#4. MORE SCIENCE...WIND & WAVES

Following: “Huh?...Dinosaurs in the Bible?” in our 'hotspuds' series, Holy Bible of Science.   http://hotspuds.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/huhdinosaurs-in-bible.html

 

What other science can we find in the Bible?

Let’s start with air…                      

People argue whether it was Galileo Galilei or Evangelista Torricelli who first discovered in about 1640 that air had weight. We forget Job told us over 3000 years earlier that God made:   

“…the weight for the winds…”                                                                                                                                                          Job 28:25

 

In 1835, French scientist Gaspard Gustav de Coriolis described the apparent effect Earth’s rotation has on objects flying over its surface. This Coreolis Effect causes wind in the Northern Hemisphere to tend to curve right and wind in the Southern Hemisphere to tend to curve left. Was Coriolis the first to observe the general circulation of Earth’s atmosphere?   

No. Here is king Solomon’s wisdom: 

"The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to its circuits." 
Ecclesiastes 1:6

 

Okay now for the waves. Have you heard of Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873) who was nicknamed ‘Pathfinder of the Seas’?  
The ‘Father of Modern Oceanography and Naval Meteorology’ was inducted to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1935.  As Superintendent of the US Naval Observatory he meticulously recorded ocean currents and published the The Physical Geography of the Sea in 1855 (and still in use today) after paying attention to what he learnt in childhood…from Psalm 8:

"...and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the sea."   

                                    

How’s that! Two fields of Science based on the Bible: meteorology and oceanography, so let’s look for more……

 

NEXT: 'PLANET EARTH'
Click on: http://hotspuds.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/planet-earth.html

 Image credits:

theguardian.com                                                                                                                                      
kidsgeo.com   
Matthew Maury by Ella S. Hergesheimer / en.wikipedia.org                                                                                      

 

#3. HUH?...DINOSAURS IN THE BIBLE?

We continue our series: 'Holy Bible of Science', following the 2nd article: 'Wildlife Park Safari':
http://hotspuds.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/wildlife-park-safari.html

 

So the Science Master hasn't finished with Job, hey?

Now He points out the behemoth to Job.

Behemoth??  Never heard of it!

Maybe not but ask the kids to name an animal that ate grass, had huge muscles, with bones like metal beams and bars, and a tail the size of a cedar tree...straightaway they'll tell you it’s got to be the Brachiosaurus.

The first specimen was discovered by Elmer S. Riggs beside the Colorado River in 1900 and was probably not full size. It seems like they grew to about 26 metres long and weighed up to 45 tonnes. Other Sauropods were even larger: the Seismosaurus was about 40 metres long and weighed about 77 tonnes.

Imagine big game hunters trying to bag one of those.  Nigh on impossible!

You think that would be a challenge?... what about the livyathan!               

The leviathan was apparently a huge rough-scaled sea-dragon that even breathed fire. Try to catch one and you'd never try again!

Mmm...not the sort of pet you'd take home for your kids to play with. We began this safari with lions but it looks like this dragon was the king of the beasts.

So there’s two species in the Bible for palaeontologists to study. Sir Richard Owen coined a name for this new find in 1842 – dinosauria: terrible lizard….but here they were in the Holy Bible of Science all along. Some scientists claim that dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago but the Master Scientist tells Job: “I made with thee”…what do you know…dinosaurs created on the same day as Man!                          

No wonder they are finding dinosaur haemoglobin, blood vessels still elastic, collagen, osteocalcin, and even skin…all remarkably preserved.

 

NEXT:  'More science....wind & waves'
Click on: http://hotspuds.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/more-sciencewind-waves.html

 

Acknowledgements:

sciencekids.co.nz   
about.com
World Book 2005 
Sarfati J. ‘The Greatest Hoax On Earth’, 2010, Creation Book Publishers, Atlanta
Image credits: 
surfab.it  
thanasis.com

  

      

  

     

    

                                                                           

#2. WILDLIFE PARK SAFARI

We continue our series: ‘Holy Bible of Science’, following the first article: ‘Science Master in a twister’: http://hotspuds.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/science-master-in-twister.html

Oh man, the Science Master is sure letting old Job have it!   Wasn’t he some big-time rancher out east?

Job had the largest spread of anybody but lost all his livestock in just one day!...7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen and 500 she-asses.
He still thinks he has a handle on astronomy as well: Arcturus, Orion, The Pleiades…even the starry southern skies!...and he knows the Earth ‘hangs on nothing’…but young Elihu had to remind him of the water cycle.                               

