Biblical Genealogies - "God" is All Knowing: Evolution and Big Bang Atheism
* All responsible individuals can act through the light of Christ and do good, or choose an opposite course and create chaos. When Adam and Eve partook of the forbidden fruit, they not only brought death upon themselves, but upon all surrounding elements and all species. Pain and suffering are necessary conditions to understand opposites in this state of mortality. Because god knew Adam and Eve would fail, the Father sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem all mankind, according to their own free agency, in doing good works to those with whom they associate, including keeping the earth habitual for all forms of life, and proper use of elements. * Science is [the state or fact of knowledge; knowledge]; the [systematized knowledge derived from observation, study, and experimentation carried on in order to determine the nature or principles of what is being studied.] God is the state or fact of all knowledge and has power over all creations in the Universe. God allows His children to act independently for themselves, both male and female; to choose their own fate according to their own works. [For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?] Science is science when it sticks to the "how", but steps over the boundary into religion, when it theoretically tries to negate the "eternal", and substitute circular, man made, atheistic, narrow reasoning into "beginnings" it cannot measure. In other words, "non-religious" behavior occurs when there is the willful intention to theoretically negate the "eternal" as an aspect of all existence. Atheism, on the other hand substitutes the deity of man for god, based upon individual self will and sensual gratification, each person skeptically seeing out of their own glass darkly. * A wise professor at a University, after years of experience, may have acquired the ability to detect, after a short period of time, who, in a new class of study is destined to fail the course, or who will pass the tests well. But, it is still up to the individual students, by their own application, to prove themselves either worthy of personal honor or lose face. Jesus Christ chose twelve apostles and knew that one would betray Him. Jesus Christ did not stop the pain and suffering and betrayal, even though He knew He would be crucified. * Evolution and The Big Bang are materialistic explanations of atheistic religion, a historical replay of ancient pantheistic religions, as practiced formerly in Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Roman and other civilizations. o http://www.pantheism.net/paul/beliefs.htm * Earth in the Balance: [A growing number of anthropologists and archeo-mythologists argue that the prevailing ideology of belief in prehistoric Europe and much of the world was based on the worship of a single earth goddess, who was assumed to be the fount of all life and who radiated harmony among all living things.] [Much of the evidence for the existence of this primitive religion comes from the many thousands of artifacts uncovered in ceremonial sites. These sites are so widespread that they seem to confirm the notion that a goddess religion was ubiquitous throughout much of the world until the antecedents of today's religions - most of which still have a distinctly masculine orientation - swept out of India and the Near East, almost obliterating belief in the goddess.] [The last vestige of organized goddess worship was eliminated by Christianity. ] (page 261). o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_in_the_Balance * [Scottish philosopher James Hutton (1726–1797). During the nineteenth century, major parts of this theory's ingenious geological elements were detached from the deistic and teleological framework in which they were embedded, and Hutton became enshrined as a founder of British geology. Hutton's system, which appeared in Edinburgh as an abstract in 1785, an essay in 1788, and a much- enlarged two-volume treatise in 1795, examined terrestrial processes by which continental surfaces are cyclicall renovated through erosion, sedimentary consolidation, and elevation. Hutton viewed the tenability of this life- sustaining set of processes in equilibrium as a test— successful, in his estimation—of the divine ordination of a benevolent physical order. That he was able to offer crucial field evidence in favor of key aspects of the scheme lent support to his vision of cyclic repetitions of geological processes operating over unimaginably long periods. Hutton's advocacy of an enormously expanded timescale (he commented that from an empirical viewpoint the Earth showed "no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end") is often heralded as the launching of nineteenth-century theories of geology, leading in turn to evolutionary concepts.] * P[aleontologists have to rely on relative dating by solving the "jigsaw puzzles" of biostratigraphy], and one of the most prominent early paleontologists, produced rational time related conclusions. Louis Bourguet (1678-1742), listed in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol. XV, published by the American Council of Learned Societies, believed in the common origin of all peoples and languages and questioned the presumed great age and isolation of the people of China. He declared that the great world wide Flood was but the amplification of normal processes and the "exceptional convergence, ordained by God, of ordinary causes." Louis Bourguet explored fossil sites throughout Europe, suggesting they were from animal and vegetable origins. [Louis Bourguet (1678-1742), a geologist, classified fossils and crystals along a "scale," starting the Great Chain of Being in the "mineral kingdom."] He enlarged the pedigree of theories of the Earth, sketching the tradition's origins by classifying theories into three major conceptual models: Platonic, Aristotelian, and Mosaic.] o http://www.answers.com/topic/theories-of-the-earth * [Louis Bourguet (Nimes 1678 - Neuchatel 1742) led a very hectic life; born in France from Protestant parents he had to flee with them to Switzerland at the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and was obliged to enter the family firm and to work in it before becoming free of leading the studious life he intended. He traveled frequently to Italy where he got acquainted with many prominent naturalists, among whom Vallisneri, Monti and Zendrini, to whom this book is dedicated. This is the first book by Bourguet, the second was the more famous Traite des petrifications appeared in 1742. It has the form of four letters directed to Scheuchzer, where Bourguet compares the elementary process of the mineral world (crystallization) and of the living world (generation, assimilation, growth). Crystal growth is a product of the mineral mechanism, whereas the growth of plants and animals is an effect of the organic mechanism ... Bourguet studied stalactites and described their internal radial structure ... Bourguet s attempt to explain crystallization was innovative. He asserted that a crystal is created not from water, but in water which carries a multitude of extremely small particles, the fusion of which creates a crystal or concretion. To each crystalline substance there correspond particles of specific, determinate shape where particular laws of growth govern the external form ... In speaking about a theory of Earth Bourguet intended a rational reconstruction of its history and dynamic causality, which he claimed to deduce solely from his observations. He declared that all parts of Earth as it is presently constituted are more or less coeval, dating from the time of the Flood. This deluge was not a supernatural miracle, but the amplification of normal processes ... Bourguet elaborated a genuine theory of orogeny ... Mountains were formed near the end of the grand changement (or renovation of the Earth by the Flood) when the flat- lying, concentric new strata, rebuilt from the dissolution of the ancient word, began to harden. The acceleration of the earth s rotation then induced an upward thrust, or dynamic direction d' elevation . He explained the differing local arrangement of the strata by the variable degree of consolidation at the start. Furthermore, he attributed their more or less regular conformity to the earth s motion and to the general and particular orientation of the chain being formed. Such considerations point directly to the ideas of H. B. De Saussure. (DSB).] o http://www.papyrusrarebooks.com/Catalogue.htm * [A French geologist and naturalist; Bourguet (1678-1742) was one of the prominent geologists of his day. He pioneered concepts in physical geology and the structure of the earth, many of these appearing in the above work "Traite de Petrifications". This is one of the earliest books on paleontology published in French and also Bourguet's most important work. The majority of the beautifully rendered illustrations are of fossils collected by Bourguet primarily in Switzerland and the remaining illustrations are reproduced from fossils appearing in works by Lange and Scheuchzer. ] o http://www.geology-books.com/servlet/the-65/Book-by-Louis-dsh-Bourguet-and/Detail * Additionally, the journal Nature news, published online on 31 May 2006, notes that a "core of sediment pulled from the bottom of the Arctic Ocean has confirmed" (that at some period in the past), "the North Pole was as warm as a balmy summer day." . . . "it also seems that the North Pole began to cool at about the same time as the Antarctic. This timing suggests that climate was being driven by a global factor, such as atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases, rather than something more local, such as geological upheaval." . . . "the atmosphere at the time was exceptionally rich in greenhouse gases . . . amplified by an additional factor possibly heat-trapping stratospheric clouds or hurricane-induced ocean mixing." Excluding the incorrect time periods, scientific confirmation is given of an abrupt worldwide Flood. * CBS SCI-TECH online News, 31 May 2006, ncludes: "Imagine a world where there are dense sequoia trees and cypress trees like in Florida that ring the Arctic Ocean . . . Researchers are not sure what caused the sudden boost of carbon dioxide that set the greenhouse effect on broil. Possible culprits could be huge releases of methane from the ocean, gigantic continent-sized burning of trees, or lots of volcanic eruptions. " * The celestial environment in the Garden of Eden, including the celestial bodies of Adam and Eve, had no radioactive decay: the death process. After the Fall, the vegetarian animals and some plants became carnivorous. Radioactive decay, or the death process, did not begin upon this earth, prior to the partaking of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. The process of