IRAN WILL NOT CLOSE NUKE PLANTS

Syria agrees to attend Mideast talks
Israel says Arab nations can’t dictate terms of this week’s Mideast summit
updated 2:18 p.m. ET, Sun., Nov. 25, 2007
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration was able to declare a clean sweep when Syria, the last Arab world holdout, said Sunday it would attend this week’s high-stakes Mideast peace conference. Top negotiators awaited a meeting with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to finalize details. The White House reacted to Syria’s last-minute announcement by trying to keep the focus on the broad list of participants. "We welcome the attendance of so many countries from the region and around the world," said Gordon Johndroe, spokesman for President Bush’s National Security Council. "This large number signals broad support for Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts." As 16 Arab nations and the Arab League prepared to sit down with Israel for the first time in more than a decade, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni made it clear they should not expect to dictate the contours of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. League members grudgingly agreed a few days ago to send their foreign ministers to the conference, meant to renew Israeli-Palestinian peace talks after a violent, seven-year lull in negotiations. Most members do not have ties with the Jewish state. Syria had threatened to skip the three-day meetings in Annapolis, Md., and Washington, if they did not address the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed. But with that issue added to the agenda, the deputy foreign minister, Faysal Mekdad, will participate, according to Syria’s state-run news agency. White House press secretary Dana Perino, however, said the Golan Heights issue is "not specifically on the agenda." Participants can raise various issues, she said. Rice has said the United States would give room for other regional conflicts to be aired at the conference, including the Golan Heights. "If Syria chooses to come and wants to speak to its issues ... certainly nobody is going to rule it out of order," she said last week.
Israel PM welcomes Syria attendanceNonetheless, the absence of Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem appeared to indicate that Syria was not entirely confident the conference would address its concerns over the territory. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert saw the appearance of a high-ranking Syrian official as a positive development. "The meetings are clearly about the Israeli-Palestinian process, but could be the beginning of new avenues to peace in the Middle East," said the prime minister’s spokeswoman, Miri Eisin. On the flight to Washington with Livni, Olmert said Israel would "favorably" consider negotiations with Syria if conditions ripened. Israel first wants Syria to break out of Iran’s orbit and stop harboring Palestinian and Lebanese militants opposed to Israel’s existence. Surveying past peace efforts, Livni suggested that a lack of Arab backing contributed to the failure of the last round of Israeli-Palestinian talks, which collapsed amid bloodshed in early 2001. The Arab world, she said, "should stop sitting on the fence." "There isn’t a single Palestinian who can reach an agreement without Arab support," she said. "That’s one of the lessons we learned seven years ago." But, Livni added, "it is not the role of the Arab world to define the terms of the negotiations or take part in them."
Preparations to be finalized SundayRice planned to host the top negotiators, Livni and Palestinian envoy Ahmed Qureia, on Sunday evening in an effort to finalize preparations, according to Palestinian negotiator Yasser Abed Rabbo. He hoped to work out a joint document, but said an agreement was not essential because of assurances received in the U.S. invitation to the conference. That invitation, he said, "includes all the terms of reference for the future negotiation" and "confirms that both sides are committed" to putting in place the peace process. "This is enough to launch negotiations after the conference."
Reluctance to attend summitArab states had been reluctant to attend the gathering, which starts Monday in Washington. They feared it would give Israel a public-relations boost while yielding little political benefit for the Palestinians. But they decided to come to the first large-scale Arab-Israeli gathering since a 1996 meeting in Egypt. That is largely because they wanted to bolster moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and keep him from making damaging concessions to Israel in talks that are to follow the conference. Abbas has been badly weakened by the Islamic Hamas group’s violent takeover of the Gaza Strip in June, which left him in control of just the West Bank. A Hamas spokesman, Sami Abu Zuhri, said Hamas would have preferred if the Arabs collectively did not go to the conference, but he refused to criticize Syria. "The Syrian leadership is the one to evaluate its own interests, the way it sees fit," he said. The Arab League has proposed offering normalized ties with Israel if the Jewish state cedes all land captured in the 1967 Mideast war and agrees to a solution for Palestinian refugees who lost their homes in Israel following the country’s founding in 1948. Israel opposes a complete territorial pullback and the repatriation of Palestinian refugees to Israel. It initially rejected the Arab proposal, first presented in 2002. But over the past year Olmert has said it could be useful in new talks.
Last-ditch effortAhead of the conference, Israeli and Palestinian delegations were making a last-ditch effort to nail down agreement on where the talks would head after this week. The Palestinians want the joint statement to address, at least in general terms, the central issues of final borders, claims to Jerusalem and the fate of Palestinian refugees. Israel wants a broader and vaguer statement that would allow more room for maneuvering. It says the haggling on those issues should take place in the private talks that are to begin after the conference concludes on Wednesday. "I hope Annapolis will allow the launching of serious negotiations on all the core issues that will lead to a solution of two states for two peoples," Olmert told reporters on the plane. Abbas acknowledged that negotiations on the joint statement were in trouble. "The positions with the Israelis before Annapolis are still far apart, and the negotiations are still ongoing," Abbas said in comments published Sunday in the Palestinian newspaper al-Ayyam. Despite the differences, Abbas said he was committed to doing everything possible to hammer out an agreement in the coming year. Both Israel and the U.S. have said they hope to clinch a deal before Bush leaves office in January 2009.
