Posted on 03/17/2009 1:29:48 PM PDT by TaraP
NASA scientists analyzing the dust of meteorites have discovered new clues to a long-standing mystery about how life works on its most basic, molecular level. We found more support for the idea that biological molecules, like amino acids, created in space and brought to Earth by meteorite impacts help explain why life is LEFT-HANDED," said Dr. Daniel Glavin of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "By that I mean why all known life uses only left-handed versions of amino acids to build proteins." Glavin is lead author of a paper on this research appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences March 16.
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And God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness… So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.
Genesis 26-27.
The essential form of knowledge…is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.
From this ‘mirror’ point of view the observer (God) would see the image as a mirror image, in which right and left-hand sides would be reversed. That is to say, the mirror image would not be the same as if seeing another person in front of you, facing you. The mirror image would not be another you, another person as such, but only a reversed picture of yourself. From this interpretation of Genesis i, 26-27 (quoted above), a whole neo-cabalistic philosophy has been devised, in which the cabalistic Tree of Life is turned left to right and right to left in respect of man, the microcosm, in his relationship to God, the Macrocosm.
Such a reversal has fundamental implications, for the right-hand of God, which cabalistically is described as Mercy or Grace and associated with the Wisdom or Word of God that crowns the right-hand side of the Tree, is made to correspond to the left-hand of man. Likewise, the left-hand of God, described as Judgement or Severity and associated with the Holy Intelligence or Understanding that crowns the left-hand side of the Tree, is made to correspond to the right-hand of man. Thus, because the LEFT-—hand side is traditionally considered to be the receptive, reflective, formative ‘feminine’ side and the right-hand side to be the forceful, initiating, creative ‘masculine’ side, mercy is considered in this viewpoint to be a receptive and feminine quality whilst judgement is seen to be a forceful and masculine one, in terms of man the microcosm.
SOME FOOD FOR THOUGHT...
“created in space and brought to Earth by meteorite impacts”
Anything but God...
...Or gods.
ping
I think an article about this hypothesis was posted at FR a couple of years ago. It was around the time that Harvard was going to throw a million bucks at the question of the origin of life.
Obammma to make announcement as soon as he changes from his green lantern outfit and gets the telepromter warmed up
So true. It’s just pushing the question back, the hypothesis does nothing to explain why every bit of life uses L amino acids and D sugars. Under a spontaneous origin of life, we should expect that variant forms of life at the microscopic level, particularly in separate unique enviroments on earth, should be producing and utilizing the opposite forms of sugars and acids.
I think it would be better to stay away from occult and/or mystical symbols and interpretations.
If one wants to examine the facts of what something is, and how it’s made in terms of science and its examination of such, that’s fine. I think it’s very interesting. But, when one start attaching “interpretations” which go into the mystical and the occult, that don’t find “basis” in the Bible, then it’s definitely “out of bounds” for us as Christians.
There are strange things in the Bible, so I’m not taking about strange or what doesn’t fit some modern concept of what is going on, but rather, not to delve into areas where the Bible says to stay away from, which definitely would be in the areas of the occult...
See some definitions here, for clarification....
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cabalistic - Having a secret or hidden meaning; occult: cabalistic symbols engraved in stone.
[ http://www.answers.com/topic/cabalistic ]
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cabalistic - relating to or associated with mystical interpretation or esoteric doctrine. See also Kabbalah .
[from my computer dictionary; Oxford American Dictionary...]
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Kabbalah - the ancient Jewish tradition of mystical interpretation of the Bible, first transmitted orally and using esoteric methods (including ciphers). It reached the height of its influence in the later Middle Ages and remains significant in Hasidism.
[from my computer dictionary; Oxford American Dictionary...]
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cabalism - [1] a mystical philosophical doctrine based on the doctrines of the cabala [2] any occult doctrine.
[from http://www.yourdictionary.com/cabalistically ]
No I am not headed in the direction of the occult..:)
Left and Right hand side of GOD...
Male/Female...
I am just a Christian who wants to know all she can about our Wonderful Loving Creator and his miraculous universe...
But everything is from GOD even meteorites...
Hmmmm . . . though I’ve been pretty averse to anything cabalistic.
i just read about a search for right-handed life on new scientist just the other day
link:http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126990.100-second-genesis-life-but-not-as-we-know-it.html
I tend to strongly agree with your perspective on that.
“But everything is from GOD even meteorites...”
Have you seen “EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed”?
It’s amazing to watch the Darwinists stammer away with their explanation of how life was “created by aliens” on another planet and “seeded” here, or “grew on the backs of crystals”.
You said — Have you seen “EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed”?
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Even though you were talking to TaraP, I’ll pipe up... :-)
Yes, I have seen this. I would recommend it. It’s downloadable, if one wants to just see it. If you can’t find it, then I can direct you, or place it on BitTorrent.. for download. Just let me know. It’s excellent...
I don’t really don’t know much at all about Cabala, I had just did somre research on it and found some of what they say is kind of interesting...
The cabalistic name for this knowledge, image or echo is ‘That’: hence the complete formula or god-name for both the Holy Trinity and the Son of God is ‘I AM That I AM’. In Hebrew this is rendered by ‘AHIH Asher AHIH’. AHIH refers to ‘the Living God’ (’I AM’), the parent of ‘That’. When the possibility of time and change, or gradual unfolding, is brought into the equation, the formula becomes ‘I AM all that hath been, and that is, and that shall be’. The god-name signifying this unfolding state of divinity is JHVH, meaning ‘He who was, is, and is to come’. This is essentially the name of the ‘Image’ or ‘Son’ of God, known as the ‘great name’ or ‘revealing name’, from which is derived the more personal name of Jehoshua or Jesus, the Messiah or Christ. The idea of the unfolding nature of this revelation or knowledge of God is embodied in the story of the two main appearances of the Christ: first as the shepherd, then secondly as the king. Messiah means ‘king’. The shepherd is not a king, but one day he will be
MORE if you are interested.
http://www.fbrt.org.uk/pages/essays/essay-cabala2-otherself.html
And all this time I thought my tagline said it all...
Understand.
I’m not rabid about it . . . just generally averse.
Thanks.
Ummm..., just remember...
Mormons have hidden or secret rites and/or information in some ceremonies.
Free Masons have secret or hidden rites in some of their upper level ceremonies.
Kabbalah also has mystical and secret information in their teachings, too...
Hmmm..., do you see a similarity here... ?
Is there any *hidden* or *secret* information in Christianity, only available to a select few “initiated”... ?
YUP!
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