiting fungi), .. yea, "After their kind," which also implies EVOLUTION.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have challenged Creationists and Darwinists to dig Epoch Three in Genesis for any term in Hebrew, implying "Design" or "Hand Create".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God commanded THE EARTH to bring forth, or evolve, algae, herbs (like fungi), and fruiting fungi trees.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, Darwin began looking at nature, and observes "the Earth brought forth the﻿ algae, fungi(herb) and fossilized primitive fungi trees like Prototaxites, and they evolved, aka "after their kind," God had a hands off policy and Phew -- Darwin was a genius.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;@dazco01,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Got a question for you that even a kindergarten child can figure out, but brainwashed adults can not.&lt;br /&gt;Atheists and YEC are both Fundamentalists&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read Genesis, Epoch Three (Heb. "Day" = Yowm﻿ for "Epoch" or "Indefinate Period of Time), and you tell me, where either the word "Design" or "Hand Created" appear in the text. No cheating. Show me where it implies God designed anything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God stood off and commanded the Earth to bring forth ancestors of plants / fungi, that is EVOLUTION.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;dazco01&lt;br /&gt;I believe you that nowhere in Genesis does it say that God hand-created life or designed life or anything with that connotation. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This does not have any effect on the debate at hand. We do not know if God, if there is a god, brought "forth ancestors of plants/fungi", and we (the scientifically minded)﻿ do not claim to know. Scientists ADMIT that they don't know. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you don't know how something happened, that's when the conversation should stop, and the search for proof and evidence begins.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Exactly. If Creationists (believers in the God of Abraham) are relying on Genesis' text, there's nothing in Genesis that supports Intelligent Design. Contrary, it implies God stood back and﻿ commanded the Earth to evolve herb species (logic dictates randomness... extinction and evolution). Far cry from designed creation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then, God says "Let the waters" do the creating... some fine tuning suggested, when "creating" extant species after their kind (Heb. term which implies evolution).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... I also mean, the text in﻿ Genesis, "God said let the waters bring forth creatures... after their kind(evolution)" and then God creates them "after their kind(evolution again)."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Point being, if you're God with a hands off policy, you don't "Design" creatures. You allow Natural Selection to do the job. Survival of the fittest, and you fine-tune what's left at end of the day. 95% of all species that lived, went extinct.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Genesis implies an Intelligent Creator, but not a Designer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To simplify. God used Evolution/Natural Selection to proliferate life and merely "Fine Tunes" the extant species (the first mention of "create' is way up until whales, so that's got to be a mere 45 million years ago... if you believe the fossil record. The Bible speaks often of God as HIDDEN... so a "hands off policy" would be in the nature of the Biblical God&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other words﻿ Genesis provides a dead end for Creationists who think to search for a scientific Designer's fingerprint.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;dazco01&lt;br /&gt;You're saying that it's impossible to find evidence that God﻿ exists. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's what the Bible﻿ states in the prophet's words: &lt;br /&gt;Isaiah 45:15 "Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;dazco01&lt;br /&gt;It seems you are using the lack of evidence for God...as evidence for God. &lt;br /&gt;I think in order to have an﻿ intelligent discussion about God's existence, both parties need to agree that evidence is needed in order to confirm God's existence. The debate should really lie in the validity of evidence provided to support either side of the argument. It is as if we were speaking different languages completely. Therefore, I cannot carry on this conversation any further. Thank you your time.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The issue is God is a matter of FAITH, not science. That's what the majority of valid scripture elaborates on and, (not the forgeries like Enoch, the Apocrypha or Pauline Forgeries, etc.,), are about. Christians (posing under ID) have forgot, it is completely about Faith.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jesus answered your question, aleady:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign﻿ be given to it..."&lt;br /&gt;~ Matthew 12:39&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So the same is with God.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-5133728346905945728?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/5133728346905945728/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/12/dawkins-admits-intelligent-design.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/5133728346905945728'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/5133728346905945728'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/12/dawkins-admits-intelligent-design.html' title='Richard Dawkins Admits Intelligent Design Possible'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-5396410516127927458</id><published>2009-12-06T13:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-06T15:09:33.854-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='holy spirit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spirit of truth'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='God'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='salvation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='atheism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jesus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grace'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fundamentalist christianity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spiritual'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='myth'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='falsehood'/><title type='text'>Can't Tell Who's The Christian and Who's The Atheist Anymore</title><content type='html'>I've managed blogs for an Atheist and Agnostic, and sometimes comments roll in. Including some who argue among themselves. There were 3 comments, and earnestly, I'm unsure which was the Christian and which was the Atheist. I'll alter the names to protect the innocent:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;******: has left a new comment on your post:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"I would beg to differ with ***** as to why Christianity is suffering from an "image problem" at the start of the 21st century.&lt;br /&gt;The problem... was that as he became more informed about Christianity he began to doubt. He stepped outside of the dogmatic, traditional, "Let's Not Address This Issue Directly" cage and took a good look at what he had been believing, (much like --- hero, Luther, had done at one time) and found it wanting.&lt;br /&gt;Additionally, when he went to those who were supposed to be experts, or at least knowledgeable about such matters, what he was handed was sorely lacking in any form of substance. Compound that with trying to search for his answers in the Bible itself and further not finding them - he turned to outside sources. Most likely the internet. There - of course - he finally found some answers: his faith was based on inconsistencies, myth, plagiarism, historical inaccuracies and in some instances, outright lies. How could he not doubt?"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why yes... this is true. The church has failed for centuries to teach the truth. In fact, centuries ago falsehoods were circulated, i.e., the &lt;em&gt;Pauline Forgeries&lt;/em&gt;, and people like Luther took it upon themselves to attempt translation of a Bible for the common person, and the church wanted to maintain a tight grip on the scriptures, rendering people helpless with the church as intermediator to God... but it was not so. In the midst of this, apocryphal manuscripts circulated... Jesus was the only intermediator between man and God, but the church attempted to superimpose itself into the authority of Jesus Christ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CONTINUE...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;"If --- want to answer him, they would do well to stick with addressing ***** specific problems as opposed to beating the "Here's How I Deal With Stupid Questions" bush. I would submit to ***** that there is a third criteria as a "easily identifiable and telling symptoms of false doctrine": that of obfuscation in answering the intellectual and emotional needs of the fold."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other person responded, and this person, *****, posted again in response.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Christians on the whole seem to somehow expect others to take what they have only experienced within the confines of their belief system on faith, for, whether you want to "believe" it or not, there is absolutely no proof that anyone named "Jesus" ever lived."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Testimonies of his existence are preserved in the Bible, and prophecies of the Messiah, but that's beside the point I suppose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CONTINUE...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;"None. Not one shred of evidence - even in the Bible itself - that anyone alive at the time that "Jesus" was supposedly living even ever knew the guy. No scrap of paper, no golden tablet, no stone inscriptions, no burial chamber, no cross, no first-source material (and there certainly seems to be a lot of copies of copies of copies, but not one original torn corner of a papyrus that even indicates that anyone ever knew him), not even any relatives left to give any account of him a generation after the fact! Nothing. Nada. Zip. Pilate: silent. The Sanhedrin: silent. The Romans: silent. On and on and on and on - you'd think that a guy who apparently raised somebody from the dead, fed a multitude on a couple of haddock and shards of bread, turned H20 into Pinot Griggio, got nailed to a cross, died and then came back might have made some form of impression on people. Nope. No one even noticed him apparently amongst the multitudes of other "prophets" of that time.&lt;br /&gt;Not until 70 years later did he even actually start to appear in any meaningful manner, and even then, it doesn't appear that that guy even ever might have known him - just "of him", as it were."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;INTERMISSION : &lt;u&gt;Actually it's estimated to have been around 30 years after&lt;/u&gt; the death of Jesus, that recorded testimonies came into publication. But continue...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;"No, there's nothing "selfish" about questioning the veracity of&lt;br /&gt;Christianity. If anything, I'd say that was a noble endeavor. It is not "egocentric" to want to know - it is the mark of a "God-like" human to seek this so-called "God" out wherever "He" may be, wherever it may lead. It is not selfish or egocentric to admit you don't know something and wish to - it is selfish and egocentric to believe you have the answers when in fact, you don't.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"God or Intelligence: one has to give. One will quench the soul's thirst and the other will be like drinking salt water in the desert."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Intelligence gives, Ignorance takes over. One could probably bank on that."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the other person, who posted in the midst of the two comments wrote this,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;###### has left a new comment on your post":&lt;br /&gt;"The first problem of doubt stems from the human condition of selfishness, as articulated with "the doubter finds the Christian faith wanting", "the doubter finds God lacking", and "the doubter finds himself need or requiring to know X or Y".&lt;br /&gt;We are an egocentric lot that will forever clash against a God who asks for trust and faith.&lt;br /&gt;God or Intelligence: one has to give. One will quench the soul's thirst and the other will be like drinking salt water in the desert."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God or Intelligence: One has to give??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zoology-quest.net/images/rofl.gif" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 59px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 65px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412244484718862050" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.zoology-quest.net/images/rofl.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Am I reading this correctly? One person is denying the existence of God, whilst the other is teaching the falsehood that one must become "ignorant" to be a Christian??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Both appear to be Atheists (or at least, the latter, a Sheep in Wolf Clothing).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actual scripture states in contrast: King James Bible (&lt;a href="http://bible.cc/hosea/4-7.htm"&gt;Hosea 4:6-9&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. The more the priests increased, the more they sinned against me; they exchanged their Glory for something disgraceful. They feed on the sins of my people and relish their wickedness. And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which also brings to mind the very insightful verse, in regard to what the former (presuming, an Atheist(?) stated, which is truly sad: &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;"He stepped outside of the dogmatic, traditional, "Let's Not Address This Issue Directly" cage and took a good look at what he had been believing... those who were supposed to be experts, or at least knowledgeable about such matters, what he was handed was sorely lacking in any form of substance."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;INDEED! as it is written,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ecclesiastes 1:18&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;"&lt;u&gt;For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow&lt;/u&gt;."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bible.cc/ecclesiastes/1-18.htm"&gt;http://bible.cc/ecclesiastes/1-18.htm&lt;/a&gt;, as it was in Jesus' day, he came teaching the Commandments of God (not the law of Moses), but God's law, and for doing so, the corrupt religious establishment murdered him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And further, indeed: International Standard Version (©2008)&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;em&gt;How terrible it will be for you when everyone says nice things about you, because that's the way their ancestors used to treat the false prophets!&lt;/em&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bible.cc/luke/6-26.htm" target="_blank"&gt;http://bible.cc/luke/6-26.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And yes, &lt;u&gt;if you speak the truth&lt;/u&gt;... it will make many enemies, and persecution, which equates to sorrow. The religious establishment (organized religion), the same who murdered Jesus, will turn into a witch-hunt against the righteous, which lead to the Inquisitions and other atrocities against many Saints: Those who keep the Commandments of God, and hold to the testimony of Jesus Christ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Either way, both contributors failed to contribute any positive light, enlightenment on Christianity, and appear to be on the same side: To make a war on the Truth of God, and Jesus Christ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There was no Commandment among the 10 which stated, "Thou Shall Not Utilize Thy Brain." But some who claim to be Christian, do indeed teach the false doctrine, and often practice it as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;King James Bible&lt;br /&gt;Jeremiah 31:34 (Old Testament Prophet): "&lt;em&gt;And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.&lt;/em&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hebrews 10: "Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more... By his death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place. And having an high priest over the house of God; Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So who is this entity, called the Church (the lie of Organized Religion which Jesus stood against, and was murdered), which with-holds knowledge, teaches falsehoods, endorses scriptural forgeries, pretends you must go through "them," flawed men, to obtain audience with God... what else was the purpose of Jesus' death and sacrifice? So that greedy preachers and televangelists could store up millions in their bank accounts? &lt;strong&gt;Men are unfit to teach the truth!&lt;/strong&gt;. The corrupt and wicked priesthood who taught idolatry, lead to the destruction of Israel and Judah. When Jesus took his stand against them, they murdered the Lord. God alone has the power, the patience, the knowledge, (the Spirit of TRUTH, through grace in Jesus Christ that we may come into the presence of God, and will be taught by God), who are these persons who have usurped the authority of Jesus Christ himself, to teach falsehoods?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-5396410516127927458?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/5396410516127927458/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/12/cant-tell-whos-christian-and-whos.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/5396410516127927458'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/5396410516127927458'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/12/cant-tell-whos-christian-and-whos.html' title='Can&apos;t Tell Who&apos;s The Christian and Who&apos;s The Atheist Anymore'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-6861876328939706258</id><published>2009-12-05T19:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-05T22:59:58.087-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='holy spirit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='phenomena'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='divine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spirit of truth'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='God'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='satan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='salvation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='supernatural'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fundamentalist christianity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spiritual'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='myth'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='falsehood'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='strange'/><title type='text'>Why I reject a belief in Satan</title><content type='html'>Here's an old movie clip I ran across tonight and it reminds me of what I strongly believe. There's some Christians (at least they claim to be) that ask me, how can I reject a belief in satan and demons and still believe in the Bible? Well, foremost, those things weren't taught by Moses or the early prophets. In the book of Genesis, there is no mention of a dragon, snake, evil spirit. The earliest (true) books of the Bible are not tainted with false gods. The Hebrews continued to pollute themselves with idolatry. Eventually, false doctrines and forgeries such as the book of Enoch (with many tales of demons), began creeping into Jewish religion. God destroyed Israel and Judah. This clip (assuming) comes from heavy influence of early Old Testament doctrines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.zoology-quest.net/wiki/images/mediaplayer.swf" width="450" height="385" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="height=385&amp;width=450&amp;file=http://www.zoology-quest.net/images/ark-of-covenant.flv&amp;image=http://www.zoology-quest.net/images/ark-of-covenant.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;form&gt;&lt;textarea style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1" rows="3" wrap="virtual" cols="57"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.zoology-quest.net/wiki/images/mediaplayer.swf" width="450" height="385" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="height=385&amp;width=450&amp;file=http://www.zoology-quest.net/images/ark-of-covenant.flv&amp;image=http://www.zoology-quest.net/images/ark-of-covenant.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, the nazis who are heavily influenced by anti-Christian socialist influence attempt to open the ark (with no reverence for God). What they find is "sand," and begin laughing (like the Atheists and non-believers they are). What follows is paranormal activity and then ghosts and other "angelic beings" that swamp the scene, and deceiving the onlookers, eventually to show its "dark powers" and consumes them.  Of course Harrison Ford warns, "Don't look at it," and keep her eyes closed. And that's how I feel about "Satan" and "Evil Spirits" and other things that are false gods. You can find in the book of Acts, well, I'll let the verse speak for iself:&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;King James Bible, Acts 23:8&lt;br /&gt;"For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Competing concepts, such as evil spirits, devils, dragons, et cetera crept into Biblical theology toward the time of the destruction of Israel, because they worshipped such things (idolatry). However, this clip from "Raiders of the Lost Ark," shows paranormal activity, as well as ghosts and other phenomena coming from the most Holy Ark. How could evil, come from Holiness? Easy: &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;Isaiah 45:7 "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things."&lt;br /&gt;http://www.bible.cc/isaiah/45-7.htm&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; The prophets commanded the early Hebrews to abstain from Necromancy, and other paranormal phenomena such as found in witchcraft, but the Hebrews refused. They continued to break the commandment of God which instructs, "Thou shall have no other gods before me."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The Lost Books of the Bible," The Apocrypha, Commentary (Halo Press, pg. 8)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxtOOUmjnII/AAAAAAAAECY/GRdRrgxYgr8/s1600-h/apocrypha.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxtOOUmjnII/AAAAAAAAECY/GRdRrgxYgr8/s400/apocrypha.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412005385171344514" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Hard Sayings of the Bible", (Intervarsity Press)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxtPmS0zhRI/AAAAAAAAECg/h5_7gDmOGQE/s1600-h/apocrypha2.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 353px; height: 244px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxtPmS0zhRI/AAAAAAAAECg/h5_7gDmOGQE/s400/apocrypha2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412006896522724626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxtQxeKg6WI/AAAAAAAAECo/yG1zV6oEEy8/s1600-h/apocrypha3.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 237px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxtQxeKg6WI/AAAAAAAAECo/yG1zV6oEEy8/s400/apocrypha3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412008188056758626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-6861876328939706258?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/6861876328939706258/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/12/why-i-reject-belief-in-satan.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/6861876328939706258'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/6861876328939706258'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/12/why-i-reject-belief-in-satan.html' title='Why I reject a belief in Satan'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxtOOUmjnII/AAAAAAAAECY/GRdRrgxYgr8/s72-c/apocrypha.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-8436804138701393340</id><published>2009-12-05T13:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-05T13:41:39.628-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='heaven'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='holy spirit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='phenomena'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='divine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spirit of truth'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eternal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sign'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='God'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='salvation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='supernatural'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jesus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grace'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spiritual'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='strange'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><title type='text'>Signs in the Heavens</title><content type='html'>The meterologist at WWAY 3 also confirmed something of interest in regard to the creation account, when its speaks of the "firmament," that it &lt;u&gt;divides the waters (early earth = hot steam blanketing the earth), waters are above it, and below it.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;... "This would all lead me to believe that these were cirrus clouds... form quite high in the atmosphere - around 7,000m or ~25,000 ft. The type of clouds that are up at the level of airplane flight. These are usually thin and wispy and &lt;u&gt;do not cause precipitation&lt;/u&gt;."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;u&gt;troposphere&lt;/u&gt;, is where weather is generated and occurs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last Sunday (November 30, 2009, between 1 am and 2 am), I stepped out on my porch and saw a phenomena I will never forget.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Actual cirrus clouds&lt;/u&gt; (not merely a normal "lunar halo") but clouds, blanketing the edges of an abnormally powerful lunar halo. Heavy cirrus clouds against a dark sky and they were glowing, blending in with a lunar halo. It was a combination "dark skies" + heavy (real, not illusion) cirrus clouds on the outside... both sides of the spiral had heavy clouds, in combination with the most powerful, bright, lunar halo I've ever seen in my life -- in fact, due to the clouds that were surrounding this halo, "lunar halo" didn't even cross my mind. The Clouds took center stage. So it appeared the sky had been peeled back, and a circle of clouds imposed on a dark sky. Sure, I'd seen lunar halos, but this wasn't one... at least not a normal one.&lt;br /&gt;It was truly miraculous, enough it got my attention and I had to understand "WHY" and what we saw. It has a symbolism too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Circle = Eternity and Completion&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Moon = Feminine&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;It was the most beautiful, powerful thing I've ever seen in nature.&lt;/u&gt; Everything belongs to God, and God can use nature to speak to people, in his own language. It was indeed "supernatural".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Attaching two of the photos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxrM27vkoqI/AAAAAAAAECI/5pVgciOhFeg/s1600-h/circle.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxrM27vkoqI/AAAAAAAAECI/5pVgciOhFeg/s400/circle.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411863146361299618" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The clouds streaking off the edge are cirrus clouds. It all came together to create the illusion, the sky had been "peeled back" three dimensionally. It was frightening, beautiful... IT SPOKE TO ME IN MY SOUL, AND HEART AND MIND AND GOD REALLY CAUGHT MY ATTENTION with it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxrNNf8W6GI/AAAAAAAAECQ/mt76eh5FYCc/s1600-h/halo_3606.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxrNNf8W6GI/AAAAAAAAECQ/mt76eh5FYCc/s400/halo_3606.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411863534035724386" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;When I began asking questions, some scoffed that it was just a "lunar halo". But I knew I wasn't insane. It was like the sky had been "peeled back" and fluffy stripes of clouds were glowing all around it and branching away. Apocalyptic scene in the heavens... it was frightening, beautiful, powerful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That night, when I was laying in bed going to sleep, in prayer I meditated to God "why" -- I keep the commandments, I try to speak the truth, and try to do what's right -- and still people don't show respect. For instance &lt;u&gt;in this adulterous generation&lt;/u&gt; as in "Thou Shall Not Commit Adultery," if you're not willing to crawl into bed with everyone, liberals behave as though you're a "prude" and "something wrong with you". That's okay! I don't have a cocktail of venereal diseases, either...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But around 1 a.m., I woke up (after that thought "WHY GOD?"). And saw that miraculous illusion of the heavens being peeled back.&lt;br /&gt;It was truly miraculous.. &lt;em&gt;Circle = Eternity and Completion, Moon = Feminine&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;So, maybe it was an answer. Though "man" may not think highly of a woman who values virtue... God's opinion differs vastly.&lt;br /&gt;God can use nature to speak to people, in his own language.&lt;br /&gt;THE PHENOMENA SPOKE TO ME IN MY SOUL, AND HEART AND MIND AND GOD REALLY CAUGHT MY ATTENTION with it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People were scoffing, "Oh that's just a lunar halo" and acting like I was nuts for making an issue over it. It was not "just" a lunar halo. I know what we saw, and my daughter too. There were heavy clouds to the edge of that circle.. on both sides, heavy cirrus clouds off in the distance, which gave it an enormous 3-D illusion of a circle of clouds with a deep, dark center. The halo itself was incidental... with all those clouds -- on an unusually dark sky: The effect was &lt;u&gt;supernatural&lt;/u&gt;. Since nobody would believe what we were saying, I contacted meterologists who &lt;u&gt;confirmed there's actual clouds in those photos&lt;/u&gt;... actual clouds and not "just" a lunar halo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All in all, &lt;u&gt;we saw it, so it was for me (or me and my daughter), and maybe not for the rest of the world&lt;/u&gt;... it was so supernatural, miraculous, beautiful, awe-inspiring... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;From: "Tim Buckley" wwaytv3.com&lt;br /&gt;Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 11:05 PM&lt;br /&gt;Subject: Re: Question on Clouds (Night Time Photo)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for the question! First of all, the picture is quite dark so it is hard to make out the clouds very well. But, from what I can tell - they appear to be wispy and maybe even 'finger-like' in shape. If the moon was out they were probably 'glowing' somewhat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This would all lead me to believe that these were cirrus clouds that you saw. These type of clouds form quite high in the atmosphere - around 7,000m or ~25,000 ft. The type of clouds that are up at the level of airplane flight. These are usually thin and wispy and do not cause precipitation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope this answers your question. Since the picture is a little dark, if you give me the time and day when you took the photo I could look back at our satellite data to check cloud types.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks again for the question! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay dry tomorrow,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tim Buckley&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;=============&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From: "Chris Phillips" wwaytv3 com&lt;br /&gt;Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 2:53 PM&lt;br /&gt;Subject: Re: Question on Cloud Type (Night Photograph)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's a white cloud. Ok it is some form of cirrus, I can't make it out very well but it looks like a cirro-stratus which is in the mid to upper level of the atmosphere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chris&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-8436804138701393340?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/8436804138701393340/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/12/signs-in-heavens.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/8436804138701393340'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/8436804138701393340'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/12/signs-in-heavens.html' title='Signs in the Heavens'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxrM27vkoqI/AAAAAAAAECI/5pVgciOhFeg/s72-c/circle.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-5824012188236966848</id><published>2009-11-29T10:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-29T11:52:54.255-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='salvation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='holy spirit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='atheism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spirit of truth'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jesus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grace'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='antichrist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fundamentalist christianity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='falsehood'/><title type='text'>The Lie of Organized Religion</title><content type='html'>Did not Jesus teach,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The false teachers mentioned above, and the many like them (2 Timothy 4:3)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;atruechurch info&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blind Followers of Blind Leaders on Judgment Day&lt;br /&gt;Our Lord, here, is talking about false teachers who are blind to God's ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;that if the blind lead the blind both shall fall into the ditch"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Matthew 25:41). ...&lt;br /&gt;emorychristians org&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God's View of False Teachers and Their Teachings Discernment&lt;br /&gt;All of the false prophets, false teachers, false brethren and false ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;discernmentministriesinternational wordpress com/.../gods-view-of-false-teachers-their-teachings&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Christians, you know these things already!&lt;/strong&gt; Scripture has taught you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During conversation with a Christian it was said to me,&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;The scripture states, "how will they hear without a preacher?... But with fellowship with other believers comes the ability to grow in knowledge and faith."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;what happens if they are teaching something that is not true&lt;/strong&gt;... a falsehood, even Theologians know certain things, taught in seminary, and knowledge never passes on to the typical adherent. The preachers are not allowed to speak the truth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2000, I converted to Christianity for the first time in my life. I felt a strong spiritual force, I was &lt;strong&gt;compelled to seek deeper knowledge&lt;/strong&gt;. Believe it or not, I asked the Sunday School teacher, "Have you ever read the Bible?" His reply was "No". I asked then, "Well then, how do you know its the Word of God?" He was angered no doubt. I asked him "Where does the Bible come from?" He had no answer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is scenerios just like I've described above, that lead to people losing faith, deconversion to Atheism, and the complaint is always the same, "I asked where Mrs. Cain came from. They complained I asked too many questions and asked me not to come back." Is this what Jesus would do? Does it hint at even an inkling of a clue, they are even capable of teach scripture? Certainly not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, I know the answers to those questions above, and it was not learned from the church, but from scholars' materials / books.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back in 2000, I approached the preacher, and asked, &lt;em&gt;because Sunday School just wasn't cutting it&lt;/em&gt; how I might learn more -- indepth knowledge. The preacher told me, "Christian Book Distributors," for starters on scholars studies, books by theologians, etc., but he warned me. HE WARNED ME well in advance, that it would pay not to discuss knowledge with many in the church, they would not take kindly to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, in short, &lt;strong&gt;he, the preacher, was fired shortly afterward&lt;/strong&gt; for becoming too "liberal," that is to say, providing a bit more upbeat music to appeal to younger generation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And myself? I did indeed discuss the hunger for knowledge, and it got me accused as being "demon possessed".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Power of God is compelling a person to seek knowledge, and &lt;em&gt;they're accused of "Demons"?&lt;/em&gt; Isn't that what they accused Jesus of... and Jesus warned them they were in danger of committing the unpardonable sin? That is, they were calling the Holy Spirit of God performing works in this world, "an act of evil spirits". &lt;strong&gt;Great blaspheme&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead of the "body of Christ" it turned into a witch-hunt... even the preacher was not immune, and was fired.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The question is, how can they hear the truth, if the preacher is not even allowed to even speak, or teach the truth anymore?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, I disassociated myself with the falsehoods of the church, and put it on Jesus Christ, the power of God, and reference material like that from Christian Book Distributors... and eventually the web, and other sources. &lt;strong&gt;BOOKS TAUGHT ME THE TRUTH, UNDER GOD'S GUIDANCE.&lt;/strong&gt; Today, the way things worked out, event by event, I have my own outreach with the truth. Thousands of readers pass through every week...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaking the truth sometimes makes enemies. &lt;strong&gt;Sometimes, it changes the world.&lt;/strong&gt; I mean, Jesus was so hated by contemporaries of the day, they murdered him, but others know, he was by birthrite, the "King of Kings".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I pray for God to &lt;strong&gt;show me the light of truth&lt;/strong&gt;, and that I will never depart from it. I have faith, that God, through grace in Jesus Christ (my only teacher) will guide the way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;I believe in what you say is true and always will, because my own background with the church. I do believe that the one true teacher Jesus Christ will guide all that have faith, even if one does not tend church. I myself will not go, for the simple reason of the lies they tell. I have also done my own share of reading and found that there were other books that was never printed into the Bible as we know it. But God showed them to me so I could understand more about Him and Jesus.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh no.. .the Apocrypha??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They're falsehoods. Seriously, another is "The Book of Enoch" which even Jude quotes in the N.T. False teachers created those forgeries, and wanted to teach people the worship of pagan gods and fictional spirits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Those books were thrown out of the Bible because they're forgeries and scholars know it.&lt;/strong&gt; Enoch was mythology / a false book, FORGED to make it even sound as if it was written around the time of Adam's immediate descendents, (centuries earlier), but Scholars know the mythology is late century... written only shortly before the time of Jesus. Scholars know the book of Enoch was a forgery, a mythological falsehood... &lt;strong&gt;that's why those books are not contained in the Bible.&lt;/strong&gt; Thrown out for the evil forgeries they were.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I too, have copies of the Apocrypha "Lost Books of the Bible," and the book of Enoch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God &lt;strong&gt;INDEED showed you a deeper truth about the Bible&lt;/strong&gt;, that in the latter days of Israel, they were idolators, even Solomon, the fool of fools, an adulterer, erected temples to pagan gods, in his last days he met with his downfall and (some have stated) lived like a beast...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Solomon &lt;br /&gt;Solomon's downfall came in his old age. He had taken many foreign wives, whom he allowed to worship other gods. He even built shrines for the sacrifices of ...&lt;br /&gt;~ jewishvirtuallibrary org/jsource/.../Solomon.html&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FOR INSTANCE,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gods and Goddesses, Pagan - dictionary definition, verses and Bible references ... The proclamation was to be made in the temples of their idols and among the people ... who "cleaned house" by destroying the shrines erected by Solomon. ...&lt;br /&gt;~ biblestudytools com/.../gods-and-goddesses-pagan.html&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Milton: PL Book 1 - Notes &lt;br /&gt;That is, the strength of empyreal angels, virtually gods. .... The place just east of the Jerusalem temple, across the Kidron valley, often called the Mount of Olives, where Solomon erected shrines to pagan dieties like Moloch, Baal, ...&lt;br /&gt;~ dartmouth edu/~milton/reading_room/.../notes.shtml&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See 666 and Solomon&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/6693982/666-and-Solomon" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.scribd.com/doc/6693982/666-and-Solomon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxLQ0BNICKI/AAAAAAAAD7E/OiB2S3tifuE/s1600/solomon_the_fool.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 292px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxLQ0BNICKI/AAAAAAAAD7E/OiB2S3tifuE/s400/solomon_the_fool.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409615694520649890" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-5824012188236966848?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/5824012188236966848/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/lie-of-organized-religion.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/5824012188236966848'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/5824012188236966848'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/lie-of-organized-religion.html' title='The Lie of Organized Religion'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxLQ0BNICKI/AAAAAAAAD7E/OiB2S3tifuE/s72-c/solomon_the_fool.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-2016755151582683132</id><published>2009-11-28T22:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-29T13:09:13.254-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='biology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='day three'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='botany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paleobotany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='evolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='plants before sunlight'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='atheism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photosynthesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='genesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><title type='text'>Atheists Providing Comic Relief -- This Time Its Not Creationists Misunderstanding Science, Rather Atheists Fail To Understand Ancient Biblical Hebrew</title><content type='html'>This was priceless. I found it on the web today. An Atheist has exhausted his wits, and I'll give it a chuckle, a bit of time to answer and then move on to more important things. The argument provided, well, is just too amateur to take serious.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxIReBJFepI/AAAAAAAAD6k/X3fgdBblbn0/s1600/seed-vs-spore-01.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 346px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxIReBJFepI/AAAAAAAAD6k/X3fgdBblbn0/s400/seed-vs-spore-01.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409405309825677970" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He writes,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;do creationists know ANYTHING about biology?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the fruiting body of a fungus is NOT a fruit bearing tree&lt;br /&gt;a spore is NOT a seed&lt;br /&gt;and just because fungi are non-photosynthetic does NOT mean they were around before the sun existed!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hmm, most people will agree, it is *smile* called a &lt;strong&gt;FRUIT&lt;/strong&gt;ING fungi, and certainly, by all reasonable, scientific standards, pass for a "tree".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Suj4oUS3xUI/AAAAAAAAD1Q/RmjF0JU9FWk/s1600-h/Prototaxites_Dawson1888.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 139px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Suj4oUS3xUI/AAAAAAAAD1Q/RmjF0JU9FWk/s400/Prototaxites_Dawson1888.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397837524929856834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~ commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prototaxites_Dawson1888.PNG&lt;br /&gt;Hueber 2001, copied from Dawson (1888) "The Geological History of Plants". Appleton, New York, p290.