The Greek Gods
To answer the question, What effect did the Rebels have on our past, it is necessary to examine several other cultures and the relationship between them and their gods. The Greek gods are much the same as the Group from Egypt. There are too many to list in a survey of this type but some of the most popular ones are discussed here. The rest can be examined in Bulfinch's Mythology. Nearly every culture we examine is built around one or more gods, and the behavior of the people seems directly affected by what they perceive their gods would approve.
To the Greeks, the gods were like human beings in form and attributes and possessed of the same weaknesses of character. The chief difference lay in the greater strength and beauty of the gods.
While preaching in the city of Ephesus, the Apostle Paul recorded this story: Acts 19:24, "For a certain man named Demetrius, a silver smith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsman; 25 Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and he said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth. 26 Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone in Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands: 27 So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at naught; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshipeth. 29 and the whole city was filled with confusion:.. 34... all (the whole city) with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians."
Obviously, two worlds meet in this text, one side from Homers viewpoint, and another from the Bible, yet they describe a common scene.
In Greece, there developed a number of Mystery Cults. They usually required some kind of initiation of the sensual nature, involving gluttony, drunkenness, and emotionality. These are likely the forerunners of our fraternities and sororities.
Probably the most similar ancient culture to our own is that of Rome, the eternal city. We make use of every device, custom, and resource the ancient Romans had in one way or another nowadays. Some differences may be that we do not pay tribute to their gods as they did, or in exactly the same manner, and their lack of technology protected them from the contagious evils spreading quickly in our time.
Of course, same as in Greece, the Mystery Cults appeared in Rome. Most noticeable was the Cebele Cult at Vatican Hill, it's festivals were said to have been marked by blood guzzling, self-mutilation, and dancing.
The Norse Gods
According to legend, the Norse gods lived in Asgard, where the hall of heroes lay, called Valhalla. More can be found at that website.
Aztec Religion
Four primary gods appear in the Aztec. One was a regenerative god like others over the world and he is described as tall, white skinned with black hair and beautiful. Sacrifice seems to pervade the religious practices of the Aztecs. A ceremony was conducted where a dough image was raised on a stick and thrown down for everyone to partake.
There was the state god, who demanded large numbers of human sacrifices. Temples were numerous over the land. It is said that some cities were well lit by the perpetual fires of the temples. The temple was built in the shape of a pyramid only filled inside and stair stepped outside. There was a walk way around the outside where a procession would go up to the altar on top.
There was a god who demanded sacrifice, but only one per year. Every year, one man was chosen a year in advance. During that year, he was accorded the highest honors and lived in splendor being attended by four beautiful maids, who would gratify his every whim. When the time came to die, he would be taken to the top of one of the temples before a long procession and witnessed by everyone in town. There, he was stretched out on a concave stone and held by five priests, one on each limb and the last near his head, holding a long knife. At the climax of a ceremony, he was cut open, as he watched, and his heart was torn out and thrown to the feet of the stone Idol. The temples were supported by gifts and donations as well as by the produce from the lands it owned. All surplus was used for charity; this prevented the priesthood from becoming too rich.
Inca Religion
The Inca Religion was much the same as the Aztecs. Inca was the name of the ruling family. This family oppressed the people with high taxes and severe laws. The ruler was always chosen from among the ruling family and he had to marry his older sister to insure the bloodline stayed pure. The Incas practiced their Religion with perpetual fires and sacrifices including infant sacrifice. They worshipped Pachamac and Viracocha - heat and moisture. Somehow, the Incas maintained a high standard of living rivaling any in the world. They had clean streets with lights, architecture, and law administration more advanced than those in Europe. It is no secret that these advanced civilizations mysteriously disappeared. They fought among themselves, had little identifiable understanding of the nature of their existence, and yet they enjoyed a standard of living to rival any in the world. At the same time and in the same place we find evidence of higher intelligence that cannot be overlooked, like the Nazca Lines in Peru and the picture of a man in a rocket ship carved on a stone. This directly suggests there was once very intelligent people with advanced technology working in that area of the world.
Rebels Among Us
We have seen evidence that powerful, intelligent people have been here in the past, and we have information that allows us to project what their agenda may be. All that remains to be examined is the question, Where are they now and what are they doing?