Iran says it created nuke pellets
Pellets for use in heavy water reactor, which could be used for plutonium
updated 10:03 p.m. ET, Sat., Nov. 24, 2007
TEHRAN, Iran - The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization said Saturday that the country had produced its first nuclear fuel pellets for use in a heavy water reactor, which is still under construction. The uranium oxide pellets are made using a process separate from the uranium enrichment at the heart of a standoff between Iran and the U.S., which accuses the clerical government of secretly pursuing a nuclear weapons program. But the Arak reactor, which began construction in central Iran in 2004, is a concern to the West because the spent fuel from a heavy-water facility can be used to produce plutonium, which in turn can be used for a nuclear weapon. U.N. inspectors last visited the reactor in July, and Iran has said it hopes to have Arak up and running by 2009. "Fuel pellets to be used in the 40-megawatt Arak research reactor have been produced," Iranian Vice President Gholam Reza Aghazadeh said, according to the official IRNA news agency. Iran is developing Arak parallel to its better-known light-water reactor program, like the one being built with Russian help at Bushehr. Such light-water reactors use enriched uranium that, at far higher levels of enrichment, can also be used to produce the fissile material for a nuclear weapon. Iran insists its nuclear program is solely for peaceful purposes including generating electricity. The U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, had no comment Saturday.
Iran leader: No nuke concessions
National newspaper blasts Ahmadinejad for his attacks on Iranian critics
updated 9:27 p.m. ET, Wed., Nov. 21, 2007
ARDABIL, Iran - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed again Wednesday not to make concessions to the West over Iran’s nuclear program, while an Iranian newspaper reproached the hard-line leader for his attacks on critics in the country’s conservative camp. Iranians overwhelmingly back Iran’s right to make use of nuclear energy, but criticism of Ahmadinejad has been growing in recent months over his confrontational approach to the U.S. and its allies in the dispute. Many people are also discontented over the poor economy. Jomhuri-e-Eslami, a daily aligned with Iran’s Islamic establishment, ran an editorial taking Ahmadinejad to task for calling former nuclear negotiator Hossein Mousavian a "traitor." It said the president was "wrong," and added that only courts should make such judgments. Although the president named Mousavian, his attack was widely viewed as being aimed at the envoy’s ally, former president Hashemi Rafsanjani, who is thought to be arguing for a more moderate stance in Iran’s dealings with the West. Rafsanjani has emerged as a leader of conservatives who once supported Ahmadinejad but have increasingly gone public with criticism of government policies. He also likely worries the president because he has some influence with Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has ultimate say over all issues, including the nuclear program. Earlier this month, Ahmadinejad branded critics of his handling of the nuclear issue as "traitors" and warned he would take action against them — a warning many saw as a volley against Rafsanjani’s camp. "It is not correct to take judgment about such issues to the press, universities and the public," Jomhuri-e-Eslami said in its editorial. It said Ahmadinejad should not interfere in judicial matters and suggested legal action should be taken against those who make allegations against individuals — a comment believed directed at the president.
Leader says Iran will work with U.N.Speaking at a rally in Ardabil, a city in the northwest, Ahmadinejad stood firm in rejecting calls for moderation in grappling with international pressure over the nuclear program. He said concessions would only result in more concessions being demanded further down the road. "They want to get a small concession from us — for instance, that we won’t go beyond a certain point within the next four years or we annually make just a certain amount of progress," he said. "This will become a legal precedent. Then, they will come and threaten us to obtain another concession." Ahmadinejad said Iran will not go beyond its current work with the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, based in Vienna, Austria. An IAEA report last week said Iran had cooperated in answering some questions about its past nuclear activities, but added that little is known about current work and that Tehran continues to defy a U.N. Security Council demand that it suspend uranium enrichment. Iran contends its enrichment program is meant solely for the production of fuel for nuclear reactors that would generate electricity. But the U.S. and its allies suspect the Iranians are secretly trying to develop atomic weapons.
Further meetingsIran’s state news agency, IRNA, said Wednesday that the country’s top nuclear negotiator and the European Union’s foreign policy chief would meet Nov. 30 in London for another round of talks. However, EU officials in Brussels, Belgium, suggested it was unlikely a meeting would be held that day. Earlier EU-Iranian talks have often been preceded by a series of dates floated by Tehran. EU envoy Javier Solana has been meeting with Iranian negotiator Saeed Jalili on behalf of the five Security Council members and Germany, which have led international efforts to persuade Tehran to curb its nuclear program in return for a package of economic incentives. In Vienna, an American diplomat expressed confidence Wednesday that the IAEA’s 35-nation board will urge Iran this week to obey the Security Council demands on enrichment as well as open its nuclear facilities fully to international scrutiny. Gregory L. Schulte, chief delegate to the U.N. agency, commented on the eve of the board’s two-day meeting to discuss the Iran situation. The U.S., Britain and France are pushing for a third round of U.N. sanctions over Iran’s failure to halt enrichment. But Russia and China, the Security Council’s two other veto-holding permanent members, argue that negotiations should be pursued further before more penalties are imposed.