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is not the failure of a Creationist knowing "Biology," (first point, *smile*, the proper scientific field in discussion is, BOTANY, or MYCOLOGY, not "Biology," but that's beside the point), the issue is not a matter that a Creationist has failed to understand Botany, but that the Atheist has proven itself illiterate of the Hebrew language, and Biblical context.&lt;br /&gt;If you want to get technical, &lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;Mycology&lt;/u&gt; is the study of fungi&lt;/em&gt; or perhaps even this question might fall under &lt;em&gt;Paleobotany&lt;/em&gt;, the study of plant fossils (Since afterall, the organism was once classed as a conifer). Biology is the study of (animal) life. Plant biology (a. k. a. Botany) (at least once it were so) included the study of bacteria, algae, and fungi. See, &lt;a href="http://www.oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~braselto/readings/plantbiol.html" target="_blank"&gt;Ohio University&lt;/a&gt;, Botany Department.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First and foremost,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;That scientists chose to name the "fruiting fungi" a &lt;u&gt;FRUITING&lt;/u&gt; fungi, is probably the best evidence of all, that even in English, it stands to reason that edible "fruit" from the fungi, is in fact its "fruit". *smile* that wasn't difficult at all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Secondly, the fruiting fungi, ancestors of &lt;em&gt;Prototaxites&lt;/em&gt;, were indeed trees, and called so by scientists, mistaken for about a century as a conifer. But later this primitive fossilized organism was verified to be a "&lt;u&gt;Fruit&lt;/u&gt;ing Fungi".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thirdly, and most amusing, the Hebrew language referred to many things as "seed." As was explained early on in this blog, the Hebrew language was restricted to a few 1000 words, in contrast to the English language which contains a few million words, so in Hebrew, yes, spores would have been "seed". See excerpt below from &lt;em&gt;Strong's Concordance&lt;/em&gt;. Even one's descendents are referred to as "Seed," whether or not the English language incorporates ten or twenty synonyms to say, "descendants," the Hebrew did not. Likewise, spores, semen, descendants, seed(in the modern sense), all are interpreted as "seed" in Hebrew.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxIUfDPw-UI/AAAAAAAAD60/RfUcRIgp6x4/s1600/seed-vs-spore-03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 207px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxIUfDPw-UI/AAAAAAAAD60/RfUcRIgp6x4/s400/seed-vs-spore-03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409408626105317698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Fourthly, Darwin's dilemma, to explain &lt;u&gt;why&lt;/u&gt; the earth left little trace of life before the Cambrian Explosion is indeed explained by all reasonable scientific standards that (see Epoch Four vs. Epoch Five, in Genesis) sunlight was not reaching the earth for the first 3.5 billion years of Earth's history, and the fossil record was primarily vacant. Yet, despite theories by scientists which hint at a dark, damp, sunless world, such as "soft bodied organisms," and admissions that fungi and other botanical organism existing during the Precambrian, such as algae (fossil evidence spanning back as far as 3.5 billion years), where was life during that vast expanse of time? &lt;strong&gt;Science can not, and never will adequately explain this, except with the absence of sunlight.&lt;/strong&gt; This dilemma raised by Charles Darwin, his contemporaries and scientists who followed him, establishes that though such organisms may not have left fossil remains, with certainty, they existed! Therefore, let it be deduced, non-photosynthetic (and soft-bodied) organisms existed before the sun began nuclear fusion, the sun (Epoch Four/Genesis) newly providing life on earth with a source for light energy/photosynthesis, and abundant proliferation of life (Epoch Five/Genesis) began. According to evolution theory itself, organisms evolve according to their environment and, would not have evolved their non-photosynthetic properties, without a cause, that being, logically, the absence of sunlight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is not the Creationist who lacks knowledge of Botany, but that the Atheist has failed to comprehend the fundamentals of Biblical Hebrew.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the Biblical Hebrew meant, "spore" in contrast to "seed," we would find a Hebrew term for "spore" in Strong's Concordance. Rather, "spore" is absent. As pointed out, ancient Hebrew was absent of such a word and the word "seed" was used in Hebrew to define numerous things, including "spores".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxITjiJdC1I/AAAAAAAAD6s/FWO8t8cjIzM/s1600/seed-vs-spore-02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 330px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxITjiJdC1I/AAAAAAAAD6s/FWO8t8cjIzM/s400/seed-vs-spore-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409407603608193874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Fifthly, to address, &lt;blockquote&gt;"...just because fungi are non-photosynthetic does NOT mean they were around before the sun existed!"&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am attaching an image (below) which provides approximates for the current, modern day size comparisons between the sun (a &lt;strong&gt;gas giant&lt;/strong&gt;) vs the &lt;strong&gt;cold gas giants&lt;/strong&gt; Jupiter and Saturn. Then, note comparison to size of Earth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxIqYdxwlnI/AAAAAAAAD68/P09Pf2jRN2w/s1600/gas-giants.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 312px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxIqYdxwlnI/AAAAAAAAD68/P09Pf2jRN2w/s400/gas-giants.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409432702223947378" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From &lt;a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/090707closertosun.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Prison Planet&lt;/a&gt;, where they mention ironically, &lt;em&gt;"experts" fail to get even the most basic facts correct,"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Note, sidebar,&lt;blockquote&gt;"Science Fact: "The Sun and all the planets were formed at around the same time, depending on when you define the birth of the sun. &lt;strong&gt;Before the Sun became as it is today it was a proto sun, which had all the elements it has now but it just had not started the nuclear reaction which fuels today's sun&lt;/strong&gt;. As the sun started to form from the debris of the dust/particle cloud so did all the planets."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There was a major difference between Earth forming in its early stages, with ice and rock; debris compressing as gravity pulled the Earth into its final form (as Genesis states, "the earth was without form...," gravity taking its toll, leading to friction, therefore intense heat and ultimately, early Earth becoming an orb of molten rock. It must be noted, there is indeed a significant difference when comparing early Earth (composed of rock) vs a gas giant. As it is written in Genesis, God said "Let there be light," and there was light. That is, &lt;strong&gt;Light from hydrothermal vents&lt;/strong&gt; to provide algae with a source of light energy.&lt;br /&gt;It is feasible to suggest, (in all scientific light) that the Earth was set ablaze long before the sun. The fossil record bears testimony: Due to a lack of proliferation of animal life, yet with just enough light energy to support the spawn of simple algae and bacteria. Otherwise, the fossil record is primarily empty. Charles Darwin was not mistaken.&lt;br /&gt;The sun, on the other hand, like Jupiter and Saturn would need a heavy enough compression, leading to nuclear fusion. Compression of hydrogen atoms within the core, due to gravity pressing inward. This is not heat caused from friction and compression, but completely and solely compression of gas. How long did it take the sun to reach this state? We have Earth's fossil record that tells us when sunlight was present, and when it was not. For 3.5 billion years, the fossil record is vacant, therefore, there was no sun. The question is, 4 billion years ago when the Earth was in a state of molten rock, blanketed by heavy steam... was the sun yet of size, compression enough to create the force necessary to trigger nuclear fusion? In all probabilty, the answer is &lt;strong&gt;NO&lt;/strong&gt;, and again, the fossil record testifies to this! Therefore, evolution took the primarily non-photosynthetic (and soft-bodied) route. Despite the massive size of Jupiter and Saturn (both gas giants with similarities to the sun), they do not have the nuclear fusion in their core as evidenced with the sun, or you'd see these giant planets set ablaze, like nuclear bombs being detonated..., like two small suns burning in the distant heavens.&lt;br /&gt;The sun, in contrast, &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;...that is, about 100 billion H-bombs every second!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.physics.fsu.edu/users/ProsperH/AST1002H/sun.htm" target="_blank"&gt;The Sun&lt;/a&gt;, Physics Department, FSU.EDU&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sixthly, the question is, do Atheists know the difference between Science and Theology? Take note and observe &lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;where&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt; he posted a question on BOTANY. Did this Atheist genuinely hope to receive an answer from a Botanist or even a Biologist under the "Religion and Spirituality" category? Is the Atheist even aware that Science and Theology are separate entities? It is not the "Creationist" who is confused, but rather, the Atheist. It can be deduced that an answer was not being sought by an actual Scientist, but the question was directed at fellow Atheists, who are not, Scientists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxLcTzFZ-HI/AAAAAAAAD7M/UoBibCX1ufE/s1600/atheist-war-on-truth.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 201px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxLcTzFZ-HI/AAAAAAAAD7M/UoBibCX1ufE/s400/atheist-war-on-truth.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409628335113894002" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Religion and Spirituality Category. &lt;em&gt;Atheists are confused, and can not distinguish between philosophy and empirical science today.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let the words of Charles Darwin address this problem of Atheists who confuse thier religion, with the field of Science. Unlike Atheists, Darwin was a Scientist who did indeed distinguish a clear difference between Science and Religion:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;"...I am a strong advocate for free thought on all subjects, yet it appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct &lt;strong&gt;arguments against christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; &amp; freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which follow from the advance of science. It has, therefore, always been my object to avoid writing on religion, &amp; I have confined myself to science&lt;/strong&gt;..." and, "I may, however, have been unduly biased by the pain which it would give some members of my family , if I aided in any way direct attacks on religion.— I am sorry to refuse you any request..."&lt;br /&gt;~ Charles Darwin, refusing dedication of an Atheist publication to his name.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Science and Theology, are two independent fields of study, separated, like the east is to the west. &lt;strong&gt;The man was a genius.&lt;/strong&gt; Or perhaps, possibly a simple man like myself who asked simple questions, and exercised a thing in short supply these days: &lt;strong&gt;COMMON SENSE&lt;/strong&gt;, which militant, religious Atheists (who go to Category:RELIGION, for answers on Mycology and Botany), need more of.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Seventh, and lastly: Do you realize how frustrating it is, to read Atheists mindlessly attacking Christians (amounting to nothing more than good old fashioned prejudice and religious bigotry of their own); because they have been brainwashed to believe the lie, that Faith=Lesser intellect. I have an IQ of 129. In fact, I feel quite confident that I'm by far more educated than the average atheist, therefore I &lt;strong&gt;strongly resent&lt;/strong&gt; the stereotype.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-2016755151582683132?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/2016755151582683132/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/atheists-providing-comic-relief-this.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/2016755151582683132'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/2016755151582683132'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/atheists-providing-comic-relief-this.html' title='Atheists Providing Comic Relief -- This Time Its Not Creationists Misunderstanding Science, Rather Atheists Fail To Understand Ancient Biblical Hebrew'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxIReBJFepI/AAAAAAAAD6k/X3fgdBblbn0/s72-c/seed-vs-spore-01.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-8503727800648889203</id><published>2009-11-28T21:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-28T21:23:11.781-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='salvation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='holy spirit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spirit of truth'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jesus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grace'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fundamentalist christianity'/><title type='text'>The Mosaic Law vs. The Ten Commandments - The Power of God's Spirit in Truth and Holiness</title><content type='html'>Tonight I saw evidence of the power of God's Holy Spirit. My son is setting in the backseat of the car, and blurts out he &lt;em&gt;wants&lt;/em&gt; to learn the Ten Commandments, from the Bible.&lt;br /&gt;Sure enough, he got home and cracked open his Bible, &lt;em&gt;found the scriptures himself&lt;/em&gt;, and began reading them. He comprehends the meaning of the Commandments... &lt;br /&gt;It's written in Scripture, through Jesus Christ, they will be taught by God (in the book of Hebrews).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I can not teach him.&lt;/strong&gt; and, &lt;strong&gt;The religious establishment can not teach him&lt;/strong&gt; (as it was in Jesus' day, when Jesus came teaching the Commandments of God in contrast to the law of Moses (613 Commandments! - &lt;em&gt;ridiculous&lt;/em&gt;), was as Jesus put it about their traditions, having made the commandments of God of "no effect".&lt;br /&gt;For instance, Moses, being a man, and having no regard for the interests of women, re-wrote the law to permit divorce (in the interest of males), but Jesus rebuked them saying &lt;em&gt;it was not so from the beginning&lt;/em&gt; and further teaching those men, &lt;em&gt;not to even look at another woman or be guilty of adultery&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you may gather, I do not attend a church. &lt;strong&gt;I trust in God to teach me&lt;/strong&gt;. Occasionally God will use a person, to deliver a truth, but ultimately Jesus is the only "teacher" I need (his testimony), and God's Holy Spirit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I was so proud of my son.&lt;/strong&gt; The religious establishment (a lie even relatives will preach at me), "You can't understand the Bible without a preacher." &lt;em&gt;ha ha ha, that's a lie,&lt;/em&gt; and is in contradiction of the very reason Jesus died.&lt;br /&gt;The wicked priesthood of the day, had lead the people into sin, and away from God. Most theologians know the significance of the torn veil on the temple at the time of the death of Jesus, (it was an act of divinity due to its size and weight). A giant rip in the veil, which could have only been done by the power of God, and beyond the ability of a human. Ripped from top to bottom. &lt;strong&gt;That torn veil meant that any human could then come into the presence of God's Holy Spirit.&lt;/strong&gt; Before that time, only the High Priest could on the highest holy day. They wore bells on their garments in case they were struck dead (God searching the Priest's heart and mind  for impurity). If the bells stopped ringing, there was a rope on the priest to drag him out from behind the veil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therefore, it is no small matter to be taken lightly, that any person is even allowed the great liberty, freedom and privelege that we have as true Christians, to enter into the presence of God, and taught personally by God in the precious spirit of truth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, even as a sinner, I can enter into the presence of God, without fear -- in fact, as Jesus taught, the Kingdom of God is within... not here or there, not at a church that sits on a hill, not in Jerusalem: The Kingdom of God, where God's chosen obey the Commandments of God, and are sanctified as a "Holy People," it is &lt;em&gt;within&lt;/em&gt;, and the promise to write his Ten Commandments on the heart and mind. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not meaning to sound fanatic religious... but I find the subject of theology of great fascination. When I look at the church, I am sorely disillusioned that they are no longer teaching the truth. But, it was written there would come a "great falling away". &lt;em&gt;As it was in the day of Moses...God told them "Do not commit adultery," and some men up and decided, "well... hmmm, I want to commit adultery... the woman I'm with isn't exciting enough anymore... I need some thrills."&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;So, bit by bit, piece by piece, they began falling away from the Commandments, one sin at a time. By the time Jesus arrived, centuries later, the corrupt Priesthood didn't even recognize the Commandments of God anymore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's Christians telling me Jesus did away with the Word of God. LOL. Sure... save it for God on the day of Judgment. Those Christians have no knowledge of the distinction between,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ten Commandments of God vs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mosaic Law (613 silly man-made cultural laws devised by Moses and the Hebrew people, i.e., if a woman doesn't bleed on her wedding night -- stone her brains out).&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, I was so pleased to see the power of God's spirit move in my young son, to pick up the Bible on his own, proceed to find the scriptures in Exodus, and read it himself -- it was God teaching him. I was... amazed.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-8503727800648889203?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/8503727800648889203/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/mosaic-law-vs-ten-commandments-power-of.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/8503727800648889203'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/8503727800648889203'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/mosaic-law-vs-ten-commandments-power-of.html' title='The Mosaic Law vs. The Ten Commandments - The Power of God&apos;s Spirit in Truth and Holiness'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-7140853307101622875</id><published>2009-11-22T18:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-22T19:01:55.769-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='young earth creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='botany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='atheism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paleobotany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photosynthesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='genesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='falsehood'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><title type='text'>Genesis and the Fossil Record</title><content type='html'>I have looked up the term "plant" in Strong's Concordance.&lt;br /&gt;The first time that Hebrew term for "plant" appears, is in Genesis 2:5 and distinguishes "herbs" from "plants".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Medical Toxicology of Natural Substances.&lt;br /&gt;Foods, Fungi, Medicinal ...  Apr 8, 2009 ... Toxicology of Natural Substances—Foods, Fungi,. Medicinal Herbs, Plants, and Venomous Animals, by Donald G. Barceloux, efficiently fills ...&lt;br /&gt;doi wiley com/10.1002/anie.200902139&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I'm to assume the Hebrew terms distinguish "plants" as quite different from "herbs". In Science, herbs are defined as a vegetation with medicinal characteristics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is interesting here, is the fossil record establishes true "plants" did not exist in the earliest fossil record. They were a latter introduction into the fossil record. "Plant" is not mentioned in Genesis 1:11. I tend to rely on the King James version. Other translations appear to be prejudiced, (interpreting the Hebrew without any comprehension of the fossil record).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This small point, too, correlates within the time frame /fossil record.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;King James Bible (Genesis 1:11)&lt;br /&gt;And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;vs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;King James Bible (Genesis 2:5)&lt;br /&gt;And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I stand by the opening chapters of the Bible as being in beautiful harmony with Science, however, as the Hebrew people fell away from the Commandments, from truth (God and the Prophets rebuked the Hebrews continually until the day God destroyed Israel), taken captive with no remembrance of them, while Judah was scattered among the nations and known by name only), as they fell farther and farther from grace -- I'm not surprised if they fell to a state of darkness and ignorance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Would God share science, or any knowledge, with a people who refused to obey the simple Ten Commandments? Therefore if the latter books are riddled with superstition and ignorance, I am not amazed. God closed off the Bible, with the mythology they worshiped and loved so dearly.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-7140853307101622875?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/7140853307101622875/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/genesis-and-fossil-record.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/7140853307101622875'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/7140853307101622875'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/genesis-and-fossil-record.html' title='Genesis and the Fossil Record'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-8472290980651444550</id><published>2009-11-22T14:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-22T14:51:22.528-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='biology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='botany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paleobotany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='evolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flood geology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='young earth creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='atheism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='genesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='darwin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><title type='text'>Was Charles Darwin an Atheist or a Christian?</title><content type='html'>"...I emphasize and re-emphasize, strict, unadulterated, uncompromised _Science_ which the schools are trying their damndest to teach. But between the ignorance of Atheists pawning lies like the feathered dinosaur myths (which Dr. Feduccia came out blasting in media) and Creationists outright denying and distorting science....... science can't get a fair hearing."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So scientists have observed a seemingly "random" scheme of things, that plants and animals "evolved" some without any "purpose" behind them... leading to a dead end and extinction? 95% of all species which ever lived went extinct? ATHEISTS! Please point out where either term, "Create" or "Design," even appear in the text of Genesis! God commanded the Earth to bring forth.. and to your human eye, would appear just as it was observed by Darwin, living organisms emerging on the Earth... transforming "after their kind," -- species going extinct, whilst others surviving. Well, out the window goes "intelligent design" because the word "design" appears no where within those verses. Does it??  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Genesis 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth (tender) grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.&lt;br /&gt;Genesis 1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.&lt;br /&gt;Genesis 1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THAT INCLUDES THE ATTACKS ON CHARLES DARWIN.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SwnAOAviPKI/AAAAAAAAD6c/mlAcdIl6x8I/s1600/Charles_Darwin_01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 311px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SwnAOAviPKI/AAAAAAAAD6c/mlAcdIl6x8I/s400/Charles_Darwin_01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407064174585068706" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite the ceaseless flood of hate and attacks, Darwin never reduced himself to making attacks on religion out of respect for his family. The man was a paleontologist and avoided "religion". They battle to this day, trying to know whether or not the man was an atheist or christian.&lt;br /&gt;HE WAS A SCIENTIST. As much as it may pain some, he avoided the subject of religion altogether.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"...I am a strong advocate for free thought on all subjects, yet it appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; &amp; freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which follow from the advance of science. It has, therefore, always been my object to avoid writing on religion, &amp; I have confined myself to science..." and, "I may, however, have been unduly biased by the pain which it would give some members of my family , if I aided in any way direct attacks on religion.— I am sorry to refuse you any request..."&lt;br /&gt;~ Charles Darwin, refusing dedication of an Atheist publication to his name.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He made the scientific observation of the literal, black and white text, in Genesis epoch three. God commanded THE EARTH to bring forth... and THE WATERS to bring forth, it does not say nor imply "design". God maintained a hands off policy with exception of some limited fine-tuning of surviving species..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"...I emphasize and re-emphasize, strict, unadulterated, uncompromised _Science_ which the schools are trying their damndest to teach. But between the ignorance of Atheists pawning lies like the feathered dinosaur myths (which Dr. Feduccia came out blasting in media) and Creationists outright denying and distorting science....... science can't get a fair hearing."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-8472290980651444550?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/8472290980651444550/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/was-charles-darwin-atheist-or-christian.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/8472290980651444550'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/8472290980651444550'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/was-charles-darwin-atheist-or-christian.html' title='Was Charles Darwin an Atheist or a Christian?'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SwnAOAviPKI/AAAAAAAAD6c/mlAcdIl6x8I/s72-c/Charles_Darwin_01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-2747810682787643955</id><published>2009-11-22T13:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-22T13:46:18.325-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='day three'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='botany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paleobotany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='evolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='plants before sunlight'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='young earth creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='atheism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photosynthesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='genesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='darwin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><title type='text'>Atheists attack... for observing and speaking, a scientific truth</title><content type='html'>Just a note of interest. I saw on Google where an atheist forum was attacking me, and for what? I'm innocent. Because I made an observation based on a scientific fact? Oh crucify me for speaking the truth! Non-photosynthetic fungi (which do bear seed[spores] in them, have fruit[the fruiting fungi variety] etc., and have been found in "tree" form.) Their comment was something like, "What else will they have up their sleeve?" who is this "they" which they speak of? Excuse me, but I don't have anything "up my sleeve" unless that's a mighty big sleeve, because I couldn't explain the riddle of Genesis with the fossil record! Then I prayed to God to reveal the answer. Within a couple hours I was lead to &lt;em&gt;Prototaxites&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Prehistoric Mystery Organism Verified As Giant Fungus&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prototaxites has generated controversy for more than a century. Originally classified as a conifer, scientists later argued...&lt;br /&gt;~ sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070423080454.htm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Suj4oUS3xUI/AAAAAAAAD1Q/RmjF0JU9FWk/s1600-h/Prototaxites_Dawson1888.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 139px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Suj4oUS3xUI/AAAAAAAAD1Q/RmjF0JU9FWk/s400/Prototaxites_Dawson1888.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397837524929856834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~ commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prototaxites_Dawson1888.PNG&lt;br /&gt;Hueber 2001, copied from Dawson (1888) "The Geological History of Plants". Appleton, New York, p290.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...and a book accompanying it on edible foods, explaining a fruiting fungi is non-photosynthetic, with spores that act like seed, and can be eaten. I was in disbelief.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Extract from Foods and feeds - Google Books Result, by Dilip K. Arora, K. G. Mukerji, Elmer H. Marth - 1991 - Science - 621 pages:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SulEWvAosBI/AAAAAAAAD1g/7WXieLOo6Ms/s1600-h/fruiting_fungi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 379px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SulEWvAosBI/AAAAAAAAD1g/7WXieLOo6Ms/s400/fruiting_fungi.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397920785747193874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My view is not like "them" (the old "us" vs. "them" of paranoid Atheist hatemongers who have a religion of their own to pawn on the masses so they can destroy the U.S. and other nations, just like they brought the USSR to its knees in poverty, warfare, genocide, famine of millions... hardly "science" at work. I am not "religious," and my view is this, unlike creationists, I SAY, stick to strict, unadulterated,  uncompromised science... and keep religion out of the classroom. Every truth which scientists have discovered, will explain the verses in Genesis. Not vis versa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, with that understanding in mind that Epoch Three speaks of non-photosynthetic fungi like ancestors to Prototaxites, and at best, Algae which derived photosynthetic energy directly from hydrothermal vents (explaining Darwin's dilemma why 3.5 billion years of "nothing" in the fossil record, for lack of the sun's light energy). Soft organisms (suited to a dark, damp world at best).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, if it were actually "24 hour days" spoken of in Genesis -- why then non-photosynthetic organisms? Why not "create" modern plants that depend on sunlight? Would young earth creationists try to convince me, that a modern tree or any other modern plant couldn't withstand one night in the dark, approx. 12 hours, without light, until the next day...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therefore, its easily deduced that Hebrew word "Yowm" is implying an indefinate period of time, an epoch, and not a literal 24 hour day. It's written in Genesis itself, "for times, seasons," wasn't even set until Epoch four, with the introduction of light from the heavens. Time did not even exist until Hebrew word, "Yowm" (Epoch) Four. It does not say the heavenly orb was created, but rather light itself, (photosynthesis), and thus providing a way to measure time.&lt;br /&gt;"Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years" (Genesis 1:14)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God does not measure time on man's terms, period.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If it were a 24 hour day, could not young earther's modern angiosperms, survive through just one night without dying? Obviously, the riddle is solved by non-photosynthetic fungi (true to the fossil record). And that implies it was (true to science) millions of years in darkness. Modern photosynthetic plants, would've quickly went extinct in the environment described in Genesis Epoch Three. Only algae, fungi(herb) and organisms like Prototaxites (fruiting fungi trees) could've survived in that harsh environment of early earth. It can_not be a 24 hour day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am saying, (unlike Creationists and zealot Atheist hatemongers) for religion not to interfere with Science, because religion can't even properly teach the Bible (that includes Atheists who regularly take text of the Bible, completely out of context), but would be so arrogant as to attempt interpreting Science... a completely unrelated realm of knowledge!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Religion(including Atheism) mix with science like oil and water.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-2747810682787643955?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/2747810682787643955/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/atheists-attack-for-observing-and.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/2747810682787643955'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/2747810682787643955'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/atheists-attack-for-observing-and.html' title='Atheists attack... for observing and speaking, a scientific truth'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Suj4oUS3xUI/AAAAAAAAD1Q/RmjF0JU9FWk/s72-c/Prototaxites_Dawson1888.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-3135503686008331481</id><published>2009-11-20T20:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-20T22:18:10.101-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='biology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='botany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paleobotany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='louis agassiz'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='evolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='young earth creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='atheism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='genesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='darwin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='yec'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><title type='text'>Observations of Science and Introduction of Agriculture Genesis 2:5</title><content type='html'>New American Standard:&lt;br /&gt;"Now &lt;u&gt;no shrub of the field was yet in the earth&lt;/u&gt;, and &lt;u&gt;no plant of the field had yet sprouted&lt;/u&gt;, for the LORD God had &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;not sent rain upon the earth, and &lt;u&gt;there was no man to cultivate the ground&lt;/u&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(And as I've explained, &lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;*&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; there are some regions on Earth which do not see a drop of rain for months, possibly years, if never.) Some former-oceanic terrain, is over geologic time, turned to dry desert. Dr. Philip Gingerich is one of the first to testify of "whales" found in "The Desert," Science Fiction? No, science fact:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Forty million years ago a vast area of the northern part of the Egyptian Western Desert was nothing but a sea. The whole of Fayoum was submerged; it was part of the Tethys Sea. In reality, Tethys Sea was so enormously big that some scholars call it Tethys Ocean rather than sea. When it finally receded, it formed what we know today as the Aral, Caspian and Black seas. In its bluish- green water dwelled creatures that evolved and survived or did not and became extinct. One of the biggest inhabitants of the ancient sea was Zeuglodon, the famous whale of Fayoum."&lt;br /&gt;~ &lt;a href="http://arabenvironment.net/archive/2007/4/205266.html" target="_blank"&gt;http://arabenvironment.net/archive/2007/4/205266.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems so difficult for some to explain the context for "&lt;u&gt;After Their Kind&lt;/u&gt;," but Genesis uses the same Evolutionary Terms, as in "&lt;u&gt;Every Plant of the Field Before it&lt;/u&gt; grew" and "&lt;u&gt;Every Herb of the Field Before It&lt;/u&gt;," is translated by others as saying, "&lt;u&gt;No plant in the field had sprouted&lt;/u&gt;" ... as in THEY HAD NOT EVOLVED YET, for, there was not a man with skills in Agriculture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;King James Bible:&lt;br /&gt;"And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lettuce History&lt;br /&gt;Lettuce probably evolved from a wild species which is still extant called &lt;em&gt;Lactuca serriola&lt;/em&gt;. It is very bitter. The Ancient Egyptians grew Lettuce..."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.practicallyedible.com/edible.nsf/Pages/lettuce" target="_blank"&gt;www.practicallyedible.com/edible.nsf/Pages/lettuce&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Swd-A0R6-YI/AAAAAAAAD6M/NfOCdSoAIv8/s1600/Prickly_lettuce--Lactuca_serriol.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 268px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406428430180481410" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Swd-A0R6-YI/AAAAAAAAD6M/NfOCdSoAIv8/s400/Prickly_lettuce--Lactuca_serriol.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lactuca serriola&lt;/em&gt;, the ancestor of lettuce.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There were many nomadic humans, but no farmers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The primitive man of Epoch Six was given what to eat?&lt;br /&gt;"...I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But no cabbage, no broccoli, no cauliflower...&lt;br /&gt;Early hominids and primitive man, were vegetarian, and lived nomadically gathering fruits, edible roots, leafs. It does not mention anything of Lettuce, Tomatos, String Beans and all the foods which modern man has cultivated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take a look at the conclusion of Science, and the typical dogmatic Atheist who latches on without any knowledge of Biblical text. A poignant observation, but too little, too late, because Genesis was stating the very same thing, thousands of years ago :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"...There is not a third-rate intelligence on earth that could not, after ten minutes' contemplation, devise a better scheme of things. Man's life is largely consumed in improving his surroundings and adjusting the blunders of nature. Daily, hourly, he must employ his wits to untangle the snares of unthinking nature. It would take an intelligence below the level of a moron to carry on evolutionary processes as commonly observed. It has taken evolution, unguided by intelligence, countless ages to develop the simple, unattractive flower known as the wild rose. &lt;u&gt;Evolution, with man's intelligence behind it, has, in a relatively short period of time, changed this simple flower, by artificial selection, into the glorious, multi-petalled American Beauty. That was intelligence behind evolution. Man has not only produced new species of flowers from wayside weeds, but given scent to odorless lilies and eliminated the thorns from raspberry and blackberry bushes. He has been able to evolve a spineless cactus, which, breeding true, now furnishes the desert with food for cattle. He has, by applying his intelligence to evolution, done in a short period of time that which evolution might have accomplished only after millions of years&lt;/u&gt; - or never at all. He has speeded up those processes which, under natural evolution, drag along hopelessly or reach an ultimate utility only after thousands of failures and unfavorable adaptations."&lt;br /&gt;From "Evolution Implies Atheism"&lt;br /&gt;"Essays of an Atheist", The Truth Seeker, 1945 by Woolsey Teller&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Genesis is Evidence for Science&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's right. Thousands of years before Science, a "Holy" source was documenting the same things about how man cultivated modern food...&lt;br /&gt;But Atheists(Anti-Theists) will deny truth because they hate truth. Creationists will deny what's written in Genesis, because they hate Science. But its in the Bible.&lt;br /&gt;As Gandhi said, a truth is a truth, even if you're a minority of One... as in One, God. And both extremist factions will deny what's spelled out in black and white text, out of stubborn arrogance (oh how awful, Genesis beat science to the discovery) and the other, vain, arrogant, pride (because they were wrong, and they know they're wrong).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;When man tries to deny the truth of God, or tries to usurp God's authority... well, (also Gandhi said) the only devils we need to fear, are the ones running around in our own hearts.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems so difficult for some to explain the context for "Earth brought forth herbs... &lt;u&gt;After Their Kind&lt;/u&gt;," and "Waters brought forth creatures.. &lt;u&gt;after their kind&lt;/u&gt;," but Genesis uses the same Evolutionary Terms, as in "&lt;u&gt;Every Plant of the Field Before it&lt;/u&gt; grew" and "&lt;u&gt;Every Herb of the Field Before It&lt;/u&gt;," is translated by others as saying, "&lt;u&gt;No plant in the field had sprouted&lt;/u&gt;" ... as in THEY HAD NOT EVOLVED YET, for, there was not a man with knowledge of Agriculture, to cultivate farming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Farming became tradition, with the introduction of Agriculture in Mesopotamia, and the skills spread throughout the ancient world. In other words, though God may have had a "hands off policy" for much of the account in Genesis 1 (commanding the Earth and Waters to bring forth...) IT WAS MAN who actually "created" these foods.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-3135503686008331481?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/3135503686008331481/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/observations-of-science-and.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/3135503686008331481'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/3135503686008331481'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/observations-of-science-and.html' title='Observations of Science and Introduction of Agriculture Genesis 2:5'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Swd-A0R6-YI/AAAAAAAAD6M/NfOCdSoAIv8/s72-c/Prickly_lettuce--Lactuca_serriol.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-4341017052546952523</id><published>2009-11-19T15:32:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-06T11:33:58.735-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='biology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='young earth creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='atheism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='genesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='evolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='darwin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='yec'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><title type='text'>Snake found with a full limb (Attaching the photo of snake with claw)</title><content type='html'>Atheists have latched on to this &lt;strong&gt;poor cursed creature with one remnant hind limb&lt;/strong&gt;, as if it were "walking". Far from it, and how geneticists have established the snake will NEVER walk again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SwXVuWgc9xI/AAAAAAAAD6E/iXLRYFRHeKs/s1600/snake_hindlimb.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SwXVuWgc9xI/AAAAAAAAD6E/iXLRYFRHeKs/s400/snake_hindlimb.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405961920020543250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;The picture says _everything_ anyone need know. When God "curses" -- don't underestimate the implications. Meant exactly what's written in literal black and white.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6187320/Snake-with-foot-found-in-China.html" target="_blank"&gt;Snake with foot found in China&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A snake with a single clawed foot has been discovered in China, according to reports.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Already this information is being used by Atheist(Anti-Theist) hatemongers to say,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.thebeattitude.com/2009/09/16/book-of-genesis-fail-a-snake-in-china-grew-one-of-its-legs-back/" target="_blank"&gt;book of Genesis FAIL&lt;/a&gt;. A snake in China grew one of itâ€™s legs back.