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A gadfly with a point of view. Writing about the questions of life involving theology, science, and apologetics to inspire thought. Interested in the surprising and the inspiring world.

Why do we always assume that the aliens, ghosts, etc (if they exist). are telling us the truth? We never think that they are lying to us.

It’s getting interesting… Just wish we weren’t living through it.

“Scientists have no proof that life was not the result of an act of creation, but they are driven by the nature of their profession to seek explanations for the origin of life that lie within the boundaries of natural law.”

~ Robert Jastrow, The Enchanted Loom (American astronomer and planetary physicist)

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UNFOSSILIZED SOFT TISSUE HAS BEEN FOUND IN DINOSAUR FOSSILS

“It smelled just like one of the cadavers we had in the lab who had been treated with chemotherapy before he died.”

That was the description that Mary Schweitzer gave to describe the odor that was coming from a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton that was excavated from the Hell Creek Formation in Montana. Schweitzer was working as a researcher at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana and was examining the medullary bone of that skeleton when an assistant put a fragment of the bone in dilute acid to clean deposits off. What they found in the decalcified bone was soft stretchy material something not expected in solid mineral deposits. This led them to decalcify other bone samples, what they ended up finding was a soft stretchy fibrous matrix that was inside of the bone when the T.rex was alive. [1]

[1] Schweitzer, Mary & Wittmeyer, Jennifer & Horner, John & Toporski, Jan. (2005). Soft-Tissue Vessels and Cellular Preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex. Science (New York, N.Y.). 307. 1952-5. 10.1126/science.1108397.

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THE CREATURE IN THE NILE MOSAIC OF PALESTRINA

The Mosaic was originally in Palestrina, Italy as part of an ancient floor mosaic. It dates to 100 B.C. and it depicts life in Ptolemaic Egypt during the flooding of the Nile River. Along the landscape there can be seen a variety of animals that were common to the Nile at that time and their corresponding Greek name. There is one animal that is curiously strange in its appearance and name. The label is translated from the Greek as “crocodile leopard” and it is located on the right middle portion of the mosaic. It does not resemble any known animal living in the region at that time and as the name suggests it is an animal that resembles a crocodile but with distinctive features setting it apart. This remains a fascinating possible crypid animal captured within the mosaics tiles that has strong resemblance to the Eotitanosuchus dinosaur.

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“PRESERVATION OF FAVORED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE”

You never hear that subtitle for “The Origin of Species” written by Charles Darwin. The outward racist beliefs of Darwin are never talked about or mentioned when genuflecting to his evolutionary theories. His views grew roots in the fertile soil of hatred in the twentieth century and allowed for the extermination of our fellow man because of a self appointed superiority.

“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla. ”

~ Charles Darwin, “Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex”

“I could not have believed how wide was the difference between savage and civilised man… Viewing such men, one can hardly make oneself believe that they are fellow-creatures, and inhabitants of the same world. It is a common subject of conjecture what pleasure in life some of the lower animals can enjoy: how much more reasonably the same question may be asked of these barbarians!”

~ Charles Darwin, “Voyage of the Beagle”

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Agreed, it does at first glance only make the argument for a generic god. However, the ultimate unmoved mover would be the definition of The God (to me).The one that proclaimed his name as “I Am”. This apologetic argument is mainly to strengthen the faith of already Christians and possibly a stone in the shoe of nonbelievers. Thank you very much for your reply. I like thoughtful responses. Peace be with you!

Red and blue is a distraction in the matrix that we find ourselves in. The real fight is the ones who want control vs freedom. Cheers!

This is a good one.

“He [God] is Eternal and Infinite, Omnipotent and Omniscient; that is, his duration reaches from Eternity to Eternity; his presence from Infinity to Infinity; he governs all things, and knows all things that are or can be done. He is not Eternity or Infinity, but Eternal and Infinite; he is not Duration or Space, but he endures and is present. He endures for ever, and is every where present; and by existing always and every where, he constitutes Duration and Space.”

~Isaac Newton, “Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica”, (1687)

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“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”

~ Ray Bradbury

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