VANISHING AMERICA/ THE END OF AMERICA - NAOMI WOLF

Naomi Wolf has a new book on the market that I would recommend to all whom like to read (picture: Naomi Wolf) the title is: THE END OF AMERICA

Rising seas likely to flood U.S. history
2 hours, 35 minutes ago
Ultimately, rising seas will likely swamp the first American settlement in Jamestown, Va., as well as the Florida launch pad that sent the first American into orbit, many climate scientists are predicting. In about a century, some of the places that make America what it is may be slowly erased. Global warming — through a combination of melting glaciers, disappearing ice sheets and warmer waters expanding — is expected to cause oceans to rise by one meter, or about 39 inches. It will happen regardless of any future actions to curb greenhouse gases, several leading scientists say. And it will reshape the nation. Rising waters will lap at the foundations of old money Wall Street and the new money towers of Silicon Valley. They will swamp the locations of big city airports and major interstate highways. Storm surges worsened by sea level rise will flood the waterfront getaways of rich politicians — the Bushes' Kennebunkport and John Edwards' place on the Outer Banks. And gone will be many of the beaches in Texas and Florida favored by budget-conscious students on Spring Break. That's the troubling outlook projected by coastal maps reviewed by The Associated Press. The maps, created by scientists at the University of Arizona, are based on data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Few of the more than two dozen climate experts interviewed disagree with the one-meter projection. Some believe it could happen in 50 years, others say 100, and still others say 150. Sea level rise is "the thing that I'm most concerned about as a scientist," says Benjamin Santer, a climate physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. "We're going to get a meter and there's nothing we can do about it," said University of Victoria climatologist Andrew Weaver, a lead author of the February report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Paris. "It's going to happen no matter what — the question is when." Sea level rise "has consequences about where people live and what they care about," said Donald Boesch, a University of Maryland scientist who has studied the issue. "We're going to be into this big national debate about what we protect and at what cost." This week, beginning with a meeting at the United Nations on Monday, world leaders will convene to talk about fighting global warming. At week's end, leaders will gather in Washington with President Bush. Experts say that protecting America's coastlines would run well into the billions and not all spots could be saved. And it's not just a rising ocean that is the problem. With it comes an even greater danger of storm surge, from hurricanes, winter storms and regular coastal storms, Boesch said. Sea level rise means higher and more frequent flooding from these extreme events, he said. All told, one meter of sea level rise in just the lower 48 states would put about 25,000 square miles under water, according to Jonathan Overpeck, director of the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth at the University of Arizona. That's an area the size of West Virginia. The amount of lost land is even greater when Hawaii and Alaska are included, Overpeck said. The Environmental Protection Agency's calculation projects a land loss of about 22,000 square miles. The EPA, which studied only the Eastern and Gulf coasts, found that Louisiana, Florida, North Carolina, Texas and South Carolina would lose the most land. But even inland areas like Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia also have slivers of at-risk land, according to the EPA. This past summer's flooding of subways in New York could become far more regular, even an everyday occurrence, with the projected sea rise, other scientists said. And New Orleans' Katrina experience and the daily loss of Louisiana wetlands — which serve as a barrier that weakens hurricanes — are previews of what's to come there. Florida faces a serious public health risk from rising salt water tainting drinking water wells, said Joel Scheraga, the EPA's director of global change research. And the farm-rich San Joaquin Delta in California faces serious salt water flooding problems, other experts said. "Sea level rise is going to have more general impact to the population and the infrastructure than almost anything else that I can think of," said S. Jeffress Williams, a U.S. Geological Survey coastal geologist in Woods Hole, Mass. Even John Christy at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, a scientist often quoted by global warming skeptics, said he figures the seas will rise at least 16 inches by the end of the century. But he tells people to prepare for a rise of about three feet just in case. Williams says it's "not unreasonable at all" to expect that much in 100 years. "We've had a third of a meter in the last century." The change will be a gradual process, one that is so slow it will be easy to ignore for a while. "It's like sticking your finger in a pot of water on a burner and you turn the heat on, Williams said. "You kind of get used to it."

NANO - NANO

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Posted: September 21, 2007 Nanotechnology crop circles appear in Southern California! (Nanowerk Spotlight) Just kidding - I always wanted to write a tabloid headline like that! In case you are expecting a story on the mysteries of crop circles caused by alien nanotechnology - stop reading right here; but the analogy is just too striking when you look at the amazing images coming out of the labs at the University of Southern California, where they developed a new technique to create three-dimensional carbon nanotube structures. While carbon nanotubes possess many exceptional properties which far exceed most known bulk materials, creating controlled nanotube (CNT) microstructures has always been a challenge. Overcoming this challenge is going to be key in developing useful and commercially viable CNT devices. Existing techniques for patterning three-dimensional CNT structures are based on the bottom-up growth of multiwalled CNTs (MWCNTs) from a patterned catalyst, which is limited to 2D-like geometries. Other, complex 3D microstructures have been fabricated with polymer-based resin materials but not with CNTs. The new technique developed by researchers in California uses a focused laser beam to selectively burn local regions of a dense forest of MWCNTs. This technique enables chemically sensitive fields to take advantage of nanotubes' exceptional properties and expand their possible applications into new areas. "We created three-dimensional microstructures using a focused laser beam to selectively burn local regions of a dense forest of multiwalled carbon nanotubes" Dr. Stephen B. Cronin tells Nanowerk. "Raman spectroscopy is used to systematically quantify this process in a controlled fashion to determine the laser power threshold for burning carbon nanotubes and, also, the depth of burnout at different laser powers." Cronin, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering - Electrophysics at the University of Southern California, together with collaborators from the university's Department of Materials Science and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech, published their findings in a recent paper in Applied Physics Letters ("Rapid prototyping of three-dimensional microstructures from multiwalled carbon nanotubes" ).

a) Concentric cylindrical structures patterned using the laser burnout method. b) Close-up image showing a slight undercut profile. (Reprinted with permission from American Institute of Physics) The researchers grew CNT forests by chemical vapor deposition by passing ethylene over a predeposited iron catalyst on silicon wafers. The nanotube growth takes place in a heated tube furnace at 650°C. "We determined the minimum threshold laser power for burning carbon nanotubes in air by observing changes in the intensity of nanotube Raman spectra before and after laser exposure" says Cronin. CNTs were exposed at laser powers between 50 and 9000 microwatts for 1 second and the scientists found that the threshold for laser burnout occurs at 300 µW, which corresponds to a power density of 244 µW/µm2 for a 1.25 µm spot size. "The initial burnout we observed came as quite a surprise and appeared very striking in our microscope images" says Cronin. "Typically, carbon nanotubes lying on a silicon wafer are very difficult to heat with a laser. So, in fact, this burnout effect was discovered serendipitously."