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They will scoff as they may, but &lt;a href="http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/10/snake-in-genesis.html" target="_top"&gt;I have already explained vestigial appendages&lt;/a&gt; on snakes, and why the snake will &lt;u&gt;never&lt;/u&gt; walk again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;While &lt;a href="http://www.creation-vs-evolution.us/visual-evolution/human-tails/" target="_blank"&gt;humans may regain tails&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;While &lt;a href="http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/whales/" target="_blank"&gt;cetaceans may sprout the bud of a hind limb&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;While &lt;a href="http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/articles/snake_vestigial_limb.html" target="_blank"&gt;Pythons continue to retain spurs&lt;/a&gt; from their past life...&lt;br /&gt;the snake shall NEVER walk again. The HOX GENE shift moved the body plan forward where it &lt;strong&gt;can not&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;will not grow forelimbs&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, according to the science of Genetics, all the days of the snake' evolutionary future, it will inevitably -- go on its belly, and while slithering around on the ground to attack its prey, rolling around and around to asphyxiate and/or retain its victim in its clutches, they will get dust[dirt] on their prey... therefore, do indeed EAT DUST[dirt].&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, if anyone finds a sea serpent that has re-evolved all four limbs again,... lol, share that please! I'll be open to the enlightenment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Again, for posterity, &lt;strong&gt;I don't see that snake "walking" on four limbs&lt;/strong&gt;... does anyone else?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God=Science, or either, God just isn't "God". YEC tend to deny Science, therefore, have denied knowledge and God will reject them. (Hosea 4:6)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Comments&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An Atheist, pretending to be a Christian (how sad), left a new comment:&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;"...oh, and the photo is obviously photoshopped. those guys just wind you idiots up and watch you...you guys just show yourselves as ignorant fools."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Hmmm, how interesting Mr. Atheist. You claim the snake with the claw found in China, is a "photoshopped" sensationalist fiction. Even if it is by any chance a fictional  story, it does _not_ invalidate a word I said about vestigial limbs in snakes, &lt;u&gt;nor does it change the fact that AN ATHEIST used the same story/photograph, believing the story entirely to claim "snakes" are walking!! So I guess Atheists are credulous wind-up buffoons too?&lt;/u&gt; Thanks for pointing out the one-sided hypocrisy, because here it is:&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.thebeattitude.com/2009/09/16/book-of-genesis-fail-a-snake-in-china-grew-one-of-its-legs-back/" target="_blank"&gt;The book of Genesis FAIL&lt;/a&gt;. A snake in China grew one of itâ€™s legs back.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And what does that prove? That the snake is walking??! Of course not. The book of Genesis did not "fail" because a snake regains a leg or not. The fact is, that science has established snakes are not "walking," period, and never will walk again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Atheist pretending to be a Christian, adds this too:&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;"...is all that remains on them of limbs. &lt;u&gt;it is impossible for the mutation of a gene to cause a snake to grow a fully formed limb...because of the sheer number of genes involved in the process of making a limb (no, it isn't one gene that 'makes legs')&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Intermission&lt;/strong&gt;: Citing Herpetologist (reptile expert) Lenny Flank, who wrote: "there was a change in &lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; of the HOX genes&lt;/u&gt; that shifted the body plan forward a bit... Since, genetically, front limbs appear right where the cervical vertebrae begin, snakes can't have front limbs."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Continue...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;and the fact that the animal lost limbs so many millions of years ago (before mesozoic era) that those genes for the formation of full limbs no longer exist in ANY snakes dna. yes. i am earning interest on the mind god gave me, because somebody has to actually minister to intelligent people every once in a while. you guys go convert the dumb. you will win numbers, and that is good. but in your ignorace you will turn some away- i'm not willing to have that on my head.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sure you are, Atheist. Also, I really don't believe the Atheist understood a word I wrote. #1, to this day, humans may not have tails (like monkeys do), but humans certainly do retain and carry genes to grow them, and on a rare occasion, do re-grow tail remnants. Also, cetaceans (whales and dolphins) still posess genes for hind limbs, observed in wild and the laboratory, and on occasion fishermen have caught such creatures. There's a vast difference between &lt;em&gt;a)&lt;/em&gt; not having an appendage and yet carrying the gene to re-grow those limbs vs. &lt;em&gt;b)&lt;/em&gt; not having an appendage due to an actual shift in HOX Gene expression. As in the case of fossilized snakes. Snakes do not fossilize well, period. Therefore, it is unknown to scientists, exactly when snakes lost the ability to grow forelimbs. That's the mistake they make when discussing forelimb loss in snakes. Just because a snake doesn't have the limbs (millions of years ago), did not mean the genes were absent.&lt;br /&gt;As for the number of genes, oh well, I was citing the ATHEIST Herpetologist, who wrote: "there was a change in &lt;u&gt;one of the HOX genes&lt;/u&gt; that shifted the body plan forward a bit..." Ole Lenny happens to be a Herpetologist and probably knows his snake genetics better than an angry, frustrated Atheist pretending to be a Christian.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;LENNY FLANK WRITES: "As an aside, we now know, from genetic analysis, why snakes don't have vestigial FRONT limbs. During the evolutionary appearance of snakes, there was &lt;u&gt;a change in one of the HOX genes that shifted the body plan forward a bit&lt;/u&gt;. As a result, snakes now have no neck vertebrae --- they are all thoracic and abdominal. Since, genetically, front limbs appear right where the cervical vertebrae begin, snakes can't have front limbs. The vestigial rear limbs appear where the abdominal vertebrae meet the tail. As photos show, the tail of a snake is extremely short. So, even though a snake LOOKS like it is all neck or all tail, in reality, it is all body."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.geocities.com/lflank" target="_blank"&gt;Creation "Science" Debunked&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.geocities.com/lflank/herp.html" target="_blank"&gt;My Reptile Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scientists &lt;u&gt;do not know&lt;/u&gt; when snakes lost the ability to grow forelimbs. In the evolutionary history of snakes, the loss of the genetic information occurred at &lt;u&gt;some time or another&lt;/u&gt; and they don't know when... they would need actual fossilized tissue of snakes to analyse the DNA to know exactly "when". Sorry, that is not available. Just because snakes did not grow forelimbs, &lt;u&gt;did not automatrically mean, they didn't possess the genes to regrow forelimbs&lt;/u&gt;! Big difference. To this day, many creatures are absent of limbs, yet still carry genes that lay dormant. Until this day, snakes retain genes to sprout hind limbs, even though they haven't grown them in millions of years... just as some birds retain genes to grow teeth. There is no scientific "evidence" from genetics that millions of years ago, snakes "lost" any gene, just simply, they stopped growing forelimbs and hindlimbs. The loss of limbs vs. genetic information, are two very different issues. This shift in the Hox Gene, may have occured 100 thousand years ago, even a million... or it could've happened only about 10,000 years ago, like it is stated in the book of Genesis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last but not least, but here's outright denial of what's written in black and white text by this person, pretending to be a Christian :&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;ok. 1. no snake in the garden. come on. we know that this was passed down orally for hundreds of years before the hebrews and others ever developed writing. but for the sake of argument, the animal 'snake' was not itself cursed. the snake was already a snake.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quoting the "&lt;a href="http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/skepticism/genesis_snake.html" target="_blank"&gt;Curse on the Serpent&lt;/a&gt;" : &lt;em&gt;The serpent in Genesis is clearly a serpent, "the shrewdest beast of the field that the Lord God had made," and it was cursed to crawl on its belly and eat dirt "all the days of its life," and was understood to be a serpent by ancient Hebrews according to even the Evangelical Christian Wheaton College professor of Old Testament, Walton, who wrote the NIV APPLICATION COMMENTARY on GENESIS (2002), available at any major Christian bookstore.&lt;br /&gt;Serpent figures were common in the ancient world, and the description in Genesis of the serpent being stepped on and biting the heel of the seed of woman is merely a generic description of conflict. Hardly proof of anything. Consider Genesis, chapter 49 when Jacob blesses his children before his death, part of his blessing to Dan in verse 17 is: "May Dan be a snake beside the road, a viper by the path, that bites the heels of the horse so that its rider falls backward," (NET Bible). The generic term for serpent, "nahash," is used here (just as in Genesis when the "nahash" spoke to Eve). Most commentators believe that the serpent image in this passage is positive since this is a blessing. Dan, though a small tribe, will be as shrewd as a serpent, able to bite its enemies' heels so that they are defeated. &lt;br /&gt;[NET Bible, 131, note no. 6; Sailhamer, 278; Henry, 92; The Wycliffe Bible Commentary, 46; H. C. Leupold, Leupold on the Old Testament. Vol. 2, Exposition of Genesis (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House and The Wartburg Press, 1942), 1188-1189]"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;...the devil was cursed and told that he would remain in that form of the animal he took and would therefore be cursed to crawl on his stomach, get his head stomped, etc...just like all the oither snakes were doing before he appeared in the garden in that form. the devil was cursed, not the snake.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No where does the term "devil," "satan," "evil spirit" or any such superstitious garble appear in the Garden of Eden account. It states "beast of the field," implying the serpent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;jesus people. jesus is going to be expecting more than what he gave you when he returns, and our most valuable talent is our minds- too afraid to use it 'cause you thought that massa was a hard man, so you bury it in the dirt? i think when god returns or we get to him (whichever first) you are going to be some shocked people, because it isn't even close to what you have been duped into beleiving by guys like Gish, etc. they'd be better off having a swim with a millstone necktie than having spout out the garbage they have (knowingly, mind you) in order to try to defend their faith. oh yes. Jesus will demand interest on his loans.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sure. Okay. You say.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Hard Sayings of the Bible", (Intervarsity Press)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxtPmS0zhRI/AAAAAAAAECg/h5_7gDmOGQE/s1600-h/apocrypha2.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 353px; height: 244px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxtPmS0zhRI/AAAAAAAAECg/h5_7gDmOGQE/s400/apocrypha2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412006896522724626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/12/why-i-reject-belief-in-satan.html" target="_top"&gt;demon and satan&lt;/a&gt; babble has got to end. It's the very same idolatry that lead to God destroying Israel and Judah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Solomon's &lt;a href="http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/lie-of-organized-religion.html" target="_top"&gt;Idolatry&lt;/a&gt; (Excerpt from scribd.com)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxLQ0BNICKI/AAAAAAAAD7E/OiB2S3tifuE/s1600/solomon_the_fool.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 292px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SxLQ0BNICKI/AAAAAAAAD7E/OiB2S3tifuE/s400/solomon_the_fool.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409615694520649890" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-4341017052546952523?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/4341017052546952523/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/snake-found-with-full-limb-attaching.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/4341017052546952523'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/4341017052546952523'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/snake-found-with-full-limb-attaching.html' title='Snake found with a full limb (Attaching the photo of snake with claw)'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SwXVuWgc9xI/AAAAAAAAD6E/iXLRYFRHeKs/s72-c/snake_hindlimb.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-6215428391426097513</id><published>2009-11-18T20:46:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-18T22:00:26.342-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='atheism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='communism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='socialism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='antichrist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='karl marx'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='evolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='darwin'/><title type='text'>What Science has done for Science, Or, Why Charles Darwin felt Atheism was Completely Useless</title><content type='html'>For certain persons of the Anti-Theist persuasion, who take pleasure in the delusion that "Atheism" has any way contributed to science? If this were so, where were the "Atheist Physicians, Physicists, Biologists, Chemists, etc.," 5,000 and 10,000 years ago? Before the time of Christ. Where is all the "Atheist" science achievements? If Atheism were truly "intellectual" as it claimed, we should have achieved human immortality in all this time, and paradise by now!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;"...rapid increase in scientific progress with the introduction of atheism into society..."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Atheist propaganda, without any substance of truth in it. The first, true Atheistic experiment was the Paris Commune which lead to the immediate slaughter of people of religion, which was followed by another disastrous Atheist experiment in Russia, which would see around 50 million massacred, by the time &lt;strike&gt;Satan&lt;/strike&gt; Stalin &lt;strike&gt;was murdered by his staff who couldn't stand his paranoid&lt;/strike&gt; died of natural causes. Between that time, the disastrous experiment in Spain, China, and elsewhere, leading to genocide, widespread famine, poverty, warfare and human suffering.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does this look like "Science" to you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SwTQ3PerRZI/AAAAAAAAD58/00TGjYAmMqI/s1600/soviet_famine.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 305px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SwTQ3PerRZI/AAAAAAAAD58/00TGjYAmMqI/s400/soviet_famine.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405675100218017170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because it sure doesn't look like Science to me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Under Atheist Mao's regime, in the so-called "Great Leap Forward," 25,000,000 citizens starved to death due to idiotic political policies created by the Atheist ruling party. That is, Twenty Five Million. This is not counting the insane policies of Lenin (Five Million starvation victims) or the insane policies of Stalin (7 million between the short time span, of merely 1932-1933). Yet, Atheists boast that all progress is due to "introduction of atheism into society".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;"...it appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; &amp; freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which follow from the advance of science. It has, therefore, always been my object to avoid writing on religion, &amp; I have confined myself to science..."&lt;br /&gt;- Charles Darwin, refusing dedication of his name in an Atheist publication,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://friendsofdarwin.com/articles/2000/marx/" target="_blank"&gt;http://friendsofdarwin.com/articles/2000/marx/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#1. "it appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public" &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Darwin did not say, the scientific illiteracy of Atheism "illuminates" and "opens the mind" .. if Mr. Darwin felt for one moment that Anti-Theist rabble-rousing had a "positive effect," he would've surely said so, but rather, Mr Darwin said, "Direct arguments/attacks on religion produce hardly any effect on the public." Therefore, Mr. Darwin saw no benefit, nor positive effect to be gained from Atheism (which belongs put away in a corner with philosophy... which is completely useless!) Mr. Darwin proceeds to separate himself from Atheism, by saying he AVOIDS writing on Religion. Yes, indeed Mr. Darwin distinguishes a clear difference between Atheist rabble-rousing hatemongering and genuine Science. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#2. "...freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which follow from the advance of science." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Darwin did not say, "illumination of men's minds follows the advance of atheist rabble-rousing and hatemongering." Instead, Mr. Darwin made it abundantly clear, "illumination of men's minds follows the advance of SCIENCE," Did Mr. Darwin say Atheism leads to human progress? No, he did not. Mr. Darwin said SCIENCE alone, leads to human progress... not, ignorant foam at the mouth atheist bigotry and hatemongering. In fact, Mr. Darwin seems to indicate in his statement, that while atheism has zero positive effect on the public, Science does have a positive effect. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therefore, Mr. Darwin's legacy to the world is, Atheism is completely useless and worthless in any relationship to "Science". &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#3 "..therefore, always been my object to avoid writing on religion, &amp; I have confined myself to science..." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Darwin clearly separated himself from all worthless philosophical areas (such as anti-theism and religion which are completely unrelated to Science) and has confined himself to *Science*. If Mr. Darwin had earnestly felt Atheism had anything to do with "Science," then why does he emphasize he has no desire for entanglements in such philosophical areas, With an emphatic "AVOID WRITING ON RELIGION,". Obviously, Darwin feels that ATHEISM BELONGS CLASSED AMONG RELIGION, and in his life work and experience arrived to the conclusion: Atheism is completely worthless in regard to Scientific progress. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It can be deduced that Charles Darwin felt, &lt;br /&gt;1. Science alone, has the power to enlighten and illuminate the human mind. &lt;br /&gt;2. Atheism, is completely useless.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-6215428391426097513?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/6215428391426097513/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/what-science-has-done-for-science-or.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/6215428391426097513'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/6215428391426097513'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/what-science-has-done-for-science-or.html' title='What Science has done for Science, Or, Why Charles Darwin felt Atheism was Completely Useless'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SwTQ3PerRZI/AAAAAAAAD58/00TGjYAmMqI/s72-c/soviet_famine.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-2588024798070724501</id><published>2009-11-17T23:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-18T03:14:07.083-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='young earth creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='genesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fundamentalist christianity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='evolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='darwin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='yec'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><title type='text'>What Does In The Image of God Mean?</title><content type='html'>I salvaged this conversation from youtube, during a conversation on what "the image of God" may mean, thought I'd share for anyone seeking possible answers. Some of the comments are no longer in their original posted order, which may explain if some of the comments seem out of sync with the conversation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;November 18, 2009&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ferdinand Lasalle.&lt;/strong&gt; I learned of him in Henry C. Sheldon, 1895, "&lt;em&gt;History of the Christian Church&lt;/em&gt;." Sheldon mentions embrace of mild socialist reforms, by Bismarck/German Empire and denunciation of Marxism which﻿ demands terrorism and worldwide revolution. Complete meltdown of civilzation. Socialism began with good intent, and corrupted by anti-Christ Marx. Marx' parasitical followers began putting posters of Lasalle w/Marx, to create the false impression Lasalle supported Marx, LEECHING off Lasalle's success.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aside of Lasalle's success being preyed on, Darwin was also victimized. Gaining widespread notoriety among scientists (I've read Catholics have no problem with Evolution) Marx tried wedging into Darwin's success. See &lt;a href="http://friendsofdarwin.com/articles/2000/marx/" target="_blank"&gt;friendsofdarwin.com/articles/2000/marx/&lt;/a&gt;. Darwin refused request for dedication in an Anti-Theist﻿ book. Darwin would not associate with Atheist bigots. MARXISTS BEGAN PRINTING POSTERS OF MARX' BOOK ON TOP OF DARWIN AND LASALLE, tho Darwin/Lasalle both had denounced atheist bigotry.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;"I've read Catholics have no problem with Evolution"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I read somewhere that L. Ron Hubbard wasn't crazy. lol..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can tell you that in My Diocese, Karl Marx, Darwin or Evolution are NOT looked upon with kind eyes. We teach from the Gospel, no not the Catholic Bible but from The King James Version. Mass is completely centered on the Bible from the readings to the homily. I don't think most Protestants understand Catholicism and it's a shame because it contains allot of Christian﻿ history.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps then, SOME Catholics are accepting. NC-PBS Evolution: Triumph of an Idea (Carl Zimmer), the Bishop featured to represent Catholicism seemed to feel Evolution was not a problem. For me too, I do not see contradiction. After years of publishing among Darwinists, then converting to Christianity, I went through Genesis 1 verse by verse, and﻿ it aligns in perfect chronology with all that science has discovered, including solutions to serious mysteries, i.e., the Cambrian Explosion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My Darwinist compadres were aghast when I provided concrete evidence, AMG KJV Study Bible, states &lt;em&gt;"attempts to join the biblical account of creation and evolution are not supportable... because the order of creation is in direct opposition to modern science (e.g., the creation of trees before light.)"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- DO WHAT??&lt;br /&gt;I knew﻿ this was a LIE. In fact, the elusive "tree" in Genesis was discovered, Prototaxites. Not angiosperms (flowering), but spores(seed) non-photosynthetic, fruiting fungi 'tree'. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;So in essence, if I'm following you correctly, you accept the ideas of people like﻿ Cormac Murphy-OConnor?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heyyyy, that's an insult.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"...During this time it was brought to his attention that a priest,﻿ Michael Hill, was a child sexual abuser. Instead of reporting Hill to the police, Murphy-O'Connor allegedly allowed the crime to be covered up..."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I found an article by this﻿ person Murphy-O-Connor. He has very little understanding of Science or Genesis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HE WRITES: &lt;em&gt;"It is a mistake to treat the theology of creation in the Book of Genesis as a scientific textbook."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hmm.. after years publishing in thick of Darwinists and sometimes peer review of variegated scientists -- I converted to Christianity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can only say after all I had learned from science, I read Genesis verse by verse. And, interpreted so, it is SPOTLESS modern science!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No. I do not accept Connor's views.&lt;/strong&gt; He has no understanding of Science or Genesis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To make a long story short:&lt;br /&gt;Science teaches earth once was﻿ "without form and void". Science teaches plant_ancestors arrived first (algae, fungi, etc).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most profound truth of all. Science teaches that animal life began in the water and emerged on land. That's precisely what Genesis 1:20 says. God said, "Let the waters bring forth the moving creature." &lt;br /&gt;etc&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Genesis is identical chronology w/fossil record. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ok, cool.﻿ My apologies. I thought your views ran somewhat parallel with his. I do see where your coming from now though.&lt;br /&gt;I'm a white Catholic (1/4 Iroquois) but the rest is Euro. I see the depictions society has produced of Jesus or Adam and Eve for that matter and I know they're probably not right. I cannot bring myself to toss out history i.e. time and places of origin. I don't think anyone really has a clue what God looks like. So, did he model Adam and Eve entirely of himself? Or&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God is spirit. When I checked the KJV footnotes, I found something very interesting compared to other interpretations (especially Atheist) . . it is written, God said "Let us make man in our image...." and I had to ask what "us" means. In the footnotes, it states﻿ (Heb.)"plural, majesty" -- and the "us" is followed by "male and female (plural) created he them".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So in God's image, both male and female.&lt;br /&gt;Sadly, some have tried to teach woman could not be in the image of God...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;did he just give free will to the Adam and Eve? What does "in his likeness really mean" I know God didn't create a monkey after his likeness because then that would collide with the evolution﻿ of that mammal. I think these questions can only be answered by God. I believe that there is allot missing from the Bible and the New Testament as far as preciseness is concerned. Which is understandable giving the age of such writings. Also, is the Bible Vague on purpose? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do we really think we could ever understand what God really looks like or sounds like.﻿ I don't think so. If we did know these things, that would leave God open to judgment and we know thats not gonna happen.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was my conclusion, after reading the scripture, where it says let (us=plural majesty) create man in our image, male and female (plural) created he them...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe the very words that follow after "in our image," is the explanation:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;... Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: &lt;u&gt;and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all﻿ the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth&lt;/u&gt;...&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;I still cannot say for sure what exactly "in our image" or "In his Likeness" exactly details. We have God in us but how much is to exact detail? I'm not sure we can ever truly understand the magnificence of God as earthly beings. I would suppose the quick and easier answer would be that Cro Magnons and the Sons of God reproduced at sometime. Sometimes The easiest answer is the right answer but we are talking about﻿ very complex issues here that have been discussed for thousands of years.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scientists research for signs of animals using "tools". Evidence of intellect that sets man apart from animals.&lt;br /&gt;Man had already achieved great things by the time Adam was created 10,000 years ago. Cro-Magnon were the first to be true artists, leaving cave paintings of Aurochs (cattle that have long went extinct), they carved beads, and even "venus idols". But they did not know how to farm.&lt;br /&gt;People were nomadic﻿ hunter-gatherers, until man learned to farm and were then able to create settlements.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Day Six or an "Epoch" (fair Hebrew usage) Heb."Yowm" does not always mean 24 hour day. That word is used often to imply indefinate period of time, i.e., "in that day you eat thereof you will surely die." But Adam﻿ lived 900 years. So it was in "epoch" usage of the word, not a 24 hour "day". Adam was created 10,000 yrs ago. In Epoch Six, humans are created. Those were the primitive, early man-kinds that paleontologists continue to find. i.e., homo erectus, sapien, neanderthal, cro magnon, etc &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Genesis 1 and 2 aligns PERFECT with science. i.e., Chapter 6﻿ mentions "man of old" (Cro-Magnons who lived 40,000-10,000 which were giant (six ft tall on average), powerful built people, Adam descendants "the sons of God" interbreeded with them.) Genesis says of Adam, there was "no man... to till the ground". He's father of Agriculture, not the first human. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adam, was the first farmer. Scientists have known Mesopotamia is where farming began at the same time Adam is described being created. But people like O'Connor misinterpreted that it was saying Adam was the "First Human". Genesis only says, "there was no man to till the ground"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Agriculture History&lt;br /&gt;Over the 10000 years since agriculture began to be developed, ..... agriculture in the Middle East was static, and Mesopotamia, for﻿ example, ...&lt;br /&gt;adbio com/science/agri-history.htm&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;Well I definitely understand your arguments (Conclusions). I might not agree with every thing but﻿ I certainly respect your opinion. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some gray areas are still present in me as the traditional Christian teachings collide with my God given intellect.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaking of the image of God.. when you read about the creation of Adam and Eve. They broke God's commandment, and partook of the knowledge of Evil. Then, they began to populate.. it is not written, "God saw that it was good," (like it was with the earliest man who lived in simplicity and did not harm anyone) but rather, "And﻿ God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's modern man. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"...what exactly "in our image" or "In his Likeness" exactly details..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fossil record shows man rose above, and dominated the environment, above﻿ all the beasts. And "God saw that it was good". But the one thing man could not do, was farm to settle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is written in Genesis 2, "there was not a man to till the ground." So God created the first farmer in Mesopotamia, apprx 10,000 years ago. In God's Image? No, to do continual wickedness.&lt;br /&gt;It is written, God then repents he even made man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was my (personal) conclusion, that in the image of God, is explained "to have dominion". Early man developed innovative tools, weapons, spears, etc., mastered his environment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of interest too, "I﻿ have given you every herb bearing seed...upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Early hominids and humans (i.e., A. Robustus) are believed by Paleontologists to have been vegetarian (due to dentition).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Primitive man are still among us.&lt;br /&gt;Descendants of Adam who took of the knowledge of evil, "their eyes were opened and knew they were naked". &lt;br /&gt;There are still primitive people living to this day in jungles disconnected from modern world and lived nomadic for 10,000's of years. They run around naked, and do not have that perverse "knowledge of evil"... peacefully living as a "tribe". They still hunt and gather foods, and do not farm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Atomic bombs, Frankenstein genetics...﻿ who's the SAVAGE?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Creationism teaches falsely that man (Adam, the fallen one who disobeyed God's commandment), was created in God's image, but it only says "there was no man to till the ground".﻿ Only primitive man was described as "in the image of God". Adam' descendants began plundering Cro-Magnon women, who's children were the same "mighty men, men of old," Nephalim, bullies. Continual wickedness; violence. God REPENTED he made man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the image of God? No. CRIMINAL man. Man are far more evil than monkeys.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Creationism may teach primitive man coming from apes, is... evil or unbelievable. TELL ME THEN what is so "holy" about modern man? What sets man above animals? Monkeys are better! Gorillas don't crack your skull open for a line of crack cocaine. Chimps don't sell their own mother for a dime. Orangutans don't go pedo on juveniles in the troop.&lt;br /&gt;Animals only﻿ kill for food. Wicked man does it for sadistic sport... even preying on humans in the same manner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is written, God repented making man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't always know the answers. When I converted to Christianity, I arrived at this conclusion:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Through Jesus Christ... we can read scripture, and the answers we seek will be given. "Knock,﻿ and the door will be open to you. "Seek and ye shall find."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jesus is the only intermediator between a person, and God (The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth) to provide all revelations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So God must answer you. I cannot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;"So God must answer you. I cannot."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thats the way I see it also.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also understand allot has been lost in translation like﻿ you bring to attention. Take the simple word "carpenter" that describes Jesus and follow that translation all the back to when that was written. It actually means "one who works with his hands". Giving the era I would tend to think he was more of a stone layer than a carpenter. But in my experience most Christians think of him as a carpenter who built houses.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;... that's MY belief. The false teaching that man is "holy" or somehow "morally superior" compared to monkeys... as if it were proof against Evolution?&lt;/strong&gt; No. Genesis describes that God grieved at man's﻿ ignorance, evil and criminality. Think pedophiles, armed robbery, violent assault, etc on human nature and ask yourself, &lt;em&gt;"Are chimps in your neighborhood trying to rape kids?"&lt;/em&gt; I'd say monkeys are morally superior to many so-called "humans". Genesis concurs, that &lt;em&gt;their thoughts were continual wickedness&lt;/em&gt;. therefore, a massive flood was sent on Mesopotamia..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beyond "dominating the earth"... what is left? Every wicked thing under the sun? Image of God?? NO. More evil than many animals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Man does create God in his own image though.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a positive note, it states further on (it is known God gave them his commandments) they refused to obey... the same wicked men... God broke Israel and Judah and scattered them throughout the Earth.. and said he would yet make a new covenant through his﻿ son, (Despite the wickedness and enmity to God), ... see John 3:16&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(I've said it 1000x already), "who is the SAVAGE"? When I point out atom bombs, genocide, and other wickedness that is in the heart of man... I guess it troubles inerrantists' and their impression of man's "special" status over monkeys and other creatures. Nope, God created ape, and it was good. God created modern man, and God grieved.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I am all too familiar with the false dogma taught by the churches -- adherents mindlessly nodding their heads in agreement against human Evolution, as if man had something "so special," about him, "so morally superior," ... compared to animals. &lt;strong&gt;Oh, contraire! Genesis is emphatic on this! Emphatic enough, that God flooded the Mesopotamian region&lt;/strong&gt;, wiping out the hotbed of the human failure called modern man. &lt;strong&gt;Followed by raining down fiery sulphur on Sodom due to their wretched treatment of people.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Those fundamentalists nodding their heads in church. When they head out the door with the Bible they never read, they'll play the devil the rest of the week... I have never figured out what makes them believe humans have any moral high ground over animals. From my personal experience, animals make better friends than most humans.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-2588024798070724501?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/2588024798070724501/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/what-does-in-image-of-god-mean.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/2588024798070724501'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/2588024798070724501'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/what-does-in-image-of-god-mean.html' title='What Does In The Image of God Mean?'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-2909468360360589104</id><published>2009-11-12T20:38:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-21T19:56:51.745-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='young earth creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='atheism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='genesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fundamentalist christianity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flood geology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='evolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='noah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><title type='text'>Archaeological and Geological Evidence for Biblical Flood in Mesopotamia Was A Localized Flood And Theologians Knew This Already</title><content type='html'>The denial of Science by anti-Theists must end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm providing copies of documentation for the following,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Evidence that theologians are very well aware of scientific criticism raised in regard to a "worldwide flood" and problems with &lt;strong&gt;all species on earth&lt;/strong&gt; on a single boat, among other issues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;The actual interpretation of the original Hebrew which meant "localized" flood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Scientists who theorize the Black Sea (brackish water) may itself have been the result of a catastrophic flood in the same region. A great flood of historic proportions that was immortalized into remembrance, through ancient mythology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Geological evidence of a massive flood like that described in Genesis, but only exists in the region of Mesopotamia, where the book of Genesis was recorded.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Other scriptural evidence that supports what Dr. Geisler has proposed below, for the Hebrew term implying a "localized" flood&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HEBREW TEXT EVIDENCE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;namely, Genesis 10:2 (speaks of Japheth and descendents, spreading outward after the flood): "The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras... By these were the *&lt;strong&gt;isles of the Gentiles&lt;/strong&gt; divided in their lands; &lt;strong&gt;every one after his tongue&lt;/strong&gt;, after their families, in their nations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;*Both Atheists and Fundamentalists are guilty of perpetually evading  this question in their attempts to status quo the heck out of a "worldwide flood," perhaps in hope to discredit Genesis, but the question will not go away: &lt;em&gt;Just whom does "isles of the Gentiles," refer to, and whom were these Gentiles who survived the flood?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The text clearly implies the sons of Japheth divide the land of the Gentiles, according to their tongues. So, the whole earth was not of the "same language". &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet, in the very next chapter, Genesis 11, we see the opening verse (in supposed contradiction with Genesis 10?) &lt;br /&gt;Genesis 11:1 "And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It can not be both.&lt;/strong&gt; Needless to say, it is not both.&lt;br /&gt;Skeptics might wish this faulty interpretation be perpetually propagated in their sole aim to nullify Genesis). But Dr. Geisler definitively points out, the Hebrew usage is referring to the immediate, localized region.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to &lt;a href="http://www.bible-history.com/isbe/I/ISLES+OF+THE+GENTILES/" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.bible-history.com/isbe/I/ISLES+OF+THE+GENTILES/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"...the American Standard Revised Version "isles (margin "coast-lands") of the nations," said of the territories of the sons of Japheth. &lt;strong&gt;The reference is to the coasts of the Western Mediterranean&lt;/strong&gt;, with their islands (compare "isles of the sea," Est 10:1; Ezek 26:18, etc.).&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take a look at the location of "Western Meditteranean" in contrast to the location of Mesopotamia, where actual geological evidence exists for a massive local flood. Therefore, it can be deduced the Noachian flood never actually reached the Western Meditteranean and the "Gentiles" spoken of in Genesis 10, did survive the flood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Sv0GG1aSMeI/AAAAAAAAD50/zrzDXFT4bUU/s1600-h/isles_of_gentiles.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 197px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Sv0GG1aSMeI/AAAAAAAAD50/zrzDXFT4bUU/s400/isles_of_gentiles.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403481842400768482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SCRIPTURAL CRITICISM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another item to consider is from "Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics," by Dr. Norman Geisler. Skeptics really should stop pretending they have discovered  a cutting-edge line of questions to overturn theology. Dr. Geisler's commentary is ample evidence the issues have been considered long before now, by himself and other credible theologians. Whether or not the church at large is teaching these truths to mainstream Christians is another story. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvzlpCxHI8I/AAAAAAAAD4M/v-LAHjn3nD0/s1600-h/noahs_flood_01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 355px; height: 383px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvzlpCxHI8I/AAAAAAAAD4M/v-LAHjn3nD0/s400/noahs_flood_01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403446146218009538" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flood, Noah, Pg. 258&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics&lt;/em&gt;, Dr. Norman Geisler&lt;br /&gt;Fourth Edition, &amp;copy;1999&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christians are usually the last to be taught facts about these matters by the corrupt religious establishment, who seem to feel truth is on a "need to know" basis. Therefore I'll provide the information &lt;em&gt;Pro Bono&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="line-height:1"&gt;Note: &lt;em&gt;As it were back in the dark ages of the Catholic Church's height of power, depriving the common person access to the scriptures.. at threat of death some men like Tyndall, Wycliffe, Luther and others took it upon themselves to translate and make accessible, scripture, for the common person.&lt;br /&gt;How sad, with history showing brave men who sometimes suffered the fate of death for this "heresy," most Christians today, don't even read their Bibles. Was the sacrifice in vain, or is it rather that the church is guilty of convincing adherents they lack the ability to properly understand scriptures without an establishment  intermediator from organized religion?