Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Posted on 05/07/2008 2:06:53 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper
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The lengths people go to, to try and disprove our Creator is amazing, and sometimes very humorous. Very sad though.
Thanks for posting, I’ll save it to read later.
It just goes to show you. Anybody with a Bible can misinterpret enough verses to believe whatever they wish to believe...maybe even form a denomination.
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Could you post that picture again?
LOL Sorry, that just cracks me up.
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There was a book that came out right after Chariots titled “Crash Go The Chariots” and totally debunked everything in “Chariots Of The G-d’s’” ....
Was Jesus an Extraterrestrial?
NO.
I don't have an issue with any of this. The Bible makes clear that the universe is populated with beings more advanced than humans. The most advanced of these beings being God.
The scientific community pooh-poohed this as impossible. Velikovsky wondered if there was any comparable extended period of darkness on the other side of the world at the same time. He came up with a Mayan or Peruvian (don't remember which) legend which said that "There was a great war in the sky and the sun became afraid and hid in a cave for three days." He postulated that when you are scared spitless and in the dark, the time would seem longer. Mebbe, mebbe not, but I thought it was interesting that he thought to look on the other side of the earth for dismissal/corroboration.
Velikovsky was savaged by the scientific community to the extent that they threatened the publisher of his first book that they would withhold any future textbook printing from them. The publisher folded and I think Doubleday picked up his remaining books. As Einstein wrote to him, "You certainly stepped on a lot of toes." as he challenged many "scientific" beliefs. I read all of his books and he offers some conclusions that seem more rational than what we are currently told. He always prefaced his theories with "If I am correct, then this will be found." Something like 7 or 8 of his 12 predictions about Venus were later found correct (hot, not wet as then thought, etc.)
What got me was that a discipline that was to supposed to be open-minded and inquisitive completely shut out any conflicting theories. They denied his predictions for 20 years and then when he was found to be correct, they blew it off as "Oh, we knew about that 20 years ago." That close-mindedness is still with us today.
Wouldn't that then make it intelligent design?
If we are to interpret the aforementioned passages not as some sacred account of creation, but as a primitive allegorical interpretation of an real higher intelligence transforming a cratered, barren planet into an oasis, we would see striking parallels with the far-sighted plans the scientists of today have for 'terraforming' planets in out solar system which are at present too hostile for us to survive on.
If Earth was terraformed and seeded by intelligent extra-terrestrials, how did those extra-terrestrials come to be? Since the Big Bang prevents an infinite regress, there must at some time in the past 13+ billion years have existed a planet on which a race of intelligent living beings developed without the assistance of other intelligent living beings from other planets. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, it is the simplest hypothesis to suppose that Earth is such a planet and we are such a race; indeed, to suppose otherwise is to indulge in sheer fantasy.
INTREP
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