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Hello to all. I have created this web site to add a positive touch to all the media hype today about politics, global warming, national policy, past earth history, military, etc. We find ourselves bombarded today with conflicting stories about these and other subjects and many either take the easy route and believe what they hear that agrees with their present world view or end up not believing any of them. The purpose of this web site is to take a positive approach to all the problems facing us today and then point to possible sources to prove whether all the things we are bombarded with are true, partly true or false. I will add sources for additional research on each subject and update articles when new data is discovered.
Today we find ourselves in the midst of much confusion concerning religion, politics, environment, military, national policy, past earth history and other items that at times affect us. How are we to know what is the truth of all these things? The bible say to prove all things and hold on to what is good as well as prove whether these things (what we hear in the media) are so. By the media I mean all the methods of disseminating knowledge such as text books, political ranting, environmental doomists, churches, foreign governments, etc. In order to know what is happening we need to check the data that is available on all these subjects. Following are my observations that I have accumulated over many years of research.
First, on any subject, to prove whether it is true or not, it is not a good idea to go into the study with preconceived ideas that are not based on the available data. Following are some subjects that I am researching and some of the questions that I ask and try to answer. Many more questions can be asked that will increase a persons knowledge of any given subject.
Well, the elections are over and hopefully people are getting unstressed.I ended the last commentary about Noah and the flood. In order to justify the enormous oil and coal deposits, beds of salt and limestone, etc in the earth's strata and a young earth, it is said that the flood was universal and quite violent. Included in some of the beliefs is the idea that "all" life was destroyed including plant life. I have a strange idea that those who hold this idea haven't thought this through real well.
Up in Montana and other places have been schools that teach people of urban background how to survive in the backcountry or wilderness areas. In the environment they are trained in, there is plant, insect, bird and animal life. Even so it is not easy to survive there if you don't know what you are doing. With all the available material to survive it is still a struggle there.
Let's now go to the time of the flood. Noah and his family walk out of the Ark and Noah looks around and exclaims: "Look, ve haf landed on der moon". A sterile world awaits Noah and his family. No plants, no grass, no soil, no animals available for the carnivores to eat. There is no wood available to build a house, plant a vineyard, build a fire and there they are with all the animals needing nourishment and the carnivores staring at them that also need some food until the world can be populated. For some strange reason something don't compute here.
I imagine if this were the case, then the earth would look a lot like the Nazca plain in Peru or the latest pictures from the Rovers on Mars. God would have had to completely repopulate the earth with fauna and flora and also create good soil bases for agriculture that would have been destroyed in such a cataclysm. The bible is silent on any such activity by God. In fact the book of Genesis says that at the end of "day" six God was finished in the creating process and no scripture states that there had to be a "re-do" of the planet earth. A person who has gone through the wilderness school can survive in the environment that they were trained in, but couldn't survive on the Nazca Plain in Peru because there isn't anything there to survive on. But that is what we are being asked to believe in the time of Noah and the sterile world he and his family walked out onto. I am researching this subject and will soon have a larger article that will go into this in more detail.
Cole
Today is election day and as usual the predictions are really wild with most based on hope and not real knowledge. Once again, it is interesting to note that many ideas are based on emotion and preconceived ideas as well as hope that things are the way a person desires them to be. This is wishful thinking and not really accurate. It reminds me of all the controversy surrounding the creation-evolution debate. I have come to believe that a persons conclusion on the matter is not based on "facts" alone but is influenced by a persons education, belief system, hopes and wishes, even a person's personality.
I have read the position of many who believe in the various ideas that are prevalent today. There are the Young Earth groups, The Old Earth groups, the Progressive Evolution groups, etc. What interests me about there being so many diverse groups that believe the various ideas, is that each camp has a number of adherents that believe a certain theory. It would be interesting to know exactly how these many people came to believe what they believe. A person could ask of each one the following but not inclusive line of questions
What is your background as far as initial belief?
What education do you have that influenced what you now believe?
Were you convinced by initial research of you own or by research of others?
There are many more questions that could be asked. And I wonder if a pattern would result from all of this information of the different camps of belief?
I wonder how much thought has gone into the idea of what is described by many to be an enormous catastrophic flood that produced the well formed structures in the earth's sediments. I will have more to say about this in another comment as well as how Noah could have survived if he and his family would have walked out of the Ark onto a world that was very much like a lunar landscape. More later.
Cole