By this logic, Jesus is in some sense the source of everything in the material world. If you want to make him the 'source' of the light of the sun, moon, and stars, then you will have to accept that to the same extent he is the 'source' of the smell inside a long unemptied trashcan on a hot summer's day.
That bacterial activity is the source of a trashcan's stink does not conflict with this statement.
Would Jesus like metaphysical 'compliments' of this kind, I wonder?
Yes he would. D&C 59:21
21 And in nothing doth man offend God, or against none is his wrath kindled, save those who confess not his hand in all things, and obey not his commandments.
Fine. He is displeased when I fail to acknowledge that he is the source of the Black Death and the Sichuan earthquake, especially the bit that made a school collapse on top of several hundred (only) children. Oh, and I cannot conceal that he was the source of my mother's breast cancer.
I confess his hand in all of these. I hope he feels better.
Unscientific Theories. If your theory makes no prediction, then it cannot be tested and hence it is not scientific. It still might be the correct explanation, it is just not scientific because the scientific method cannot be used to falsify it. There are many theories out there which cannot be tested, masquerading as scientific theories in order to have credibility. Be on the lookout for them.
No one will separate the facts from theories for you; the trend is to present everything as truth.
It is extremely important to distinguish between facts and theories in science, and in every other subject also, because facts usually remain the same and theories often change. They are not always easy to differentiate, and even scientists forget to do it
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Lou Midgley 08/20/2020: "...meat wad," and "cockroach" are pithy descriptions of human beings used by gemli? They were not fashioned by Professor Peterson.
LM 11/23/2018: one can explain away the soul of human beings...as...a Meat Unit, to use Professor Peterson's clever derogatory description of gemli's ideology.
Home Teacher wrote:Now, you are probably wondering about Venus and Mars and Jupiter, where do they get their light? We are not sure how they get their light, the prophets have not spoken on that, and I dare not speculate.
It's pretty obvious that these planets get their light by reflecting back at us light that originally came from the Sun. And since the Sun's light comes from Jesus, it's literally true that, in a way not nearly as dumb as this one, Uranus really does testify of Christ.
Did he know what he was doing when he chose the title of that essay? Or is he really that naïve?
Sethbag wrote:And since the Sun's light comes from Jesus, it's literally true that, in a way not nearly as dumb as this one, Uranus really does testify of Christ.
Did he know what he was doing when he chose the title of that essay? Or is he really that naïve?
Well he has a dang PhD in astronomy. Also, he did say:
In this article, the planet Uranus is called "Chronos" for two reasons. First, it is a much better sounding name.
"And yet another little spot is smoothed out of the echo chamber wall..." Bond
essentially everything is in Meridian Magazine,
*Titter titter*
He seems to be a sort of Mormon astrologer.
when believers want to give their claims more weight, they dress these claims up in scientific terms. When believers want to belittle atheism or secular humanism, they call it a "religion". -Beastie
yesterday's Mormon doctrine is today's Mormon folklore.-Buffalo
I think this story about Bill Nye the Science Guy is apropos for this thread. He got booed, and a lady grabbed her three kids and stormed out of his lecture when he suggested that the Moon doesn't actually emit its own light, but rather reflects light back at us from the Sun. It was in Waco.
Mormonism ceased being a compelling topic for me when I finally came to terms with its transformation from a personality cult into a combination of a real estate company, a SuperPac, and Westboro Baptist Church. - Kishkumen
Ok, well, the stars get their light from the reactions occuring within them. The planests don't have light, we see them because the light from the stars bounce off them and reflect and we pick the light up in our retina. The same for the moon. so we know the source of light for the moon and planets is the sun. And the source of light from the sun is the engergy released from the chain reactions and if according to scripture and scripture is true then Christ cannot be a symbol for the sun becaus ehe is the source of light for the sun and so he would have to be the energy which provides this light and thus he cannot be a man, but must be a form of energy which could have later become man. So the idea's shared in the scriptures would then be merely Philosophical and idealistic as opposed to literal. Which I tend to go for because symbolism has more meaning and power than words.
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I said to my family that someone wrote a book called " Uranus testifies of Christ" My aunt said "what the eff?" then she said I am easily amused. I thought it funny. Reminds me of that picture someone posted of a dogs behind!
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