&lt;br /&gt;Did Jesus Christ die in vain, or is not Jesus the only intermediator between a person and God? They will be taught by God! When Christians depend on men to teach, the blind lead the blind and they both fall in the ditch.&lt;br /&gt;But that's only my opinion, after becoming saved, actually reading the scriptures... and God's promise to reveal the truth to those who ask, so what could I possibly know?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Svzppi5FZrI/AAAAAAAAD4U/XkUHeGd4aS8/s1600-h/noahs_flood_02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 290px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Svzppi5FZrI/AAAAAAAAD4U/XkUHeGd4aS8/s400/noahs_flood_02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403450552887895730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flood, Noah, Pg. 258&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics&lt;/em&gt;, Dr. Norman Geisler&lt;br /&gt;Fourth Edition, &amp;copy;1999&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So why do Darwinists and Agnostics and Atheists continue to pretend these issues were never raised and acknowledged by Christian theologians?&lt;/strong&gt; Evade as they may, this publication is dated 1999, at least a decade since its publication! Yet the same outdated arguments will continue to churn from the Darwinist side, who are perpetually in denial of the more reasonable explanations already offered by leading theologians. In my personal experience with Darwinists (those certain Agnostics who seek to shed doubts on Scripture in hopes of winning over prospective converts to Atheism) share a preference for false, misleading and outdated information, sticking with status quo controversies such as 200 year old outdated beliefs; flat earth, geocentrism and other beliefs that the majority of Christians wouldn't even have known existed... and by making arguments against such things, one may be lead to presume Christians are "less intelligent," than an Atheist, or other Ad Hominems. Dishonesty seems to be the Atheists' preferred &lt;em&gt;Modus Operandi&lt;/em&gt; over solid, honest debate as in addressing the full spectrum of the issue, instead of perpetually cherry-picking what may be distorted to make one's side seem more "intellectual." But of course, it boils down to nothing more than intellectual dishonesty, in hopes of creating the illusion they (the Atheist)  hold the monopoly on scientific truths. Doesn't every religion claim to hold the monopoly on the one true, "absolute truth"? Atheism is no different than any other religion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvzrcCYrQII/AAAAAAAAD4c/kDchvnePc70/s1600-h/geisler_flood_03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px; height: 254px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvzrcCYrQII/AAAAAAAAD4c/kDchvnePc70/s400/geisler_flood_03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403452519846985858" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The side that stands with TRUTH doesn't need to use lies, to win support... the truth stands on its own. The purpose however is more along the lines of deceitful propaganda, to create a false impression that no original thought ever enters the brain of a Christian. Character assasination, in contrast to the "intellectual, scientific discourse" they are so famed for boasting to adhere to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BLACK SEA FORMATION THEORY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Svzsd470MrI/AAAAAAAAD4k/zWR5ITni0Sg/s1600-h/black_sea.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 280px; height: 280px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Svzsd470MrI/AAAAAAAAD4k/zWR5ITni0Sg/s400/black_sea.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403453651181384370" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.natgeochannel.co.uk/Programmes/Schedule.aspx?Id=678" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.natgeochannel.co.uk/Programmes/Schedule.aspx?Id=678&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;National Geographic&lt;/em&gt; produced a special on the question of the formation of the Black Sea. This theory was proposed by two scientists who were veterans in geology and question if ancient mythologies may possibly hint at the flood described in Genesis, devastating enough to form the Black Sea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvztfcGv9DI/AAAAAAAAD4s/topS7LHbifI/s1600-h/ballard.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 151px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvztfcGv9DI/AAAAAAAAD4s/topS7LHbifI/s400/ballard.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403454777313981490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;Robert Ballard, the man who found the Titanic, ventures beneath the 'dead zone' in the Black Sea. Will he discover clues about one of the most dramatic events in the Bible?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MESOPOTAMIAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Swi2a_CZweI/AAAAAAAAD6U/yBVB6G61UHw/s1600/national-geographic-1930.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 265px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Swi2a_CZweI/AAAAAAAAD6U/yBVB6G61UHw/s400/national-geographic-1930.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406771927372644834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Svz-bABaCgI/AAAAAAAAD5s/Nu24VMMfvtA/s1600-h/mesopotamia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 159px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Svz-bABaCgI/AAAAAAAAD5s/Nu24VMMfvtA/s400/mesopotamia.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403473392753576450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;em&gt;January 1930, National Geographic Magazine&lt;/em&gt;, Page 118-120&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Svz5uOoL0dI/AAAAAAAAD40/R1qyWEdtyJs/s1600-h/mesopotamian_deposit.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Svz5uOoL0dI/AAAAAAAAD40/R1qyWEdtyJs/s400/mesopotamian_deposit.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403468225533694418" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Svz6bYetyZI/AAAAAAAAD48/8J-Sd43rXRw/s1600-h/mesopotamian_deposit2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 251px; height: 375px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Svz6bYetyZI/AAAAAAAAD48/8J-Sd43rXRw/s400/mesopotamian_deposit2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403469001272445330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Svz6uZIBoBI/AAAAAAAAD5E/mQhUVU8talE/s1600-h/mesopotamian_deposit3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 246px; height: 374px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Svz6uZIBoBI/AAAAAAAAD5E/mQhUVU8talE/s400/mesopotamian_deposit3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403469327863226386" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Svz7a1r3D3I/AAAAAAAAD5M/S25yAINhQik/s1600-h/mesopotamian_deposit4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 247px; height: 335px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Svz7a1r3D3I/AAAAAAAAD5M/S25yAINhQik/s400/mesopotamian_deposit4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403470091443965810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Svz7hSjy0cI/AAAAAAAAD5U/bWFBNbSi7sI/s1600-h/mesopotamian_deposit5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 246px; height: 334px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Svz7hSjy0cI/AAAAAAAAD5U/bWFBNbSi7sI/s400/mesopotamian_deposit5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403470202273976770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Svz8ZWzcOSI/AAAAAAAAD5c/B-5Qutryx9I/s1600-h/mesopotamian_deposit6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 253px; height: 51px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Svz8ZWzcOSI/AAAAAAAAD5c/B-5Qutryx9I/s400/mesopotamian_deposit6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403471165486020898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Svz8v32x5LI/AAAAAAAAD5k/ShpSxfIlcPE/s1600-h/mesopotamian_deposit7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 247px; height: 140px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Svz8v32x5LI/AAAAAAAAD5k/ShpSxfIlcPE/s400/mesopotamian_deposit7.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403471552315516082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-2909468360360589104?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/2909468360360589104/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/archaeological-and-geological-evidence.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/2909468360360589104'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/2909468360360589104'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/archaeological-and-geological-evidence.html' title='Archaeological and Geological Evidence for Biblical Flood in Mesopotamia Was A Localized Flood And Theologians Knew This Already'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Sv0GG1aSMeI/AAAAAAAAD50/zrzDXFT4bUU/s72-c/isles_of_gentiles.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-8814992748982038525</id><published>2009-11-07T17:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-07T19:12:28.929-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='biology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='day three'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='botany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paleobotany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='evolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='plants before sunlight'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photosynthesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='genesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='astronomy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='darwin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><title type='text'>Cambrian Explosion -- The Big Bang of Biology</title><content type='html'>An Atheistic-evolutionist wrote, I presume in hopes to cast skepticism and doubts on Genesis aligning with Paleontology. I'll stick by my guns there is only one Cambrian Explosion and will only be one Cambrian Explosion until the end of time. That Cambrian Explosion is the same one Charles Darwin wrote of extensively, and the same one acknowledged in Epoch Five of Genesis, when God said, "Let the waters bring forth &lt;strong&gt;abundantly&lt;/strong&gt; the moving creature..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;"The Avalon Explosion&lt;br /&gt;Ediacara fossils [575 to 542 million years ago (Ma)] represent Earth's oldest known complex macroscopic life forms, but their morphological history is poorly understood. A comprehensive quantitative analysis of these fossils indicates that the oldest Ediacara assemblage—the Avalon assemblage (575 to 565 Ma)—already encompassed the full range of Ediacara morphospace. A comparable morphospace range was occupied by the subsequent White Sea (560 to 550 Ma) and Nama (550 to 542 Ma) assemblages, although it was populated differently. In contrast, taxonomicrichness increased in the White Sea assemblage and declined in the Nama assemblage. These diversity changes, occurring whilemorphospace range remained relatively constant, led to inverse shifts in morphological variance. The Avalon morphospace expansionmirrors the Cambrian explosion, and both events may reflect similar underlying mechanisms.&lt;br /&gt;--Shen et al. (2008) “The Avalon Explosion: Evolution of Ediacara Morphospace” Science 4 January: 81-84."&lt;br /&gt;~ &lt;a href="http://scienceblogs.com/strangerfruit/upload/evolutionis.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;scienceblogs.com/strangerfruit/upload/evolutionis.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, I'm providing a brief timeline for better insight into something that should not be overlooked... great significance for insight into scripture. Epoch Four discusses nothing about the evolution of life on the Earth. It is silent on the matter. It only discusses affairs of the heavens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvYlhDOdcQI/AAAAAAAAD3s/2i_vdGbvBLA/s1600-h/timeline.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 256px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvYlhDOdcQI/AAAAAAAAD3s/2i_vdGbvBLA/s400/timeline.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401546052809355522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;So, what's the point if they find traces of life activity between the time the earth brought forth (Heb)"Tender" grass (algae), non-photosynthetic "herb"(fungi) with spores within itself and non-photosynthetic fruiting fungi "trees" with seed(spores) within itself.... (Epoch Three). The fossil record confirms indeed, such things existed.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;...and millions of years later, when the Cambrian Explosion occurs... the same burst of diversity Charles Darwin wrote extensively of, is described emphatically in Epoch Five, "Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature...."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Gap: What happened on earth, between Epoch Three and Epoch Five?&lt;/strong&gt; Genesis is silent on the matter. There's no discussion of the Earth in Epoch Four.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;So, this (albeit, interesting) information is somewhat, irrelevant, beyond some insight into what was taking place during the epoch "God made two great LIGHTS to give light upon the Earth..." as in making the sun go nuclear fusion.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;After the sun went nuclear, God commands, "Let the waters bring forth &lt;strong&gt;ABUNDANTLY&lt;/strong&gt;..." and that perplexing observation, went with Charles Darwin to his grave. There's lots of things ommitted from Genesis 1... and only a nit-picker would strain at gnats, expecting mention of them be included.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Whoops, that was Vendian (Late Precambrian). Corrected timeline chart‏&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvYtPNRTdvI/AAAAAAAAD30/44FQM1sida4/s1600-h/nuclear_timeline.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 256px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvYtPNRTdvI/AAAAAAAAD30/44FQM1sida4/s400/nuclear_timeline.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401554542361016050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unlike Atheists who are perfect, and have "absolute truths," I'm only human and make errors.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The Vendian was the "late precambrian" (650-540 MYA). The sun went nuclear, somewhere between the Vendian (late precambrian), and dawn of the Cambrian.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The fossil record testifies of this with the proliferation of animal life. When the sun is absent, animal life spirals into extinction.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-8814992748982038525?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/8814992748982038525/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/cambrian-explosion-big-bang-of-biology.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/8814992748982038525'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/8814992748982038525'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/cambrian-explosion-big-bang-of-biology.html' title='Cambrian Explosion -- The Big Bang of Biology'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvYlhDOdcQI/AAAAAAAAD3s/2i_vdGbvBLA/s72-c/timeline.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-3529644911808686411</id><published>2009-11-06T22:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-07T01:02:08.790-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='genesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='evolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='myth'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><title type='text'>Cro Magnon, Cave Man and Identity of the Nephalim Giants in Genesis, the Old Testament</title><content type='html'>I won't trouble anyone with all the &lt;strong&gt;false explanations&lt;/strong&gt; from 1) Fee Fi Fo Fum 30 ft tall mythological "Giants," to 2) Fallen Angels / Demons, to ... who knows what other explanations, I'll stick with the reasonable Biblical explanation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's the famous chart of Science' Evolution of Man, showing the line that lead up to Cro-Magnon, and Cro-Magnon was replaced by "Modern Man" who the father of Agriculture (tilling the ground) and the first settlements.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvUeeJ-BM-I/AAAAAAAAD3c/T5tdgEz-kyg/s1600-h/fallen_ones.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 328px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvUeeJ-BM-I/AAAAAAAAD3c/T5tdgEz-kyg/s400/fallen_ones.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401256831521731554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The major difference between Cro Magnon man (40,000-10,000 years ago) is that Cro Magnon did not farm. He was the prehistoric "cave man," nomadic, hunter/gatherers. &lt;br /&gt;Agriculture which enabled man to create settlements, began in Mesopotamia, around 10,000 years ago, the same is described in Genesis 2:5: "...and there was not a man to till the ground.") with the creation of Adam, Agriculture began to flourish and spread throughout the ancient world, and strong emphasis is on how not a man existed, to "till the ground". How that became "no man existed," was through fundamentalists' denial of Paleontology and the fossil record of human evolution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How ironic, that instead of "denying the Bible," scientists were merely doing the will of God, to explain the mystery of Genesis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Tilling the ground," is emphasized and re-emphasized. Many Atheists raised the question, "Where did Mrs. Cain come from?" after Cain fled following the murder of his brother. Cro-Magnon had a heavy population throughout parts of Europe and the ancient near east. That is where "Mrs Cain" came from. It is written, (Genesis 4:11) that God greviously cursed Cain, who was a tiller of the ground,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;"...And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; &lt;strong&gt;When thou tillest the ground&lt;/strong&gt;, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How interesting that Cain expressed fear about every man who found him would want to kill him? How odd, if the only man living at the time, aside of his dead brother, were his father Adam. Obviously, it is implied that other men were living at the time, including cro magnon women, from whom Cain took a wife. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"And there were giants in those days..."&lt;br /&gt;Many of these ancient people stood 6 ft. tall on average. The video documentary mentions Ancient Chinese scrolls and cave paintings of figures of "great height" that lend credence to the accounts&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvUgm96T1EI/AAAAAAAAD3k/gUiCZJpG388/s1600-h/cave_painting.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 292px; height: 218px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvUgm96T1EI/AAAAAAAAD3k/gUiCZJpG388/s400/cave_painting.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401259181927027778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(see this video snip on the Silk Road Mummies, from National Geographic, "Mummies: Voices of the Dead" (available on video tape.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.zoology-quest.net/wiki/images/mediaplayer.swf" width="320" height="240" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="height=240&amp;width=320&amp;file=http://www.creation-vs-evolution.us/genesis_science/giant_mummies.flv&amp;image=http://www.creation-vs-evolution.us/genesis_science/giant_mummies.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;form&gt;&lt;textarea style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1" rows="3" wrap="virtual" cols="57"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.zoology-quest.net/wiki/images/mediaplayer.swf" width="320" height="240" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="height=240&amp;width=320&amp;file=http://www.creation-vs-evolution.us/genesis_science/giant_mummies.flv&amp;image=http://www.creation-vs-evolution.us/genesis_science/giant_mummies.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who the "Sons of God" are,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;"And the LORD God said, "&lt;u&gt;The man has now become like one of us&lt;/u&gt;, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."&lt;br /&gt;~ Genesis 3:22&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please take note that God mentions nothing of "fallen angels," "demons," or otherwise. The wicked ones in discussion who plundered the "daughters of men," were man... men... modern man, Adam, a son of God, hand-crafted from the earth, by God himself. &lt;strong&gt;Adam was the "fallen one,"&lt;/strong&gt; if you please, and "...they bare children to them, the same became &lt;strong&gt;mighty men which were of old&lt;/strong&gt;, men of renown."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Genesis 6:4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the 1)  sons of God came in unto the 2) daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The verse is speaking of none other than the ancient Cro-Magnon man, which had existed from approximately 40,000-10,000 years ago, and was replaced by modern man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A famous museum bust of cro-magnon man&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvUb1AGUViI/AAAAAAAAD3U/Rx05v9aAyY8/s1600-h/cro-magnon.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:center; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 265px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvUb1AGUViI/AAAAAAAAD3U/Rx05v9aAyY8/s400/cro-magnon.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401253925474293282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-3529644911808686411?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/3529644911808686411/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/identity-of-nephalim-giants-in-genesis.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/3529644911808686411'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/3529644911808686411'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/identity-of-nephalim-giants-in-genesis.html' title='Cro Magnon, Cave Man and Identity of the Nephalim Giants in Genesis, the Old Testament'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvUeeJ-BM-I/AAAAAAAAD3c/T5tdgEz-kyg/s72-c/fallen_ones.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-2385146405044880835</id><published>2009-11-05T16:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-05T21:34:42.018-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='biology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='young earth creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='atheism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='genesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fundamentalist christianity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='evolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='darwin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><title type='text'>Tooth and Claw: Death Before the Fall</title><content type='html'>Why Does God Allow Suffering?&lt;br /&gt;No death entered the world, until the "fall of man"? (So some fundamentalist denominations teach.)&lt;br /&gt;What verse in Genesis supports that doctrine, that animals began killing and dying just because man disobeyed God? It states the snake will eat dirt, and snakes do indeed, every time they stalk prey and roll around in the dust, asphyxiating their victim, which they consume whole, bloody mud and all... but what verse states God commanded animals to eat other animals, and death as a curse on all animal kinds? The world we live in with its violence of tooth and claw, is loaded with evidence for the answers we seek to questions about God and Nature. The fossil record tells in contrast that omnivores and carnivores have always had teeth designed to rip prey to pieces... long before man was created. The question is, do you want to live in this kind of world? Or is there a better way to live? The Bible speaks of a new heaven and earth, and the lion laying down next to a lamb...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our Cats Kill a Mouse and Bird, Part 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bEAx6ZuMW5Y&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bEAx6ZuMW5Y&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvOHBhe2P9I/AAAAAAAAD3E/MgjVTw9r0EA/s1600-h/bird_yellow_spot.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:center; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvOHBhe2P9I/AAAAAAAAD3E/MgjVTw9r0EA/s400/bird_yellow_spot.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400808838384730066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is so sad, when I discovered Miss Silky killed a bird.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Non-Believers ask if God cares about suffering and death?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had a sneaky suspicion all evening, it would be, a Sparrow... a White-throated sparrow, (&lt;em&gt;Zonotrichia albicollis&lt;/em&gt;.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? &lt;strong&gt;Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.&lt;/strong&gt; And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Matthew 10:29-30&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The mouse, well... if they didn't spread pestilence, it would be another story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvOHB9yC8tI/AAAAAAAAD3M/1DK-HfAImZE/s1600-h/bird_yellow_spot_02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:center; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvOHB9yC8tI/AAAAAAAAD3M/1DK-HfAImZE/s400/bird_yellow_spot_02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400808845981446866" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our Cats Kill a Mouse and Bird, Part 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jTru0mmLrS0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jTru0mmLrS0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Death was already in the world.&lt;/strong&gt; The "Sons of God" (Genesis 6:4), modern man, (father of Agriculture) had their chance at immorality, had Adam only obeyed God's command to abstain from the forbidden fruit (Genesis 2:16-17) and sustain their life by eating of the "tree of life." (Genesis 2:9 and Genesis 3:22). Man was cut off from the fountain of their immortality, the tree of life,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. &lt;strong&gt;He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever&lt;/strong&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;~ Genesis 3:22&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They were driven out, and then, inevitably fated to die.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-2385146405044880835?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/2385146405044880835/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/tooth-and-claw-death-before-fall.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/2385146405044880835'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/2385146405044880835'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/tooth-and-claw-death-before-fall.html' title='Tooth and Claw: Death Before the Fall'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvOHBhe2P9I/AAAAAAAAD3E/MgjVTw9r0EA/s72-c/bird_yellow_spot.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-5981112138935338985</id><published>2009-11-04T21:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-05T11:06:44.799-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='young earth creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='atheism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='genesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fundamentalist christianity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='evolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='astronomy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='yec'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><title type='text'>A Creationist Speaks : Keep Creation Science Out of the Classroom</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;What I've been waiting for.‏&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Somebody who understands science (a positive). 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After years of being in the middle of fighting "Creation Science," here I find myself promoting it. &lt;strong&gt;The only exception is, I'm basing the interpretation on *literal Genesis* and actual science... aligning the two.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Somebody from Troutville, Virginia... the first person I've found with a specific search string related to what I've proposed for explaining the text of Genesis Chapter One. Somebody who maybe does understand the significance of "Cambrian Explosion". It would be nice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not underestimating or overestimating the significance of the Cambrian Explosion, just as Darwin himself made an ordeal over it, grieved until he went to his grave... incapable of explaining the phenomena in the fossil record. It's got to be the greatest mystery, perplexing scientists worldwide to this day.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Sort of leaves me with a sick feeling though, after seeing all the damage (my entire life) personally victimized by ignorance the church taught. They taught me in my youth, the earth was only around 6,000 or 10,000 years old, and made to look like a numbwit when discussing European history with a pagan, back in 1991. First "debate" I'd ever been in with anyone. I'd never acquainted anyone who believed in Evolution, until that day. He said the European people had lived in Europe around 30,000+ years. I thought he was nuts... I wrote an organization I trusted for verification, and they sent Xerox of an article showing a "Venus" from Vienna, dated around 32,000 -- a male human, with a lion's head.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is that very article, which caused me to lose belief in a Young Earth Creation  to a believer in Human Evolution. (Although, in 1991 I was far from having any real understanding of the fossil record.) It comes from National Geographic, October 1988, "&lt;em&gt;The Search for Modern Humans&lt;/em&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvJqoRFW37I/AAAAAAAAD28/FRjR-aLsys0/s1600-h/ancient_man.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:center; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 265px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvJqoRFW37I/AAAAAAAAD28/FRjR-aLsys0/s400/ancient_man.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400496143183830962" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In his correspondence, which consisted of snail-mail at that time, the man claimed the eldest known "Venus" was a female idol dating 30,000 years. I realized, he was wrong from what the article said... aye! victory.... it was 1) Male and 2) Older than his date, but, oooo, I learned at the same time that ancient people did indeed exist since tens of thousands of years ago -- and my faith in organized religion was shot down. I was already having doubts in 1991 and had dropped from the church.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Upon reading the article and realizing I had been prevented from trusting the school system / science, lending to darkness and ignorance, helped lead to packing away the Bible and forgetting it, rejecting it, as a book of myths.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even now, having re-embraced Christianity fully and with all that I know of faith, and science included... I would stake everything that the full record of Paleontology can be aligned with the book of Genesis, &lt;strong&gt;however&lt;/strong&gt; I would never want to see "Creation Science" taught in schools! Mainly, because mankind is not fit to teach even the Bible. Only God is fit to reveal truths, to the willing and open mind that trusts in Him. The scriptures say, "They will be taught by God."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"It is written in the prophets, &lt;strong&gt;And they shall be all taught of God. &lt;/strong&gt;Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me."&lt;br /&gt;~ John 6:45&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest."&lt;br /&gt;~ Hebrews 8:10-11&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you."&lt;br /&gt;~ Luke 11:9&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let them debate Genesis, until the cows come home... but keep it out of the class room (that includes Atheists and their revolting war on faith). So many people have been mis-educated about science, thanks to organized religion and its opponents who don't know Exegesis of the Bible, from a hole in the ground.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therefore, thanks to that very ignorance, the last total I read, reveals a whopping statistic of something like Christianity branching into 20,000+ sects and denominations and they can not even agree among themselves.. above all, afraid to teach the truth about the simplest of things -- a great falling away has resulted because of the failure of the Church! But would be so bold as to propose over-taking education? God is not the author of confusion. &lt;strong&gt;Man is the author of the confusion.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;One body in Christ Jesus? Nobody is teaching the truth anymore... either they don't know the truth, or they're too afraid to teach it to the masses. Seriously, why is it I can purchase scholars texts and critical commentaries like some on my book shelves, i.e., "Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics," written by Dr. Norman Geisler, and even in his conservative rationale he is allowed to say in the book that the Hebrew word being used regarding the flood can imply a "localized flood" and all geological evidence confirms a "worldwide flood" is impossible, yet, the typical preacher tells an entirely different version to the people who sit in the pews every Sunday.&lt;br /&gt;Being associated with an Agnostic / Anti-Theist / Evolutionist for a number of years now... I've been seeing, first-hand (being in the midst of Skeptic circles; Atheists and Agnostics), what results when organized religion relies on man's ignorance to interpret scripture: &lt;strong&gt;People drop out and become foam at the mouth Atheists and Agnostics, and other enemies to Christ.&lt;/strong&gt; You can blame the church itself, for this. Thier refusal to teach the truth, including the unpopular truths, is completely to blame. Believers are not equipped to deal with questions, nor are they prepared to face some of the simplest tests of their faith, such as discrepancies in scripture. Once the average pew-sitter becomes aware of some of the smallest issues, which are normal questions faced by theologians every day, the delusion of inerrancy is shattered, and sometimes, that person may even receive the big "please don't come back," brush off when they ask too many questions, which leads to alienation and quite possibly becoming another typical Atheist with the typical story of becoming a "former fundamentalist". The church has failed them! So the bitterness of Anti-Theists is no real surprise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My first loss of belief was in the church I was raised and groomed in (The Worldwide Church of God).. completely fundamentalist, and alongside attacks on science, it steadily waged a war of slander against Christianity itself. The WWCG was strict and legalistic in Orthodox laws, very much like Judaism in many ways. In 1991, when I began to see the cult fall apart following the death of the founder, and after a lifetime of being taught "this is the one true truth," my delusion about a "one true religion," and blindly following a man, was shattered. I felt like the fabric of my entire world had been pulled from my feet... I woke up and realized, you can not trust a church... nothing is forever.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Then, I prayed for God to reveal the truth to me himself. What happened instead, was an "answered prayer," and a rather rude awakening when my brother (who had since became Atheist) up and decided to trek all the way from California (1993) and set down a stack of Atheist literature in front of me, challenging me to read it if I had an open mind. &lt;strong&gt;There, I learned things the church never told me.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And you know what? The atheists weren't lying... it didn't take much -- just reading scriptures themselves. Taught since birth, "The Bible has no errors or contradictions." But that book, &lt;strong&gt;the Bible Handbook&lt;/strong&gt; (Atheist book) challenged me to open my own Bible, and compare various scriptures. I challenge any Christian to do the same, but keep in mind, to pray for God to reveal the explanation to you. Remain faithful, because it may take years of study, before you are lead to a full understanding. Be my guest, but such Atheist literature is drawing straight from the Bible itself to deceive people and lead them from the church, and &lt;strong&gt;the body of the Anti-Christ is growing, because the Church has failed to teach the truth&lt;/strong&gt;. They fear to teach the truth. The adherents of Christianity have put their faith into too many Jimmy Swaggarts, Ted Haggards and Jim Bakkers, instead of relying totally on faith in Jesus Christ and calling out to God himself to teach them. Therefore, the Church has became weakened and has failed, with a great falling away from truth, that began, even many centuries ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I did just that... I was not afraid to confront a truth, and believed I was strong enough in faith to take on anything! I was mislead by the Church. I did not have the knowledge to read and understand scriptures. I would go as far as to say, the Church had convinced me that I was incapable of reading scriptures and understanding without a preacher interpreting for me, when that false doctrine itself (taught by wicked men who sought to have power over the masses) contradicts the teachings of Jesus and the prophets!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"It is written in the prophets, &lt;strong&gt;And they shall be all taught of God. &lt;/strong&gt;Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me."&lt;br /&gt;~ John 6:45&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest."&lt;br /&gt;~ Hebrews 8:10-11&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you."&lt;br /&gt;~ Luke 11:9&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I read the verses, and compared them from my own Bible and gained a knowledge I had never knew. I read until the sun rose, I was speechless. I resented my Atheist brother for showing me the truth, but... I remember that sick feeling, he was right and I speechless, thinking "I don't want to discuss."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I became an Atheist for about 2 minutes... then remembered an apparition me and a friend saw years before, knowing "okay, so something exists beyond, but what?!" now believing the Bible couldn't answer that question, I settled into becoming Deistic... not having any clue, "Where do I go next?" In 1993, I even wrote the Atheist publisher, Farrel Till (exposed to the "Skeptical Review," publication by my brother), and Mr. Till published the letter. (Round about the spring 1993 edition, &lt;em&gt;Letters to the Editors&lt;/em&gt; section). Mr. Till responded in kind, that he was tremendously disillusioned upon realizing the "damaged bag of goods" he too had been sold by religion.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Over that span of 2 years, I had the rug pulled from under me, twice. In 1991... faith in organized religion blown to shreds. And in 1993... faith in the Bible itself, blown to shreds.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I packed away the Bible for 7 years and mostly forgot about it. Seldom did the Bible enter into my mind, except with disdain and resentment for how the ancient book had been used by certain men in organized religion, in their agenda to control me, to bridle me with a ton of perpetual guilt, typical "God hates you" sermons about hell and brimstrone... fear, to control the faithful. And, as we all know, there's 1000's of religions, and they all hold the monopoly on the "one true truth".&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;In late 1999 - early 2000, I began feeling something tugging on my spirit to accept Christianity. I couldn't do that though, I thought, because, the Bible had errors and contradictions -- and long before, the Worldwide Church of God had already convinced me that Christianity itself was the "spawn of Satan," with its Christmas Trees (tree worship), and steeples sitting on the Christian Church (Egyptian obelisk)... Herbert Armstrong's teachings of Christianity itself being the "Babylon Mystery Religion". &lt;strong&gt;Therefore I could not be Christian.&lt;/strong&gt; I went through a miserable spiritual conflict.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But something kept tugging on my spirit, I had to believe... I just had to take a leap of faith, anyway... the force was convincing my mind, "you never gave Christianity a chance...." So, being fair and open-minded, I decided, I'd give it a try... despite what I knew of scripture being a "book of myths". I set out on a journey then, to explain the discrepancies in scripture and prove the Bible true to myself.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I did not have any proof, and every reason not to believe, but converted anyway on a blind leap of faith.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;After converting, I soon saw the ignorance and superstition in the people in Christianity... &lt;strong&gt;the preacher at the local church even warned me the dangers of asking too many questions&lt;/strong&gt;. Such as, "Where does the Bible come from?" Amazing... nobody knew! The first break I got was when my Atheist brother called me up out of the blue, and offered a "Children's School Primer," which explained the origins of the Bible, from its beginning on Papyrus to later day scribes hand-copying text, generation after generation.&lt;br /&gt;And when I asked a Sunday School teacher, "Have you ever actually read the Bible," and his answer was "NO" -- I asked him, "Well how then do you know its the Word of God?" I made people angry enough, that I was soon accused of Demon Possession.&lt;br /&gt;The good Lord saw to it that I moved away from that church to study science and Genesis and the actual scripture and praying to God to reveal THE TRUTH.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Needless to say, the same preacher who warned me how Christians hate knowledge, was soon fired because he introduced a slightly upbeat rhythm in music... to cater to a younger generation of Christians. Before he was fired, he had encouraged me to call Christian Book Distributors, and check out their selection of scholars texts and a full line of books read by those who are theologians and attend seminary (like Preachers).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I began a new path... the search for knowledge and truth.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Instead, what I got was caught up with somebody who _did_ know scripture very well... enough to answer EVERY QUESTION, and enough knowledge about scripture to deceive, distort and twist scripture to bring about serious doubts in my mind. I fell in with Atheists, who spend their time pouring over the Bible, tearing into it verse by verse (former fundamentalist Christians), tearing into it with a passion, but with one goal in mind: to disprove it. If only Christians had an ounce of the same fervent passion, surely God would be pleased! God loves the zealous heart and mind. If Christians would do so, there just might be some decent defense of the Bible for a change. It was answers (perhaps not the right ones)... but answers, all the same. It was more answers than I had gotten from the religious establishment. (You know, the same religious establishment that crucified Jesus?) No preachers in this day and age, dare openly discuss truth... and often being, the same truth they are taught in seminary! &lt;strong&gt;Shame on them&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;So that's how I got deceived a second time, and lead away from Jesus.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;In 2007, when my eyes were re-opened (I was compelled to begin purchasing books from Amazon on the history Communism, and combined with about 20 years of what I'd learned about history came pouring in) -- it was like waking up staring a devil in the face. I remember that feeling of uncertainty and horror. I knew that I might not have one single answer about the Bible (I was not any wiser than when I started out seeking to reconcile the scriptures) but I was certain with what I knew about Socialists (leftwing/liberals)... their war against people of faith under Communism, whatever side Atheists/Agnostics were on, I'm not on that side.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although, in my mind -- I do believe that some Atheists are sincere about their beliefs, (perhaps due to lack of knowledge about the whole spectrum of issues). For instance, they are not aware of what their brethren have committed in the name of the Atheist Apostle Karl Marx. In fact, oddly enough, the first mention of "Pol Pot" and "Mao" was offered up by an Atheist. He stated to me in correspondence, how often we'd heard of the wanton mayhem of Hitler's millions, but never hear of those death tolls under Communist tyrants. So, there are some Atheists who probably do genuinely believe they are following a path in life, paved with with good intent... especially, once they are made aware of the brutalities committed under the power of church and state, under the Popes of Old Europe... though completely unaware of Atheism's own bloody history: 100 Million slaughtered in the 20th Century (counting until 1989), for verification see "The Black Book of Communism" (Harvard University Press).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I re-embraced my faith, I could not prove anything to myself at that moment for truth of the Bible, but I was certain with all that I had seen and known: "I'm taking the Bible and Jesus Christ, on faith and let God do the rest."