Cronin notes that they observed several interesting phenomena on the surface of the MWCNT forests after laser treatment. "SEM images revealed white spots ranging from 100 to 200 nm on top of the burned MWCNT surface. At higher magnification, these white spots can be resolved as nanotube bundles that aggregate during the exothermic burnout process. This aggregation demonstrates the dynamic nature of the burnout process of these MWCNTs." Potential applications that could benefit from this technique – since it doesn't involve chemicals and the resolution is limited primarily by the spot size of the objective lens – are on-chip DNA manipulation, chemical and protein identification, templates for directed stem cell growth, and gas mixture separation. The next step for the researchers is to work closely with scientists from other fields, such as biological and micro-fluidics, to determine how this method compares to the current state-of-the-art techniques and to quantify any additional advantages provided by this method.

Iran President Ahmadinejad rips U.S.

Iran President Ahmadinejad rips U.S.
Sat Sep 22, 4:52 PM ET
A day before flying to New York to speak directly to the American people, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad struck a confrontational tone Saturday with a parade of fighter jets and missiles and tough warnings for the United States to stay out of the Mideast. Three new domestically manufactured warplanes streaked over the capital during the parade marking the 27th anniversary of the Iraqi invasion of Iran, which sparked a 1980-88 war that killed hundreds of thousands of people. The parade also featured the Ghadr missile, which has a range of 1,120 miles, capable of reaching Israel. Some of the missile trucks were painted with the slogans "Down with the U.S." and "Down with Israel." The parade also featured unmanned aerial surveillance drones, torpedoes, and tanks. Tensions are high between Washington and Tehran over U.S. accusations that Iran is secretly trying to develop nuclear weapons and helping Shiite militias in Iraq that target U.S. troops. Iran denies the claims. Washington has said it is addressing the Iran situation diplomatically, rather than militarily, but U.S. officials also say that all options are open. "Those (countries) who assume that decaying methods such as psychological war, political propaganda and the so-called economic sanctions would work and prevent Iran's fast drive toward progress are mistaken," Ahmadinejad. Iran launched an arms development program during its war with Iraq to compensate for a U.S. weapons embargo. Since 1992, Iran has produced its own jets, torpedoes, radar-avoiding missiles, tanks and armored personnel carriers. "Those who prevented Iran, at the height of the war from getting even barbed wire must see now that all the equipment on display today has been built by the mighty hands and brains of experts at Iran's armed forces," Ahmadinejad said. He is expected to address the American people directly in an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes" airing Sunday, and through appearances at the U.N., Columbia University and several other events. His request to lay a wreath at the World Trade Center site was denied and condemned by Sept. 11 family members and politicians. Protests against his Columbia appearance are planned at the university and the United Nations by demonstrators angry at his questioning of the Holocaust and declarations that Israel will cease to exist. Iran and the U.S. have not had diplomatic ties since militants took over the U.S. Embassy following the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Since then, the cleric-led regime has vilified the United States as the "Great Satan." Despite Ahmadinejad's frequent anti-U.S. rhetoric, he has tried to appeal to the American people before. Recently, he told a live satellite television show that his country wanted peace and friendship with the U.S. Since coming to power in 2005, Ahmadinejad has also sent letters to the American people in which he criticized Bush's Mideast policy. He is scheduled to address the General Assembly on Tuesday — his third time attending the New York meeting in three years. Last year, Ahmadinejad was harshly critical of U.S. policies in Iraq and Lebanon and insisted that his nation's nuclear activities were "transparent." At the parade, Ahmadinejad repeated his demand for foreign forces to leave the region and urged the United States to acknowledge it has failed in Iraq. Outside the 160,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, there are 40,000 troops on U.S. bases in Persian Gulf countries and another 20,000 in Mideast waters. "Nations throughout the region do not need the presence of the foreigners to manage their own needs. Foreign presence is the root cause of all instability, differences and threats," he said. On the sidelines of the parade, the head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, Mohammad Ali Jafari, said the event highlighted the "might of Iran's armed forces to its enemies," adding that Iran is ready to retaliate if attacked. "Iran has drawn up plans to confront enemies in the face of any possible attack," the official IRNA news agency quoted Jafari as saying. The Bush administration is expected to soon blacklist a unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization, subjecting part of the vast military operation to financial penalties. The step would be in response to Iran's involvement in Iraq and elsewhere. The U.S. is also leading a push in the U.N. Security Council for a third round of economic sanctions against Iran over its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment. Iran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes including generating electricity. The Security Council is not expected to take up the issue before October. "Learn lessons from your past mistakes. Don't repeat your mistakes," he said in a warning to the United States over its push to impose more sanctions.

METEORITE CAUSES ILLNESSES

Mystery illness strikes after meteorite hits Peruvian village
Mon Sep 17, 11:23 PM ET
Villagers in southern Peru were struck by a mysterious illness after a meteorite made a fiery crash to Earth in their area, regional authorities said Monday. Around midday Saturday, villagers were startled by an explosion and a fireball that many were convinced was an airplane crashing near their remote village, located in the high Andes department of Puno in the Desaguadero region, near the border with Bolivia. Residents complained of headaches and vomiting brought on by a "strange odor," local health department official Jorge Lopez told Peruvian radio RPP. Seven policemen who went to check on the reports also became ill and had to be given oxygen before being hospitalized, Lopez said. Rescue teams and experts were dispatched to the scene, where the meteorite left a 100-foot-wide (30-meter-wide) and 20-foot-deep (six-meter-deep) crater, said local official Marco Limache. "Boiling water started coming out of the crater and particles of rock and cinders were found nearby. Residents are very concerned," he said.