President Carter said if he were elected, he would make public the Blue Book files; he did not. He claimed it was not within his power to do that - after he became President. Since those days, there have been many wonders still not explained.
According to witnesses, there are some spaceships running about this world that we did not build. Until the last few years, they were only making the lights go out in large cities, appearing and disappearing in the night, and so on. But then, people began complaining they were abducted and molested by the creatures that occupy the ships.
Some time ago, a TV program entitled 'Encounters' interviewed several people who claimed they had been abducted by aliens. They said something was placed in their bodies, usually their head, that affected them in different ways. One lady said she had something implanted in her brain which sometimes buzzes and gives her messages to stop her car or go outside, so she can be abducted again. Another woman was examined by doctors using a cat-scan who told her she had an unidentified object deep in her brain. They said it was not a tumor and it was much too deep for them to do surgery.
Richard Price, of New Jersey, said he was abducted and a device was placed under his skin, which could be seen protruding. At some point, he said it worked it's way out to the surface. He recovered the object and placed it into a container. Later, he took it to M.I.T. to be examined. They said Dr. David Prichard examined the device. Price said Prichard took several pictures of the object and confirmed wires or appendages, as he put it, sticking from it. Apparently, Price kept half the object and Prichard burned the other half in a mass spectrometer. Prichard reported there were no metal parts or anything that could be considered extraterrestrial.
'Encounters' said thousands of people are claiming they have been abducted and implanted with something. They also said many people believe that any technology capable of implanting these devices could also make them from undetectable or biological materials.
Psychologist, David Jacobs, had been studying the abduction phenomena for twelve years. He said the pattern is fairly clear, most people experience an event where something will be inserted in their nose, they will hear a crunching sound, and whatever was on the end of the instrument will no longer be there.
It is still not resolved to the public what or who these creatures are and why they are using people like guinea pigs. There is only one group of powerful people known that might do these things, and there is no evidence they have left the planet.
While researching this information, an account surfaced of a witness who claimed to have been part of an operation in the desert of Nevada, examining the spacecraft recovered in the Roswell Incident. He said that he had made his own examination in the company of officials, industrialists, and influential clergymen. He said that people were in a state of complete collapse and confusion as they realized their world had ended with such finality. He said that he saw five separate and distinct types of spacecraft being handled and studied by the Air Force officials - with the assistance and permission of the extraterrestrials. He said he felt a wave of pity as he watched the pathetic bewilderment of their brilliant minds struggling to make some kind of rational explanation that would allow them to retain their familiar theories and concepts.
There is something about this statement that may add credibility. What would 'influential clergymen' be doing at a 20th century military operation? It's not often scientists invite religious people to visit top secret projects nowadays, or even years ago. It would not be reasonable to foresee such a detail in a story of this kind, and anyone fabricating a story like this would surely not add something so unlikely.
A film was discovered a few years ago depicting an alleged autopsy of an alien recovered from the Roswell incident. The film aired on national TV and many people ordered copies. It was suggested the film was faked, eventhough experts could not find any evidence that the film was not genuine 1947 vintage Kodak. The naysayers claimed because of the poor camera angles and erratic movements of the camera, it must be a scam. It apppeared to me someone not familiar with filming was operating the camera, like perhaps a Second Lieutenant with no skill at all, but very trustworthy. Speaking with a physician friend who viewed the film and who has performed many dissections, I learned that the technique used during this exploration was not like an autopsy, but as if they expected to find familiar things as during a dissection. He said the shape of the fingers and hands with six fingers were very natural which would be hard to fabricate. News reports said the alien bodies lay in the hot sun for three days, which would account for the swelling and the distended abdomen. He said the incisions made were done with some knowledge of the anatomy, otherwise they would have made several smaller cuts, instead of the longer ones needed to reveal the strange organs and joints. He noticed they removed a small plastic valve from the heart that is reminiscent of genetic weaknesses inherent in selective breeding.