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I know full well why Atheists and Agnostics *hate* the church so much... and the church is very much to blame for that. The establishment with-holds information, they do not teach the full truth to adherents, that preachers and theologians claim the luxury for themselves to know. Therefore, people are slipping away from the faith. But the grass is not greener on the other side. Due to a little knowledge which, in the wrong hands can be a very dangerous thing. I was slowly deceived to join in with Anti-Theists. In 2007, I had awaken to find myself guilty of making hostile attacks on religion and, on many occasions. Just because a person believes in a God, does not make them a friend to Christianity by default.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, with all I have seen and learned, I say keep the "creation science" out of the classroom. If the religious establishment is failing to even correctly teach the Bible, then how much less is it capable of teaching "Science," an area totally un-related to Theology?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why does the church refuse to teach people the truth of the Scriptures and God? It took no time at all to understand, as one preacher explained the "miracle of the torn veil on the temple," symbolized that _any person_ could enter into the presence of God, without fear of being stricken dead, through grace in Jesus Christ. But people are looking to men like Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker, Ted Haggard, Jim Jones (actually he was an Atheist, a Marxist-Leninist, but whose counting?)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."&lt;br /&gt;~ Matthew 15:14&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Following men... not following Jesus, not asking for God to teach them as was promised by Jesus and the prophets. They follow men, and are therefore lead astray into darkness. Yet complain about what Scientists are teaching to children and Atheists who lead people astray? The greatest enemy that any Christian should fear, is within the church itself because the leaders of the religious establishment REFUSE to teach the truth. For posterity, I'll say it once again: it is the same religious establishment who crucified Jesus Christ who came to fulfil the law and teach none other, than the truth. For this, the religious establishment hated him (and without cause).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"It is written in the prophets, &lt;strong&gt;And they shall be all taught of God. &lt;/strong&gt;Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me."&lt;br /&gt;~ John 6:45&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest."&lt;br /&gt;~ Hebrews 8:10-11&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you."&lt;br /&gt;~ Luke 11:9&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those truths which Jesus and the Apostles taught, could be very threatening to certain men who seek power and domination over the masses in the establishment of organized religion, &lt;strong&gt;no middle men&lt;/strong&gt;, with Jesus as the only intermediator between a man/woman, and God.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-5981112138935338985?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/5981112138935338985/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/creationist-speaks-keep-creation.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/5981112138935338985'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/5981112138935338985'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/creationist-speaks-keep-creation.html' title='A Creationist Speaks : Keep Creation Science Out of the Classroom'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvJqoRFW37I/AAAAAAAAD28/FRjR-aLsys0/s72-c/ancient_man.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-2508749582381083145</id><published>2009-11-02T10:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-07T09:41:55.743-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='female choice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='genesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fundamentalist christianity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='evolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='darwin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><title type='text'>Of Apes and Man</title><content type='html'>What is known of apes (primates), females use sex as leverage, a weapon in the troop. It was probably so with ancient man; for instance one documentary which investigated a tribe of &lt;strong&gt;primitive people&lt;/strong&gt; (who would not have been infected with or from the wicked line of modern man; Adam), living disconnected from all western civilization -- their ritual and custom was, &lt;strong&gt;any woman who wanted&lt;/strong&gt; any man, he "gave it up," there was no complaint about how attractive a woman is, fat, age, etc. &lt;strong&gt;All the women dominated the men &lt;/strong&gt;in that primitive tribe. Charles Darwin discovered in nature, "Female Choice," tends to be the rule.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;...prostitution still continues to this day. A hangover from the ancient past.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The curse in Genesis was,&lt;blockquote&gt; "your desire... will be to your husband,"&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and no woman who's a street walker, and honest with herself can say that it does not HURT selling herself out to strangers, when she'd so much rather have a man who loves and protects her from the brutality of the world. Any woman who denies it, is a liar.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;She desires love of a husband... one man... monogamy. Animals don't seem bothered by it at all... but it is a conflict in nature, some species are monogamous, while others are polygamous...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The human male is driven by polygamy in his nature, while the woman is mongamous, and that conflict leads to immeasurable sorrow, misery, heartache ... it is hell for any woman forced to put up with adultery.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;** I would rather be dead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To save woman from that curse in Genesis, it was written in the Commandments of God, instructing the males, "Thou Shall Not Commit Adultery," following the law of murder, itself. For, speaking as a woman, it is the murder of a woman's heart, and mind, and soul, when her husband cheats.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As one psychological fact revealed recently, a man tends to base his self-esteem and self-worth on "what's out there," in society, while a woman tends to base her self-worth on what her husband's opinion is of her. It is a cruel fate, and curse on woman. Primitive people may not recognize this, but any woman who is a descendant of Adam (modern man) knows the conflict, in her soul, and it is the same had a knife been stuck through her back, when her husband commits adultery. It is the ultimate insult, it is a death sentence for a woman's heart; intimacy and the ability to trust a man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;**On second thought, nope, I'd rather HE be dead.&lt;br /&gt;KJV, Revelation 21:8&lt;br /&gt;"But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;KJV 1 Corinthians 6:9&lt;br /&gt;"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(And personally, I do have one husband who thought adultery was peachy-keen, and thought polygamy was perfectly acceptable (aye how &lt;strong&gt;Israel was destroyed in the O.T. because Solomon erected pagan temples to pagan gods, and had "many wives"&lt;/strong&gt;... just before the fall and demise of Israel), and my husband raped, and murdered... I happily assisted the FBI in their investigation, and saw to it that he will sit behind bars, hopefully until he is laying in his grave.&lt;br /&gt;A brother who thought it was fine to hand over his sister to his "friends," for a "fun time," then lie about it to cover up the crime. Just days before he went to his grave (an Atheist) he was foaming hatred of God from his mouth, and now, good-bye "brother." He passed away from suicide -- according to what I've read, he swallowed a lot of pain medication which probably allowed him to live just long enough to feel his heart explode... He couldn't deal with it, when the police confirmed it was &lt;em&gt;statutory rape&lt;/em&gt;, and he was indeed GUILTY, as an accessory. He killed himself... he felt no remorse. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Therefore I feel no remorse.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It takes thousands of years for somebody to say, what Solomon did (erecting pagan temples to pagan gods and taking "many wives") was an abomination... and because some wicked scribes praised Solomon's worldly wisdom, he was deemed, "Holy" and "Wise" in the Scriptures. He was a &lt;strong&gt;wretched&lt;/strong&gt;, evil man.&lt;br /&gt;Does any man have the ability to discern in the simplest things, or did God need to speak that Solomon's wisdom was entirely &lt;strong&gt;worldly wisdom&lt;/strong&gt;, and like east is to the west, lacking in &lt;strong&gt;spiritual wisdom&lt;/strong&gt;, and enmity to God, and disobedient to the Commandments?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Atheists look at the example of the wicked Solomon and his polygamy and reason, "It is acceptable to commit adultery with many women." As is the case with Atheists Hugh Hefner and Larry Flynt, who are responsible for bringing national morality to an all-time low in U.S. History. &lt;br /&gt;How the Atheists do look at apes and wild animals, saying "barn-yard animals are homosexual," and this or that species are polygamous, therefore, it's just great for humans too. Darwin said we came from apes, "therefore we can behave like them too."&lt;br /&gt;The males are having a big party free for all, while single mothers are stuck at home raising the unwanted children. Sometimes becoming so grieved that "You can't win for losing," they dump the children on the grand-parents and move on with their lives just desperately hoping to have a little fun... &lt;strong&gt;if any pleasure can be found&lt;/strong&gt;. There is no hope, unless MEN will keep the commandments of God.&lt;br /&gt;Women have cried out, that it's not intended to be this way (men committing adultery and divorce like its never been in the history of man), but Hollywood continues to churn out the lies to promote adultery and moving on to children younger and younger, corrupting them in their youth before they are even old enough to make a "consentual decision," ... surely these are the last days (perilous times).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This statement alone, sounds bells and whistles it's a forgery:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;** "as the law also says (Genesis 3:16)"&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See University of North Carolina, (Commentary on the) Oppression of Women in Early Christianity&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://people.uncw.edu/zervosg/Pr236/Ehrman23.htm" target="-blank"&gt;http://people.uncw.edu/zervosg/Pr236/Ehrman23.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There was no "law" that women must obey men. Rather, Jesus did strongly rebuke and condemn the males of the religious establishment, for alterations on the law of Moses that permitted for divorce, and notably, "it was not so since the beginning," further chastising them, that because of their customs, the law of God had became of no effect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvBwJeinoLI/AAAAAAAAD2k/_wIAaJu6KVI/s1600-h/jim_jones_peoples_temple.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:center; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px; height: 346px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvBwJeinoLI/AAAAAAAAD2k/_wIAaJu6KVI/s400/jim_jones_peoples_temple.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399939261336625330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The scribe wished to enslave woman, instead of freedom in salvation through Jesus Christ. The scribe forged, "Submit to a man, and learn under a man... mindless obedience to men"...? Here's one evangelist who summed things up so nicely, with much pain in his voice:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;"...it was a mass-murder, because men and women were following a man, and I am going to let every one of you that are here under this tent, you that are listening to this radio broadcast, My God don't follow a man, don't follow a church, if you're going to follow somebody, follow Jesus! Follow Jesus! Look unto Jesus who is the author and the finisher of your fate..."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvBwdhK1txI/AAAAAAAAD2s/rnIHmd3QKfA/s1600-h/jim_jones_peoples_temple2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:center; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 304px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvBwdhK1txI/AAAAAAAAD2s/rnIHmd3QKfA/s400/jim_jones_peoples_temple2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399939605639575314" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Women, do not look to a man to lead you, he will surely lead you into destruction with him! Look to Jesus! Look to Jesus!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvBw3OJ5aWI/AAAAAAAAD20/_8dVl7YN9Dc/s1600-h/jim_jones_peoples_temple3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:center; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 263px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvBw3OJ5aWI/AAAAAAAAD20/_8dVl7YN9Dc/s400/jim_jones_peoples_temple3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399940047211948386" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Communism of Jim Jones, August 1983&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lDMUtg9rdJE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lDMUtg9rdJE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One evangelical preacher (below) discusses the problem with Jim Jones, there were no bibles ... no place to pray... what else than Communism? Unfortunately, I have only part of that preacher's voice recorded to MP3 format (&lt;a href="http://music.edwardtbabinski.us/jim_jones.mp3" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;), and welcome others to download.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He said &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;'I was Jim Jones' attorney.' I said 'When did you find out that he was not the man of God that he was billed to be?' He said 'When I visited Jonestown, when I walked in his so-called church. He said there was no bible, there were no holy pictures, there was no cross. Nothing. And I looked him right in the eye and I said to him 'Why is it there's no bible, and there's no place to pray?' He said 'We don't need that anymore,' and he says 'I am no longer your attorney, and you no longer need me.' And he walked out of there when Representative Ryan flew in to Guyana, the first man he called was Sir Lionel Luckhoo, and asked him to fly with him to Jonestown, he said 'God will not let me go'. If he had have gone he wouldn've been massacred with Representative Ryan, are you listening to me? And I'm going to reveal something to you that possibly the public does not know - Sir Lionel Luckhoo told me that the coroner was a close personal friend of his, and he said that he examined every single one of the bodies, this was not a mass-suicide like the world was brainwashed into thinking, but when that coroner examined the bodies, there was a pinhole in ninety-seven percent of all the bodies, they were injected with a poiso*, it was a mass-murder, because men and women were following a man, and I am going to let every one of you that are here under this tent, you that are listening to this radio broadcast, My God don't follow a man, don't follow a church, if you're going to follow somebody, follow Jesus! Follow Jesus! Look unto Jesus who is the author and the finisher of your fate, the devil is out to destroy every child of God that he can find! Can you shout 'Amen' somebody?''&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-2508749582381083145?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/2508749582381083145/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/of-apes-and-man.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/2508749582381083145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/2508749582381083145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/of-apes-and-man.html' title='Of Apes and Man'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SvBwJeinoLI/AAAAAAAAD2k/_wIAaJu6KVI/s72-c/jim_jones_peoples_temple.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-746565266516151361</id><published>2009-10-31T08:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-31T13:16:05.070-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='female choice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='antichrist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='genesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fundamentalist christianity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='evolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><title type='text'>Spoken only to Woman</title><content type='html'>See University of North Carolina, Oppression of Women in Early Christianity&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://people.uncw.edu/zervosg/Pr236/Ehrman23.htm" target="_blank"&gt;http://people.uncw.edu/zervosg/Pr236/Ehrman23.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This statement alone, sounds bells and whistles it's a forgery:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"as the law also says (Genesis 3:16)"&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;By very virtue that any man was calling the CURSE in Genesis on woman, a "Law," proves he did not have any understanding of scripture.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Scholarship May have Found a Solution to this Problem . . .&lt;br /&gt;"As Ehrman (p. 346) states concerning "the harsh words of 1 Corinthians 14:34-35. Indeed, this passage is so similar to that of 1 Timothy 2:11-15, and so unlike what Paul says elsewhere, &lt;strong&gt;that many scholars are convinced that these too are words that Paul himself never wrote; rather they were later inserted into the letter of 1 Corinthians by a scribe&lt;/strong&gt; who wanted to make Paul's views conform to those of the Pastoral epistles."&lt;br /&gt;See University of North Carolina, Oppression of Women in Early Christianity&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://people.uncw.edu/zervosg/Pr236/Ehrman23.htm" target="_blank"&gt;http://people.uncw.edu/zervosg/Pr236/Ehrman23.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday, an unfortunate thing happened. Neighborhood boys came over (I've ran them off before), when boys get in packs they destroy everything in their path. I sent them all outside, and next thing I know... the pump nozzle was knocked clean off the side of the house. Water spraying everywhere like a geyser. I unplugged everything... and the landlord fixed it for me.... told me "Boys will be boys". The terror of the neighborhood. Statistics show there's no greater misery, no greater source for juvenile delinquency, than boys raised in homes with single mothers, because boys will do exactly as they please if there's not a man in the home who has a firm upperhand and control over wild behavior.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;As the good Lord said, "...he shall rule over you..." (as a CURSE) and it was done, laws of nature, re-written into stone (human nature)... about like the discovery of Hitler, that "a small mob of men can rule a city, through terror."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;As if we needed insult added to injury, salt poured on the wound... (it was ALREADY DONE), yet some men (who wanted to ENSLAVE women like cattle, because of men's evil nature to plot and scheme how they can steal even _more_ power for themselves, like the addicts to tyrannical domination that they are) takes it upon himself to FORGE lies in the name of Paul, and beating women down into the dust... man dominating his fellow man, in cruelty... of slavery, because of lack of integrity, bullying,  heaping on misery... that's the nature of the male... and God called it a CURSE that man would rule over woman.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;That devil who forged scripture in the name of Paul, was too ignorant to even realize t'was not "the law" but a &lt;strong&gt;CURSE&lt;/strong&gt;! There was no law or commandment, what was done was done! Written in stone. God did not need any help of a lying scribe and misogynistic woman-haters with their own "political agenda" to rewrite the commandments of God. Just as every time a man tills the ground, he will sweat, just as a snake will never walk again, and will continue to strike at the heel of humans... there was no commandment, "When you till the ground, you BETTER SWEAT." Just as there's no law that says "When you see a human you BETTER sink your fangs into his foot." It was rewritten into nature, what was done, was done, there was no need of some evil scheming slave-driver of women, to say "obey a man".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;... and their eyes were opened, and they saw they were naked ...&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EVIL WICKED TREACHEROUS MALES:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Hugh Hefner. “Women are here to serve men. Look at them, they got to&lt;br /&gt;...blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2009/.../womens-sexuality-20/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another censorship followup: Child ... “Women are here to serve men. Look at them, they got to squat to piss. ... -Hugh Hefner of Playboy on early feminists. ... I have some quotes from sources, and I really wish that the quote function still worked in the comments&lt;br /&gt;(what a ...~ amptoons com/.../another-censorship-followup-child-porn-and-rape-porn/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Women's Sexuality 2.0 at I Blame The Patriarchy –Hugh Hefner. “Women are here to serve men. ... I won't repeat that particular quote if it makes you uncomfortable, however. No probs. ...blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2009/02/.../comment-page-4/&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;... and their eyes were opened, and they saw they were naked ...&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WISE YET, LADIES??!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuxnLFjTjWI/AAAAAAAAD1o/FNIcioSlh5k/s1600-h/beethoven_mother.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 317px; height: 382px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuxnLFjTjWI/AAAAAAAAD1o/FNIcioSlh5k/s400/beethoven_mother.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398803493476863330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.madaboutbeethoven.com/pages/people_and_places/people_family/biog_maria.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Maria Magdalena van Beethoven&lt;/a&gt; (1746-87) Beethoven's mother.&lt;br /&gt;"It was clear to Maria from soon after her marriage that her husband would fail to fulfil his musical ambitions, and as he descended into alcoholism she resigned herself to an unhappy marriage. To a friend &lt;strong&gt;she described marriage as 'a chain of sorrows'.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WISE YET??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Commandments of God, and that males would obey those commandments, was the only hope for WOMAN to have any peace... any hope... and Jesus came rebuking men for their evil, sinful ways. Delivering women from men's abusive, adulterous ways.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SCRIPTURE IS ABSENT OF SUCH A "COMMANDMENT" TO OBEY WICKED, LUSTFUL, SELF-CENTERED, EGOTISTICAL MEN.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In fact, if God had intended women to "obey" man, God would've said so in Genesis. Rather, Genesis emphasized the cursed nature of the curse, "Your pain will be increased in birth, and your desire to this (disobedient clod), and he will rule over you." AND MAKE YOUR LIFE A LIVING HELLL... because he refuses to obey God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tormented at the soul...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By very virtue that any man was calling the CURSE in Genesis on woman, a "Law," proves he did not have any understanding of scripture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Do read the Commandments of God, and pray tell me, where any mention therein commands women must "obey" a man? It is absent of such a thing. However, God's Commandments FIERCELY rebukes men, for lusting after their neighbor's wife and maid servants, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Commandments do condemn adultery (following the commandment of murder!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jesus came teaching the law, and did not command women to obey men like cattle, but had women followers, and also, rebuked men for their adultery.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;It was a command, God made to Moses, to circumsize the most sensitive portion of the male private... to lessen pleasure in hopes of deterring adultery...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...no where does God, or Jesus, command women to obey men like mindless cattle. But in fact, all of human history, man has lead woman astray with his evil, wicked imagination to do continual violence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why no commandment? Because God had already re-written the laws of nature, where by nature, woman would be crushed under the heels of wicked men, and "be made wise" in the process. The Old Testament is filled with horror stories of men's wanton plunder and evil exploitation of women and children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who was that devil, who forged lies in the name of Paul and in the name of God?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God had already *cursed* woman-kind, as soon as that disobedient man in Genesis, who partook of "KNOWLEDGE OF EVIL"... life has been hell, for woman, children, and everything in the path of a man, since that day. He will rule over you, ladies... you will suffer at his wicked hands!! And there's nothing you can do about it. Unrestrained to his evil imagination. No hope... except that he obey the commandments of God.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;No greater misery, than a single mother raising children on her own. Boys statistically grow up and end up in prison, and there's no greater misery... because a woman can't control a boy's wild nature to do every evil thing that enters into his wild imagination.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Woman would spend eternity, LEARNING why, yes, "You will become as gods, and be made wise, ladies..." suffering the brunt, WHY when men disobey God, well, gals, you're gonna "feel it"... for the rest of human history. You're going to SUFFER... you're going to see it and pained at your soul when your husband REFUSES to obey the commandments of God and goes on his wayward, wicked, treacherous path... irregardless of who gets hurt. Even if the clod doesn't see it... you'll see it girls, and you'll be a 1000x wiser than the clod. Through much suffering, you will be made wise. He will rule over you, and make your life a living hell... because he refuses to obey the commandments of God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recognize this? Does it hit home, ladies...?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Verse 1 &lt;br /&gt;A lonely mother gazing out of the window &lt;br /&gt;Staring at a son that she just can't touch &lt;br /&gt;If at any time he's in a jam she'll be by his side &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;But he doesn't realize he hurts her so much&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But all the praying just ain't helping at all &lt;br /&gt;Cause he can't seem to keep his self out of trouble &lt;br /&gt;So he goes out and he makes his money the best way he knows how &lt;br /&gt;Another body laying cold in the gutter Listen to me &lt;br /&gt;Chorus &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't go chasing waterfalls &lt;br /&gt;Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to &lt;br /&gt;I know that you're gonna have it your way or nothing at all &lt;br /&gt;But I think you're moving too fast &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Verse 2 &lt;br /&gt;I seen a rainbow yesterday &lt;br /&gt;But too many storms have come &lt;br /&gt;Leaving a trace of not one God-given ray &lt;br /&gt;Is it because my life is ten shades of grey &lt;br /&gt;I pray all ten fade away &lt;br /&gt;Seldem praise Him for the sunny days &lt;br /&gt;And like His promise is true &lt;br /&gt;Only my faith can undo &lt;br /&gt;The many chances I blew &lt;br /&gt;To bring my life to a new &lt;br /&gt;Clear blue and unconditional skies &lt;br /&gt;Have dried the tears from my eyes &lt;br /&gt;No more lonely cries &lt;br /&gt;My only bleedin' hope is for the folk who can't cope &lt;br /&gt;With such an endurin' pain that it keeps 'em in the pouring rain &lt;br /&gt;Who's to blame for shootin'caine into you're own vein &lt;br /&gt;What a shame you shoot and aim for someone else's brain &lt;br /&gt;You claim the insane and name this day in time &lt;br /&gt;For fallin' prey to crime &lt;br /&gt;I say the system got you victim to your own mind &lt;br /&gt;Dreams are hopeless aspirations &lt;br /&gt;In hopes of comin' true &lt;br /&gt;Believe in yourself &lt;br /&gt;The rest is up to me and you &lt;br /&gt;Chorus&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spoken only to woman, not the man :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and &lt;strong&gt;ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil&lt;/strong&gt;. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and &lt;strong&gt;a tree to be desired to make one wise&lt;/strong&gt;, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;YEAH... I AM A 1000x WISER... every time I see statistics of prisons overflowing with a violent, brutal, cruel, evil male population, who wanted to kill, steal, covet, and do every imaginable wickedness under the sun, refusing to obey God... and burn down the law, I am made "wiser".&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;And as it is written, (the man gained the knowledge of EVIL), and man's imagination was to do continual wickedness. Women and children have suffered the brunt... and man just "doesn't get it". He RULES the world, and plunders, exploits, destroys everything in his path. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;As the lying, deceptive forgery has it written, "Holy hands," ... like hell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Genesis 6:5 "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But leave it to an arrogant blasphemer to exalt himself and his evil, lying, vile  hands above God as "holy" -- and besides such utter contempt for God, a thing even Jesus Christ dared not do. "Why do you call me good? None is good, save God alone." Above all, the entire motive was to make SLAVES of women. All of Jesus' efforts to liberate women from the beastly overbearing tyranny of the Hebrew customs, came to no effect, due to one evil forgery... and for the rest of Christian history, woman has suffered thanks to _one evil man_ who practiced deceit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wise yet, ladies?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Misery and suffering are all women and children have known, since. Save some of those little primitive tribes who were not infected by the wicked seed of Adam, still living, disconnected from "western civilization" and its barbarity -- the men protect their little tribes; still to this day are hunters and gatherers as they were 10,000's years ago, and provide for their women and children, and they love each other, like one big family. They have peace in their very simple (call it "ignorant" if you want to), but they have survived 10,000's of years... and left to modern man and his love of weapons of mass destruction... humans will be lucky if the monsters don't blow human life off the planet 10 times over (approximate destructive power of the current stockpile of nuclear warheads, etc). Constant imagination in men, to do continual wickedness; evil and violence. Those ancient people don't hurt anyone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A CHAIN OF SORROWS INDEED&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A chain of sorrows indeed. Especially for women who are truly feminine, and easily crushed under foot... passive and meek. A male in his wild brute overbearing nature will run you over and crush you under his heel!&lt;br /&gt;Feel free to pass along to your Atheist male ilk, and any theologians you please. &lt;br /&gt;They're all males, and on the turn of a dime, become wicked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just take a look at some of the atrocities taking place against women in Muslim nations (Where Polygamy is condoned), and compare that with what Atheist men did to about 2,000,000 women (anywhere between age 6 and 80) during the Red Army invasion into Western Europe... slaughtering, raping and plundering everywhere those men went. Millions of women and girls, raped and brutalized and left for dead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Everytime I ever allowed any man into my life, he destroyed my life and what little I had.‏&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blessing?!?!? Commandment???! Holy Hands?!?!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any woman foolish enough to trust a strange man is liable to get her throat cut open. Why has it taken 10,000 years to figure out this simple truth? That CURSE was not a "blessing" and least of all, a "commandment". But just the "nature of things" as they are, and sorrow, misery on woman... the only hope, is that men will obey God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There will be many male perverts standing before God, and told "Depart I know you not". &lt;em&gt;But Lord, we're males... woman is the "root of all evil," just look at our "holy hands"... why, we're even more holy than God himself because we have male genitalia.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What kind of mental illness is it at work in the wiring of the male brain?? I have never figured it out... but if I want any peace, if I want to protect my children from pedophiles, and what little I have, then I am forced to keep males : OUT!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And, according to scripture,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"...All men in Israel were commanded to assemble together for religious purposes three times a year [Exodus 23:14-17; Exodus 34:21-23; Deuteronomy 16:16,17]. Those occasion were the Passover with the feast of unleaven bread; the feast of weeks (or Pentecost); and the feast of booths (or the feast of tabernacles or the feast of ingatherings). Women and children were permitted to attend, but it was not mandatory that they attend."&lt;br /&gt;~ &lt;a href="http://westarkchurchofchrist.org/chadwell/approaches7.htm" target="_blank"&gt;westarkchurchofchrist.org/chadwell/approaches7.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I suppose if the Principal of a School calls for a mandatory gathering of disobedient, stiff-necked boys to "lay the law down on them" -- it's because of their "superior moral character" and "good behavior".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Holy Hands?!?!&lt;/strong&gt; What kind of mental illness is it at work?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Question why God commanded to put them to death? Because, the only thing wicked men seem to understand is "brute force". They're pig-headed, and stubborn and... "stiff necked" and &lt;strong&gt;need I borrow more adjectives from the mouth of God, and the Bible itself??!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, stubborn and stiff-necked.&lt;br /&gt;One of my worst living nightmares: Back in the 1990's, I was up late, like I am a lot of evenings -- early morning, and I began smelling a strong odor. A mellow and pleasant odor... I knew I'd smelled it somewhere before, but couldn't place it. It was pouring into the house. I returned to what I was doing, thinking... and about 10 minutes later, it dawned on me where I'd smelled it.&lt;br /&gt;Just a couple weeks before, I'd left the local store and the owner told me "That man was drunk..." -- he was a huge, bulking hulk of a man around 350 lbs., and in his early to mid 30's I'd guess. He left from there, and wrecked into two young boys (what do you know, typical unruly boys), turning doughnuts in the road, like fools, breaking the law.&lt;br /&gt;I mentioned to the cop, the owner at the store said the guy who got in the wreck with them, had been drinking. What do you know, but I looked into the car, and there he was sitting, soaked down in cologne trying to disguise the smell. That cologne was wreaking from the police car... and he heard every word I spoke to the police.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When I remembered where I'd smelled that odor,&lt;/strong&gt; I warned him, something like "If you try coming in this house, I'll blow your brains out, and take your **** with it." &lt;br /&gt;The odor of that cologne faded away... until I smelled nothing more.&lt;br /&gt;Violence, Evil, Wicked... Brute Force, is all the male understands.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword."&lt;br /&gt;~ bible.cc/matthew/26-52.htm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All they understand is brute force, so that's how God dealt with them in the Old Testament. "He who lives by the sword, shall die by the sword."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-746565266516151361?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/746565266516151361/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/10/spoken-only-to-woman.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/746565266516151361'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/746565266516151361'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/10/spoken-only-to-woman.html' title='Spoken only to Woman'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuxnLFjTjWI/AAAAAAAAD1o/FNIcioSlh5k/s72-c/beethoven_mother.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-7992768488862838307</id><published>2009-10-30T13:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-30T13:13:42.745-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='biology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paleobotany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='louis agassiz'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='evolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='agassiz'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='genesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='astronomy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='darwin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><title type='text'>Intelligent Design Advocates Will Be Disappointed By Literal Reading of Genesis</title><content type='html'>I've considered, and re-considered the very literal text of Epoch Three, Five and Six, and the conclusion is you have to read it for what it says in black and white. The majority of species described were "created" by the earth and waters... am I disappointed, not really. Enlightened, is more like it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;"...In opposition to the Darwinian theory of evolution, Agassiz held to 'epochs of creation'."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~ F&amp;W Encyclopedia, 1950, on Professor Louis Agassiz, rival and contemporary of Charles Darwin.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Based on a literal comparison between what Science teaches (to the detail), and Genesis 1 and 2, Scientists Louis Agassiz ("Epochs of Creation") and Charles Darwin ("Natural Selection"), were both correct. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even further, some of the prophets allude to a "New Heaven and Earth," and further improvisations on animal kinds in the Kingdom of God, with the lion redesigned to eat grass and lay down next to a lamb. The chronology in Genesis will not support "Intelligent Design Hypothesis" as some may want it to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Problem with Extinction&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God does not create animals "after their kind," until the time of whales. The Waters brought forth the animals, "after their kind," as in evolving over several 100 million years. That includes the KT Boundary, which wiped out so many species, and the mammals inherited the Earth.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The scripture is black and white,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;God commanded the Earth and Waters to "bring forth" and merely created the varieties the water brought forth (as in "every living creature" as in extant, still "living"), "After their kind," which implies what some have suggested for, "Fine-tuning hypothesis".&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;If you're an intelligent God, and use the ocean and waterways to create by... you want to separate the weak from the strong species.... you put the species through cataclysm, and what's left at the end of the day, the living... those are fine-tuned.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;That's what it says too. "Created every _living_ creature" along with Whales, after their kind = which serves as the most excellent hint for humans to figure out the time period must be around 45 mya  . . . and God creates "every living (extant) creature" after its kind.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The KT Boundary took out so many species. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The next major evolutions indeed, took place with Cattle and beasts of the earth, followed by man... in Epoch six, still God is allowing the earth to do the creating, after their kind, --then creates (fine tunes) them, after their kind.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;In scientific terms, "every living creature"... as in what's left extant, is called "Survival of the Fittest". 95% of all species that ever lived, have went extinct. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;An Intelligent Creator... but obviously, doesn't seem much into "Designing."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-7992768488862838307?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/7992768488862838307/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/10/intellgent-design-advocates-will-be.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/7992768488862838307'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/7992768488862838307'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/10/intellgent-design-advocates-will-be.html' title='Intelligent Design Advocates Will Be Disappointed By Literal Reading of Genesis'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-7335183689758831315</id><published>2009-10-29T11:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-29T12:32:21.448-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='biology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='botany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paleobotany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photosynthesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='genesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='plants before sunlight'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='darwin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='agassiz'/><title type='text'>They said it couldn't be done -- but here it is</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Sr2FeCRwZtI/AAAAAAAADpc/zDYhaViLDs8/s1600-h/evolution-genesis.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: center; HEIGHT: 53px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385607480458897106" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Sr2FeCRwZtI/AAAAAAAADpc/zDYhaViLDs8/s400/evolution-genesis.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: King James Hebrew-Greek KeyWord Study Bible, AMG Publishers 1991&lt;br /&gt;This is vital that everyone knows this. A major reason the church denies evolution/science.&lt;br /&gt;It states: &lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;"The various attempts to join together the biblical account of creation and evolution are not supportable by the various gap theories because the order of creation is in direct opposition to the views of modern science (e.g., the creation of trees before light.)"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See the next post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Foods and feeds - Google Books Result &lt;br /&gt;by Dilip K. Arora, K. G. Mukerji, Elmer H. Marth - 1991 - Science - 621 pages&lt;br /&gt;These structures are aptly designated as the "fruiting bodies," and such fungi are called the "fruiting fungi." In nature, as many as 2000 edible species ...&lt;br /&gt;books google com/books?isbn=082478491X...&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SulEWvAosBI/AAAAAAAAD1g/7WXieLOo6Ms/s1600-h/fruiting_fungi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 379px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SulEWvAosBI/AAAAAAAAD1g/7WXieLOo6Ms/s400/fruiting_fungi.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397920785747193874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; They are "fruiting fungi" with spores (seed) within itself... and they state,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"Moreover, they provide an alternative pathway for the production of food, without having recourse to sunlight and independent of the photosynthetic route."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the total absence of sunlight... a "fruit" bearing seed (spores) in itself... and is edible by humans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Prehistoric Mystery Organism Verified As Giant Fungus   &lt;br /&gt;Prototaxites has generated controversy for more than a century. Originally classified as a conifer, scientists later argued...&lt;br /&gt;~ sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070423080454.htm&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Suj4oUS3xUI/AAAAAAAAD1Q/RmjF0JU9FWk/s1600-h/Prototaxites_Dawson1888.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 139px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Suj4oUS3xUI/AAAAAAAAD1Q/RmjF0JU9FWk/s400/Prototaxites_Dawson1888.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397837524929856834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~ commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prototaxites_Dawson1888.PNG&lt;br /&gt;Hueber 2001, copied from Dawson (1888) "The Geological History of Plants". Appleton, New York, p290.