decay and physical degeneration upon the earth was slower during the time of the early Patriarchs. That is why they are recorded with long lives. * Finding a substitute for evolution and big bang atheism requires the establishment of a core set of ideas from which all thinking individuals can derive positive conclusions. Before one considers the relationship of science and religion, a definition must arise concerning what is "spirit" or "spiritual". Considering physics and Einstein, I would suggest that "spirit" is "E*". Putting it in another setting, I would say "spirit" is the form of matter that is more infinitesimal, such as sugar which is refined and pure. "Spirit" therefore is matter, nonetheless. Note however, I stated "E*" and not "E". E* is spirit not subject to physical force, but that which sustains physical structure. For anyone who has faced the death of a loved one, the immediate loss of life from the physical body reveals sudden change in biology: action to inaction. Or, seeing the birth of a baby, from womb to a fully breathing individual, the sudden change to independence. * Were you to consider the life of Christ, and seriously evaluate His stated gifts and powers, as the literal son of God, the Eternal Father, from a scientific standpoint: He has infinite mass density. His formed words then control all elements. Walking on water, passing through walls with a resurrected physical body, raising the dead and healing the sick, are simply the effects of an infinite mass density in control of all matter that is more coarse, and in a less refined and pure state. [And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. ] Singularity of purpose. * Science deals in its studies with the nature of and effects found in more coarse matter. On the other side of the sliding scale, the "religion" portion of matter deals with "spirit" that is more refined and pure; namely, all element that has been created by an Eternal God and whose form is eternal within itself, such as our contained spirits, or as stated in Genesis, "These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. " Bottom Line: Every form of life has a "spirit" existence, prior to physical reality, an eternal DNA that cannot be changed over time or space; composed of more refined and pure matter, that cannot be seen by the human eye unaided. [The physics of most models of grand unification cannot be discovered directly at particle colliders because the new particles they predict have masses at the so-called GUT scale which lies few orders of magnitude below the Planck scale and thus far beyond the reach of man-made collision experiments. . . . As of 2010 [update], there is still no hard evidence that nature is described by a Grand Unified Theory] Except, In the beginning, God . . . o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Unified_Theory * Religion considers the eternal nature of man and the elements, and answers the "why" questions, such as Why am I here on Earth? Science is science when it sticks to the "how", but steps over the boundary into religion, when it theoretically tries to negate the "eternal", and substitute circular, man made, atheistic, narrow reasoning into "beginnings" it cannot measure. Microscopes and modern telescopes are like toys in the hands of men and women, compared to evidences shown by the Urim and Thummim [to describe the dwelling place of God, the earth in a future state, and the white stone mentioned in the Book of Revelation.] There is no convincing evidence in the scientific world that provides any authoritative standing, to question Biblical, expert witness testimonies, as noted by Rethinking Galactic Architecture: Dark Matter Optional by Bruce Dorminey. . . . (1) Globular clusters—giant balls of hundreds of thousands of tightly spaced, very long-lived star -- are the oldest stellar systems in the Milky Way. Yet after decades of looking for answers, astronomers still don't know how they form. . . . (2) Knowing for sure how these clusters form is critical to understanding how the universe came to be, says Conroy. "Globular clusters," he says "guide our way toward a more complete understanding of how galaxies assemble and evolve through time." o http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/11/rethinking-galactic-architecture.html * [And I, Abraham, had the Urim and Thummim, which the Lord my God had given unto me, in Ur of the Chaldees; And I saw the stars, that they were very great, and that one of them was nearest unto the throne of God; and there were many great ones which were near unto it; And the Lord said unto me: These are the governing ones; and the name of the great one is Kolob, because it is near unto me, for I am the Lord thy God: I have set this one to govern all those which belong to the same order as that upon which thou standest.] o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urim_and_Thummim o http://scriptures.lds.org/abr/3/ * I do not wish to go into the history of mind- body relationships. Suffice it to say that for humans, [control of behavior on the basis of complex sensory input requires the information-integrating capabilities of a centralized brain.] W[hen the brain undergoes some kind of damage (caused by automobile accidents, drug abuse or pathological diseases), it is always the case that the mental substance and/or properties of the person are significantly compromised. ] * Contained in the given cited reference: "Thus I, Abraham, talked with the Lord, face to face, as one man talketh with another; and he told me of the works which his hands had made; And he said unto me: My son, my son (and his hand was stretched out), behold I will show you all these. And he put his hand upon mine eyes, and I saw those things which his hands had made, which were many; and they multiplied before mine eyes, and I could not see the end thereof." This suggests that the whole body of God is a storage repository; that ultimately, we think with our whole body, as we are created in the image of god, both man and woman. (In this case, as related to humanity, god being defined as eternal, immortal husband and wife.) This experience suggests to all thinking minds, that to develop a storage system that could even, for a beginning, store within the framework of a human body, the code to run and maintain the Milky Way, let alone the other billions of galaxies in the observable universe as we perceive it, would most certainly require having an infinite mass density. * I refer you to a statement made by Richard Dawkins . . ."we know from the second law of thermodynamics that all complexity, all life, all laughter, all sorrow, is hell bent on leveling itself out into cold nothingness in the end. They-- and we-- can never be more then (than) temporary, local buckings of the great universal slide into the abyss of uniformity. " Or, in other words, "the phenomenon of irreversibility in nature", that "All complex natural processes are irreversible." The resurrection of Jesus Christ contradicts this assertion, which is at the very heart of Christianity. All the ultimate physical effects arising from the second law of thermodynamics, without the intersession of any portion of the light of Christ, would be a state of "non-religious" existence. The "one word" defined as: Hell. o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins * A Being having infinite mass density would be essentially a controlled, emitting supernova in human form, that would consciously be able to, like our sun, radiate constant energy levels that would restore and maintain all life and creations made by His hand, overriding all the projected effects of the second law of thermodynamics; holding the keys of death, hell, the grave, and every variation of immortality and eternal lives. Or, in other words, the expanding universe, the content of which is a set of all points that contain space and matter jointly, or cardinal elements, are ever expanding and increasing the glory of god its Creator; meaning, the mass body of god must be infinitely increasing as it records both control codes and the Universe "history". Spirit is matter, only more refined and pure, infinitesimal and eternal in nature, upon which can be written, by the power of the Holy Ghost, all of the characteristics and attributes of Almighty god, through the grace of His son the Lord Jesus Christ. The Write-once, read many (WORM) approach to holographic data storage provides mental similarity. [But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.] [Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.] KJV * [The holographic principle states that the entropy of ordinary mass (not just black holes) is also proportional to surface area and not volume; that volume itself is illusory and the universe is really a hologram which is isomorphic to the information "inscribed" on the surface of its boundary.] [Holograms can theoretically store one bit per cubic block the size of the wavelength of light in writing.] [Unlike current storage technologies that record and read one data bit at a time, holographic memory writes and reads data in parallel in a single flash of light.] [Memory storage density is a measure of the quantity of information bits that can be stored on a given length of track, area of surface, or in a given volume of a computer storage medium. Generally, higher density is more desirable, for it allows greater volumes of data to be stored in the same physical space. Density therefore has a direct relationship to storage capacity of a given medium.] At present, [By far the densest type of memory storage experimentally to date is electron quantum holography. By superimposing images of different wavelengths into the same hologram, a Stanford research team was able to achieve a bit density of 35bit/ electron (approx. 3 Exabytes/in^2.) This was demonstrated using electron microscopes and a copper medium as reported in the Stanford Report on January 28th 2009.] o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_storage_density * [Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, [which is] new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and [I will write upon him] my new name.] [In the Book of Ezekiel, we find the first biblical record of the New Jerusalem.]