After speaking with the doctor, it occurred to me the Rebels may be genetically manipulating people in order to reach this kind of appearance. It would be a hard blow to Bible believers if real aliens showed up and announced a very different universal organization. That may be what's going to happen. Maybe the question is not, Are the aliens real? Perhaps the question is, Are they for real? The last thing we need is more powerful people telling us lies in this world.
Another strange story is that of the Philadelphia Experiment, supposed to have been conducted by the U.S. Navy in 1941. Reportedly, they were working with Einstein's unified field theory, (that is to unify or align two or more physical forces like electromagnetism and gravity, or some other force) on a ship, in the ocean, when something went drastically wrong. It seems the project ended in tragedy when several crewmen burst into flame during the test. Other seamen became embedded in the metal of the ship and still others continued to lapse into partial invisibility while at home with their families or while in bars during shore leave. A participant in the early stages of Project Rainbow says that extraterrestrial contact had been made even then by certain of our scientists and government officials.
Additional information on the Roswell incident concerns the disclosure of the documents known as "MJ-12" revealed the way US Military leaders enforced a lid of secrecy on UFOs in the past. Majestic-12 is a memo written on September 24, 1947, by order of President-elect Dwight Eisenhower on the details of a UFO that had crashed on July 7, 1947, in a remote region of New Mexico, approximately 75 miles northwest of Roswell Army Air Base. Four alien bodies had been recovered. The corpses were of smallish, large eyed beings. MJ-12 went on to describe how all military and civilian eye-witnesses to the downed UFO and it's alien crew had been 'debriefed' and a story of an errant weather balloon had been issued to the press.
Efforts may have begun to discredit any individual who might later attempt to declare the reality of the crashed 'flying saucer' and it's strange occupants. Attachments to MJ-12 include such artifacts as a letter written by Truman to Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal, cautioning him that the 'ultimate disposition' of all matters related to UFOs should rest with the office of the President. Some information must have reached General McArthur, inspiring his 'war of the worlds' speech.
More unqualified material says that "about 1954, Majestic-12, representing the Government, made a deal with the aliens which included a wide scale program of human abductions and cattle mutilation in exchange for advanced technology. According to the source, these abductions were explained as physical examinations designed to monitor the development and evolution of man."
If these were really extraterrestrials, chances are they would not need to make any deals to get what they wanted. But, if they are the Rebel gods, under some kind of rules, they would need authority before they could act.
A more recent anomaly occurred in Mexico City during a Solar Eclipse. As millions of people were standing, looking up into the sky, many became aware of ships just hanging in the air above their heads. There were three ships clearly visible to many that hung in the air at only a few thousand feet for over half an hour. Lots of people used the cameras, brought for the eclipse, to take pictures and videos of the ships. Fifteen or so were later aired on the Mexican equivalent to 20/20, and several were later aired on some U.S. stations.
There are several interesting considerations surrounding this event. First, What has changed in our world in the last fifty years that makes it possible for people to stand and watch alien space ships in their presence and do nothing? Not that long ago, while Orsen Wells was broadcasting a fantasy about men from Mars, thousands of people panicked and several committed suicide at the thought of being captured by the Martians. Yet nowadays, they stand and do nothing? Maybe something serious has already happened and we don't realize it.
Secondly, there were plasma trails coming from those ships. I have never heard that aliens, or even the Rebels used conventional power systems to push their crafts along. Unless the Rebels are subject to some kind of inflation, the only other explanation would be an alliance, or technology exchange with our government or some other powerful group, with no fear of the public. There is no way to guess what exactly is going on without more information.
If someone wanted to corrupt and mislead the people, they would need to be in positions of power like, religious leaders, government officials, and so on. And if it is the agenda of the Rebels is to corrupt the earth, they would need to occupy these places, and it would not be surprising to find a conspiracy between government leaders, religious leaders, and the children of the Rebels.
Other prophetic signs and wonders exist that only the Truth will explain. Thousands of years ago signs appeared in the Nazca Plain that could not have been done by the local residents. Is someone playing games with us? Anyone intelligent enough and able to create these things must have some kind of agenda, and anyone who is sincere would share that agenda with us.
These examples are not the best, only the nearest to hand. Much more and better evidence will be seen on TV and in the media than is included here. It is not my intent to bring all or even new evidence to light here, but to suggest how to interpret what evidence there is in a reasonable manner. I think everything that has happened in our world can be explained within the conflict between the Kingdom and the Rebels.