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I said earlier, seed can even mean a man's reproductive ... well, seed can mean spores, too. I wanted to identify what exactly was meant by "Fruiting Fungi" for that gigantic 20 ft. &lt;em&gt;Prototaxites&lt;/em&gt;. This came up, see the extract from Google Books. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Foods and feeds - Google Books Result &lt;br /&gt;by Dilip K. Arora, K. G. Mukerji, Elmer H. Marth - 1991 - Science - 621 pages&lt;br /&gt;These structures are aptly designated as the "fruiting bodies," and such fungi are called the "fruiting fungi." In nature, as many as 2000 edible species ...&lt;br /&gt;books google com/books?isbn=082478491X...&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Has fruit with "seed" (spores) inside itself, and&lt;br /&gt;2. Can survive without sunlight (exactly as described in Genesis). Such organisms would have certainly existed during the Vendian/Precambrian.&lt;br /&gt;3. For a long time, scientists presumed or presume a giant "mystery fungi" was a tree, a conifer, to be precise... and some have now described it as one of the "Fruiting Fungi".&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-7335183689758831315?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/7335183689758831315/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/10/they-said-it-couldnt-be-done-but-here.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/7335183689758831315'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/7335183689758831315'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/10/they-said-it-couldnt-be-done-but-here.html' title='They said it couldn&apos;t be done -- but here it is'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Sr2FeCRwZtI/AAAAAAAADpc/zDYhaViLDs8/s72-c/evolution-genesis.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-868486930397668108</id><published>2009-10-28T11:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-29T01:05:53.697-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='biology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='botany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vendian'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paleobotany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photosynthesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='plants before sunlight'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='darwin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='agassiz'/><title type='text'>Darwinists Admit Serious Problem With Gap In Fossil Record</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;"...and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself..."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;As I said earlier, seed can even mean a man's reproductive ... well, seed can mean spores, too. I wanted to identify what exactly was meant by "Fruiting Fungi" for that gigantic 20 ft. &lt;em&gt;Prototaxites&lt;/em&gt;. This came up, see the extract from Google Books. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Foods and feeds - Google Books Result &lt;br /&gt;by Dilip K. Arora, K. G. Mukerji, Elmer H. Marth - 1991 - Science - 621 pages&lt;br /&gt;These structures are aptly designated as the "fruiting bodies," and such fungi are called the "fruiting fungi." In nature, as many as 2000 edible species ...&lt;br /&gt;books google com/books?isbn=082478491X...&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SulEWvAosBI/AAAAAAAAD1g/7WXieLOo6Ms/s1600-h/fruiting_fungi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 379px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SulEWvAosBI/AAAAAAAAD1g/7WXieLOo6Ms/s400/fruiting_fungi.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397920785747193874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;This (&lt;strong&gt;see above&lt;/strong&gt;) may be the answer I was hoping and praying for. These organisms, and organisms very similar, certainly existed during the Vendian.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My God... am I reading that book extract, correctly? They are "fruiting fungi" with spores (seed) within itself... and they state,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"Moreover, they provide an alternative pathway for the production of food, without having recourse to sunlight and independent of the photosynthetic route."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the total absence of sunlight... a "fruit" bearing seed (spores) in itself... and is edible by humans. Maybe I'm reading it incorrectly... I'm in complete shock. Or, maybe its exactly what Genesis Epoch Three, describes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"...At the end of the nineteenth century scientists began to think it was an alga, in fact a brown alga, and this opinion has been established and is now mentioned in nearly every book. Until an American paleobotanist, Francis Hueber, after 20 years of research published an elaborated paper (2001) in which he defended that Prototaxites was the fruiting body of an enormous fungus ... And now there is Marc-André Selosse from Paris, who proposes with good arguments that we might have to do with a huge lichen!"&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EARLIER&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's an excerpt I just extracted from one pdf on lichens and fungi I pulled off the web. It reminds me of how Anti_Theists do their Science and Bigotry toward people of Faith. They demand "evidence" for God... before believing, but God does not exist for their amusement, entertainment and performing "magic tricks".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SukNGXzIvOI/AAAAAAAAD1Y/mm8hLOr-Ukw/s1600-h/How-Darwinists-do-Science-and-God.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 319px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SukNGXzIvOI/AAAAAAAAD1Y/mm8hLOr-Ukw/s400/How-Darwinists-do-Science-and-God.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397860031499123938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Secondly, Paleontology just isn't done that way either. You don't start out saying, "If you haven't got the fossil for it... it never existed." If Science was done that way, Science would've made zero progress... just as Darwin predicted... and had faith, there was a progression of fossils, on back. Darwin was perplexed by the absence of fossils before the Cambrian, but did Darwin stop questioning, and say "The Precambrian fossils didn't exist, because they disappear from the fossil record around the time of the Cambrian." ? No, that's not how Science is done, nor is it how any one approaches God. Scientists go on looking for earlier fossils. With God, and Science, you must have faith it can be found.... then you seek, and you shall find.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not saying its always what they want or expect to find, but they'll find... just as below, the excerpt comes from scientists themselves, confessing, "it doesn't make any sense..." But, there's nothing saying it has to.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML&lt;br /&gt;Figure 2 (A) Prototaxites; transverse section showing the internal anatomy, which is entirely ... structures of a flowering plant. This fungus, which is ...&lt;br /&gt;paleobotany.bio.ku.edu/taylorPDFs%5C%5B2005%5D%20Taylor%20and%20Krings&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I will go on believing in God.. Just as I will go on believing strongly that organisms fitting the description in Epoch Three of Genesis, existed in the Vendian and Precambrian. (Not to mention, the very first organism described, "Tender" Grass sure describes Algae, grass, as a covering on land).&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Faith is a wonderful thing. Faith may be the stuff science is made of... that has lead to the greatest discoveries of things that were formerly unknown.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Prehistoric Mystery Organism Verified As Giant Fungus   &lt;br /&gt;Prototaxites has generated controversy for more than a century. Originally classified as a conifer, scientists later argued that it was instead a lichen, ...&lt;br /&gt;~ sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070423080454.htm&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Lichens... aye.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Suj4oUS3xUI/AAAAAAAAD1Q/RmjF0JU9FWk/s1600-h/Prototaxites_Dawson1888.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 139px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Suj4oUS3xUI/AAAAAAAAD1Q/RmjF0JU9FWk/s400/Prototaxites_Dawson1888.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397837524929856834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~ commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prototaxites_Dawson1888.PNG&lt;br /&gt;Hueber 2001, copied from Dawson (1888) "The Geological History of Plants". Appleton, New York, p290.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Earlier in the evening the thought occurred to me, when the Bible speaks of "seed," it can refer to anything, including the "seed of a man," which could also refer to "spores," for seed and also, the word "fruit" may not refer to "fruit" at all, like apples and oranges. It could even refer to a "nut" or another entirely different form of produce. (One example being, in English, a tomato may be called a vegetable, but technically its a fruit because it grows on a vine.) Could a pecan be considered a "fruit whose seed is within itself"? Fruit is what is produced, as in "Fruits of the Spirit". So, possibly.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Most important, all these organisms evolved from earlier organisms, "after their kind".&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Flowers on the ground and in the trees&lt;br /&gt;"The trees are in “full bloom” in this picture. &lt;strong&gt;Pecans are dicotymous. In laymans terms it means the male part of the flower is located seperately from the female part. Bees therefore play no part in pecan pollination but rather they are wind pollinated.&lt;/strong&gt; This may be the reason that the evolution of flowers on pecans had no need for attractive flowers. They do produce huge amounts of pollen though, on the tassels or catkins shown in an earlier photo."&lt;br /&gt;~ rouxpecans.com/blog/?p=202&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;As pointed out&lt;br /&gt;* Some "flowering" parts would be too small to fossilize. As with spores of Fungi, it wouldn't fossilize at all, due to the soft structure.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;HERE'S MORE, BUT I DON'T EXPECT ANY ANTI-THEIST DARWINISTS TO THROW ANY SUGGESTIONS IN... THE ONLY THING THEY USE SCIENCE FOR, IS MAKING A WAR ON GOD.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;At the end of the nineteenth century scientists began to think it was an alga, in fact a brown alga, and this opinion has been established and is now mentioned in nearly every book. &lt;br /&gt;Until an American paleobotanist, Francis Hueber, after 20 years of research published an elaborated paper (2001) in which he defended that Prototaxites was the fruiting body of an enormous fungus ...&lt;br /&gt;And now there is Marc-André Selosse from Paris, who proposes with good arguments that we might have to do with a huge lichen!&lt;br /&gt;Below the facts are put in order. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Scientists have identified the Godzilla of fungi, a giant, prehistoric fossil that has evaded classification for more than a century, U.S. researchers said on Monday. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A chemical analysis has shown that the 20-foot-tall (6-metre) organism with a tree-like trunk was a fungus that became extinct more than 350 million years ago, according to a study appearing in the May issue of the journal Geology. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Known as Prototaxites, the giant fungus originally was thought to be a conifer. Then some believed it was a lichen, or various types of algae. Some suspected it was a fungus. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A 20-foot-fungus doesn't make any sense. Neither does a 20-foot-tall algae make any sense, but here's the fossil," C. Kevin Boyce, a University of Chicago assistant professor of geophysical sciences, said in a statement. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Francis Hueber of the National Museum of Natural History first suggested the fungus possibility based on an analysis of the fossil's internal structure, but had no conclusive proof. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Boyce and colleagues filled in the blanks, comparing the types of carbon found in the giant fossil with plants that lived about the same time, about 400 million years ago. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If Prototaxites were a plant, its carbon structures would resemble similar plants. Instead, Boyce found a much greater diversity in carbon content than would have been expected of a plant. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fungi, which include yeast, mold and mushrooms, represent their own kingdom, neither plant nor animal. Once classified as plants, they are now considered a closer cousin to animals but they absorb rather than eat their food. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Samples of the giant fungi have been found all over the world from 420 million to 350 million years ago during a period in which millipedes, bugs and worms were among the first creatures to make their home on dry land. No animals with a backbone had left the oceans yet. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The tallest trees stood no more than a couple of feet (a meter) high, offering little competition for the towering fungi. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plant-eating dinosaurs had not yet evolved to trample Prototaxites' to the ground. "It's hard to imagine these things surviving in the modern world," Boyce said. &lt;br /&gt;~ news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070423/sc_nm/fossil_fungus_dc&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some more interesting information on the evolution of plants: This is funny. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SujZyQuU6jI/AAAAAAAAD1A/gA06nAEAwqg/s1600-h/ediacaran_fossil.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px; height: 350px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SujZyQuU6jI/AAAAAAAAD1A/gA06nAEAwqg/s400/ediacaran_fossil.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397803610909502002" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the Ediacaran Fossils (above) compared to the modern onion plant (below). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SujaISZPglI/AAAAAAAAD1I/AYpDWzR0tGc/s1600-h/onion.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SujaISZPglI/AAAAAAAAD1I/AYpDWzR0tGc/s400/onion.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397803989315060306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pic from &lt;a href="http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/senior/vegetabl/onion2.htm"&gt;http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/senior/vegetabl/onion2.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Needless to rehash, the earth brought forth the herb, "after its kind."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;A couple more facts to consider. Some flowering forms, have a flower too small to fossilize. So it is indeed very difficult to know much about earliest plant forms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Article: First Orchid Fossil Puts Showy Blooms At Some 80 Million ...  The &lt;strong&gt;fossil record lacks evidence of orchids&lt;/strong&gt;, Ramirez says, because they bloom ... along with the highly specialized flowers' need for a well-developed array ... That is...&lt;strong&gt;some species were too small to leave a fossil record&lt;/strong&gt; or died in ...&lt;br /&gt;~accessmylibrary.com/.../summary_0286-32782149_ITM&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;DARWIN: SCIENCE OR PHILOSOPHY? Chapter 9  Jul 14, 2002 ... &lt;strong&gt;Large-bodied organisms are more likely to fossilize than small ones&lt;/strong&gt;. .... or because they were too rare or local in distribution. ...&lt;br /&gt;~leaderu.com/orgs/fte/darwinism/chapter9.html&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Asking about life - Google Books Result  by Allan J. Tobin, Jennie Dusheck - 2005 - Science - 960 pages&lt;br /&gt;For example, &lt;strong&gt;most insects are too small and delicate to be preserved&lt;/strong&gt;, ... ichthyosaur fossil, ER Degginger/Bruce Coleman, Inc.; fossil flower, ...&lt;br /&gt;books.google.com/books?isbn=053440653X...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;[DOC] Geology Activities: Rocks  File Format: Microsoft Word - View as HTML&lt;br /&gt;Since then, the fossil record of jellyfish is quite sparse, .... In fact, most paleontologists believe that its brain was too small to ... &lt;strong&gt;More than 100 years ago, Charles Darwin called the origin of flowers an "abominable mystery". &lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;gk12.utmsi.utexas.edu/pdf/geo_ori.doc&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;** What's the chance they got the fossil of any plant, through all of its life stages? However, the most important thing that Anti-Theist Darwinists would prefer to overlook is this, despite there being a 3.5 billion year gap in the fossil record which perplexed even Darwin, the Genesis account tells there was an introduction of the sun *after* plants had already been introduced on land, and for that very cause, its safe to assume a vast majority of species probably went EXTINCT, adapted to living in a dark, damp, sunless world and were forced to re-evolve. Already, below they confess that land-plants made a comeback as little as 470 million years ago!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Excuse me, but if CHARLES DARWIN himself had a hard time swallowing that 3.5 billion year gap in the fossil record, then I have no apology for doing it myself. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;** Below, they confess land plants have been around for 470 Million years. This is not counting their soft-bodied ancestors from whom they evolved!! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;** Anti-Theists presume, because they haven't found the fossils, they didn't exist, but nothing could be farther from the truth. At least wisegeek is honest and admits "...or longer..." because perhaps they're not in denial like some Anti-Theists are, that land plants had earlier origins... and those origins are shrouded in mystery among the Vendian and Precambrian.. soft-bodied and left few to no fossils.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;You might think that flowering plants (angiosperms) have been around forever, but they haven't. &lt;strong&gt;Though land plants have been around for 470 million years or longer&lt;/strong&gt;, the earliest evidence of flowering plants, in the form of the fossil Archaefructus liaoningensis, dates to just 125 million years ago, in the early Cretaceous period. This means that flowering plants have only existed for about a quarter of the time of land plants in general. Fossil evidence of pollen, considering indicative of flowering plants, is a bit older, dated to about 130 million years ago. &lt;br /&gt;The evolution of flowering plants was a long time in coming, but today, they are the most successful group of land plants, found on every continent but Antarctica, and on remote islands thousands of miles from the mainland. The abrupt appearance and success of flowering plants was so extreme that Charles Darwin called it an "abominable mystery." However, since Darwin's time, more fossils have been found that reveal a series of intermediate steps before full-fledged flowers.&lt;br /&gt;The evolution of plants is generally one where groups that exploit fundamental evolutionary innovations, such as vascular tissue, bark, seeds, or flowers, have the tendency to almost completely replace more primitive plants when they really get going. Furthermore, these evolutionary innovations tend to emerge in the most complex plants at the time. Accordingly, flowering plants evolved from the most sophisticated seed plants, which themselves had replaced most seedless plants about 370 million years ago, during the late Devonian.&lt;br /&gt;Flowers are a very successful evolutionary innovation because they permit a more complex range of interactions with other organisms, opening up various symbiotic partnerships, especially with pollinating insects such as bees. The constant exchange of pollen between plants, facilitated by bees, helps flowering plants to stay genetically diverse and resistant to disease or other hardship. &lt;br /&gt;Flowering plants diversified into the two main groups, monocots and dicots, just 5-10 million years after they initially evolved. By the end of the Cretaceous, 65.5 million years ago, half of today's main groups of flowering plants had evolved, and they accounted for 70% of global plant species. The success of flowering plants around this time had caused scientists to speculate the the dinosaurs may have gone extinct by eating flowers. This was before scientists came to agree that the dinosaurs went extinct from an asteroid impact.&lt;br /&gt;~ wisegeek.com/when-did-flowering-plants-evolve.htm&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Vendian Period was filled with ancestors to the modern plants... little is known about them. The fossil record yields so little fossil material, because even modern plants don't fossilize well (that's your foremost problem), but secondly, its putting the cart before the horse to deny evolution itself, saying (plant) Algae arrived on the scene, 3.5 billion years... went nowhere, miraculously jumps to creating animals, and then "modern plants" evolved after the animals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's absurd.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are the Darwinists there, denying reasonable evolution, or did you erroneously believe the only purpose science exists for, is for you to twist it to suit your own agenda to make war on God and deny Genesis?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dealing with soft-body vendian organisms... an extinct ecosystem which has yielded nearly no fossils... no insight into those organisms that went extinct (scientists themselves can't tell what for certain they were), but the few fossils that remain, resemble plants... the ancestors of plants, long before animals came on the scene.. the closest explanation to date, was that modern lichens will leave fossils similar to those found in the Vendian, (which also are notorious for "shutting down" for long periods of time, a strange reaction to water and light and can live 4000+ years), &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.5 billion years of a gap (even with Precambrian Fossil Fuel telling another story)... is just too much for any reasonable person to swallow. Besides this, plants had a head-start on evolution, _long_ before animals, and to this day, algae, fungi, bacteria, plants... fill _every_ conceivable niche in the earth, where animals do not and can not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The absence of fossils, does not mean the organisms did not exist. But wait, that's how Anti-Theists deduced that God doesn't exist. For Posterity, an Anti-Theist once told me, "Common Sense has nothing to do with Science."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me throw this in as a fore-note, before its overlooked as one of the important subjects to consider in what Epoch Three of Genesis is referring to (and Anti-Theists will go out of their way, to omit or avoid) :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;How do spores and seeds differ? | Answerbag.com&lt;br /&gt;May 12, 2006 ... How do spores and seeds differ? Basically, spores are produced by non-flowering plants, while seeds are produced by flowering plants.&lt;br /&gt;~ answerbag.com/q_view/55633&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seeds versus Spores: Evolutionary Strategies for Plant ...&lt;br /&gt;Fungi, mosses, lichens, and ferns are among the plants that produce spores rather than seeds as their vehicles of reproduction.&lt;br /&gt;botany.suite101.com/article.cfm/seeds_versus_spores&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WikiAnswers - What is the difference between a spore and a seed  Earth Sciences question: What is the difference between a spore and a seed? They are both asexual means of reproduction. The key difference is that seeds ...&lt;br /&gt;wiki.answers.com/.../What_is_the_difference_between_a_spore_and_a_seed&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Genesis doesn't differentiate between spores and seeds.. now does it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ancestors to the modern plants...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Where was the mention of flowers in Genesis. Seems the "scientifically illiterate" Hebrew, who stole his creation story from "Babylonian Mythology" would've thought to throw flowers in there.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Mistletoe Management Guidelines--UC IPM   &lt;br /&gt;Jan 17, 2008 ... After the mistletoe seed germinates, it grows through the bark and into the tree's water-conducting tissues, where rootlike structures ...&lt;br /&gt;~ ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7437.html &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;HERE'S ANOTHER JUST ANOTHER SOFT ORGANISM (PLANT ANCESTOR) THAT THRIVES IN THE DARK... REPRODUCES WITH SPORES:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"...Another mushroom oddity is the fact that this plant actually thrives in the dark, unlike almost every other plant..."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Fungus... Algae, etc were first on Earth.. Yes? Hello? ANY DARWINISTS OUT THERE LISTENING... or are you ignoring science?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;NOTE TOO: &lt;strong&gt;THE BIBLE REFERS TO MALE REPRODUCTION FLUIDS AS "SEED" TOO&lt;/strong&gt;. GEEPERS.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Mushrooms are listed as a vegetable, but are actually a fungus. This essentially means that it is an edible "plant" without roots, flowers, seeds or leaves. Another mushroom oddity is the fact that this plant actually thrives in the dark, unlike almost every other plant. There are approximately 38,000 different mushroom varieties, and of course not all are edible. In fact some are poisonous, and so I recommend you only eat mushrooms that came from sources you have the utmost confidence in. Many of these mushroom varieties grow in the wild, but most of the mushrooms you find at the market are now grown in "controlled" environments. This controlled growing method produces literally billions of tiny spores, which has increased production of the most common mushrooms like the white button mushroom.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Mushrooms distribute spores in different ways. Some have gills under the caps that release spores. Others have pores under the caps. Still others, like the puffballs, eject clouds of spores when they break open. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Identifying mushrooms requires a basic understanding of their macroscopic structure. Most are Basidiomycetes and gilled. Their spores, called basidiospores, are produced on the gills and fall in a fine rain of powder from under the caps as a result. At the microscopic level the basidiospores are shot off of basidia and then fall between the gills in the dead air space. As a result, for most mushrooms, if the cap is cut off and placed gill-side-down overnight, a powdery impression reflecting the shape of the gills (or pores, or spines, etc.) is formed (when the fruitbody is sporulating). The color of the powdery print, called a spore print, is used to help classify mushrooms and can help to identify them.&lt;br /&gt;~ lycos.com/info/mushrooms--spores.html&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuiP0K1PbrI/AAAAAAAAD0Y/RI_pgWQSLxQ/s1600-h/mistletoe.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuiP0K1PbrI/AAAAAAAAD0Y/RI_pgWQSLxQ/s400/mistletoe.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397722279827173042" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can start by simply doing a little reading. Aside of fragile bone structure in birds, snakes, even whale limbs (partially composed of cartilage), some things just don't fossilize well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;2007 September It's the 21st Century, Stupid!&lt;br /&gt;Plants don't fossilize well. As you can imagine, flowers even less so. So how can the existence of a flower from millions of years ago be proven? ...&lt;br /&gt;http://itsthe21stcenturystupid.wordpress.com/2007/09/page/2/&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But what's interesting ... *chuckle* ... Genesis Epoch Three doesn't mention flowering plants at all. How odd, it tends to agree with science/paleontology, in this regard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;HOW VERY ODD FOR "MERE MYTHOLOGY". Genesis is completely absent of mention of flowers. It mentions the herb... but no flowering plants.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flowers, Angiosperms, are recent introduction into the fossil record.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Angiosperms&lt;br /&gt;Flowers, which are the reproductive structures of an angiosperm and consist of four whorls of modified leaves (from outside in): ...&lt;br /&gt;biology.clc.uc.edu/courses/bio106/angio.htm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do pay close attention to the literal text in Genesis Epoch Three, and its lack of mentioning a flower.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, it does mention "tender" grass... which correlates with algae. Ah, where are the fossil traces of algae?? What, 3.5 billion years and all Paleontology is left with is a side effect of algae? formation on rock... testifying that the algae was there, but not the actual algae. And why? Because, plants don't fossilize well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Science knows this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Environments and fossilization&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Without further explanation one might get the idea that fossils will occur wherever sedimentary rocks have been formed. This is clearly not the case. Relative to the abundance of sedimentary rocks on Earth, those that contain plant fossils are very rare indeed. This implies that plant fossils are formed under very special environmental conditions. It is not sufficient to have a body of water, a source of inorganic sediments, and plant or animal remains to make a fossil. We all know that when an organism dies under normal conditions in nature, that organism decays. This happens because of the activity of bacteria and fungi, especially those that are aerobic."&lt;br /&gt;~ Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants (Second Edition), Wilson N. Stewart and Gar W. Rothwell&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or try this on for size,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;While many of scientists have commented about the "missing links" in the fossil record, H.S. Ladd of UCLA observes, "Most paleontologists today give little thought to fossiliferous rocks older than the Cambrian, thus ignoring the most important missing link of all. Indeed the missing Pre-Cambrian record cannot properly be described as a link for it is in reality, about nine-tenths of the chain of life: the first nine-tenths." (Geological Society of America Memoir, vol. II, 1967, p.7.)&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And regarding that 9/10th of the missing links in the fossil record,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;[PDF] Paleo-piracy endangers Vendian (Ediacaran) fossils in the White ...  File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML&lt;br /&gt;Vendian organisms outside Russia. Impressions of Vendian metazoans in the rocks are very rare. ..... Localities of the Vendian soft-bodied fauna of ...&lt;br /&gt;paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/...03/CG2009_BOOK_03_Chapter09.pdf&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For paleontology to fully understand that epoch in Earth's geological history, it's a huge blank, a mystery, science isn't even sure what those organisms were that they _do_ have fossils for. But one thing is certain, they have admitted algae existed and the literal text in Genesis states, "tender" grass (grass is for a covering), emerged. Then considering those "unidentified organisms," of the Vendian, theorized to have all been soft-bodied... how odd... no defenses from the sun? Evolution sure felt the need to protect itself just a few million years later, forming shells, and harder structures, hard enough to fossilize!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But they have confessed reluctantly, algae and bacteria (along the line of PLANTS) existed for as long as 3.5 billion years! This still is not addressing the scant fossils they have of the period, which look like ... PLANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course Atheistic Darwinists won't dare touch the subject, knowing that all the facts add up to some legitimate reason to doubt, aside of the fact that we're not speaking of evolutionary changes since the time of the Cretaceous... but a whopping 3.5 billion years of an empty fossil record! Lots of changes can occur in THREE AND A HALF BILLION YEARS... but how quickly, "Evolution," gets tossed out the window by any Darwinist... when its there to rationalize common sense. At all costs, Anti-Theist Darwinists only twist science, to plant doubts in any mind... when Genesis 1 speaks of trees, the Anti-Theist wants images of MODERN, DAY tall skyscraper sized trees to pop into mind, hard-wood varieties... and the harder, the better, giant, huge, hard trees. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But this is simply not how evolution works, now is it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Evolution starts out small... and, since the first things on earth (admitted by science itself), algae and earliest bacteria forms, is super-small and microscopic, we can thus discount any crazy notion that huge Sycamores "popped" up on Earth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rather, take a look at the more plausible variety of early life on Earth, and its still with us, to this day. The debates are on the web, fungus or plant... plant or fungus? Just when does the line blur between what's plant and what's fungus. Science use to be more simplified, classing everything as either plant or animal, but with the passing of time, scientists have reclassified organisms into more narrow classifications.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's the problem, Science teaches life began with *one* original cell, and branched outward.. isn't that right, Charles Darwin. So, since we know Algae was some of the first, then the next evolutionary development on the list, are going to be PLANTS, not animals, but PLANTS!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Fungi provide potential for combating dwarf mistletoe - Canadian ...  Mar 7, 2007 ... Not to be confused with Christmas mistletoe, dwarf mistletoe is a parasitic plant that causes swelling of tree stems and irregular branching ...&lt;br /&gt;cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/news/107&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plp407 Lecture 14 -:- Virtual online flashcards - Share and study ...  List 5 ways that dwarf mistletoe is different from true mistletoe: Dwarf is non-photosynthetic; lacks true leaves; is host specific; usually on conifers; ...&lt;br /&gt;cueflash.com/Decks/PLP407_Lecture_14&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The World of Northern Evergreens - Google Books Result  by E. C. Pielou - 1988 - Travel - 200 pages&lt;br /&gt;Both diseases are caused by fungi, two different fungus species on the two sets of hosts. ... DWARF MISTLETOE Fungi are not the only parasites on conifers. ...&lt;br /&gt;books.google.com/books?isbn=0801494249...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Study function of endophytic fungus in parasitism process of ...   - 10:40am&lt;br /&gt;CONCLUSION: Endophytic fungus of mistletoe can secrete cellulase and assist the haustorium of mistletoe to breakthrough the cell walls as well as ...&lt;br /&gt;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18831195&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello.... how quickly Darwinists forget, things like fungi, bacteria, and soforth... Evolve.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therefore, life on the planet as it were 3.5 billion years ago, through the mysterious, dark era of the Vendian... are not what they appear to be, today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look at that mistletoe, complete with berries... branches... leaves... and if you've ever handled a mistletoe plant, you'll see just how soft and flexible it is. That's not to forget its non-photosynthetic characteristic. These organisms required very little light, to grow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But how tall does a tree need to be, to qualify as a "tree". Height evolved too. Did it not? Beginning with a single cell (tiny, finite, small..) and billions of years later, the planet produced the giant dinosaurs. The size of those creatures didn't come about overnight, as some Anti-Theists would like to suppose, but occurred in transitions... over time, slowly evolving. So Charles Darwin would've taught.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The same applies to the evolution of trees.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RECAPPING&lt;br /&gt;#1. Vendian Organisms were soft-bodied, leaving rare, and usually no fossils.&lt;br /&gt;#2. Even modern varities of plants, adapted to standing up to the heat of the sun, still don't fossilize well. Only in rare exceptions will modern plants leave a fossil!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But lastly, How tall does a berry-bearing tree need to be, to qualify as a tree?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuiWUtec64I/AAAAAAAAD0o/DKo3D6cua-I/s1600-h/blueberry-tree-02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 130px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuiWUtec64I/AAAAAAAAD0o/DKo3D6cua-I/s400/blueberry-tree-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397729435952409474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuiWUV1sS5I/AAAAAAAAD0g/QVl7IhYu9z8/s1600-h/blueberry-tree-01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuiWUV1sS5I/AAAAAAAAD0g/QVl7IhYu9z8/s400/blueberry-tree-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397729429607435154" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No further comment necessary, in that regard. Point established.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, subtract about 500 Million years of Darwinian Evolution... and return to the grandfather of berry-bearing trees, and their soft-bodied original form and you get an insight into what life looked like, in the Vendian. Only, much, much smaller scale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The blueberry tree by itself, is a really bad example to go on, by itself, like everything else, it has evolved!! Life was very different, 3.5 billion years, when the first tender "grass" (algae) and on through the geological ages of plant-life evolving. Even to this day, there are examples of Protozoans -- are they plants, or are they animals?? This gives insight into what the planet was covered in, during Epoch Three, of Genesis, and the Vendian period, back to 3.5 billion years ago, when the first Algae (proven, indisputable) made its appearance on earth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Google : cyanobacteria algae&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Google : cyanobacteria algae plants&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Cyanobacterial metabolites with bioactivity against photosynthesis ...  Kulik MM (1995) The potential for using cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) and algae in the biological control of plant pathogenic bacteria and fungi. Eur. ...&lt;br /&gt;~ springerlink.com/index/N0216U2343354457.&lt;br /&gt;PHOTOSYNTHETIC CYTOCHROMES c IN CYANOBACTERIA, ALGAE, AND PLANTS.  The cytochromes that function in photosynthesis in cyanobacteria, algae, and higher plants have, like the other photosynthetic catalysts, been largely ...&lt;br /&gt;~ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Atheistic Darwinists, who have an agenda to make war on God and people of faith, will stretch and skew science however they will, to make certain every hope is smashed to a pulp, and the laws of God, done away with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But... it won't happen. They over-estimated themselves... the Lord Jesus Christ, will return as has been promised, and I shouldn't waste time repeating it, but researchers already discovered bacteria photosynthesizing around deep sea hydrothermal vents in the Pacific, therefore, Genesis is entirely possible based on the evidence, for the existence of plants and... that includes (soft-structure) TREES, to survive in the total absence of sunlight. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How quickly Anti-Theists skew science, ommitting crucial pieces of information required to get the full spectrum of how biology and botany work, as a reminder, Protozoans, related to plants... an insight into the Vendian, when Photosynthesis was confined to hydrothermal vents, and the sun had not began its nuclear fusion... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Methods of Deriving Nutrition and Reproduction&lt;br /&gt;Protozoa obtain their food supply through three methods:&lt;br /&gt;1. Holophytic protozoa obtain nutrients through photosynthesis.&lt;br /&gt;2. Holozoic protozoa depend on plants and animals for food.&lt;br /&gt;3. Saprophytic protozoa asorb organic matter through the cell wall.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the Earth certainly sustained plant-life, in abundance. Aside of the admission that&lt;br /&gt;#1. The atmosphere was loaded with heavy carbon dixoide levels, ideal for the proliferation of plant life, and,&lt;br /&gt;#2. The amount of fossil fuel in the Earth, has helped geologists to realize, "life" had existed (in a much greater abundance) than previously assumed... but the fossil record itself, is absent due to SOFT BODY... PLANT life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuigS1HrBrI/AAAAAAAAD0w/uk-iXbs2pj4/s1600-h/precambrian.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuigS1HrBrI/AAAAAAAAD0w/uk-iXbs2pj4/s400/precambrian.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397740398760887986" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Discovery Channel, Atlas of the Prehistoric World, &amp;copy;1999&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Never mind that&lt;br /&gt;1. The atmosphere was loaded with Carbon Dioxide, ideal for plants to proliferate.&lt;br /&gt;2. The soft-bodied plans, theorized by scientists that would leave few to no fossils.&lt;br /&gt;3. Never mind that almost all fossils of the Vendian have zero stomachs or mouths, and resemble some kind of forerunner of modern plant-life.&lt;br /&gt;4. Never mind that science itself has already admitted that algae has been around for a whopping 3.5 billion years, and algae is closer related to plants, than animals...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Never mind all the obvious road-signs, pointing to PLANT ANCESTORS...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anti-Theists can't admit the obvious, because *pain.. pain* it might lend credence to the account in Genesis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuigTN-zZHI/AAAAAAAAD04/rPTdg0PZzpw/s1600-h/precambrian2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 326px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuigTN-zZHI/AAAAAAAAD04/rPTdg0PZzpw/s400/precambrian2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397740405434573938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Discovery Channel, Atlas of the Prehistoric World, &amp;copy;1999&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If it quacks like a duck, waddles like a duck, dips into ponds like ducks, doesn't have intestines or mouths like animals, and has a structure just like a modern plant leaf, it's probably a PLANT ANCESTOR.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gee whiz. But as one anti-theist and self-proclaimed Darwinist told me once, "Common sense has nothing to do with science."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-868486930397668108?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/868486930397668108/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/10/darwinists-admit-serious-problem-with.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/868486930397668108'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/868486930397668108'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/10/darwinists-admit-serious-problem-with.html' title='Darwinists Admit Serious Problem With Gap In Fossil Record'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SulEWvAosBI/AAAAAAAAD1g/7WXieLOo6Ms/s72-c/fruiting_fungi.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-3895959577691178185</id><published>2009-10-26T16:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-26T17:56:17.766-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='biology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='louis agassiz'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='genesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='evolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hypothesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='darwin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><title type='text'>When Atheists Go to Desperate Extremes to Deny.. Science</title><content type='html'>* To protect the identity of the very uneducated person who made this error, I will replace instances of his name, with "Fred".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See attached image, devonian_fossil_001.jpg.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuY29Drt2mI/AAAAAAAADzo/B7njoLrvxQ0/s1600-h/devonian_fossil_001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 188px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuY29Drt2mI/AAAAAAAADzo/B7njoLrvxQ0/s400/devonian_fossil_001.