| [According to John, the New Jerusalem is "pure gold, like clear glass" and its "brilliance [is] like a very costly stone, as a stone of crystal-clear jasper." The street of the city is also made of "pure gold, like transparent glass". ] An [angel measures the city with a golden rod or reed, and records it as 12,000 stadia by 12,000 stadia at the base, and 12,000 stadia high. A stadion is usually stated as 185.4 meters, or 600 feet, so the base has dimensions of about 2225 km by 2225 km, or 1500 miles by 1500 miles. In the ancient Greek system of measurement, the base of the New Jerusalem would have been equal to 144 million square stadia. If rested on the Earth, its ceiling would be inside the exosphere.] o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exosphere * New Perspectives on the Mormon Past: Reflections of a Non-Mormon Historian: Mormon theology unequivocally states that the spiritual dimension is comprised of a form of matter too and presumably must also be subject to some form of natural law, if only we could understand it. Joseph Smith asserted: "All spirit is matter, but it is more refined and pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes." "Spirit is a substance that is material but that is more pure and elastic and refined matter than the body. . . . It existed before the [p.120]body, can exist in the body, and will exist separate from the body when the body will be moldering in the dust." John 20 (Complete Jewish Bible): Expert Witness . . . [Now T'oma (the name means "twin"), one of the Twelve, was not with them when Yeshua came. 25 When the other talmidim told him, "We have seen the Lord," he replied, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands, put my finger into the place where the nails were and put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe it." 26 A week later his talmidim were once more in the room, and this time T'oma was with them. Although the doors were locked, Yeshua came, stood among them and said, "Shalom aleikhem!" 27 Then he said to T'oma, "Put your finger here look at my hands, take your hand and put it into my side. Don't be lacking in trust, but have trust!" 28 T'oma answered him, "My Lord and my God!" 29 Yeshua said to him, "Have you trusted because you have seen me? How blessed are those who do not see, but trust anyway!" 30 In the presence of the talmidim Yeshua performed many other miracles which have not been recorded in this book. 31 But these which have been recorded are here so that you may trust that Yeshua is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by this trust you may have life because of who he is. [Lawrence Foster] o http://www.signaturebookslibrary.org/faithful/chapter7.htm o http://www.hts.gatech.edu/faculty/foster-lawrence.php o http://www.biblestudytools.com/cjb/john/20.html * [LDS rejection of hellenistic philosophy in matters of doctrine accounts for many characteristic differences between Latter-day Saints and other Christians. For example, Latter-day Saints reject the Platonic spirit-matter dichotomy, which holds that spirit and matter are opposed and inimical to each other. They believe instead that spirit is refined matter and that both spirit and matter are eternal, being neither created nor destroyed. The Prophet Joseph Smith[, Jr.] taught that "there is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but it is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes" (D&C 131:7). Thus, for Latter-day Saints there is no ultimate incompatibility between spirit and matter or between the spiritual and the physical realms. In LDS theology, the physical elements are coeternal with God. The idea that physical matter is transitory, corrupt, or incompatible with spiritual or eternal life is rejected. Latter-day Saints usually define "spiritual" as "infused with spirit" rather than as "nonphysical." This unitary understanding of spirit and matter allows them to accept the Father and the Son as the concrete, anthropomorphic beings represented in scripture and reject the definition of God as the abstract, "totally other" nonbeing of philosophical theology. For Latter-day Saints, God exists in the normal sense in association with time and space, rather than in the abstract Platonic sense of beyond time and space. The traditional disparagement of matter and of the physical state of being is not well grounded biblically, and Latter-day Saints believe it is a product of hellenistic thought. They also think the concept of a God "without body, parts or passions" dismisses too much of the biblical data or allegorizes it excessively. Since Mormons believe that the elements are eternal, it follows that they deny the ex nihilo creation. Rather, the universe was created (organized) out of preexisting elements that God organized by imposing physical laws. The Prophet Joseph Smith also taught that intelligence is also eternal and uncreated: "The intelligence of spirits had no beginning, neither will it have an end… Intelligence is eternal and exists upon a self-existent principle" (TPJS, pp. 353-54). Just as God organized preexisting matter to create the universe, so he organized preexisting intelligence to create the spirits that eventually became human beings. Consequently, Latter-day Saints do not view God as the total cause of what human beings are. Human intelligence is uncreated by God, and therefore independent of his control. Thus Mormons insist that human beings are free agents in the fullest sense, and deny both the doctrines of prevenient and irresistible grace, which make God's choice determinative for salvation or damnation. God will not coerce independent, self-existent wills. Though he desires the exaltation of all, and offers it equally to all, its achievement requires individual cooperation, a covenant relationship.] o http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/faq/faq_doctrine.htm * Why the Bible was written is conceptually contained in, or embedded with original formation of language concepts.