I'm watching that change daily.
With all the propaganda going through the airwaves, we are being conditioned to live in the fantasy and leave reality behind.
I think that's why they are trying to remove all religions from the world.
I don't believe any will be without persocution, be it Christian, Jewish, or Muslim.
I think they want to crash all these religions together like atoms in one of those CERN machines and create one thet they can control.
(conspiracy theory much? )
They won't let people live according to how they want, or how their culture dictates.
They keep throwing us all together and then say play nice together.
It doesn't work that way.
anywhoo,
I'm rambling..
Thank You for sharing Grailhunter
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LOL First off I was using the term fantasy a little tongue in cheek.
There is an old saying...it is what it is.
Some people understand...or should understand that in the ancient world they had their own set of beliefs.
The Greeks explored a lot of this by observation and speculation. It was an effort to understand, but they could only understand so much.
When you put it in the biblical text....and sola scripture, some feel that it is matter of faith that they continue to believe some of these ancient understanding. So you have people that believe that the earth is flat, that the sun revolves around the earth, and stars can fall to earth. And diseases are caused by demons or past sins.
As I expressed, I am concerned with the youth. They know better and once you try to tie those beliefs to Christianity...then they could come to the conclusion that if one is false, maybe the other is to. It is better to explain it as God communicating to those ancient people at the level that they understood.
Astrophysics and Quantum Mechanics involve a lot of the documented geniuses of the world. And it is true that the methodology is atheist. But that does not mean that all scientists are atheists. For example a scientist trying to figure out how something works at
Los Alamos is not going to open his log and just write down that God did it.
You have the process....projected theories....usually using Quantum math to support their conclusions...but still this is theory. So one of the branches of science that tests those theories...those that can be tested, is experimental physics. Some things remain as theories only...some are partially observed...like black holes, then you have the proven, the observable universe, what stars really are, what meteorites are, what comets are.
There have been a lot of scientific theories, some you mentioned...String theory...Dark matter...etc, that have not panned out, even on the drawing board.
For years the Quantum physicists had mathematically suggested the existence of the God Particle---the Higgs Boson, by calculating it effect on other subatomic particles. Then here while back at the Large Hadron Collider --- CERN---near Geneva, Switzerland, they captured the particle. The only reason that it was called the God Particle was because it supported so many of the Quantum Physic theories. One of which that changed the Big Bang theory...
But in the past we see a lot of Physics theories that were mathematically suggested actually proven in the physical and practical. Albert Einstein had a lot of theories and some have been proven...the properties of light....general relativity, Atomic fusion and the bomb, that the Japanese found out worked well...boom! A lot of the technology we have today came from theories...steam engine...electricity...radio and microwave...computers...smart phone...sophisticated medical equipment, etc.
Theories are theories until they are proven. How does this relate to the Bible. LOL You may like this! Because of my job in the government I worked at some of the most secret sites...Dam Neck, Virginia, Nuclear Physic at Los Alamos and POMFLANT, Goose Creek, SC. Astrophysics at JPL, Quantum Mechanics at Caltech. Miramar, CA, Offices at Washington DC, Naval Base Oceana. CIA headquarters Langley, Virginia, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and field offices at Skunk Works, Palmdale, California and Lockheed Martin, Bethesda, MD.....Even back then when they sat and talked in their cubicles, the phrase "Intelligent design" was being mentioned and I still know some of these scientists. Things that are not mentioned in the media much...But the deeper they dig the more they prove intelligent design. The complexity of RNA and DNA and what lays beneath DNA and its communication with cells, intelligent subatomic partials, the stability and force of atoms, the continued harmony of the Universe all are suggesting a design and a continual intelligent force that maintains it. Now science is not going to name a god but intelligent design is proving itself. So we will have to wait and see.