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397061626038704738" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Typical Devonian Period Environment&lt;/strong&gt;, 480-360 Million Years Ago&lt;br /&gt;Source: &lt;em&gt;Discovery Channel, Atlas of the Prehistoric World&lt;/em&gt;, &amp;copy;1999 ISBN#1563318296&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I thought science taught that men have superior brains, and can do spatial tasks better, and "visualize" in 3 Dimension, or as the evil Alfred Rosenberg who was blaspheming God and Jesus Christ to high heaven once said, that men are born inherently with the inborn skill for "conceptualization" while women are ... inferior... lacking in intellect... weaker minds. I suppose if you trap any human in a cage, refuse them an education, consign them to servitude... forbid them to develop their potential, including a barrage of insults "in the name of God," they'll turn out ignorant sooner or later.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, I argued... and argued.... and argued with *Fred,* since he wanted to take Genesis out of context and superimpose "birds" on the word for "Fowl" coming from the water, which actually means "insects" (I sent him the &lt;a href="http://www.tektonics.org/af/buglegs.html" target="_blank"&gt;Tektonics link, on the usage of the word fowl = insects&lt;/a&gt;) but he ignored this, and continued to claim (despite being corrected 1000x times)... I mean, if you're Atheist, who needs to stick with facts or truth? afterall, there's no such thing as sin... and morals go right out the window.. no ethics, no standards, no honesty necessary. Atheism has saved them from that awful obligation called "intellectual honesty")... that Genesis is speaking of "birds" when it speaks of "fowl". . .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;. . . but hey, after considering it, it was an interesting argument from at least a scientific p.o.v., (an argument that Darwin himself would appreciate). It doesn't do much for the Young Earth Creationist argument about Creation... but it does wonders for Evolution theory. Ha ha ha... yes, Fred, a self-proclaimed Agnostic and Darwinist... was caught red-handed in the act of  DENYING EVOLUTION and Science! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuY5Wqg01TI/AAAAAAAADzw/Ayp8J95FM7Y/s1600-h/devonian_fossil_002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 242px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuY5Wqg01TI/AAAAAAAADzw/Ayp8J95FM7Y/s400/devonian_fossil_002.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397064264981992754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Typical Devonian Period Environment&lt;/strong&gt;, 480-360 Million Years Ago&lt;br /&gt;Source: &lt;em&gt;Discovery Channel, Atlas of the Prehistoric World&lt;/em&gt;, &amp;copy;1999 ISBN#1563318296&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Birds have&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nicititating membranes (the transparent second lens over the eye of aquatic creatures), and&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Scales on their feet,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;waterproof feathers ... not just the ducks, geese, swans and other water-fowl/marsh-birds/sea-bound albatross/pelicans,etc etc... but land-varieties like Cardinals still retain their aquatic characteristics which reveal hints about their mutually-shared aquatic origins. And, take a look at what Science teaches about the origins of tetrapods. Their origins all point to, and return to the water. Why would terrestrial birds have Aquatic traits?&lt;br /&gt;The Y.E.C. may not have an answer for this, but Science/Paleontology does...and Genesis 1 raises the same issue. Creatures began in the water and emerged on land. This, the aquatic characteristics shared between all birds, is a definite question, Charles Darwin could fully appreciate.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;*Fred* argued blue in the face, that birds came to exist _on land_. In his kindergarten view of evolution, and Hollywood-based understanding of Paleontology, he visualizes animals wandering around in deserts to qualify as "terrestrial"... with little or no water in sight. BUT THIS WAS SIMPLY NOT TRUE FOR THE EARLIEST CREATURES. Take a look at so called "terrestrial" tetrapods. Complete with four legs, and still living IN THE WATER as I was desperately trying to explain to him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuY6IlyRcoI/AAAAAAAADz4/ItGiAIFIj90/s1600-h/carboniferous_fossil_001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuY6IlyRcoI/AAAAAAAADz4/ItGiAIFIj90/s400/carboniferous_fossil_001.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397065122706453122" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Typical Carboniferous Period Environment&lt;/strong&gt;, 360-286 Million Years Ago&lt;br /&gt;Source: &lt;em&gt;Discovery Channel, Atlas of the Prehistoric World&lt;/em&gt;, &amp;copy;1999 ISBN#1563318296&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The same for bird ancestors. They came from water origins... they clinged around beds of water, hunting for prey, and gathering berries and other food. ALL BIRDS... not just geese and swans, possess characteristics of aquatic creatures. The grand-father of all birds, was somewhere around the water's edge like other contemporaries of his age... and passed those aquatic traits on, to all modern birds. Even the Canary and Cardinal, cannot escape its origins and will continue to pass on the aquatic eyelid, the aquatic waterproof feathers and scaled feet of its earliest ancestor. This is how evolution (as science) works... it not only moves forward, it almost always retains characteristics from its origins.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuY6-fCzjVI/AAAAAAAAD0A/PD_a1kxw9kA/s1600-h/triassic_fossil_003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 226px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuY6-fCzjVI/AAAAAAAAD0A/PD_a1kxw9kA/s400/triassic_fossil_003.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397066048609684818" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Typical Triassic Period Environment&lt;/strong&gt;, 245-208 Million Years Ago&lt;br /&gt;Source: &lt;em&gt;Discovery Channel, Atlas of the Prehistoric World&lt;/em&gt;, &amp;copy;1999 ISBN#1563318296&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;**I really don't see the need to proceed  beyond the Triassic (which I personally believe would've produced the ancestor to _all birds_), because by the next period, the Jurassic (208-144 Million Years Ago), the fully formed and functional "bird" Archaeopteryx, was already living (and according to one source I've read thus far, scientists do not believe Archaeopteryx is the actual ancestor to all birds, a type of evolutionary dead end)... I'm discussing *the one true* original fossil ancestor of birds, which even Dr. Alan Feduccia (an expert in the subject) confesses is unknown to science.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But for posterity sake, I'll proceed _beyond_ the time of Archaeopteryx. Here's yet another image of a typical Cretaceous (144-66 Million Years Ago) environment... millions of years after Archaeopteryx, and the creatures are _still thriving around the water, and Water's Edge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuY9GVigB6I/AAAAAAAAD0I/3BGUo5GAwfc/s1600-h/cretaceous_early_001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 261px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuY9GVigB6I/AAAAAAAAD0I/3BGUo5GAwfc/s400/cretaceous_early_001.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397068382520477602" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Typical Cretaceous Period Environment&lt;/strong&gt;, 144-66 Million Years Ago&lt;br /&gt;Source: &lt;em&gt;Discovery Channel, Atlas of the Prehistoric World&lt;/em&gt;, &amp;copy;1999 ISBN#1563318296&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;This is an argument based strictly on what Darwin himself would've taught... what Science teaches... and in Genesis, with "Let the water bring forth.."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;lol! When Agnostics are making arguments against Evolution to dispute Genesis, you already know they're desperate.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;See attached image for "terrestrial tetrapods". And from all that I know of the earliest tetrapods and following evolutionary epochs didn't change much for aquatic-based habitat preference for most creatures. Even the oldest known horse ancestor's anatomy, dated around 50 mya, was built for walking on wetland...&lt;br /&gt;but leave it to an Agnostic to deny Genesis, and without realizing it, denying Evolution and every established scientific teaching.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Yes... the grand-father of birds came from an environment, very much like the environment seen in the attached image. His entire anatomy testifies to his origins. He was Aquatic in origin, and all his descendents retain Aquatic Characteristics. What Fred was arguing was not only non-scientific, but, un-Darwinian.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And even worse than this..&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;As I pointed out last night, &lt;a href="http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/10/snake-in-genesis.html"&gt;concerning snakes (which are too fragile to serve much good in the area of fossil preservation)&lt;/a&gt; therefore, due to only a scant fossil record, scientists have two on-going theories, whether or not snakes originated from water-dwelling mesosaurs, or land-dwelling lizards. Birds, like snakes, and most plant-life, do _not_ preserve well... along with many other organisms, leave few to no fossils. Only in special environmental conditions preserve softer body organisms, those lacking hard-bone and body structure. Even special environmental conditions are required to preserve even some of the hard-bodied organisms!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;BTW, "terrestrial" does not mean necessarily living in the desert like Hollywood teaches the masses with its terrible misinformation, however, the truth about the earliest creatures on earth, is more like Carl Zimmer's book, "At the Water's Edge," as in the so-called terrestrial Alligator and Crocodile, which spent part if not most of their time around the water... or, another better example, the "Walking Whale" Ambulocetus Natans, precursor to modern whales, which scientists theorize was an ambush hunter, who dwelled at "the water's edge," and returned to the water. So it actually never (fully) left the water to begin with, did it?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;When Agnostics are soooo desperate to deny Genesis, they sometimes end up denying science, as well.&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, because Agnostics believe they "have all truths," and like a religion, "Absolute Truths"... swearing blue in the face, that birds did not evolve from Aquatic origins.&lt;br /&gt;Funny, during brief correspondence with Dr. Alan Feduccia, he confirmed they do not know what the ancestor of Archaeopteryx was... in fact, in his book he refers to the ancestors of birds, as "whatever they were," and in one link that Fred provided me with... Dr. Feduccia concluded, "What group of reptiles (erm, tetrapods)?" &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuZCKWCwCkI/AAAAAAAAD0Q/UeH8w5G601I/s1600-h/whatever-they-were.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 288px; height: 250px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuZCKWCwCkI/AAAAAAAAD0Q/UeH8w5G601I/s400/whatever-they-were.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397073948933360194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Origin and Evolution of Birds, by Alan Feduccia, ISBN #0300078617&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Reptile" is such a misleading term... one might be mislead, erroneously assuming that when Scientists speak of "Tetrapods," and say "Reptiles," they actually mean, "Reptilians" as in cold-blooded. Actually the scientist means "tetrapods"... and as Dr. Feduccia summed up in his correspondence with me, it is very difficult to know anything about Physiology (warm-blood vs. cold-blood) from FOSSILS.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Yet, with all this admission by an expert on Avian origins, and the widespread _lack of knowledge_ about bird origins, leave it to the Agnostic to fill in the holes, complete with theories as patent answers, and such ARROGANCE to assume knowing more than the scientists themselves! The Agnostic chimes in with his "absolute truths," that birds did not have origins around the water.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Yet, if Darwin's theory is correct, then,&lt;br /&gt;1. Waterproof Feathers&lt;br /&gt;2. Scales on Feet&lt;br /&gt;3. Nicititating eyelid&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Points to origins around an aquatic environment, those characteristics did not emerge from "thin air."&lt;br /&gt;Creationists may teach "characteristics in creatures came out of thin air." Science does not. Seems now, some Agnostics are teaching the same thing.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;We can look at modern creatures, and still tell something about their ancestors. All birds (even purely terrestrial ones) characteristics scream "AQUATIC ORIGINS". To understand origins, scientists compare modern anatomy with fossils that are dug up out of the ground. It is called "Comparative Anatomy"... but leave it to an Agnostic, to deny Science and Darwin's studies into Paleontology.. as well as books like "AquaGenesis" by Richard Ellis and Carl Zimmmer's "At The Water's Edge."&lt;br /&gt;I really don't think Fred realized how his anti-Theist zealotry could lead him so far astray, into denying established science itself!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;As I have said, there have never been two more destructive groups to science, than the so-called "Darwinists" (Atheists guising their agenda behind Darwin's theory) and having no actual understanding or love for science, ... and YEC who base all their arguments on what these jokers claim science teaches. Just like these so-called Darwinists never actually address a single verse in Genesis... beyond idolatrous attempts to distort it, otherwise, their arguments consist of a total basis on YEC interpretations, while YEC steadily base their rebuttals on Darwinist arguments against Genesis.&lt;br /&gt;A downward spiral of the blind, leading the blind astray.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;As Dr. Feduccia put it in the media, "Science can't get a fair hearing".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How often Atheists have complained about the Creationist's "Circular Reasoning," when they themselves, denying all along their own unscientific based religion of Anti-Theism, alas comes "fool circle" itself.&lt;br /&gt;... Oooo, *pun* ! Atheists love those.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Creationists assumed "God created," (because they didn't pay close attention to the literal text), but tell me where the word "Created" is even mentioned in Epoch Three regarding the "designs" of plants:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Genesis 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth (tender) grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.&lt;br /&gt;Genesis 1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.&lt;br /&gt;Genesis 1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can anyone point out where God "designed" the plants?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I'm sure if God had hand-designed, "created," it might've speeded things up a billion years or two... but, God instructed the earth to create the algae, and plant-life that followed it.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I'm &lt;u&gt;not saying&lt;/u&gt; that God never had any thing to do with some touching up of genetic blueprints in plant organisms (as it appears to be the case in diatoms with their extreme geometrical designs)... but if God involved himself in any way, shape or form with creation of plants, Genesis fails to mention this.&lt;br /&gt;Leaving "creation" up to the Earth and Waters, explains what Science has discovered for the 4 or 5 billion or so year, age of the Earth.&lt;br /&gt;Even Epoch 5 omits any mention of "create" until the Waters had brought  forth "abundantly" . . . and the text states, (modifies) creates them "after their kind."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Completely evolution, under God's patience and guidance.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The only question is, Who or What, are the Darwinists actually making their arguments with?? Because, it's certainly not the text of Genesis.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-3895959577691178185?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/3895959577691178185/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/10/when-atheists-go-to-desperate-extremes.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/3895959577691178185'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/3895959577691178185'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/10/when-atheists-go-to-desperate-extremes.html' title='When Atheists Go to Desperate Extremes to Deny.. Science'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuY29Drt2mI/AAAAAAAADzo/B7njoLrvxQ0/s72-c/devonian_fossil_001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-7527418571996654846</id><published>2009-10-25T22:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-19T16:48:19.090-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='biology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='genesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><title type='text'>The Snake In Genesis</title><content type='html'>Here's a photograph of a Ball Python (2005 &lt;a href="http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/articles/snake_vestigial_limb.html" target="_blank"&gt;MBaumeister&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/images/spurs2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 598px; height: 396px;" src="http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/images/spurs2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By this time, hopefully everyone is up on the fact that certain species of snakes, do have spurs, or tiny remnant femurs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Already the following information is being used by Atheist hatemongers to say: &lt;/strong&gt; "Genesis has failed".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SwXVuWgc9xI/AAAAAAAAD6E/iXLRYFRHeKs/s1600/snake_hindlimb.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SwXVuWgc9xI/AAAAAAAAD6E/iXLRYFRHeKs/s400/snake_hindlimb.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405961920020543250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Atheists have latched on to this &lt;strong&gt;poor cursed creature with one remnant hind limb&lt;/strong&gt;, as if it were "walking". Far from it, and how geneticists have established the snake will NEVER walk again. &lt;a href="http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/11/snake-found-with-full-limb-attaching.html" target="_top"&gt;Atheists are obviously rather desperate for an argument&lt;/a&gt;. The picture says _everything_ anyone need know. When God "curses" -- don't underestimate the implications. God meant exactly what's written in the black and white, literal text.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To address the scripture,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Genesis 3:14-15 "And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Explaining this: The sheer fact that its on the ground, it's simply.... going to get dirt in its mouth. It's inevitable. Definately a type of curse, even if the earthworm and certain forms of bacteria, would disagree. The Hebrew may be stretched out of context by some, but that's the plain meaning of the text. No elaborate explanation is necessary. It's common sense...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, snakes have a long line of evolutionary history behind them, just as humans themselves on occasion grow tails, which is vestigial (many humans have the same genes, laying dormant and on occasion those are triggered and a vestigial tail is fully formed and functional), or junk dna leading to the growth of a sixth digit in some species... which has been going on for around 350 Million years, this, along with vestigial hind-limbs (now flipper) in Cetaceans, and even in lab studies, to this day, the vestigial limbs are seen forming, and are reasorbed, let's throw in leg loss of snakes among those examples:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Foremost, let it be noted, snakes don't fossilize well, so the fossil record is scant and far from complete. Scientists have two theories for origins of snakes. One involves terrestrial lizards, and the other involves aquatic mesosaurs. But more importantly, according to researchers, snakes may have followed a more peculiar evolutionary path:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-size: 10; line-height: 1"&gt;"Argument About Snake Evolution Rekindled by Fossil&lt;br /&gt;The snake fossil, found more than 20 years ago in a limestone quarry near Jerusalem, represents a new species, according to researchers writing in the current issue of the journal Science. "Haasiophis terrasanctus" -- named after Hebrew University paleontologist George Haas who bought the fossil from a West Bank quarry -- was about three feet long (0.9 meters) and lived in the shallow waters of a Cretaceous sea that covered part of the Middle East during the days of the dinosaurs. It is the second limbed snake to come from Ein Yabrud, a 95 million-year-old bed of sedimentary rock that also yielded "Pachyrachis problematicus," another important fossil with clues to the origins of snakes. Scientists believe that modern snakes are descended from lizards and that they lost their limbs over time. Remnants of these limbs can still be found in the anatomy of boa constrictors and pythons, just as the remnants of tails can be found in human anatomy. But a description of Haasiophis by Olivier Rieppel of the Field Museum in Chicago, Eitan Tchernov of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and other colleagues writing in the journal Science has researchers once again puzzling whether snakes evolved from sea-going lizards, or from lizards which lived in seashore burrows. "That question has been around for a long time," Rieppel said in a telephone interview. In the 1970s, when Haas first described Pachyrachis, he thought that the well-developed hind limbs and advanced skull characteristics meant that the fossils weren't from snakes at all. Instead he thought they were reptiles related to a species of huge ocean-going Cretaceous lizards called mosasaurs.&lt;br /&gt;"And so we are back to not knowing what kind of an origin snakes had," Rieppel said. &lt;u&gt;Dr. Harry Greene, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University, said the most intriguing aspect about the West Bank fossils is they may show that certain "atavistic" traits can re-evolve if the right genes are triggered. &lt;strong&gt;The West Bank fossils may be snakes whose limbs re-evolved, making them "real snakes, just extinct real snakes" with legs, Greene said. Greene postulates that if animals like the West Bank fossils could re-evolve limbs&lt;/strong&gt;, then other animals that have certain genes they never lost but whose "triggers" are dormant could re-evolve those traits.&lt;/u&gt; Maybe humans will end up with tails again.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But... humans do end up with tails sometimes.&lt;br /&gt;Dolphins do sometimes sprout vestigial remnants of their hind-legs.&lt;br /&gt;Animals still go on growing a sixth toe, sometimes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The difference here is,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scientists say, "Greene postulates that if animals like the West Bank fossils could re-evolve limbs, then other &lt;u&gt;animals that have certain genes they never lost but whose "triggers" are dormant could re-evolve those traits&lt;/u&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like other vestigial traits in animals which are retained for millions of years in the form of "Junk DNA," snakes could've made a turn around and evolved legs again, but... the body plan was changed. Even though early snake fossils might have had no forelimbs, does not mean they could not have re-evolved them _IF_ they had the dormant genes to do so... at some point between their earliest origins, and now, the ability to re-evolve fore-limbs disappeared, radically altered. Snakes will go on their belly the rest of their days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just as snakes lost their nictitating membrane (the protective eyelid shared by all aquatic creatures. A thin, transparent lens that allows the creature to see under water, and cleaning the eye of irritants. Frogs, Birds, Sea Cows, etc share this trait.) The sea snake returned to the water, and compensated for the loss with a "modified scale". It no longer posesses the traditional nictitating membrane, like other reptilian relatives, crocodiles and alligators, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The point is, genes lay dormant and allow for traits to potentially re-evolve. In this case, snakes may have had a history of losing legs, re-evolving legs, and losing them again. But there's a difference between carrying junk dna vs. a species' genes altered, where an organism can &lt;strong&gt;never again&lt;/strong&gt; grow forelimbs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paraphrasing a Herp Expert (Lenny Flank):&lt;br /&gt;From genetic analysis, we know why snakes don't have vestigial fore-limbs.&lt;br /&gt;There was a change in one of the HOX genes that shifted the body plan forward. Snakes have no neck vertebrae --- they are all thoracic and abdominal. Genetically, fore-limbs form where the cervical vertebrae begin. Snakes can't grow front limbs. The vestigial rear limbs appear where the abdominal vertebrae meet the tail. Even though a snake looks like it is all neck or all tail, in reality, it is all body."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another source: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"...One of the most radical alterations of the vertebrate body plan is seen in the snakes. Snakes evolved from lizards, and they appear to have lost their legs in a two-step process. Both paleontological and embryological evidence supports the view that snakes first lost their forelimbs and later lost their hindlimbs (Caldwell and Lee 1997; Graham and McGonnell 1999). Fossil snakes with hindlimbs, but no forelimbs, have been found. Moreover, while the most derived snakes (such as vipers) are completely limbless, more primitive snakes (such as boas and pythons) have pelvic girdles and rudimentary femurs.&lt;br /&gt;The missing forelimbs can be explained by the Hox expression pattern in the anterior portion of the snake. In most vertebrates, the forelimb forms just anterior to the most anterior expression domain of Hoxc-6 (Gaunt 1994; Burke et al. 1995). Caudal to that point, Hoxc-6, in combination with Hoxc-8, helps specify vertebrae to be thoracic. During early python development, Hoxc-6 is not expressed in the absence of Hoxc-8, so the forelimbs do not form. Rather, the combination of Hoxc-6 and Hoxc-8 is expressed for most of the length of the organism, telling the vertebrae to form ribs throughout most of the body (Figure 22.9; Cohn and Tickle 1999)."&lt;br /&gt;~ Hox Genes: Descent with Modification&lt;br /&gt;~ &lt;a href="http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=dbio&amp;part=A5434" target="_blank"&gt;http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=dbio&amp;part=A5434&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not a geneticist, but I feel its a safe wager, that, while humans may continue to grow a rare vestigial tail, and dolphins may turn up occasionally with vestigial hind-limbs... though a couple snake species, may even have traces of hind-limbs left to it, it _will never grow forelimbs_ again, ever. At some time during their evolutionary history, the genetic blueprint for snakes was PERMANENTLY, and RADICALLY modified. Therefore, on its belly it will go all the days of its life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;AN ATHEIST WRITES: "Would it seem that the bible has been proved correct....Genesis making his appearance some 6 thousand years ago. We won't mention the fact that snakes don't eat dust."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and Atheist readers chimed in behind the author,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;ha ha ha, you are just so brilliant... yes, rolling in laughter... snakes don't eat dust.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sure, of course! just like every snake I've met is the pickiest eater, with the most proper table manners. It never gets dirt in its mouth while rolling around on the ground squeezing its victims to death, and swallowing them whole, along with the bloody mud...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuVWTtCN_gI/AAAAAAAADzg/e_ast67dEsE/s1600-h/snake-sand.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuVWTtCN_gI/AAAAAAAADzg/e_ast67dEsE/s400/snake-sand.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396814624979811842" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From &lt;a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotos-g298357-d1096621-Tommy_s_Tours_and_Safaris-Swakopmund.html" target="_blank"&gt;Photos of Tommy's Tours and Safaris, Swakopmund&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Oh no, Snakes would _NEVER_ eat dirt. The Atheists say so, that's how we know its an absolute fact, and Atheists always have "absolute truths," therefore, can never be wrong. Can they?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THEY WOULD NEVER EAT DIRT ESPECIALLY WHEN THEIR PREY IS COVERED IN IT... NEVER... but Atheists said so, therefore, it's the gospel truth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.esquire.com/features/what-it-feels-like/ESQ0806WIFL_114_6" target="_blank"&gt;To Be Constricted by a Python&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A python's bite isn't venomous, but they can kill humans by asphyxiation&lt;br /&gt;Tom Kessenich, 47, herpetologist&lt;br /&gt;"...For a while I kept a ten-foot amethystine python in a cage in my house. He was as big around as three or four garden hoses. One day, I stuck my hand into his cage to retrieve a rat he'd dropped, and, seeing movement near his prey, he nailed my forearm...He dug in and I started bleeding. Was it painful? Well, he has about eighty needlelike teeth, and he left a U shape on my arm. So I'd say yes... It's just like an octopus tentacle: It finds a way to get around you. A python's bite isn't venomous, but they can kill humans by asphyxiation...he'd started to coil around the back of my neck. In three to five seconds, he wrapped around my upper torso and neck. He was trying to get as many coils around me as he could. Once they get those coils around, it's just like a compactor; they just pull it tighter. I could still breathe, but it was hard. The pressure was unbelievable...I've got blood running down my arm, so it's a mess. With constrictors, you have to push their heads forward to pull them off because their teeth are curved inward. I reached down behind the head and pushed in and up with my thumb. Fortunately, he released and I was able to work the coils off me. Unfortunately, he also got really stressed and defecated all over my bathroom.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-7527418571996654846?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/7527418571996654846/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/10/snake-in-genesis.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/7527418571996654846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/7527418571996654846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/10/snake-in-genesis.html' title='The Snake In Genesis'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SwXVuWgc9xI/AAAAAAAAD6E/iXLRYFRHeKs/s72-c/snake_hindlimb.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-3002470477407867542</id><published>2009-10-24T13:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-25T18:31:23.343-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='biology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='louis agassiz'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='genesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='evolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='darwin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><title type='text'>Strawman Arguments Go Up In Flames</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuR9_BQVbSI/AAAAAAAADzA/xyGutJi9pTo/s1600-h/six_toes_cat_3409.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 394px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuR9_BQVbSI/AAAAAAAADzA/xyGutJi9pTo/s400/six_toes_cat_3409.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396576775118875938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Polydactyly has been going on for over 300 Million Years... if Evolution (the Atheistic Variety) were merely trying to devise new body plans, it should've happened long before now...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dr. Kenneth Miller provided actual _evidence_ of (Chimp Chromosome #2) a genetic link between old world apes, and earliest man-forms. The Atheists have provided NOTHING... NADA... ZIP. Did Chimp Chromosome #2 disprove Genesis, or did it establish what was actually written in Genesis 1, thousands of years ago. Strawman arguments: Because YEC misinterpreted, and ignored the vegetarian nature of early man... denying Paleontology, all of which Atheists base their pitiful arguments on... therefore, Genesis is disputed? Not hardly.&lt;br /&gt;Genesis speaks of Vegetarian early man. They were an intermediate between ape and man, and I showed that in the video. They did everything described, from "dominating the fish" to subdueing the Earth. &lt;br /&gt;Science/Genetics, is indisputable. YEC can misinterpret until the cows come home, and Atheists can base a million strawman arguments on YEC interpretations... still, everyone is failing to address what Genesis 1 actually has written in it. The book of Genesis, has been completely avoided by YEC and Atheists.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Those two warring factions have been the two most destructive forces, to the advancement of science.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;So, let's stop discussing YEC, and start discussing the actual, literal text of Genesis 1 and Paleontology. Dr. Kenneth Miller only established a coherent, feasible understanding of what Epoch Six means... man was given the "herb" for meat... Robustus is theorized to have been a vegetarian due to his denitition. Let's stick to the text of Genesis, and actual science already, shall we? If Creationists take an interest in Genesis 1 and 2 and actual Paleontology/Science.. I will be satisfied.&lt;br /&gt;I have nothing to "prove" to Atheists. God is not a holy Houdini who exists for entertaining Atheists... but God, being as temperamental as She is, may decide to send some plagues and curses on those Atheists for their idle, evil blaspheme. Patience can wear thin....&lt;br /&gt;Yes, I meant "She" . . . as in "Let us create man," (Hebrew, for &lt;u&gt;Plural Majesty&lt;/u&gt;), as in plural, 1)male and 2)female. God created the Human in the image of God. Have false teachers like Augustine and Tertullian, made women so ashamed, eternally condemned to carry a cross and the burden of man's sin, when Jesus has already did it for them... shame, to say she is created too, in the image of God?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;Augustine:&lt;br /&gt;"How can woman be the image of God? ... Woman, compared to other creatures, is the image of God, for she bears dominion over them. But compared unto man, she may not be called the image of God, for she bears not rule and lordship over man, but ought to obey him."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How they fail to read with comprehension, God is giving off a list of clear, evident curses, and, To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children..." oh and by the way, this man who refused to obey my commandments will rule over you."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How they lead each other astray in their arrogance, and false teachings, believing they have "Holy Hands" when even Jesus said, "Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good—except God alone." Luke 18:19 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NOT ANYMORE. It becomes so apparent, from the narrow dark minds of men that hate, why it was &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a blessing.. &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a commandment, but a CURSE on woman that man would rule over her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Such idolatrous men exalted themselves above woman, above the teachings of Jesus... above God himself.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;Saint Jerome:&lt;br /&gt;"I am aware that some have laid it down that virgins of Christ must not bathe with eunuchs or married women, because the former still have the minds of men and the latter may present the ugly spectacle of swollen [pregnant] bellies. For my part I say that mature girls must not bathe at all, because they ought to blush to see themselves naked."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Tertullian:&lt;br /&gt;"God's sentence hangs over the female sex, and His punishment weighs down on you. You are the devil's gateway. You first violated the forbidden tree and violated God's Law. You shattered God's image in man. And because you merited death, God's Son had to die."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have false teachers like Tertullian, made women so ashamed, eternally condemned to carry a cross and the burden of man's sin, when Jesus has already did it for them... forced to live in eternal shame and self-hatred? Did Jesus die in vain, or did he not die for the sins of mankind? Yes or No?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Augustine:&lt;br /&gt;"How can woman be the image of God? ... Woman, compared to other creatures, is the image of God, for she bears dominion over them. But compared unto man, she may not be called the image of God, for she bears not rule and lordship over man, but ought to obey him."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Thomas Aquinas:&lt;br /&gt;"Woman is defective and misbegotten. For the active power in the male seed produces a perfect male likeness. A female comes from a defect in the male seed, or some indisposition, such as the south wind being too moist."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;John Knox:&lt;br /&gt;"Women are weak, they are frail, impatient, feeble, and foolish. They are inconstant, they are cruel, and lacking of spirit, and counsel. Woman in her greatest perfection was made only to serve, and obey men."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Martin Luther:&lt;br /&gt;"Men have broad shoulders and narrow hips, so they have intelligence. Women have narrow shoulders, and broad hips to sit upon, so they ought to stay home, keep the house, and raise children. The woman differs from the man. She is weaker in body, in honour, in intellect, and in dignity."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;and...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"Take women away from their house-wifery, and they are good for nothing. If they get tired, and die from bearing children, that is no problem. They are made for that."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See University of North Carolina, Oppression of Women in Early Christianity&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://people.uncw.edu/zervosg/Pr236/Ehrman23.htm" target="_blank"&gt;http://people.uncw.edu/zervosg/Pr236/Ehrman23.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This statement alone, sounds bells and whistles it's a forgery:&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;"as the law also says (Genesis 3:16)"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By very virtue that any man was calling the CURSE in Genesis on woman, a "Law," proves he did not have any understanding of scripture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Do read the Commandments of God, and pray tell me, where any mention therein commands women must "obey" a man? It is absent of such a thing. However, God's Commandments FIERCELY rebukes men, for lusting after their neighbor's wife and maid servants, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt; The Commandments do condemn adultery (following the commandment of murder!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt; Jesus came teaching the law, and did not command women to obey men like cattle, but had women followers, and also, rebuked men for their adultery.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;It was a command, God made to Moses, to circumsize the most sensitive portion of the male private... to lessen pleasure in hopes of deterring adultery...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;God did _not_like men committing adultery or abusing women.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, what's written in the Pauline forgeries, was _NOT_ a law, _NOT_ a Commandment, and _NOT_ a blessing that man would rule over women. It was a _CURSE_.&lt;br /&gt;No more than its in any of the laws, that if a man goes out to till his field, "MEN BETTER DRIP SWEAT OR ELSE."&lt;br /&gt;These forgeries do not stop there, they go even farther! They say that the male is immune from sin, having "holy hands"... while woman is forced to carry the cross with Jesus, eternally hanging her head in shame.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I picked up this piece of info on University of NC about these FORGERIES in the New Testament :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;(~ &lt;a href="http://people.uncw.edu/zervosg/Pr236/Ehrman23.htm" target="_blank"&gt;http://people.uncw.edu/zervosg/Pr236/Ehrman23.htm&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;Scholarship May have Found a Solution to this Problem . . .&lt;br /&gt;As Ehrman (p. 346) states concerning "the harsh words of 1 Corinthians 14:34-35. Indeed, this passage is so similar to that of 1 Timothy 2:11-15, and so unlike what Paul says elsewhere, that many scholars are convinced that these too are words that Paul himself never wrote; rather they were later inserted into the letter of 1 Corinthians by a scribe who wanted to make Paul's views conform to those of the Pastoral epistles."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Our Father and Mother, who art in Heaven!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuTUOywoHmI/AAAAAAAADzY/gbdvOhUhvTE/s1600-h/plural_majesty.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuTUOywoHmI/AAAAAAAADzY/gbdvOhUhvTE/s400/plural_majesty.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396671604105682530" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Nelson's King James Bible, &amp;copy; 1972, Thomas Nelson Publishers Inc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h5&gt;I may have got a little off topic, but at least, it's related to scriptures in Genesis&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuNizYY5R5I/AAAAAAAADy4/4n91vEJj4z0/s1600-h/six_toes_cat_3408.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 394px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuNizYY5R5I/AAAAAAAADy4/4n91vEJj4z0/s400/six_toes_cat_3408.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396265413379704722" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of what atheistic, so-called Darwinists (more specifically, Atheists which make lame attempts to make war on God, camouflaging the agenda behind "Science," -- Darwin would have nothing to do with the Atheist fanatics, and duly noted he had confined himself to matters of Science), so more properly described as *Atheist* attacks on religion, merely requires some common sense to refute. That is to say, the information on which they base their argument to disprove God, proves nothing.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I retrieved some photos of a local cat with six toes. Polydactyly supposedly presumes the  body plan is attempting to "evolve" into some new species, instead of the genetic throwback to the past... a genetic mutation? Or dormant genes that permit a sixth toe to pop out on a rare occasion. This phenomena has been going on for epochs. It is nothing new. The majority of tetrapods have the same ole five toes. If it were intended for creatures to "randomly evolve" into six-digit creatures as some Atheists are theorizing... I think, it would've happened sometime within the past 300 Million years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See "An early tetrapod from 'Romer's Gap'."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12097908" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12097908&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, Downing St., Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK. The fossil record of early tetrapods has been increased recently by new finds from the Devonian period and mid-late Early Carboniferous period. Despite this, understanding of tetrapod evolution has been hampered by a 20-million-year gap ('Romer's Gap') that covers the crucial, early period when many key features of terrestrial tetrapods were acquired. Here I describe the only articulated skeleton of a tetrapod, Pederpes, yet found from the Tournaisian epoch (354-344 million years ago (Myr)). The new taxon includes a pes with five robust digits, but a very small, possibly supernumerary digit preserved on the manus suggests the presence of polydactyly. Polydactylous early tetrapods may have survived beyond the end of the Devonian and pentadactyly cannot be assumed for the pes. However, the pes has characteristics that distinguish it from the paddle-like feet of the Devonian forms and resembles the feet of later, more terrestrially adapted Carboniferous forms. Pederpes is the earliest-known tetrapod to show the beginnings of terrestrial locomotion and was at least functionally pentadactyl. With its later American sister-genus, Whatcheeria, it represents the next most primitive tetrapod clade after those of the Late Devonian, bridging the temporal, morphological and phylogenetic gaps that have hitherto separated Late Devonian and mid-Carboniferous tetrapod faunas.&lt;br /&gt;PMID: 12097908 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Evidently, they continue on, "after their kind," -- six toed tetrapods existed, in the earliest times, as they still do today... the same ole' same ole'... a genetic throwback to their origins. Now where are, all the six-toed creatures adapted as entire species... it seems as though atheistic, Darwinian Natural Selection explanation for evolution in the fossil record, has a serious case of constipation... where are all the speciations of six-toed creatures?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Worst of all, is the feeble argument, "My cat has six toes, therefore, God does not exist."