DISGRACE IN THE SCIENCE LABORATORY

Disgraced scientist moves research base
Wed Sep 19, 8:30 PM ET
Disgraced cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk has relocated his research base to Thailand to avoid the ethical disputes his work would cause in South Korea, a scientist close to Hwang said Wednesday. Hwang and some 10 associates have been working at a national university laboratory in the southeast Asian country since June, said Park Se-pill, a Cheju National University professor and well-known stem cell scientist. Park declined to further identify the university, but added that the school is providing active support for Hwang. Hwang stays in Thailand for about 2-3 weeks at a time and comes to Seoul to handle other affairs, Park said, adding that he often communicates with Hwang. Park did not elaborate, but Hwang has to attend periodic court hearings in an ongoing fraud trial that he has faced since his breakthroughs in cloning human embryos were revealed as fake. Hwang is focusing his research in Thailand on "inter-species nucleus transplant," a technology that refers to removing the nucleus from an adult human cell and transplanting it into an egg of an animal, such as a pig, cow or rabbit, to harvest stem cells, Park said. Stem cells are master cells that can grow into any bodily tissues, which scientists say could lead to revolutionary new cures for hard-to-treat diseases. The purpose of inter-species nucleus transplants are to treat diseases by growing fresh patient-specific stem cells using animal eggs and then transplanting them into the human body so that they can replace the damaged cells of an organ, Park said. Hwang's now-discredited breakthroughs were about doing the same process between human cells. In 2004, Hwang claimed his team had produced a human embryo through cloning and that they had recovered stem cells from it. The following year, his team announced they succeeded in producing stem cells tailored to specific patients. But those achievements were discovered in late 2005 to have been faked, forcing Hwang's downfall from being a national hero to an international disgrace for South Korea. He was fired from the prestigious Seoul National University, lost a license to research into human cloning and was put on trial for allegedly accepting funds under false pretenses, embezzlement and illegally purchasing human eggs for research. Still, Hwang could have continued his research into inter-species cloning because South Korea does not have any law governing that area yet, Park said. But Hwang decided to move to Thailand due to a backlash the study would draw from activists. Park said he also studied inter-species nucleus transplants in 2002, but faced huge criticism from civic and religious groups claiming it was wrong to mix human cells with animal eggs. "These days, the ethical yardstick is more important than judicial judgments," he said. "That's why professor Hwang went to Thailand."

OPENING UP IRON DEATH FOR THIS GENERATION

Mystery boy in iron coffin identified
Science Writer2 hours, 53 minutes ago
Researchers have solved the mystery of the boy in the iron coffin. The cast-iron coffin was discovered by utility workers in Washington two years ago. Smithsonian scientists led by forensic anthropologist Doug Owsley set about trying to determine who was buried in it, so the body could be placed in a new, properly marked grave. The body was that of 15-year-old William Taylor White, who died in 1852 and was buried in the Columbia College cemetery, they announced Thursday. "The mystery of this young boy's life and a strong sense of responsibility to properly identify him kept me and the entire team focused and determined. This was not a one-person project. It took more than three dozen people nearly two years to make the ID," Deborah Hull-Walski, an anthropologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, said in a statement. The researchers believe that the coffin was inadvertently left behind when the cemetery was later moved. White, from Accomack, Va., was a descendant of Anthony West, one of the Jamestown settlers, they announced. He was a student in the preparatory school of the college, which later became George Washington University. White was one of several potential candidates the team focused on after studying census records, obituaries and other public documents. They then tested the DNA of known living descendants to make the positive identification. The pathologists and forensic anthropologists reported that White had congenital heart disease, a ventricular septum defect, which is a hole in the heart, that contributed to his death. They found an obituary published in the Daily National Intelligencer newspaper of Washington on Jan. 28, 1852, confirming White died Jan. 24, 1852, after a short illness. Clothing historians were able to determine that he was dressed in a shirt, vest and pants that are consistent with clothing styles of the early to mid-1850s. "Thus is cut off, in the morning of his days, one in whom many hopes were centred-and who had the fairest prospects of happiness and usefulness in life," the Religious Herald newspaper of Richmond, Va., said in its obituary. The cast-iron coffin was shaped a bit like an Egyptian mummy case and is of a type called Fisk style patented in 1848. This particular model was popular in the early 1850s among the well-to-do, Owsley said. Because they are sealed, cast iron coffins tend to yield well-preserved bodies. Indeed, the young person looked not unlike an ancient mummy, even though he had not gone through the Egyptian embalming procedures.