[The Adamic language is, according to Abrahamic traditions, the language spoken by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.] . . . [Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, in his version of the Bible, declared the Adamic language to have been "pure and undefiled"] o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamic_language * Matthew J. Grow [Maxwell Institute, Brigham Young University,] notes: [Another heretofore unpublished item in Revelation Book 1 is "A Sample of pure Language given by Joseph the Seer." This revelation, which consists of a series of prophetic questions and divine answers and which was referred to by Orson Pratt in an 1855 sermon, identifies the "name [noted as AHMAN by Orson Pratt; i.e., the delightful man, or Man of Holiness: Give Him Awe or Ah, or Honor] of God in pure Language" as "Awman," the "being which made all things in all its parts."7 Christ is called the "Son Awman" and "the greatest of all the parts of Awman," while members of "the human family" are "the greatest parts of Awman Sons" (p. 265). ] ["What is the name of angels in the pure language?" "Anglo-man." o http://www.journalofdiscourses.org/volume-02/ o http://ispartnewsite.farmsresearch.com/publications/jbms/?vol=18&num=2&id=500 * The pure language of Adam, as above recorded, identifies that to be part of god, one must continue to be written in the Lamb's Book of Life or Book of Remembrance. Thus, keeping a genealogy in both the Old and New Testament, was maintaining, through the genealogies of the fathers, an umbilical chord connection between Almighty God, the Father of all the spirit children sent here upon this earth; the members of the "human family" being "the greatest parts of Awman Sons", or sons [and daughters] of Our Eternal Lord and Master, the very holy Jesus Christ, the YHWH god of the Septuagint House of Israel. Or, as noted in Revelation 3:5 "He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels." Thus, it is absolutely obvious that the Bible is not complete and much of its contents have been destroyed over the years; poorly recorded (defective languages), with some intentional errors. It is one of the beliefs of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, that eventually, all records will be restored until Adam has a perfect Book of Remembrance in his hands; [a gathering spot for a meeting of the priesthood leadership, including prophets of all ages and other righteous people, prior to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.] o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam-ondi-Ahman * Compare: [Adam-ondi-Ahman (sometimes clipped to Diahman) is an historic site along the east bluffs above the Grand River in Daviess County, Missouri. According to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints (LDS Church), it is the site where Adam and Eve lived after being expelled from the Garden of Eden] o Comment: This is "genealogy". It states that Adam and Eve lived in the area of Missouri, in the United States, after Eden expulsion; noting physical humans from whom all mankind descend, within a period of approximately 6,000 earth years. o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam-ondi-Ahman * VS * [Fossil and molecular evidence have hitherto suggested that the cercopithecoids (Old-World monkeys) and hominoid (ape and human) lineages diverged around the Oligocene/ Miocene boundary, 23 to 25 million years ago (Ma). In a challenge to the recentness of this estimate, Steiper et al. adopt a molecular approach called quartet analysis, which uses sequence data from two pairs of species from two clades to assess divergence dates with greater precision. For the hominoid branch, chimpanzee and human were chosen, and for the cercopithecoids, baboon and macaque; the divergence dates between the members of each pair were calibrated from fossil data. The resulting model suggests that the hominoid/cercopithecoid divergence took place in the Early Oligocene, 29 to 34.5 Ma. The implication of this result is that several million years of early hominoid history have yet to be sampled paleontologically and that Proconsul--hitherto considered the earliest of all hominoids--may have had earlier hominoid ancestors.] o Comment: This is massive "generality" (vague or inadequate statement), with uncertainty as "several million years of early hominoid history have yet to be sampled paleontologically and that Proconsul--hitherto considered the earliest of all hominoids--may have had earlier hominoid ancestors." This is not "a way of tracking familial genetic lines that transmit genetic diseases", nor does the ever changing DNA "eve" that hits the science news on a regular basis, create a connection with modern day man; they are both smoke screens that cover incompetent research methodology, not based in actual findings from evidence. o TinyURL http://tinyurl.com/27pmsaf * Current findings, dated August 25th, 2010 [Physicists are looking hard at the idea that radioactive decay rates are not constant, but are subject to outside influence. They are even looking to develop a practical application that could save the lives of future space explorers. . . . This is the strongest challenge yet to the conventional notion that radioactive decay rates never vary. If neutrinos (or, as the Stanford report asks, another, hitherto unknown particle) can affect radioactive decay, what other influences could affect it? This is not likely to explain the findings of vast