Nuclear engineer (who can't type...) (BS Texas A&M 1978, MS Quality Assurance/Industrial Engineering, 1999)
Software QA and testing, 3D CAD programming and design .... power plants, military logistics support, transportation and power, space, industrial, electronical and mechanical systems, solar power and alt energy systems. Was on subs for 5 years in new construction and reactor startup (mostly in various shipyards in the East Coast) and then 5 years as shipyard ship supervisor and nuclear ship supervisor, ship's planning officer for the next 5......Been in CAD and software testing and plant/mechanical\systems design ever since.
It's not that I don't trust PC's or computers, it's that they will merely repeat (endlessly) whatever mistakes the programmer and user lets them make and repeat. But of course, I trust liberals, liars, lawyers and the national media (aren't they all the same?) even less.....
Father of three, husband of one; work in the Church some, BSA/GSA scout parent, band(s) parent, math club/science club parent, Little league parent, and grandparent of 4 (so far) .... One kid paying taxes, one kid spending your taxes while fixing/breaking the planes the USAF gives him; one kid earned her first degrees in Physics and a second one in Mathematics, got her Masters and is earning dollars as a professor.
Prefer development of fusion power/fast-breeder plants over simple fission; prefer (intelligent, market-driven) conservation and reuse of materials and resources over burning/burying our kids' petroleum resources; prefer the natural supply and demand system of economics - and thoroughly despise liberal hypocrisy and the national media's lies and prejudices ....
Consider the Big Bang Theory incomplete and incorrect; expect it will be as discredited as the flat-earth and the "ether" in a few year's time- probably in favor of a modified plasma theory/steady-state process. Probably adding also absorbtion/re-emmission of the background thermal radiation from intermediate particles/plasma vortices between the stars. Black holes are likely the space-time wormholes source of "new" material appearing in mid-space that feeds the seady-state material.
This combination of competing cosmological theories would probably also include Hawkings' theories transmission of particles back out of black holes as the source of the "new" particles that the near-steady-state theories require. Age of the universe? Most likely some 150-175 billion years .... long enough to create the super-strings recently discovered.
Any theory of the universe has to explain how ancient wandering illerate shepherds got the whole sequence of evolution and cosmology exactly corect; minus a few decimal places. (But dates and log's and powers-of-ten hadn't been invented yet, by the way. Nor could they count with zero's ... which also weren't invented yet.)
But they got the formation of the stars from plasma and dust, then light; then the planets, then the moon and oceans, the single continent then the splitting of that land mass in continental drift; then plants, the clearing of the atmosphere with oxygen, insects; dinosaurs (Genesis creates birds BEFORE mammals!); then finally domesticated animals and Man.
Not a bad geological record for a bunch of farmers!
With this, am I stretching the truth, or trying to "edit" science terms into some Biblical terms where it doesn't fit?
Not very much: Consider that "waters" isn't a stretch into -> fluids -> gasses -> plasmas. And a "mighty force upon the waters" certainly could describe the (Divinely initiated) intial forces of the Big Bang. Which absolutely, as science claims, began as a "formless structure" in the void.
Again, both theories are correct, but Genesis was first.
Separating "light" from "darkness" requires mass be present, which only happened after "light" energy cooled down into the first matter.
Again, both theories are correct, but Genesis was first.
Separating "waters above" (interstellar gasses) from "waters below" (the atmospheric gasses) by the "dome" of the sky certainly happened. Most remarkable, because there is no reason for someone in ancient Israel to know enough to invent a tale about the interstellar gasses at all at that time!
Again, both theories are correct, but Genesis was first.
Gathering the waters (the traditional seas, in this case) into one basin certainly happened. And, if there were "one basin" then there could only be "one" land mass as well, yet clearly, Genesis contradicted what the Jews could see with their own eyes! Obviously Europe, Asia, and Africa WERE separated by different seas into different lands! (In fact, even "science" ridiculed the original proponents of continental drift (one only land mass was gathered together in the beginning, and only one sea was created in the beginning) up until the early 60's! Only now, 5500 years after it first written, and then re-discovered in the mid-20's, is continental drift accepted.)
Again, both theories are correct, but Genesis was first. Genesis was just harder to believe than "science" at every age.
Sea creatures and birds (dinosaurs) were the first forms of animal life, appearing well after the plants began to grow. But "science" is only now beginning to theorize that dinosaurs and birds were (are) from the same root stock!
Again, both theories are correct, but Genesis was first.
Mammals didn't just suddenly "appear" after the dinosaurs were destroyed 65 million some-odd years ago, but they didn't come to dominate the earth until then either. Appropriately and accurately, domesticated mammals and Man were certainly created last.
Again, both theories are correct, but Genesis was first.
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Hobbies include steelworking and carpentry, solar power systems, reading, sailing, bi-cycling, re-cycling, and politics. Also: looking for under-inflated tires and missing lugnuts on any cars that pass by.
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