SUPERBUGS OF INFECTION

Knoxville (WVLT) - If you have a child under seven, he or she has likely received a vaccine doctors say is generating new superbugs that cause ear infections.Prevnar, which came on the market in 2000, prevents Pneumonia and other serious illnesses in children under two. We're covering East Tennessee health with what you need to know about this dangerous side effect. Before Prevnar, many babies and toddlers developed Pneumonia, Meningitis and serious blood infections that led to hearing loss, brain damage, and even death. Over the last seven years, it's prevented thousands of infections and saved hundreds of lives. But now, doctors say it's having an unfortunate side effect, promoting what they call "superbugs" that cause ear infections. "And that's essentially what's happened. We've selected out the bad strains, and now the good ones have become bad and are growing," East Tennessee Children's Hospital Director of Infection Control Caroline Graber says prevnar prevents seven strains responsible for most cases of Pneumonia, Meningitis and deadly bloodstream infections. But dozens more strep strains exist, and some have flourished and become resistant to antibiotics, since the vaccine combats the most common strains. Graber says, "And the bacteria's pretty smart, and they have learned how to fight and become resistant to the antibiotics, and we've got to look for another one." On Monday, doctors reported discovering the first germ that's resistant to all drugs approved to treat childhood ear infections. Nine toddlers in New York have had the bug, and researchers say it's likely to turn up elsewhere. "About 85 percent of ear infections are caused by viruses. Viruses aren't cured by antibiotics, they don't need antibiotics," Knox County Public Health Officer Doctor Martha Buchanan says avoiding antibiotics when they're not necessary is the best way to ensure they will work they are. Buchanan says, "Because a bacteria is resistant to some antiobiotics, the ones that are most commonly used does not mean it's resistant to all antibiotics." Prevnar manufacturer, Wyeth, is testing a new vaccine. But it's at least two years away from FDA approval, and the CDC says the new strains could become a public health problem if infections spread through schools and day care centers. The new strain that caused ear infections in the nine Rochester children where resistant to all antibiotics approved for children. Some only recovered after treatment with a new, powerful antibiotic which has not yet been deemed safe for children.