Science
"Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next, they say it has been discovered before. Lastly, they say they have always believed it"
Louis Agassiz
While researching this material, many interesting things turned up that should be shared with the reader. I guess this chapter is directed to challenging some misconceptions about Science and the Bible that have somehow developed. In addition, the Bible was not part of the material used to discover answers until the very last, when it was decided to use the Bible verses to bring another dimension to the report.
It is strange that science is used to argue against the Bible. Perhaps it's because most people think science is too complex to argue with, so it makes a handy weapon. Fact is, science cannot be in conflict with the Bible, because they do not coincide. Science focuses on the observable quantifiable aspects of the universe and attempts to answer the question, How? While Scripture, on the other hand, deals with matters of faith and gives answers to the question, Why?
It is recorded in the Book of Daniel that the children of Israel were "children in whom was no blemish, but well favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and understanding science..." It seems the Bible has nothing against science.
Radio Carbon Dating
Radio carbon dating is one of the more popular arguments for the theory of evolution. That theory is used to argue against the Bible extensively; what is revealed here will bring things into a more realistic perspective for the reader.
Radio carbon dating uses the radioactive isotope of carbon, of mass 14 with a half life of about 5570 years. By measuring the emission of radioactivity from this isotope in a substance, and calculating the reduction from it's half life, and measuring the amount of decayed material present, scientists claim they can accurately date an object.
Isotopes are elements. According to the Readers Digest Encyclopedic Dictionary, "Elements such as carbon... are composed of atoms having an invariant nuclear charge and cannot be decomposed by ordinary chemical means."
Since trees and animals do not have nuclear reactors in them, and digest food by 'ordinary chemical means', they must not affect the elements that pass through them. And if they don't compose or decompose elements, but only use them and the decay material from the food they eat, How do these things relate to any measurement of age?
Since elements are passed from one living thing to another; say a tree to be eaten by a giraffe, which is then eaten by a lion, and so forth, How would it reflect on the age of any of these things if the element were taken and measured by a scientist somewhere along the way? Elements that were once a dinosaur, and then a rock, and a dozen other things, may now be part of my arm.
For example: If I take pieces of pottery dated at 50 thousand years of age, smash them to powder, then shape it into a coffee cup, fire it to remove the water, and bring it to a lab, one of two results must occur. The scientists must conclude the cup is 50 thousand years old, or they must use some other standard for dating the cup. If they use different standards, all they say is in error. The same principle applies to everything in the world. We cannot judge the age of the mountain by the age of the dust.
Similar problems exist with the Potassium-Argon and Argon-Argon techniques for measuring the age of rocks. Some scientists say we can date rocks by measuring the amount of Argon produced by decaying Potassium, which decays at a steady rate. First we must assume no Argon is present when the potassium begins to decay. Second, we must assume there is no other way for Argon to get into the rock; and Thirdly, we must assume all the Argon present is radiogenic in origin, that is, produced by the Potassium. All these assumptions are false. First, rocks heated to 700-800 degrees can absorb high amounts of Argon from surrounding sources. Second, there is absolutely no way to determine radiogenic Argon from Argon already present, or from another source. Dacite was taken from Mt. St. Helens known to be only 10 years old because people watched while it came out. It was carefully preserved, prepared, then tested over 2 million years of age. Similar results have come from volcanos around the world including Hawai, Mt Etna in Sicily, Mt Lassen plagioclase in California, and Sunset Crater in Arizona.
Entropy
The first and second law of thermodynamics have to do with entropy. The first law basically says, you can't get back all the energy you put into something. The second law says you can't even come close to getting back all the energy you put into something. Even the Dictionary defines entropy,
"The irreversible tendency of a system, including the universe, toward increasing disorder and inert-ness."
That means the universe is decreasing in complexity; decaying and running down and so is this planet and everything on it. While it may not seem the earth is rotting under our feet, we must remember, this is not a closed system. We get energy from the sun, which keeps the wind blowing and the grass growing. Even so, we do not increase in complexity, we just decrease at a slower rate.