Hey, watch this! The Science Master is going to give Job a quick tour of His wildlife park with a slide show……

First up we have feed requirements of lions and ravens - two species Job wouldn’t want on his spread…especially not in times of drought.

Now we look at breeding cycles… 
Job would have had trouble farming mountain goats (~180 days gestation) and deer (~235 days). 

Yeah…‘Don’t Fence Me In’!

They’d be a cinch compared with the onager or even the intractable wild ox. This was the reem or rimu – probably what we called the ‘aurochs’ (Bos taurus) which became extinct in 1627 when the last survivor died in a game reserve in Poland.

I can’t see Job using a rimu to plow his fields and bring home the grain, let alone keep in a barn.

Waterloo - here we come!

Need for speed?...then how about the ostrich - faster than a racehorse but a pathetic mother - only really good for feather dusters.            

Not so fast but oh so powerful and fearless is the horse on the battlefield. Veterinarians tell us that the horse’s heart is not so large but is supplemented by the frogs of the hooves pumping venous blood back to the heart.

Now that is clever!

Finally we see creatures that can defy gravity…The flight capability and navigation skills of the hawk: the structure of the flight feather and its muscular control is nothing short of astonishing, and to this day, scientists cannot work out how birds navigate so skillfully. 


Adjustable winglets hey?

The eagle’s ability to soar by manipulating its wing-tip feathers has inspired the design of winglets on modern airliners and its colour-vision acuity is 8 times better than Man’s.

Now that’s what I call a brilliant veterinary presentation…albeit in layman’s terms we can all understand.

Job:                             Okay, I’ll shut up.

Science Master:      Not so fast. Are you better than your Master? You’ll give Me a proper answer yet.                      

                                  

NEXT:   'Huh?...dinosaurs in the Bible?' 
http://hotspuds.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/huhdinosaurs-in-bible.html

 

Quotations from KJV Bible: Job 9:9 ; 26:7 ; 36:27 ; ch38&39                                                      
Photo credits:                                                                          
aliexpress.com                                                                 
users.tpg.com.au                                                           

 

 

 

 

 

#1. SCIENCE MASTER IN A TWISTER!

Uhh?  The Holy Bible of Science??  Come on…the Bible’s not a science book!!          

Isn’t it?  Okay, the Bible is not a science textbook but it is a book of knowledge.

Of course, but you can’t even find the word ‘science’ in the Bible.                                

Oh yes you can!… Daniel and his friends were chosen as “cunning in knowledge and understanding science”. On the other hand, the apostle Paul warned young Timothy to avoid “oppositions of science falsely so called” - what we call pseudo-science today. (Mmm…should we waste time debating fools who deny God?)  Besides, ‘science’ means: knowledge, from the Latin: scientia.  

Theologians have been reminding us for centuries: “the Bible is silent as to science” or “Scripture does not reveal scientific facts”.   Have we been apologizing for God’s Word, instead of upholding it?   

In fact, theologian Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution all began with Sir Charles Lyell, the famous 19^th century amateur geologist making it his goal to….what? 
“Free the science from Moses”...after listening to theology lectures!           

So how about we look for any science in the Bible, hey?

Better than that, we’re going to sit in on a lecture at the University of the Universe and listen to a sickly mature-age student by the name of Job being stood up…..     
O, oh!…look out, here comes the Master of Science like He’s in a twister!....      
“Were you there on the construction site at Creation? Have you measured the Earth?” 
(Psst…we didn’t know the size of the Earth until the 2^nd century BC.)                

“Did you set sea levels by raising continents?…or can you command the dawn of a new day…or the blanket of clouds?”…then we hear about…

“…[the earth] is turned as clay to the seal”    (describing how the Earth spins on its axis.)                                                                                              

“Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea” (…recorded thousands of years before scientists first discovered ‘black smokers’ in 1977, 2,500 metres under the Pacific Ocean, in the Galapagos Rift.)                                   

“How does light travel? …or where did it come from before the sun was created?”
“Job, I suppose you know because you were alive then – you’re so old!”             

“Have you entered into the treasuries of the snow?”    
(Using microscopes, we now know that every snow crystal is unique…but they are absent in man-made snow!)                        