quantities of decay products that have given rise to the tremendous estimates of the age of the earth; the Global Flood and its associated earthquakes probably explain that better. But it might force a re- examination of radiometric dating of once-living things using the carbon-14 method. Those dates might be considerably wide of the mark on account of an unknown number of solar flares between the death of the organism being sampled and the present day. More to the point, the notion that radioactive day rates are variable is a direct blow to the heart of the conventional case for an old earth, because it forces a re-examination of every premise that uses radiometric dating as its basis.] o http://www.examiner.com/creationism-in-national/more-evidence-that-radioactive-decay-is-not-constant * Research Notes: A. CREATION: The Origin of Man and The Origin of Man & Organic Evolution This earth has a temporal existence of 7,000 years. Radioactive Decay, or the death process, did not begin upon this earth, prior to the partaking of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. The process of decay and physical degeneration upon the earth was slower during the time of the early Patriarchs. o http://www.academic-genealogy.com/ancientandmoderngenealogies.htm#003 o http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/theory/nuclearstability.html * Almost all of the posterity of Adam and Eve, have had various changes in gene frequency within descending populations over a period of approximately 6,000 years. Before the modern era, there was a population bottleneck (or genetic bottleneck) during the time of Noah and the world wide flood, an evolutionary event in which a significant, almost total percentage of the human population or species was killed, and thus as a society, completely prevented from reproducing. [A population's genetic variation can be greatly reduced by a bottleneck, and even beneficial adaptations may be permanently eliminated. The loss of variation leaves the surviving population vulnerable to any new selection pressures such as disease, climate change or shift in the available food source, because adapting in response to environmental changes requires sufficient genetic variation in the population for natural selection to take place.] * The Holy Scriptures states that the atmosphere was at the time of the profiled patriarchs, different in composition from what it is today. All indications are that there was no rainbow in the heavens prior to the flood that covered the whole earth. Thus, as shown by the Holy Scripture, the process of decay and degeneration was slower, accepting the age and longevity recorded for the early Patriarchs from Adam to Noah. [Archbishop James Ussher calculated the Flood date: 2349 B.C. Moses informs us that Noah lived after the flood 350 years; making him 950 years old when he died (Gen. 9:28-29). Noah was 84 years old when Enos died, 176 when Cainan died, 234 when Mahalaleel died, 366 when Jared died, 595 when Lamech died, and 600 when Methuselah died. We can see from this that Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Methuselah, Lamech, and Noah all lived on the earth at the same time; and that Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Methuselah and Lamech, were all acquainted with both Adam and Noah.] * From current observations of world homo sapiens population groups (Latin: "wise man" or "knowing man"), one obvious alteration was change in skin pigmentation, as variations in [skin color are mainly of genetic origin and are associated with sunlight,] [Some types of fungi, called radiotrophic fungi, appear to be able to use melanin as a photosynthetic pigment that enables them to capture gamma rays and harness its energy for growth.] [In humans, melanin is the primary determinant of skin color. It is also found in hair, the pigmented tissue underlying the iris of the eye, and the stria vascularis of the inner ear. In the brain, tissues with melanin include the medulla and zona reticularis of the adrenal gland, and pigment-bearing neurons within areas of the brainstem, such as the locus coeruleus and the substantia nigra.] o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanin * [Photoprotection of the human skin is achieved by extremely efficient internal conversion of DNA, proteins and melanin. Internal conversion is a photochemical process that converts the energy of the UV photon into small amounts of heat. This small amount of heat is harmless.] However, according to the ages listed in the Biblical account, (with the climate change), there appears to have been a significant loss in the ability of human melanin to capture sunlight in such a way as to harness its energy for growth; or, photosynthetic pigment (converting light into biochemical energy). o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_conversion_%28chemistry%29 o http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jgd1000/melanin.html o http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirsense/ftirtouch.mpg * Respectfully yours, * V. Chris & Thomas Milton Tinney, Sr. * Who's Who in America, Millennium Edition [54th] through 2004 * Who's Who In Genealogy and Heraldry, [both editions] * Family Genealogy & History Internet Education Directory o http://www.academic-genealogy.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to epistemol...@googlegroups.com. 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