The Downfall of Uniformitarianism

Creation-Evolution Headlines ^ | 11/04/2003 | Creation-Evolution Headlines

[RightWingNilla]

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[bondserv]

We weren't expecting you to say, "What a great resource. I have never seen so many various scientific papers relating to my peculiar interests cataloged in one place."

Now that would have been worrisome.

[Doctor Stochastic]

None. Nor have I evidence or Peris or Kobolds.

[bondserv]

That's not all they need. Tell your pastor to bring a few cases of soap.

I have been there, you aren't kidding. The food, coffee and wine were top notch however.

[spunkets]

" What we know is far more than a guess."

understatement bump

[Junior]

Dude, the gnomes live in Zurich and are the power behind the Swiss conspiracy for world domination. That there is no evidence for them simply proves they exist and are very effective at covering up their tracks.

[bondserv]

Would you have followed Hitler? If not why?

[Elsie]

Perhaps that 'religion' they practice tends to whack them ALL out!

[Elsie]

Thank you for posting how Evolution works.

Oh, some of the WORDS were not what I expected, but the METHOD is surely the same.

[Elsie]

Our church supports a missionary Pastor in France. Sad to say France is considered a nation needing missionaries. He relates how the French people need Pastors that will teach the Word of God. Biblical illiteracy is epidemic.

It's just as accurate THIS way!!

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Sad to say America is considered a nation needing missionaries. He relates how the American people need Pastors that will teach the Word of God. Biblical illiteracy is epidemic.

[VadeRetro]

We weren't expecting you to say, "What a great resource. I have never seen so many various scientific papers relating to my peculiar interests cataloged in one place."

You may suspect my interests are peculiar, but you have no proof.

[VadeRetro]

gee, thanks for pinging me...

I figured I was the last to get the word, really.

[bondserv]

I had a funny quip, but I couldn't bring myself to mix it with Scripture. Maybe I am the peculiar one.

Titus 2:14
14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people,

1 Peter 2:9
9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people;

[bondserv]

Vade, I have you on my ping list. You want a double?

Junior, I can add you to my list if you like.

[Elsie]

(Maybe THIS will help.......)

 

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For the first time in almost 30 years, a source close to the heart of the Catholic Church (articles in La Civilta Cattolica are approved by the secretary of state of the Vatican) has published what Vatican-watcher Sandro Magister calls "a strikingly severe" account of the Christian condition under Islamic rule. The article may represent a shift, if not a break, in the long-standing Vatican policy of silence on the persecution of Christians in Muslim countries.

The article highlights the "seemingly rather curious fact" that wherever Islam has imposed itself by conquest -- in what is now Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Turkey, and in the regions of historic Mesopotamia and Palestine -- "Christianity, which had been extraordinarily vigorous and rooted for centuries, practically disappeared." And, the article further notes, "for almost a thousand years, Europe was under constant threat from Islam, which twice put its survival in serious danger."

The explanation? As if taking a page from the historian Bat Ye'or, the article cites the Islamic precepts of jihad (holy war) and dhimmitude (inferior status of non-Muslims). It also stipulates that there are two meanings of jihad -- the spiritual war, or struggle, to be faithful to the teachings of the Koran, and the literal war that is waged to spread Islam. Both meanings, it says, are "equally essential and must not be dissociated, as if one could exist without the other." The article continues: "Obedience to the precept of 'holy war' explains why the history of Islam is one of unending warfare for the conquest of infidel lands." This same "obedience" has led to recent anti-Christian violence in Algeria, Pakistan, Nigeria, Java, East Timor, the Moluccas and, most dramatically, Sudan. Little wonder, as the article also reports, that between roughly one-quarter and one-third of the estimated Christian population of the Middle East has emigrated over the past decade to the free world.

 

[VadeRetro]

You want a double?

Had enough with dinner, thanks!

[Doctor Stochastic]

Sir Stafford Cripps always blamed the Gnomes of Zurich for sabotaging his currency schemes. Of course, there's only one Gnome in Zurich and he didn't sabotage Cripps. The Gnomes of Basel did, however.

[SevenDaysInMay]

This or that dogma don't hunt.

Without an Indiana Jones of geology glamour, life's tough to get a name for one's self. One old geologist told me that the occupational hazzards are sprained ankles, bad water, and paper cuts.

Uniformitarianism is but long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of terror in planetary time frame. Old news is no news.

Economic geologists will eventually be out of work unless new stuff rides up to the surface.

What I like is the certainty of (if seldom) impacts, solar flame throwers with severe radiation changing genetic codes, and axis tilts - with or without wobbles.

"Sudden" axis changes would slosh our oceans across continents exchanging ecology with hypertsunami. I can think of little else on earth so awesome because other maximal catastrophes would obscure with smoke and ash throughout the atmosphere.

A deep water impact would rain hellacious hail or hot rain plus the normal stuff..

I can hardly remember details, but I think that a site in the Inside Passage Alaska/B.C. has a slosh scour discovered about a third of a mile above sea level, some 600 meters. Dangerous but very cool. Likely from just a slide splash.

Image a water column suddenly a kilometer in altitude moving in relation to the surface at hypervelocity. Conversely, imagine the Gulf of Mexico going empty as South or North America gets wet, for the moment. The fish would not know what if anything was happening until slashdown.

We have our tilt somehow. When did it happen?

IMHO, everyone should keep a bottle of their favorite beverage, aged at least a couple of decades, inhouse for those special occasions when, "Oh sh!+!" is not quite enough.

I'm ready for the next ice age, the Post-Kyoto/Bushian era. Imagine tens of millions of blonde Slavs, Finns, and Scandanavians with darkening tans coming to stay! Igloos in South Africa, New Zealand, and Austrailia? We'd need a heapin' bowl of Chili.

[bondserv]

Good to see the Vatican still has a moral compass. Praise God.

[Junior]

That would be right nice. Thank you.