&lt;br /&gt;Please read that once again, and realize the feeble line of logic Atheists are followng in thier reasoning.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The Fundamentalist said, "it was a perfect creation, God created every creature." Somewhat like a fairy tale impression of the world, therefore, when Atheists point out anamolies in nature, it refutes God? or even Genesis?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuSDu19H17I/AAAAAAAADzQ/PTzpCsTBFdE/s1600-h/six_toes_cat_3411.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 335px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuSDu19H17I/AAAAAAAADzQ/PTzpCsTBFdE/s400/six_toes_cat_3411.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396583094277363634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The Atheist is merely making an argument to dispute human interpretations. The Atheist has yet to address a single point in what Genesis is actually saying, even further, utterly failed to provide "evidence" and dispute what is literally written in Genesis 1... including other aspects of the Bible, such as God doing away with the earth as it is known, and there being "A New Heaven, and New Earth." Obviously, God did not feel the world was perfect, as Fundamentalists claim.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Atheists have built every strawman argument upon Fundamentalist interpretations, which have nothing to do with actual Science (Paleontology) or the chronology of Genesis. To attempt to do so, will leave the Atheist scrambling, and denying Science itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Furthermore, if you read Genesis Epoch #3, the word "Created" is not even in the text. Epoch #4 goes one further, to indicate a randomness on God's command for the "waters to bring forth moving creatures," (that is, the waters creating the creatures... which brings to mind, Darwin's own theory) -- and like Epoch #3, still was not a direct act of creation. Followed by the first actual mention of "creating" -- God touching up on the already living (presuming, "every living" may possibly mean "extant") creatures, and "creating them after their kind." A vast majority of what the literal text in Genesis implies, from God's perspective, is as Forrest Gump put it, "Life is like a box a chocolates. You never know what you'll get." and God simply worked with what the earth and waters brought forth.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-3002470477407867542?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/3002470477407867542/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/10/strawman-arguments-go-up-in-flames.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/3002470477407867542'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/3002470477407867542'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/10/strawman-arguments-go-up-in-flames.html' title='Strawman Arguments Go Up In Flames'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SuR9_BQVbSI/AAAAAAAADzA/xyGutJi9pTo/s72-c/six_toes_cat_3409.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-6306970690039553706</id><published>2009-10-22T18:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T18:52:14.394-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='atheism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='communism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='people&apos;s temple'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='socialism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='antichrist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='karl marx'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jim jones'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='globalization'/><title type='text'>Hitler, Messiah - Why Christians and Jews are blamed for Crimes of Socialists (AtheiSSts)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppZf7WbAFVw" target="_blank"&gt;War Department documentary&lt;/a&gt;. This man was no Christian, waging a brutal persecution against all religion, both Judaism and Christianity, alike... and yet, certain somebodies out there (they know who they are) continue spreading misinformation that Hitler's crimes were somehow "Christian" inspired, while practicing Jews are receiving the blame for &lt;a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3342999,00.html" target="_blank"&gt;crimes committed by the Atheist Stalin&lt;/a&gt; and the USSR. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="423" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ppZf7WbAFVw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ppZf7WbAFVw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="423" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We will find our most fertile field for infiltration by communists within the field of religion because religious people will swallow anything if it is hidden in religious terms."&lt;br /&gt;- Lenin, founder of the Soviet Socialist USSR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J. Edgar Hoover, former director of the F.B.I., declared: "The Communists have infiltrated every sphere of activity - youth groups, church, school, the pressThe Communist war is not fought with bombs. It is being fought now by subversion through the medium of ideas in the areas where ideas flourish and thinking patterns are formed."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are being offered a new Gospel, which is political not spiritual; it is man-centred not Christ-centred; it is humanism not Christianity; it is derived from Marxism not the Bible."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.frontline.org.za/articles/New_gospel_different_church_strange_god.htm" target="_blank"&gt;A NEW ‘GOSPEL’, A DIFFERENT ‘CHURCH’, A STRANGE ‘GOD’&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though it has been widely propagated that Hitler and the Nazi regime's merciless plunder and butcher was somehow to blame on "Christianity," who knew, but the Atheist butchers of the Soviet Union are having thier crimes against humanity pinned on practicing "Jews".&lt;br /&gt;I smell a rat, a rat that seeks to pit Jews and Christian, against one another.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though Atheists were running the Rightwing Socialist Regime in Germany, and Atheists were running the Leftwing Socialist Regime in USSR... widescale bloodbath of Jews and Christians in Western Europe, and a widescale butcher of Christians and Jews in the USSR, somehow... the whole macabre insanity of Socialism (Marx declared the necessity to abolish religion,) yet, socialism's crimes have been blamed on "Christianity and Judaism".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See this article, where "Jews" are blamed for the crimes of Marxist Stalinists in the USSR.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3342999,00.html" target="_blank"&gt;Stalin's Jews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christians, meanwhile are blamed somehow for the evils done under Hitler's Socialist regime.&lt;br /&gt;If you are hearing this misinformation coming from within the church.... question the agenda of the source. Christianity and Judaism are religions of peace. What force has infiltrated and corrupted the message?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the true origins of Hitler's Socialism,&lt;br /&gt;1920's News Article, Nazis brag of their comparability with Communists. Goebbels declares the Atheist Lenin, is the "Greatest man, second only to Hitler."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3uFUxMwA1w" target="_blank"&gt;Soviet Story - Why killing is essential to communism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or, Jim Jones, Atheist leader of the Mass Suicidal/Murder People's Cult,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRGtGmPMGJ8" target="_blank"&gt;Jim Jones &amp; Jonestown - Devolution from Political Force to Revolutionary Suicide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"How could I demonstrate my Marxism? The thought was infilitrate the church."&lt;br /&gt;- Jim Jones&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"When all is said, we have no reason to wish that the Italians and Spaniards should free themselves from the drug of Christianity. Let's be the only people who are immunised against the disease."&lt;br /&gt;~ Adolf Hitler&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Kerrl, with noblest of intentions, wanted to attempt a synthesis between National Socialism and Christianity. I don't believe the thing's possible, and I see the obstacle in Christianity itself.... "&lt;br /&gt;~ Adolf Hitler&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"There is something very unhealthy about Christianity." (p 339)&lt;br /&gt;~ Adolf Hitler&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie." and "Our epoch in the next 200 years will certainly see the end of the disease of Christianity.... My regret will have been that I couldn't... behold its demise." (p 278)&lt;br /&gt;~ Adolf Hitler&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-6306970690039553706?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/6306970690039553706/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/10/hitler-messiah-why-christians-and-jews.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/6306970690039553706'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/6306970690039553706'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/10/hitler-messiah-why-christians-and-jews.html' title='Hitler, Messiah - Why Christians and Jews are blamed for Crimes of Socialists (AtheiSSts)'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-1254405432616985092</id><published>2009-10-22T09:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T09:23:24.111-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='biology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='communism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='antichrist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='socialism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='atheism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='genesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='astronomy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='darwin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><title type='text'>Cretinism vs. Evilution - How the Game Is Played</title><content type='html'>Superstition (a thing God hates, enough so that it was written to put witches to death)... paralysed the minds of the Europeans for centuries...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Okay... and the prevailing belief that God snapped, crackled, popped Adam out of the dust and created all the animals (never mind Genesis 1... that's "the same account," lies the Atheist, *chuckles and sneering,* in that it will throw the former, in contradiction with the latter.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Genesis 1... Animals created First, Man last&lt;br /&gt;Genesis 2... Man created first, Animals last&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The Atheist NEEDS this, to promote his war on God and convert those without critical thiniking skills, to his own religion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How dare anyone correctly interpret the scripture by truth. It might throw a monkey wrench in the Atheists' plots and schemes.&lt;br /&gt;But, ha... but, the church was incorrectly reading Genesis, because they knew nothing of science for centuries... and Darwin goes abroad, discovers an amazing thing: "Complex animal life began in the water," &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;which left the Fundamentalist scrambling,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The Atheist gloats... "Wow, we really discovered a truth, therefore, the Bible is wrong."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Then a reasonable person comes along, "But Mr. Atheist... it was written all along, that life began in the water. Read Genesis 1:20".&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Rather than to have his parade rained on, the Atheist angrily stomps his feet, and lies, saying "No! That can't be. It is Babylonian Mythology! It is Babylonian Mythology!"&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;No Mr. Atheist... you have the intellect of a child in kindergarten and you have not disproven the Bible, rather, the very science you claim to hold to, simply concluded the same chronology described in Genesis 1.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I have better things to do with my life.&lt;br /&gt;Even mentioning Atheists, these days, I'm realizing, gives them far too much credit. They've proven, and disproven, absolutely nothing.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Sorry Mr. Atheist... everything science concluded about Earth's history and the history of mankind, was written in Genesis 1.. long before Charles Darwin was born. Long before Linnaeus... you didn't read Genesis 1 with clarity or comprehension. You relied on tha centuries' old misinterpretation, back when SUPERSTITION prevented Science from making headway. Besides "witchcraft" which God abhorred, God said "My People are Destroyed for Lack of Knowledge." You were too lazy to read Genesis 1, and then go prove it in the Earth whether or not it were true. You chose false interpretations, over what the text in Genesis, reads, in plain black and white. THAT is and was, the problem.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-1254405432616985092?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/1254405432616985092/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/10/cretinism-vs-evilution-how-game-is.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/1254405432616985092'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/1254405432616985092'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/10/cretinism-vs-evilution-how-game-is.html' title='Cretinism vs. Evilution - How the Game Is Played'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-6503828408168230933</id><published>2009-10-21T10:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-21T10:39:47.305-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='biology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='genesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fundamentalist christianity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='evolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='darwin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><title type='text'>Genesis 1:24-31 and 2 ( Day Six and Seven of Genesis )</title><content type='html'>Herein is described the beasts that followed life emerging from the waters, and the creation of man. Notably, the mention of primitive "Man" which Paleontology knows spread from Africa, is followed by, "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Primitive man were earthbound, hunter-gatherers which pleased God. However, in Genesis 2, when "No man to till the ground," God creates the "Modern Man," (to do Agriculture) in Mesopotamia. This period is closed out with God repenting he had made (modern) man, due to his corrupt (intelligence) imagination to only do continual wickedness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YZhP7Sr2v5U&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YZhP7Sr2v5U&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Genesis 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.&lt;br /&gt;Genesis 1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.&lt;br /&gt;Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.&lt;br /&gt;Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.&lt;br /&gt;Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.&lt;br /&gt;Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.&lt;br /&gt;Genesis 1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.&lt;br /&gt;Genesis 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-6503828408168230933?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/6503828408168230933/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/10/genesis-124-31-and-2-day-six-and-seven.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/6503828408168230933'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/6503828408168230933'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/10/genesis-124-31-and-2-day-six-and-seven.html' title='Genesis 1:24-31 and 2 ( Day Six and Seven of Genesis )'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-6368355742641600246</id><published>2009-10-18T23:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-20T06:38:03.870-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theory'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='atheism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='genesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='evolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='astronomy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='darwin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='agassiz'/><title type='text'>An Imperfect Creation? Critics of "Intelligent Design"</title><content type='html'>It isn't what I wanted Genesis 1 to read like, but that appears to be what the text actually says,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Lord "spoke" and put something into motion, commanding the Waters bring forth the (creeping) moving creature, and indeed the seas are filled with such organisms that creep, and they moved out on earth and multiplied (we know this is implied) because the next epoch God works with the creatures "of the earth". Both of which the Lord, "created after their kind." Notice, it does not say God creates the creatures of the earth, merely recreates them after their kind. It does not say:&lt;br /&gt;"Let the earth bring forth the living creature."&lt;br /&gt;No, rather it implies they're already there, and says,&lt;br /&gt;"Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So these were already living on land. God caused them to evolve... improved designs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;KJV&lt;br /&gt;"And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so."&lt;br /&gt;~ Genesis 1:24&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So much for I.D. Critics and Atheist arguments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, if the creation were meant by God to be "perfect" (Genesis merely states "It was good" in God's eyes, "Good enough," then take note that it also states in regard to the world of chaos that is Earth (God will create a new heaven and new earth):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"...The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.&lt;br /&gt;And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.&lt;br /&gt;And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.&lt;br /&gt;They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.&lt;br /&gt;And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious."&lt;br /&gt;~ Isaiah&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea."&lt;br /&gt;~ Revelation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.. the Bible itself gives testament that God is not entirely pleased with "creation," and was so displeased with the wickedness that followed the wake of modern man (Adam; Agriculture; Violent Imagination), that God repented creating man and sent a flood... followed by raining down fiery sulphur on Sodom and Gomorrah (which Atheists still have failed to explain. There's no volcanos in the area. Where did the fire come from? Scientists are mystified. Try try to explain it.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, despite man's failures, the Bible concludes that God's heart and mind was, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believe in him would not perish but have everlasting life."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After reading those verses in Genesis, considering all the arguments I've read and listened to over the past years (since around 2000), and observing the violence in animals (some of those sharp-clawed / sharp toothed creatures among (true) reptiles and dinosaurs, i.e., Postosuchus (which resembles a cross between a large Alligator and miniature Tyrannosaurs Rex), I think, I rather prefer the idea that God would "command the waters bring forth the moving creatures" and God created them after their kind.... or even, that God hurled a meteor on the earth, wiping it all out, and created such animals "after their kind". Making them a little more social...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Those were frightful creatures, and I always did ask myself about the nice things, like ducks, maybe it was some sort of insight into the nature of God. But the thought entered my mind, "What about the lion with its sharp teeth that ferociously stalks and kills prey?"&lt;br /&gt;If that's the nature of God, too?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Down deep, I'd hate to think so. I know the Bible states that God creates both good and evil... but it does put a damper on things having to believe God would really "want" Evil in the world. I couldn't help but take note, Genesis doesn't even imply God hands-on, created all those things (including the monstrosities)... he merely instructed the earth and water to bring forth, and then recreates those things after their kind. So many species went extinct.&lt;br /&gt;And then, the promise of "a new heaven and new earth" -- and a promise that ferocious beasts like the lion will be made so docile, that it would lay down next to a lamb.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-6368355742641600246?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/6368355742641600246/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/10/imperfect-creation-critics-of.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/6368355742641600246'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/6368355742641600246'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/10/imperfect-creation-critics-of.html' title='An Imperfect Creation? Critics of &quot;Intelligent Design&quot;'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-554139417640513020</id><published>2009-10-18T09:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-18T23:43:47.349-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='biology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='genesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><title type='text'>Genesis 1:20-23  ( Day Five of Genesis, Pt. 2 of 2 )</title><content type='html'>A ( 3-D Visual Animation Video ) presentation of Genesis 1:20 through Genesis 1:23 . . . Day #Five".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Science teaches that animals emerged from the water. That's what the book of Genesis says.&lt;/strong&gt; The Hebrew clearly states "moving" = "creeping". At one time Creationists denounced the theory, that fish grew legs and walked out on land, but not only are there extant creatures of this nature (fish with legs), but...  Evolution is implied, for God "creates" those creatures which the waters brought forth . . . "after their kind".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TN7ItxMMCc4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TN7ItxMMCc4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference for Geological Changes in the Earth through the ages : Discovery Channel's "Atlas of the Prehistoric World," 1999&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the plants in Day #3, it does _not_ mention God creating. It's as if God commanded and things were put into motion, without God's direct involvement... "the earth brought forth... and God saw that it was good."&lt;br /&gt;In Epoch/Day #5 initially it doesn't say God creates, merely commands for the waters to bring forth the moving(creeping) creatures and fowl (again, like Epoch/Day #3)... and wow, they did come in that order too. The carboniferous saw the first dragonflies that flew!! Creeping creatures did appear before "fowl". They were monstrous in size... but God "created them after their kind," so the modern variety are smaller... (In Hebrew, "fowl" was a general term, often applied to winged, flying insects.  English applies a different connotation to the word "fowl".)&lt;br /&gt;See "Does the Bible err on how many legs insects have?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tektonics.org/af/buglegs.html" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.tektonics.org/af/buglegs.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, in the second verse, is the first mention of God "creating" whales, but he creates the creatures "after their kind," ... "which the waters had brought forth.&lt;br /&gt;Genesis 1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.&lt;br /&gt;Genesis 1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.&lt;br /&gt;Genesis 1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.&lt;br /&gt;Genesis 1:23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reads like God was fine-tuning... as if God set back and let nature take its course... and then "fine tuned" the species, or perhaps, since it mentions whales (which date to 45 MYA -- the Ice Age) which would've came after the theoretical KT Boundary/Giant Meteor Impact... so God may have done some direct creating -- improving genetic blueprints, etc... but you know, it doesn't matter 'cos all the creatures are lining up accurately with the fossil record. The weight of evidence supports Genesis 1 as an inspired text. Just as the fossil record has a specific predictable order, Genesis 1 does too, follows the fossil record. Identical to Paleontology... what's the chances its "mere Babylonian mythology"? Zero.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GOD IS HIDDEN...&lt;br /&gt;All those articles atheists have written attacking "bad designs," in nature really need to read the text with clarity, because it seems to imply God commanded "Let the earth bring forth," (and not directly involved with each and every little thing that developed, and let nature run its own course) and "Let the waters bring forth..." and only creates those, in the next verse, "after their kind" (a direct act of evolution -- some modifications to improve blueprints)&lt;br /&gt;...so much for the spider fangs&lt;br /&gt;...cockroaches&lt;br /&gt;...and other wild beastly things&lt;br /&gt;... God commands, and the forces on earth, bring forth.&lt;br /&gt;Seems those articles on "bad designs" are worthless, if reading Genesis 1, strictly literal.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-554139417640513020?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/554139417640513020/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/10/genesis-120-23-day-five-of-genesis-pt-2.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/554139417640513020'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/554139417640513020'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/10/genesis-120-23-day-five-of-genesis-pt-2.html' title='Genesis 1:20-23  ( Day Five of Genesis, Pt. 2 of 2 )'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-367655247891545988</id><published>2009-10-17T00:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-17T00:43:21.529-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theory'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='atheism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creationism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='genesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fundamentalist christianity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='evolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hypothesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='darwin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation'/><title type='text'>Fish who grew legs, and walked from the water</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Stl1UF4nfcI/AAAAAAAADyI/dvoM1gEq4EE/s1600-h/fish_that_walks.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 366px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Stl1UF4nfcI/AAAAAAAADyI/dvoM1gEq4EE/s400/fish_that_walks.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393471016790359490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#1 I can imagine creationists swallowing their words, and saying nothing... realizing they have been fighting science... for nothing. Fighting the truth of God. &lt;strong&gt;God has used scientists for his own purpose.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#2 I can imagine Darwinists/Atheists shreiking like angry little children... stomping their God-hating feet. But if it isn't for fighting YEC, what the heck will we do with our lives... we don't have a life beyond Karl Marx and attacks on Religion and God.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;All that hysteria a couple decades ago, when SCIENTISTS said that "fish grew legs and walked out of the water." Oh how "blasphemous". But I am including scanner text from Genesis itself. "And God said, Let the WATERS BRING FORTH abundantly the *(creeping)* creature, that has *(soul)*... see Hebrew footnotes in the King James.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Stl1Yfm16XI/AAAAAAAADyQ/P2d5Ha1b_rA/s1600-h/genesis_footnote.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 183px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Stl1Yfm16XI/AAAAAAAADyQ/P2d5Ha1b_rA/s400/genesis_footnote.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393471092414605682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Fish that grew legs and walked away from the water... the tetrapods, were "creeping" and moving creatures.&lt;br /&gt;Fish with legs... just as science predicted. They have explained the creation account in Genesis.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2079720551148034119-367655247891545988?l=genesis-science.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/feeds/367655247891545988/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/10/fish-who-grew-legs-and-walked-from.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/367655247891545988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2079720551148034119/posts/default/367655247891545988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://genesis-science.blogspot.com/2009/10/fish-who-grew-legs-and-walked-from.html' title='Fish who grew legs, and walked from the water'/><author><name>The Night Owl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/Stl1UF4nfcI/AAAAAAAADyI/dvoM1gEq4EE/s72-c/fish_that_walks.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079720551148034119.post-973993285541848560</id><published>2009-10-15T09:51:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-16T20:30:44.861-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='atheism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soviet anthem'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='communism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='people&apos;s temple'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='socialism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cult'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='antichrist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fundamentalist christianity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cults'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jim jones'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='globalization'/><title type='text'>Jim Jones was an Atheist, not the Man of God, Atheists have Claimed</title><content type='html'>I'm taking the liberty to post a little bit of information that's been compiled regarding the "spiritual beliefs" of Jim Jones, leader of the mass suicidal, People's Temple cult from Jonestown (1978).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="364" width="400"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jMt3nKd-QZY&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;amp;border=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jMt3nKd-QZY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="364"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jim Jones and Jonestown Sing Soviet Anthem&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New audio of Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple singing the National Anthem of the Soviet Union, to which they often refer as their "spiritual motherland." Temple members often sang the anthem after nightly meetings.&lt;br /&gt;There's an entirely incorrect misconception from people who don't read about Jonestown that the Temple members were messainic religious nuts. They were most definitely not. They were communists looking for an exodus to the USSR before their final mass suicide. They were also vehement atheists (Jones ridiculed people that believed in "the sky God"). The PT repeatedly explained that they used religion ("religion is an opiate of the masses") to convert people to socialism.&lt;br /&gt;They were mostly politically minded. They also weren't looking to die. Many thought Jones prior discussions of war and suicide were just part of a long line of dramatic proclamations he'd always made but never came remotely close to consummating through action. Until November 18. Note that Jim Jones had met and was friends with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson" target="_blank"&gt;Paul Robeson&lt;/a&gt;, who happens to sing the most famous English version of the anthem.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He sure was active in seemingly good causes.&lt;br /&gt;Wikipedia states: "Condemnation of Robeson and his beliefs came swiftly, from both....mainstream black organizations including the NAACP."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To make certain this video doesn't end up in file 13 of youtube, it's available here as well:&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/videos/videos/player.swf" width="320" height="260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="height=260&amp;amp;width=320&amp;amp;file=http://music.edwardtbabinski.us/jim_jones_soviet_anthem.flv&amp;amp;image=http://music.edwardtbabinski.us/jim_jones_soviet_anthem.jpg"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jim Jones and Jonestown Sing Soviet Anthem&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;form&gt;&lt;textarea style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1" rows="3" wrap="virtual" cols="35"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/videos/videos/player.swf" width="320" height="260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="height=260&amp;amp;width=320&amp;amp;file=http://music.edwardtbabinski.us/jim_jones_soviet_anthem.flv&amp;amp;image=http://music.edwardtbabinski.us/jim_jones_soviet_anthem.jpg"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRGtGmPMGJ8" target="_blank"&gt;This video&lt;/a&gt; too,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Jim Jones: "I decided how can I demonstrate my Marxism? The thought was, infiltrate the church."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="400" height="315"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xRGtGmPMGJ8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;border=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xRGtGmPMGJ8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="315"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Peoples Temple and Jim Jones devolve in 1976 from a San Francisco political juggernaut secretly harboring designs of world communist revolution to, in 1978, a paranoid North Korean-style enclave in Jonestown. There, they negotiate with the Soviet Union, North Korea and others for a possible exodus. A Soviet delegation visits Jonestown, showering it with praise. Captured on audio, three weeks before Congressman Ryan, NBC and others visit, they vote to commit Revolutionary Suicide to further the cause of Marxist-Leninism. The day before Congressman Ryan arrives, Jones announced to Jonestown (and recorded on tape) he's not passing up the opportunity to shoot him. Two days later, they do precisely as Jones had claimed: The Temple's "Red Brigade" killed Ryan and four others. The only murder of a Congressman in the line of duty in U.S. history. Popular NBC reporter Don Harris is also murdered. Then, just as the Temple had voted three weeks before, over 900 members commit Revolutionary Suicide -- the largest death toll of American civilians in a non-natural disaster until 9-11. They die in a "White Night" -- an emergency meeting of the Temple to discuss options to prevent takeover by outside forces. Jonestown had 84 White Nights before the final one. &lt;br /&gt;Tags:  Jonestown  Jim  Jones  Peoples  Temple  Kool-Aid  Cult  Massacre  Communist  Socialist  Marxist  Soviet  Suicide  Carter  Moscone  Mondale&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/videos/videos/player.swf" width="320" height="260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="height=260&amp;amp;width=320&amp;amp;file=http://music.edwardtbabinski.us/revolutionary_suicide.flv&amp;amp;image=http://music.edwardtbabinski.us/revolutionary_suicide.jpg"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jim Jones and Jonestown - Devolution from Political Force to Revolutionary Suicide&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;form&gt;&lt;textarea style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1" rows="3" wrap="virtual" cols="35"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/videos/videos/player.swf" width="320" height="260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="height=260&amp;amp;width=320&amp;amp;file=http://music.edwardtbabinski.us/revolutionary_suicide.flv&amp;amp;image=http://music.edwardtbabinski.us/revolutionary_suicide.jpg"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some are already aware of the philosophical ties between Jim Jones and the Atheistic Soviet Union. I'll let the following documentation explain itself, but the question remains in mind, why, for so many years did the liberal media lead the masses to believe Jim Jones was a fanatical "Christian," just as many have accused that Adolf Hitler was a "Christian"? Why do these misconceptions continue to pervade across the web and media. Perhaps until Christians, no longer recognize a Christian. Adolf Hitler and Jim Jones have one thing in common and that is: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;SOCIALISM&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. At best, Hitler was a deist, giving benefit of the doubt to the existence of a higher power, but he certainly did not have the makings of a "Christian" in spirit (i.e., the fruits of the spirit mentioned in Galatians). I'm lead to the same conclusion in regard to George W. Bush, who proclaims himself to be "Conservative Christian" in the public eye, but both Sr. and Jr., have been willing participants in the Bohemian Grove's satanic mock sacrifices of humans, at the infamous Bohemian Grove. See video by Alex Jones on YouTube.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alex Jones - Secrets in Bohemian Grove&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="364" width="400"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/P_PAqT2JZOw&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;amp;border=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/P_PAqT2JZOw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="364"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People, &lt;u&gt;this is not Christianity!!!&lt;/u&gt; and there's nothing at all "conservative" about it. Like Jim Jones and Adolf Hitler, George W. Bush is a sworn Socialist, implementing global "marxist economics" in the name of Jesus. Can somebody say amen?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://music.edwardtbabinski.us/jim_jones.mp3"&gt;http://music.edwardtbabinski.us/jim_jones.mp3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One evangelical preacher (above) discusses the problem with Jim Jones, there were &lt;u&gt;no bibles&lt;/u&gt; ... &lt;u&gt;no place to pray&lt;/u&gt;... what else than Communism? Unfortunately, I have &lt;a href="http://music.edwardtbabinski.us/jim_jones.mp3" target="_blank"&gt;only part of that preacher's voice recorded to MP3 format&lt;/a&gt;, and welcome others to download. Perhaps somebody can recognize his voice and tell me who he is. The actual text to the entirety of his sermon, went as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.messandnoise.com/discussions/1032076" target="_blank"&gt;SGH said&lt;/a&gt; about 1 year ago: &lt;blockquote&gt;He said 'I was Jim Jones' attorney.' I said 'When did you find out that he was not the man of God that he was billed to be?' He said 'When I visited Jonestown, when I walked in his so-called church. He said there was no bible, there were no holy pictures, there was no cross. Nothing. And I looked him right in the eye and I said to him 'Why is it there's no bible, and there's no place to pray?' He said 'We don't need that anymore,' and he says 'I am no longer your attorney, and you no longer need me.' And he walked out of there when Representative Ryan flew in to Guyana, the first man he called was Sir Lionel Luckhoo, and asked him to fly with him to Jonestown, he said 'God will not let me go'. If he had have gone he wouldn've been massacred with Representative Ryan, are you listening to me? And I'm going to reveal something to you that possibly the public does not know - Sir Lionel Luckhoo told me that the coroner was a close personal friend of his, and he said that he examined every single one of the bodies, this was not a mass-suicide like the world was brainwashed into thinking, but when that coroner examined the bodies, there was a pinhole in ninety-seven percent of all the bodies, they were injected with a poiso*, it was a mass-murder, because men and women were following a man, and I am going to let every one of you that are here under this tent, you that are listening to this radio broadcast, My God don't follow a man, don't follow a church, if you're going to follow somebody, follow Jesus! Follow Jesus! Look unto Jesus who is the author and the finisher of your fate, the devil is out to destroy every child of God that he can find! Can you shout 'Amen' somebody?''&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/videos/videos/player.swf" width="320" height="260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="height=260&amp;amp;width=320&amp;amp;file=http://music.edwardtbabinski.us/jim_jones_communist.flv&amp;amp;image=http://music.edwardtbabinski.us/jim_jones_communist.jpg"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sir Lionel Luckhoo's Testimony on Jim Jones, 1983 (9:50 duration)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;form&gt;&lt;textarea style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1" rows="3" wrap="virtual" cols="35"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/videos/videos/player.swf" width="320" height="260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="height=260&amp;amp;width=320&amp;amp;file=http://music.edwardtbabinski.us/jim_jones_communist.flv&amp;amp;image=http://music.edwardtbabinski.us/jim_jones_communist.jpg"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The full &lt;a href="http://music.edwardtbabinski.us/jim_jones_attorney.mp3" target="_blank"&gt;audio of Jim Jones attorney is available here&lt;/a&gt; in its full one hour+ length entirety (12 megabyte download), where you can find Sir Luckhoo discussing Jim Jones' unbelief in God and Communist views around the 24:50 of 1:08:57 time marker. Luckhoo describes Jones as, "Satanist" and that 85-90% of the people at Jonestown were murdered... he mentions Jim Jones communist ideologue, which is no longer a secret on the web.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://patdollard.com/2008/11/30-year-old-kool-aid-evangelical-marxism-and-revolutionary-suicide-today/" target="_blank"&gt;Fresh 30 Year Old Kool-Aid: Jim Jones And Barack Obama’s Evangelical Marxism&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;"...November 18, 1978, after he killed 918 people, somehow or another he went from what he was known as especially in his home area of San Francisco, he moved in the eyes of Americans from an American leftist to an evangelical Christian fanatic. It was the Christian in him that did it. We’ve seen this happen over and over and over again, socialist dreams ending in ghoulish nightmares and then conveniently shifted. They shift everything into a commentary on organized religion and how evil organized religion is. It’s important for those who have eyes and those who have ears to hear and eyes to see that they see history beginning to repeat itself. Even the Nation magazine represented at the time, the Temple — Jim Jones’ Temple — was as much of a left wing political crusade as a church. Let me say that again. “The Temple was as much a left wing political crusade as a church.” I want you to see if you can put any of the people that you are currently seeing out in today’s political landscape into any of these characters from 1978. In the course of the 1970s the Jim Jones church social program grew steadily more disaffiliated from what Jim Jones came to regard as fascist America.&lt;br /&gt;Jim Jones was against fascist America and their social programs drifted rapidly towards outspoken communist sympathies, so much that the last will and testament of the people’s temple, the people’s temple and its individual members left notes. They bequeathed millions of dollars in assets to… do you know? The people, 918 of them that were killed by that crazy religious Christian preacher, after they drank the Kool-Aid, who did they leave their millions to? The Soviet Union. As Jones expressed to a Soviet diplomat upon his visit to Jonestown months before the suicides took place, quote: For many years we have let our sympathies be quite publicly known that the United States government is not our mother but the Soviet Union was our spiritual mother land.&lt;br /&gt;I’m trying to get my arms around the spirituality of the former Soviet Union. “Jim Jones was an evangelical communist who became a minister only to infiltrate the church with the gospel according to Marx and Lenin. He was an atheist missionary. He knew he could bring the message of socialist redemption to Christians. Quote: I decided how can I demonstrate my Marxism.&lt;br /&gt;This is Jim Jones speaking. “The thought was infiltrate the church.”&lt;br /&gt;Try to think back. Is there anybody that you have heard that is preaching Marxist philosophies in church? Is there anyone who is bringing the Marxist philosophies and doing it with anger and bitterness against the United States? Have you seen anyone like that on the horizon? Have you seen anyone who is influencing others, whoever those others may be? /EXCERPT&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Far cry from the misconception that Jim Jones was a "fanatic religious leader," never once did the liberal (leftwing/marxist influenced) media try to correct that misconception that Jim Jones was in fact the opposite, a Communist fanatic... and they will go on saying Jim Jones was a "Christian" along with Charles Manson, Adolf Hitler and George Bush... diluting the truth, until nobody even recognizes what Christianity even means anymore. &lt;blockquote&gt;I found the Luckhoo speech at the followi