ELIJAH WELCOMED IN THE SAVIOUR OF MANKIND

Jesus declared Himself to be the only Saviour of mankind, and being such He has set the requirements for salvation for man, in other words there is something we must do-well, sort of-that is, and we should explore just what that requirement will be. All other avenues or so-called means of salvation require that a person must strive their entire life to acheive a type of salvation, and I say a type of salvation because at the end of the journey you still, even in their beliefs, will not and do not attain salvation. The Buddhist religion was started by a man named Guatamala Siddartha and he started a religion based upon relieving the "wants and desires" of the people as he concluded this caused stress, greed, envy and the such as people strived to attain and "get ahead". His conclusion was that all the people would give all their sustance and their belongings unto the King. The King would then give to the people what they needed (not what they wanted) and this would eliminate theft, greed,worry etc..,. This worked well for Guatamala as he was the son of the king and thus the inheritor of all the goods and riches of the kingdom and the people. In his journey of 5+ years of solitude, (yeah, he was so alone) he had 5 women who attended his every need, he arrived at this grand scheme or idea. Today we call this system Communism which means commune or communial living, in the which the people work for the state and not for themselves and the state provides shelter, food, medical for the people, we call this slavery. Under this system if you do good all of your life you may one day die and re-incarnate to a higher form and if you do badly to a lower form. This has never been proven, but you do have a lot of people believing that they have been here before in a dejavue type of being. No Salvation as you will eventually ascend into the great Nirvana or the great nothing of non-existence, this too has never been proven. The Hindu have a similiar belief although they see everything as a god, this is why they do not swat the fly that eats from the bowl of food they eat as the fly could be an ancestor and they teach their children to observe this also. This is why you see the children of Africa starving and sick as they get the maggots in their food but will not move them out or kill them, and this is why you can never supply enough for them as you are feeding all the animals and insects of the nation, the same exists in India and other Hindu religious areas, a no win situation. It is important to notice however the rulers and kings live in insect free, air conditioned palaces and they do not mind the religion as it helps in the population control.
The next major religion is the Arabic Nations, and they are the most dedicated to their religion to the point of death. Their religion originally was called Islamic but changed in the mid 15th century as they revered the leader called Mohammad or Muhammad depending on whom you are speaking to and their understanding. If you are not of Arab descent you can forget about their form of salvation of course they will not inform you of this as their goal is to make the whole world convert to Islam, and the key word is "make" people convert at the point of a sword. Two journalists escaped from their Arab captors by converting to Islam although later they confessed they were really Christian and for the lack of a better word "pretended" to convert to the Islamic faith. Their end goal is to die for Mohammad and acheive 70 female virgins when they attain unto paradise, I suppose the women also get 70 female virgins. Their women are not allowed to participate in the religion or state unless the men pass a law condoning such and they must remain covered in public as there is extreme jealousy in the faith and men who rule. You must be extremely good and do good works according to their faith (which does not mention the 70 virgins) or else they will cut off the hands and feet or kill the individual who disobeys, this is why you have so many without hands in the diamond mining as they take the diamonds and their hands are cut off. You must work for your food, and obey all the laws of the land or put your life in peril. Mohammad whom is reputed to have ascended into heaven was actually killed and buried in the desert and became the Christ-like figure for the Islamic faith. Like Christianity there are many branches of the faith and this is the reason for the bombing of their own brethren in Iraq although the Islamic faith states that they are never to kill one another.
Jewish faith is much like the Christian faith with the exception of Christ to whom they did not accept. They have Ten base Commandmants which they are to follow and must give a sacrifice for their sins each year, however, being without a temple they cannot do so and they have plans to rebuild the temple soon. In rebuilding the temple they would start a Jihad or Holy war with the Arabs as they oppose the temple. This will be averted for a time as they are going to divide the Holy City of Jerusalem into three districts, one for the Jew, one for the Arab, and one for the Gentile which is the name used for everyone who is not of the Jew or Arabic faith. When this is accomplished they will begin sacrifice again which will be against the UN charter and they will not condone this action but will not move to stop it either. Jews believe their Messiah will come soon and set up his kingdom on earth and destroy all the enemies of Israel. You can convert to the Jewish faith as it is written in the old testament and many in the lineage of Jesus Christ were Gentiles which converted unto the Jewish one such story is found in the book of Ruth (a beautiful story). The last war will not be between the Jew and Arab as some have proposed but will be between the Christian and Arab as Israel will be converted by God unto Jesus Christ. They await a Saviour. They also do not believe that Elijah has came to the earth yet as he will be the forerunner of the Messiah, they will however, accept the false prophet, whom they think will be Elijah, and they will accept the false Messiah who will be Satan eventually.
Christian, the only religion (based upon Christ) that states the Messiah has came and offers salvation to any who will receive it. Elijah has come and ushered in the Messiah as predicted and Christ died for the sins of all mankind but if they do reject Him then they reject His pardon and payment on the cross and are dead in their sins and trespasses and will go to an eternal fire called hell. All religions have punishment for the non-believer the degree of the punishment is the difference as well is the mode of salvation. All religions state you must work for your salvation except one and that is the Christian faith, and why is that? Because Christ paid the sin debt for you and the only requirement is you accept the payment by asking Christ to forgive you of your sins and to come into your heart and save you, such a simple thing to do and yet to most people the hardest thing they have ever done or will do to the point of going through other religions to attain their salvation. It is a strange thing as people will generally go to major extremes to "work" their own salvation instead of accepting the free gift of Jesus Christ. I stated that Elijah has come so where is it recognized in scripture, first let's explore the promise of his coming and then his actual arrival.
THE PROMISE OF ELIJAH TO COME
It is written in the book of Malachi that before the Messiah shall come Elijah must first come and restore all thing and a time line is also given in Hosea 6:1-2
Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. So much is noted in this verses and we will explore a few, 1.The LORD is spelled with all caps which is also noted in John 20:28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My LORD and my God. And is mentioned another 3 times in the same chapter spelled with all caps which emphasizes the "glorified" body of Jesus after His resurrection. This is not alway noted in all bibles but is found in some of the NIV's and King James Version which is an accurate rending of the spelling. 2. This is in the old testament as it is written unto and for the Jew, Hosea being a prophet for the Jew, and the Jew is stating "Let us return unto the LORD" meaning they were not with the LORD but not will seek to return unto Him. The LORD has both "torn and smitten" Israel but now He will "heal and bind them up" 3. This will take place "after two days" which is noted in llPeter as two thousand years (which it has been two thousand years since Christ was here) llPeter 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. Now how would we know that it denotes two thousand years and not two days-because Christ would not come for another few hundred years or more so Hosea could not be speaking of a time denoted by literal 24 hour periods and it would be a time when the Jew would accept Jesus which they did not do when He came so He had to first come and be rejected by the Jew for them to state "Let us return". 4. In the Third day the Jew states,"in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight" which has not yet occurred as Christ is not reigning on the earth as yet but will during what is termed as the "Millenium" or the literal one thousand year reign of Christ in and from Jerusalem. - Back to Elijah -
Malachi 3:1-3 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts. But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness. The messenger that God would send is identified in Chapter 4 - Malachi 4:5-6 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. When Christ came He did not smite the earth with a curse but blessed it with salvation it was a "great" day in that it offered salvation for all who would accept and it was a dreadful day for those who did not receive him. Elijah's job was two-fold 1. To usher in the Messiah and anoint Him as the most Holy and the Saviour 2. To change the hearts of the children to the fathers and fathers back to the children. In Rome during the time of Jesus the parents of the children would sell them on the auction block as sex slaves to pay off debts and to make money and many other atrocious things which would take to much time to describe but at the preaching of Elijah this stopped and since that time parents have cared for and loved their children until this "modern" age which is showing more abuse and ill will toward the children and the reason of course is the Holy Spirit is decreasing His power over the people as the reign of the anti-christ is about to take place, although it is only a six and half year reign.
Matthew 3:1-4 In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
This is the same description of Elijah found in llKings 1:8 -
And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
There is one thing which is extremely important to obtain understanding in the Bible and that is we must alway believe the words of God over that of man, now this may seem a mute point but there are many, as a matter of fact most if not all, ministers that do not accept the words of God over man, I can't recall at this point of one minister that believes what God has said about Elijah. Note: 1 John 5:9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. Here God declares His word to be the final authority.
Matthew 11:9-15 But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet. For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. (although the spelling here is Elias it is interpreted as Elijah) Matthew 17:10-13 And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things. But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them. Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.
The disciples understood that John the Baptist was indeed Elijah, however, as I stated earlier the ministers do not accept this and why do they not believe it? The most quoted is that of Luke 1:17 And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. And in John 1:19-25 And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself? He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? They asked him a great question and would have killed him for the answer if it were not for the people who liked John and would have fought for him. If he were not Elijah or Christ he would not be allowed to baptise anyone, and yet he did this proving as well as his statement above that he was indeed Elijah ( I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord). What about the "spirit and power" of Elijah that was mentioned above? Ephesians 4:4-6 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. Men only have one Spirit that is their life which is given by God, so if John had a Spirit and he also had the Spirit of Elijah then there would have been confuscion and contradiction of the scriptures as man only has one Spirit. The power of Elijah was to preach the gospel and return the hearts of parents and children to each other which is what John accomplished. Another reason given by the ministry is reincarnation but this is inaccurate and does not occur as it is appointed for man to die once and then the judgement, the ministers state that Elijah would have been born twice and he would not be made that small - they forget that Christ pre-existed before his birth with Mary thus He was made small also to be born none of these arguments hold any weight against the words of God, that is Christ.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
John 10:30 I and my Father are one.