Three things must be present to increase complexity; information, power, and work. Using these things, we can increase complexity to the limit of our ability. For example, we can take a pile of steel and plastic and other materials and make a car. Now the car is more complex than it was as raw materials, but if it sits long enough, it will revert back to the materials it was made of.
Creation of life is against the way of nature. It would take a great deal of power and intelligence to organize and compose the basic processes of life in millions of organisms, not to mention them interacting with one another. The idea that all this could have developed from primordial scum is ludicrous. Things decay, they do not become more complex and leap to life. This pattern is clear in nature as plants and animals do not become more complex, they adapt or they die, but they do not form more complex or higher abilities. A gene pool can stay pure or it can weaken, but it cannot ascend to a higher level. Using intelligence and energy and work, we can selectively breed a variety into a stronger variety, but we cannot make one species into another. Left without information and intelligence to guide our civilization, things would degenerate back to the way they began. There can be no crossing the barrier of species as we know it. Charles Darwin never said creatures could cross that line. He said that reproduction was species specific and, "individual variations advantageous to an organism tend to become perpetuated in later generations." In his words, "survival of the fittest" ensues. So, without some powerful force and intelligent work, nothing can be created or ascend to a more complex form. In short, evolution as a general theory, that is that man came from a lower life form, is a most unlikely hypothesis.
The Zebra
Evolutionists claim organisms evolved individually from lessor life forms, yet mutation is almost always degenerative, so that it rarely produces a stronger characteristic.
Consider the Zebra. The primary defense of the Zebra are it's stripes, which do not function as camouflage, but serve to prevent visual selection of a single animal within the herd. The predator must select a single animal before attacking, and it is common to see a lion rush up and begin to look about in confusion, unable to select a victim. Only when one is outside the visual scope of the heard, can he focus on it for prey.
Most grass eating beasts live in herds but depend on other types of defense i.e. speed, horns, massive size or sheer number, for their survival.
Genetically, what inside an organism could design a defense mechanism based upon proximity to it's environment and the complex limitations of it's primary predator?
Prehistoric Climate
Archaeologists say the average temperature of the earth was much warmer during dinosaur times. Evidence includes fossils of vegetation and dinosaurs found all over the world that could not survive cold weather.
Anytime a planet gets direct sunlight, and it has an atmosphere, it will also have weather patterns, because of the uneven warming of it's surface. There is no evidence of weather patterns during pre-historic times.
In the beginning of the world, the air would have been thick and the temperature constant. There would have been a thick layer of water surrounding the planet and preventing weather patterns of heat and cold. According to the Bible, it did not rain during the first age of the world. Genesis 2:6, "But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground". It is recorded that God made the 'firmament' and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above it. The thick shroud of water that must have surrounded the earth in those days would have created a greenhouse effect, and it would also block the Ultraviolet rays from the sun which cause aging. It is recorded that men lived over nine hundred years in that age of the world. It would also explain where the water came from to produce a world-wide flood while simultaneously changing the climate of the world.
Dinosaurs could not have lived in direct sunlight. They had no sweat glands and could not dissipate heat quickly enough. Consider the amount of heat generated by a 12 ton animal chasing it's prey about 60 miles per hour in the bright sunlight.
What is more, they could not sit on their eggs like chickens, so, at night when the temperature dropped, the embryos would have died.
Huge flying dinosaurs could not have flown in a thin viscosity, but need a thick viscous medium to support their weight. Today, the largest creature able to fly is a condor, with a wing span of only about ten feet, and they are barely able to get airborne.
Archaeology
Physical evidence extant today from the shaping of the earth by powerful forces leaves a record for all to see. What scientists insist took millions of years to form may have been reformed in very short time. Mysteries like that of a man's foot print inside that of a saber toothed tiger is only a mystery if we accept the evolution theory. According to the Bible, in the First Age of the world, there were 'monsters in the earth in those days'.
The evidence we have may actually support the creation model better than the evolution model. The following information came from a speech given by Dr. Henry Morris, who was quoting another author, also named Morris, who wrote a little book entitled Science and the Bible. Dr. Morris was an engineer specializing in Hydrodynamics and Archaeology.