“By what way is light parted?”     
(Eventually Sir Isaac Newton, ‘the father of modern science’, found out with his prism in 1704 AD.)                                                     

Cumulonimbus clouds storing “treasuries of the hail”, bring also the “overflowing of waters”, lightning and thunder. (Scientists now know that lightning with up to 100 million volts, splits the nitrogen molecules to form nitrate compounds that fertilize the soil “to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth” and this is occurring about 1800 times around the Earth – all the time!)

Water miraculously expands when cooled below 4 degrees C, causing it to be “hid as with a stone and the face of the deep is frozen”.  (If sea-ice failed to float, life on Earth would be extinguished.)

“Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?” (…proved accurate, of course, by astronomers last century.)                     

“Canst thou bring forth the Mazzaroth in its season?”    
(Forget astrology. Astronomers have known since antiquity that the sun spends one month in front of each of the 12 constellations of the Zodiac.)                                                

“Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?”   (Astronomers know that the star Arcturus is the brightest star north of the ecliptic line. Mythology seems to have corrupted this with ‘the Bear and her cubs’.)

Perhaps that’s enough from the Holy Bible of Science for today’s lecture …Creation, geology, oceanography, meteorology, hydrology, astrophysics and wrapping up with some stunning astronomy! 

 

NEXT: What about some zoology with a slideshow from the Science Master?
Click on: http://hotspuds.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/wildlife-park-safari.html

 

Quotations from KJV Bible: Job chapter 38                                                                    
Photo credit: osa-opn.org

 

                               

                                       

SHARIAH THE CHECK-OUT CHICK

Continuing our bonus series on 'Islam in Oz'
and following: http://hotspuds.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/our-aussie-mosque.html

Here’s an offer too good to refuse...  
You’re invited to invest in the establishment of more Islamic mosques and schools….there may even be opportunity for you to sponsor global jihad terrorism against infidels!

No?...not interested? You find that offensive? 
Well that’s too bad because it seems that you and I are already doing this when we buy our groceries. 
Oh, you find that outrageous, hey?  Well let’s investigate what’s been going on behind the scenes….

In Australia, since about 1983, government legislation and meat processing regulations have accommodated the concept of halal to satisfy the religious requirements of Islamic countries and our own Muslim citizens. 

So what is halal, exactly?
It means ‘permitted’ or ‘lawful’ and is based on the teachings of Muhammad in the Qur’an:                                                       

       

Sura2:173                                                                                                                                                  "He has only forbidden to you dead animals, blood, the flesh of swine, and that which has been dedicated to other than Allah. But whoever is forced [by necessity], neither desiring [it] nor transgressing [its limit], there is no sin upon him. Indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.  
Also Sura 6:145 ; Sura 16:115                                                 

Of course complications arise when killing chains have to be re-aligned towards Mecca and in the use of stun guns, from the prohibition on: “ [those animals] killed by strangling or by a violent blow..." Sura 5:3-5

Australia upholds freedom of religion, so halal meat is available for export and domestic consumption…but halal certification has definitely NOT stopped there. There are now about 20 Islamic authorities who issue compliance certification for all kinds of commerce and infrastructure:
Products such as milk, bread, honey, nuts, fruit and vegetables….all intrinsically halal anyway!                                              
Transport & buildings – believe it or not!                                                    
Pharmaceuticals                                                                                                                        
Animal feeds (including pets)                                                
Personal care products                                                       
…and now even the major banks are offering Islamic finance!                        
Don’t be surprised when halal business parks appear on the scene too.

So how relevant is halal certification to global trade?  How about $US 2.9 TRILLION!

Meanwhile supermarket chains, food processors, and restaurants are paying for certification and signing non-disclosure agreements, while retail customers are welcoming halal labelling, believing it offers assurance of quality control and protection for endangered species.

So you don’t agree with Muslims forcing sharia law on others?  
Too bad, it’s coming anyway…expect life to get more difficult if we resist halal certification. All Qantas passengers on flights thru Dubai must now expect only halal meals. No exceptions. 

In case you’ve forgotten, Islam means ‘submission’ – that means everybody, world-wide – by violent jihad, by conversion, or by dhimmitude…never heard of it?.... that’s the appeasement of 'moderate' Muslims.

Islamic Oz – not such a fantasy after all.  

 

Acknowledgements:

daff.gov.au  

www.monash.edu 

Qsociety.org.au   

halalchoices.com.au   

australianchristians.com.au