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History Channel - "How The Earth Was Made" dosumentary raises many questions in my mind
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Posted on 12/31/2007 5:40:23 PM PST by SilvieWaldorfMD

So last night (Sunday, 12/30/07) I get ready in front of the T.V. at 8 p.m. with my son to watch the very much hyped documentary on the History Channel titled "How The Earth Was Made". Since my son is a first-grader and very much into science, his main interests include Earth and the entire Solar System.

The two-hour documentary was fantastic, but it raised a key question in my mind and it made me, shall I say, more of a believer in God as Our Creator (not that I ever stopped 'believing', but I'm an open-minded person who believes both in evolution and creationism). However, this show changed my views. Let me explain:

Many of the scientists interviewed (and they had on the best scientists in the world) couldn't explain how water got to Earth. Or how Earth created water. So, they proposed that perhaps the water source came from outer space in asteroids. Because asteroids contain moisture, they stated that these massive rocks from outer space (many of them the length and width of Mt. Everest) created water after the hit the Earth.

Baloney. It is so obvious that none of these scientists want to admit that God was the creator of water and of everything that flourishes in this planet. They should would not or could not state it on the program.

Even my grandmother -- who is 96 years of age and saw the program in Puerto Rico -- said to me this morning that she thought the program lacked "any mention of God".

Anyone else see this show last night?


TOPICS: General Discusssion; Religion & Science; Skeptics/Seekers; Theology
KEYWORDS: cometsaremostlyice; creationism; evolution; globalwarming; heatmeltsice; origins; religion; sheesh
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1 posted on 12/31/2007 5:40:27 PM PST by SilvieWaldorfMD
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

two words...

“Big Bang”


2 posted on 12/31/2007 5:41:31 PM PST by xcamel (FDT/2008)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Yeah I’ve watched it twice and liked it.

I don’t have any conflicts over religious belief or scientific belief. Sure God created it all, by what process is a whole different question.

Lets not forget that the genesis of the whole big bang theory was a Catholic priest and scientist.


3 posted on 12/31/2007 5:43:52 PM PST by cripplecreek (Only one consistent conservative in this race and his name is Hunter.)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD
>couldn’t explain how water got to Earth

That is a joke. I hope.

Water did not “get” here, it was formed here.

4 posted on 12/31/2007 5:44:29 PM PST by bill1952 (The right to buy weapons is the right to be free)
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To: xcamel
This is about 12 billion years after the "big bang" ("In the beginning" part of the Bible), and about 4 billion years after this solar system coalesced.

So, with a solar system filled to the brim with comets made up mostly of water ice, if someone tells you meteorites brought in the water, I'd suggest he or she hadn't thought about it too much.

No doubt God created this part of the Multiverse.

5 posted on 12/31/2007 5:44:49 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: bill1952

Well, yes, I know, but the way that these scientists were explaining it — it appears that water got here through an alien source - asteroids.

I don’t buy it.


6 posted on 12/31/2007 5:46:24 PM PST by SilvieWaldorfMD (Hard lesson learned in the 1980's: "Never perm and dye your hair at the same time")
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

I don’t buy it.

I never did either. Some scientists are not smart.
Happy New Year, BTW. - Bill


7 posted on 12/31/2007 5:55:46 PM PST by bill1952 (The right to buy weapons is the right to be free)
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To: muawiyah
I solved the Hawking paradox at the same time. It was easy...once you realize if space-time “works in forward”, it can “work in reverse.”
8 posted on 12/31/2007 5:58:20 PM PST by xcamel (FDT/2008)
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To: cripplecreek

[I don’t have any conflicts over religious belief or scientific belief. Sure God created it all, by what process is a whole different question.]

I am a degreed physicist and I, too, have no trouble with anyone’s God belief and science. Afterall, no one was here to winess and I can accept what I see. Any rational (read RATIONAL) discussion within scientific boundaries is fine with me.


9 posted on 12/31/2007 6:00:14 PM PST by dbacks (Taglines for sale or rent.)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

YEC INTREP


10 posted on 12/31/2007 6:04:20 PM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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To: dbacks

You are aware, of course, that the fuzzy wuzzies and the mullahs don’t want you asking “how” either.


11 posted on 12/31/2007 6:04:37 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: dbacks

One thing I liked about the show was the fact that they didn’t seem to state that it was all fact. A very large portion of science is theoretical and a good scientist can admit that.

Stating theory as fact is one of the things that concern me about manmade global warming hysteria. I fear that it gives all science a bad name in the eyes of the public.


12 posted on 12/31/2007 6:20:05 PM PST by cripplecreek (Only one consistent conservative in this race and his name is Hunter.)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD
You can not have it both ways.

The Bible can not be partially correct, for how do you decide what is correct in the Bible, that which you like, that which fits the way you wish to live?

Science has been slowly creating a false front of long and slow to make God and obsolete, since the 1700's.

The Bible is literal and should be taken as such, if you try to fit man's belief of misinterpretation and misrepresentation of the physical evidence that cries out of a supernatural creator, then you may as well put down your Bible and take up Buddhism.
13 posted on 12/31/2007 6:23:29 PM PST by Creationist ( Evolution is a faith based science with no proof. Scientist are the prophets, teachers the preacher)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD
I have seen this documentary and simply rejoiced in their choice of words for the title:

How the earth was made!

Having a fairly competent grasp of English, I couldn't believe it when I first saw it.

14 posted on 12/31/2007 6:38:56 PM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: Creationist
The Bible is literal and should be taken as such, if you try to fit man's belief of misinterpretation and misrepresentation of the physical evidence that cries out of a supernatural creator, then you may as well put down your Bible and take up Buddhism.

Why not take up thinking, instead?

15 posted on 12/31/2007 6:39:16 PM PST by Misterioso
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To: xcamel
two words...
“Big Bang”

The funniest words for those Einsteins who insist on making a adversary controversy out of the discussion:

"First there was nothing...
...and then it exploded."

16 posted on 12/31/2007 6:41:27 PM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: Publius6961
Ah.. but there was something...
17 posted on 12/31/2007 6:44:09 PM PST by xcamel (FDT/2008)
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To: Misterioso
How witty.

Thinking is what I do. I believe the Holy Bible to be true, and that the visible evidence of the physical world can be best explained by a global flood around 4500 years ago, and the the universe and everything in it was created by God in six literal twenty-four hour days.

The physical evidence in the universe and this world all point to young, not long and slow.

Evolution is not real it does not happen it is a fable in the minds of those who believe they are god's of their own world.
18 posted on 12/31/2007 7:00:30 PM PST by Creationist ( Evolution is a faith based science with no proof. Scientist are the prophets, teachers the preacher)
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To: Creationist

God’s what?


19 posted on 12/31/2007 7:10:52 PM PST by Misterioso
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To: xcamel

One of the three fundamental flaws to all the ‘theories’ you have just pointed out.

1) There had to be something there to explode.

2) The laws of physics have to be suspended for the explosion to occur. There is this little thing called an event horizon that has to be surpassed before matter could actually get out of the pull of the supermass. Otherwise, you have the ‘Big Puff’ not the ‘Big Bang’. However, all the scientific ‘evidence’ to the length of this time of no laws/reverse laws is still not long enough before the event horizon to kick in and suck everything back in.

3) The original poster’s comment about water is part three of the three flaws. The spinning velocity needed for the Earth to form from gas is too fast for water to have remained on the exterior of the surface, and not instead be trapped in the interior.


20 posted on 12/31/2007 7:57:46 PM PST by Lightfinger (Those that are ignorant of the past are doomed to repeat it. Progressive = National Socialist.)
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