He says that sedimentary rocks of the earth's crust probably provide the most vexing problem we have in correlating science and the Bible. If you really press the people who reject the Bible on any kind of a basis, particularly an intellectual basis, you'll find that fundamentally it boils down to their belief that the first chapters of genesis have been disproved be science. And they use that as a basis for all sorts of other intellectual, philosophical, and scientific arguments that they might have against the Bible. They're so convinced that the earth is billions of years old and that life has been gradually changing over those long ages, and on that account they see that the account in Genesis can't be true. All you have to do is read the first chapter of the Bible to know that it is completely unscientific. It talks about everything being made in six days. Then you add up the numbers in Genesis five and eleven and you get several thousand years. In order to fit the geological age system in, you have to resort to a very strained interpretation such as the Day-Age theory, and so on. Most people recognize that it cannot match and they're so sure that geology and evolution is true they reject the Bible out of hand.
Even though, as we study the fossil record, we see that no transitional series from one kind to another kind exists. Still, we have some answers that explain what the fossil record does represent.
First we should ask, Has God been creating things over the long ages? Why would he do that? What basis do we have for believing in the literal Genesis flood? Because that's the key to the interpretation of earth history. It could not be interpreted as a local flood. It was a world-wide cataclysm, according to the Bible, which destroyed the world. But the system of geology which has been in effect for over one hundred fifty years precludes a world-wide cataclysm such as the flood.
Now back in the beginning of the science of geology, back in the seventeen and eighteen centuries, the geologists were flood geologists. They did interpret the geological strata and the rocks and fossils to be the products of the flood of Noah. These were intelligent men, outstanding in their professions. Men like Isaac Newton at Cambridge, believed that and wrote books on flood geology. Steno, the father of stratigrophy believed in the flood; his principles of stratigrophy are still in effect and used today. So these were competent men who founded geology, but with the coming of the nineteenth century, the pendulum shifted away from that idea.
Buthaw and Hutton and Lyell in particular, who was the immediate predecessor and colleague of Darwin, decided that we didn't have to have a flood or any other type of catastrophe to interpret the structure of the earth's crust, but rather we could interpret it in terms of present processes. And so the watch word came to be, 'the present is the key to the past'. And if you're going to explain the great beds of sedimentary rocks and the great canyons and all the other geological features in terms of present processes, which operate slowly, then of course, you have to have long ages of time. And having long ages of time does provide the chronological framework to make evolution be natural selection feasible; and Darwin, of course, briefly acknowledges his debt to Lyell, that he had provided the time needed to make natural selection operative. The key premise then in the interpretation of earth history through the study of geology has been uniformitarianism. The last chapter that the apostle Paul wrote says, he wants to stir up their minds, and this is significant because the context is the last days; and then he says, "There shall come in the last days scoffers walking after their own lust and saying where is the promise of His coming, for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation."
That's only the doctrine of continuity or uniformity. All things continue as they were not from the end of creation, but from the beginning of creation. In other words, everything that ever was can be explained in terms of processes that still continue. This is the doctrine of uniformity. Paul says, those who hold the doctrine of uniformity are willingly ignorant. The evidence is against them and they won't look at it, and the true framework of history is creation and the flood.
Earth history by the historical geologists has been developed around the concept of the geological column. This is supposed to represent the actual vertical cross-section through the earth's crust from the surface to the crystalline basement on the bottom. This might be anywhere from zero, there are some places where the crystalline basement is practically at the surface, the average might be perhaps a mile, to several thousand feet. At the bottom, you find very old rock identified as Cambrian, in which there are tiny marine vertebrates. Then, as you go up through the Paleozoic Era, you get to the place where there are some vertebrates, fish shark, or lungfish. The higher up Pennsylvanian and Mississippi is where we find the reptiles, and finally as we cross the boundary between the Paleozoic era, which is the era of ancient life, into the Mesozoic era of intermediate life, we reach the age of the reptiles. The age of the reptiles upward comes the great dinosaurs and finally the end of the Crustaeous period about seven million years ago, we get into the age of birds and mammals and find their fossils in the rocks. Finally, toward the top, maybe the Pliocene, certainly the Pleistocene, we find human fossils. The idea is, of course, you find intermediate hominids and hominid in the Tersery leading up to man from some common ancestor with the apes.
