|Ahoy mates! I an earlier post as Pastor Nate (I be the BO'B's chaplain
|as well as Captain) I promised i would show you with a few simple
|experiments that the very Foundatin of modern cosmology is completely in
|error.
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|First, though, let me point out that Xena is a thoroughgoing
|Empiricist...she accepts only the input of her own five senses...she
|wouldnt believe in any of the gods unless she herself had seen and
|conversed with them. Ditto for modern scientific notions...
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|Having had a bizarre yet enjoyable chat yesterday with some cultic
|crackers, I will give you the gist of what they told me..
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|1. The earth is motionless. If it were spinning at hundreds of miles
|an hour as scientists claim, we would all be dizzy and sick, but we
|arent. Plus if the earth were moving we would FEEL it...when the earth
|DOES move we call it an earthquake. Simple empiricism. Anyone can use
|their own senses and feel that the earth is motionless.
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|2. The sun, moon, and stars revolve around the earth. Anyone with
|working eyes can go outside and see the sun rise, move across thre sky,
|and set. Same with the moon. We can FEEL and SEE the motionlessness of
|the earth, while the motions of the heavenly bodies are plainly
|visible. Again, scientific empiricism.
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|3. The sky is a solid metallic blue dome with pinpoint holes in it thru
|which the Light of God shines...we call these Stars. This dome slowly
|spins at night, giving the Stars their apparent circular motion.
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|So, from Copernicus onward the science of Astronomy/Cosmology has been a
|sham. The result of abandoning empiricsim in favor of theorizing, and
|abandoning God. According to these folks, modern science is a vast
|satanic conspiracy to undermine faith in the bible.
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|Photos of the earth from space, of galaxies, of the lunar surface...all
|of these are clever fakes devised to "turn men unto fables, away from
|the living God" as one of the cultists put it.
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|They asked if I had personally been up in space so that I could verify
|that the earth was a sphere. Of course, I had to answer no.
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|Had I ever had a galaxy in my living room where I could examine it? they
|asked. Again, I truthfully answered no.
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|Had I been to the moon so I could verify that it was in fact a world and
|not just a giant smudgy mirror? Again I answered no.
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|Had I ever actually seen a star close up where i could verify that it
|was a glowing ball like the sun? Again, no I had not.
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|Had I been to the sun and confirmed that it was a gigantic ball of
|thermonuclear gas, large enough to hold one million earths? Again, I
|had to answer no.
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|Anyway....these folks both delighted and astounded me! It was like
|bringing people from Xena's time period to ours and getting their
|reaction to modern science and knowledge...it was delightful, in a
|way....I could almost imagine Gabrielle and Xena's knowing glances at
|each other as I spouted the "nonsense" of modern science.
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|But then, I remembered that many out there in the modern world still
|believe in Adam and Eve and a talking snake as literal science and
|history, rather than as a Metaphor of the lost innocence of the human
|race...
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|So...chalk this one up to Rerun Hell and a very peculiar 45 minutes
|spent chatting with some Time Travelers on my dorrstep. :)>
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|Clear sailin' to ye !
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|CapnNate
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