One question that might immediately be asked is, Where do we go to actually check this out in the field? The only place this column exists is in a textbook. The local geological column will be vastly different from this. It won't have near all these different ages or formations or anything like that. It'll have a certain portion of them, and of course the geologist will try to fit the local column, as he researches and studies the rocks and fossils in his locality, he'll try to fit that into the standard column. If this were complete, if we had the type locations of all of these, all in one place, it would be a very thick column. Instead of being an average of a mile, it would be over a hundred miles. But by application of the principle of superposition, lithographic identification, recognition of uniformities and reference to fossil succession, both the thick and the thin masses are correlated with other beds at other sites where there is established in detail the stratigraphic succession for all geological ages. So by these principles, this has gradually built up, mostly in England but some in Europe, and New York, until it's been taken for a standard for all other parts of the world.
So, how do you determine the age of a rock? The column isn't out there, so How do you determine where to fit it into the column? How do you get a geological age? Most people think geologists can just tell by looking, old rocks look old and young rocks look young. But is isn't that easy, because nothing about the nature of a rock tells you the age. You can find limestones and basalts and granites and conglomerates and rocks of every kind in every age. What's more, you can find minerals, metals, and structures of all types in all ages. You would think that the rocks on the bottom would be the oldest, but that isn't always true either. Even superposition doesn't tell you the age of a rock. Boundaries between eras, periods, and epochs generally denote sudden and significant changes in the character of fossil remains. For example, the boundary between the Triassic and the Jurassic periods, of the Mesozoic, about one hundred eighty million years ago, was supposedly marked by a spontaneous appearance of a new species. This did not turn out to be true at all. There are marine invertebrate which lived only a short time in history and throughout history, that scientists have identified and classified and now use as "index fossils". The Trilobite is the index fossil in the Cambrian, the Ammonite in the Jurassic and so on. But how do you know which fossils go in what age?
According to the accepted method, this is accomplished by the only chronometric scale which is furnished by these fossils, and owing to the irreversibility of evolution. In other words, by the stage of life in an assemblage going from simple to complex organisms. That would be OK says Mr. Morris, but How do we date the fossils, by the age of the rocks they are in? And how do we date the rocks? Well, by the fossils that are in them. So here we go round and round dating each by the other and all owing to the irreversibility of evolution based on the arrangement of fossils from simple to complex. Even this might be OK if there were no conflicts or anomalies to explain which tend to upset the theory. But there are.
Since science and geology don't even support the evolution model, these conflicts and anomalies must be a key to understanding the geology, and so, the events of the past. Some of these anomalies include large graveyards or deposits of dinosaur bones all over the world. Not only dinosaurs, but also elephants, tigers, and fish were found fossilized in many different areas. Obviously, fish do not become fossilized by ordinary uniformitarian means. If a fish dies, it floats to the surface and decays or is eaten by other fish. In order for these graveyards to exist, not only did all the fish have to die at once, but they had to be suddenly buried by a huge catastrophe. Otherwise they wouldn't be fossils at all.
Dr. Morris discussed other evidence to do with hydrodynamics of sedimentary deposition. One point he made is the large number of variables that affect the transport and the sedimentary process. Some of the variables include; viscosity of the liquid, diameter of the sediment, depth, velocity, and bed roughness. He said each one of the strata in the earth is deposited by a system with all the above variables. If any one of the these variables changed then the deposition of the sediment also changes. What is more, no system lasts more than a few hours or days at most. He says, each formation in the earth represents a rapid deposition represented by the fossils in the formation, the hydraulic nature of the strata and so forth.
What the evidence does support however, is the flood model where the simple to complex arrangement would be caused by the hydrodynamic process. In addition, if evolution is not true, then you would not be surprised when you find anomalies like the footprint of a man inside that of a saber toothed tiger, or a dinosaur like that seen in the Biloxi river bottom, which proves man lived at the same time as these creatures. The creation model is easier to believe based on the evidence we have.
Beside the physical evidence, if we examine some of the social behavior of man, there may be patterns that reveal something about our history. Following is an idea from the late professor C.S. Lewis, that implies that Bible may be more insightful that previously suspected.
Psychology
Oxford Don and Cambridge Dean, Lewis wrote extensively about Bible issues, usually to the end of rendering them into the common speech and understanding.
He says, when we argue with someone using statements like; 'Give me a bit of your orange, I gave you a bit of mine,' or 'That's my seat, I was there first', or even 'How would you like it if someone did the same to you?' What we are really saying is we have the same values and we expect them to have the same values as we have. Whatever this law of nature or rule of fair play is in our mind, it is in everybody's mind. No matter where we are in the world, or what the circumstance, we share a common understanding with other people. Otherwise, we could not argue in the common sense at all, but we might fight like dogs.
Who knows how long this common understanding has been in effect, but how could we have evolved such that everybody has the same software? Perhaps this verse from the Bible concerns this idea.
Hebrews 10:16, "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."
Summary
Ancient writings from Homer and from the Bible agree there were other gods on earth in the past. Eric Von Daniken provides evidence of objects that were produced by a higher intelligence, which points to someone powerful who does not appear. Evidence exists today of a nuclear blast in Russia before we had the technology. Who did that? Ancient temples and statues all over the world testify to the presence of powerful visitors in our past.
From this evidence it is reasonable to conclude powerful, intelligent, and immortal people once lived on this planet in the distant past. Under a series of names like Zeus, Osiris, Apollo, and Ishtar, it is obvious the same gods existed from one culture to another over thousands of years. Symbols exist with the same meaning between cultures that could not have had contact.
Characterized by their evil lifestyles filled with murder, sexual excesses, and corruption, the Rebels have left a clear trail throughout history. In Egypt, there is the Book of the Dead and the Pyramids, along with idols and artifacts found in the tombs of the kings, that tell of their gods. In Peru, there are the Inca temples and engraved stones that tell of the human sacrifices to their gods. In Rome, there is literature and statues in abundance that describe their gods and their evil way of life.
Cleverly mixed with Christianity, it contaminated the first Christian Religion that sprang up in the New Age. While allegiance is the central focus of the Bible, we are corrupted to the point that allegiance to the Rebels is traditional in our culture. For example, the 'Caduceus' or 'staff of Hermes' is our symbol for medicine, while Hermes was he conductor of the dead to hell!
In order to become a member of many fraternities and professions, it is required to take an ancient oath to one of the Rebel gods.
Secret organizations exist in almost every city nowadays where, under the guise of a social club, or fraternity of brethren doing good, people ignorantly practice the Mystery Religion of old.
The meaning of things is becoming clear as we see that science really has no case against the Bible. Carbon 14, evolution, and the results of archaeology are not at all what we thought they were; they support the Bible more than any other model. Archaeological evidence shows the world was destroyed by a catastrophic flood that lasted about eighteen months.
People everywhere can examine themselves to find a common moral code imprinted on their conscience. Hebrews 10:16, "Saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them." What we think of as a conscience is common to all people of the world.
Still more evidence is found in the present. Unidentified flying ships are reported all over the world nowadays. Thousands of people are complaining they have been abducted by the occupants of these ships and molested with needles and probes while being operated on against their will.
Evidence has surfaced that indicates somebody is covering up vital facts about what they think are extraterrestrials. Simple logic ought to occur in the minds of the government that if the aliens were genuine, Why would they need permission to take what they want? And Why wouldn't they contact us openly and in public?
After examining writings from ancient times, along with physical evidence still in existence, and the same from different periods since, some amazing conclusions must be reached. First, we are not alone. That is, other kinds of beings are here too. There is too much evidence to deny like; The great Pyramid, the designs on the Nazca plain, ancient writings, even modern phenomena. This should convince anyone, except those who have private reasons to disbelieve.
According to the Bible, Satan and the sons of God were coming and going from heaven to earth since the beginning until Christ came. Job 1:6, "Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them. 7. And the lord said to Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From the earth, and from walking up and down in it."
The Bible has been accurate in every aspect of this investigation, and it is the only book that explains everything. If it is accurate about the future as well, the end may not be far away.
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
Winston Churchill