TOP 10 WAYS TO DESTROY THE EARTH

TOP 10 WAYS TO DESTROY THE EARTH

10.Total existence failure
You will need: nothing
Method: No method. Simply sit back and twiddle your thumbs as, completely by chance, all 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms making up the planet Earth suddenly, simultaneously and spontaneously cease to exist. Note: the odds against this actually ever occurring are considerably greater than a googolplex to one. Failing this, some kind of arcane (read: scientifically laughable) probability-manipulation device may be employed. Utter, utter rubbish.
9. Gobbled up by strangelets
You will need: a stable strangelet Method: Hijack control of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, New York. Use the RHIC to create and maintain a stable strangelet. Keep it stable for as long as it takes to absorb the entire Earth into a mass of strange quarks. Keeping the strangelet stable is incredibly difficult once it has absorbed the stabilizing machinery, but creative solutions may be possible. A while back, there was some media hoo-hah about the possibility of this actually happening at the RHIC, but in actuality the chances of a stable strangelet forming are pretty much zero. Earth's final resting place: a huge glob of strange matter.
8. Sucked into a microscopic black hole
You will need: a microscopic black hole. Note that black holes are not eternal, they evaporate due to Hawking radiation. For your average black hole this takes an unimaginable amount of time, but for really small ones it could happen almost instantaneously, as evaporation time is dependent on mass. Therefore you microscopic black hole must have greater than a certain threshold mass, roughly equal to the mass of Mount Everest. Creating a microscopic black hole is tricky, since one needs a reasonable amount of neutronium, but may possibly be achievable by jamming large numbers of atomic nuclei together until they stick. This is left as an exercise to the reader. Method: simply place your black hole on the surface of the Earth and wait. Black holes are of such high density that they pass through ordinary matter like a stone through the air. The black hole will plummet through the ground, eating its way to the center of the Earth and all the way through to the other side: then, it'll oscillate back, over and over like a matter-absorbing pendulum. Eventually it will come to rest at the core, having absorbed enough matter to slow it down. Then you just need to wait, while it sits and consumes matter until the whole Earth is gone. Highly, highly unlikely. But not impossible. Earth's final resting place: a singularity of almost zero size, which will then proceed to happily orbit the Sun as normal. Source: "The Dark Side Of The Sun," by Terry Pratchett. It is true that the microscopic black hole idea is an age-old science fiction mainstay which predates Pratchett by a long time, he was my original source for the idea, so that's what I'm putting
7. Blown up by matter/antimatter reaction You will need: 2,500,000,000,000 tons of antimatter Antimatter - the most explosive substance possible - can be manufactured in small quantities using any large particle accelerator, but this will take some considerable time to produce the required amounts. If you can create the appropriate machinery, it may be possible - and much easier - simply to "flip" 2.5 trillion tons of matter through a fourth dimension, turning it all to antimatter at once. Method: This method involves detonating a bomb so big that it blasts the Earth to pieces. How hard is that? The gravitational binding energy of a planet of mass M and radius R is - if you do the lengthy calculations - given by the formula E=(3/5)GM^2/R. For Earth, that works out to roughly 224,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Joules. The Sun takes nearly a WEEK to output that much energy. Think about THAT. To liberate that much energy requires the complete annihilation of around 2,500,000,000,000 tonnes of antimatter. That's assuming zero energy loss to heat and radiation, which is unlikely to be the case in reality: You'll probably need to up the dose by at least a factor of ten. Once you've generated your antimatter, probably in space, just launch it en masse towards Earth. The resulting release of energy (obeying Einstein's famous mass-energy equation, E=mc^2) should be sufficient to split the Earth into a thousand pieces. Earth's final resting place: A second asteroid belt around the Sun. Earliest feasible completion date: AD 2500. Of course, if it does prove possible to manufacture antimatter in the sufficiently large quantities you require - which is not necessarily the case - then smaller antimatter bombs will be around long before then.
6. Destroyed by vacuum energy detonation
You will need: a light bulb Method: This is a fun one. Contemporary scientific theories tell us that what we may see as vacuum is only vacuum on average, and actually thriving with vast amounts of particles and antiparticles constantly appearing and then annihilating each other. It also suggests that the volume of space enclosed by a light bulb contains enough vacuum energy to boil every ocean in the world. Therefore, vacuum energy could prove to be the most abundant energy source of any kind. Which is where you come in. All you need to do is figure out how to extract this energy and harness it in some kind of power plant - this can easily be done without arousing too much suspicion - then surreptitiously allow the reaction to run out of control. The resulting release of energy would easily be enough to annihilate all of planet Earth and probably the Sun too. Slightly possible. Earth's final resting place: a rapidly expanding cloud of particles of varying size. Earliest feasible completion date: 2060 or so. Source: "3001: The Final Odyssey," by Arthur C. Clarke
5. Sucked into a giant black hole
You will need: a black hole, extremely powerful rocket engines, and, optionally, a large rocky planetary body. The nearest black hole to our planet is 1600 light years from Earth in the direction of Sagittarius, orbiting V4641. Method: after locating your black hole, you need get it and the Earth together. This is likely to be the most time-consuming part of this plan. There are two methods, moving Earth or moving the black hole, though for best results you'd most likely move both at once. Very difficult, but definitely possible. Earth's final resting place: part of the mass of the black hole. Earliest feasible completion date: I do not expect the necessary technology to be available until AD 3000, and add at least 800 years for travel time. (That's in an external observer's frame of reference and assuming you move both the Earth and the black hole at the same time.) Sources: "The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy," by Douglas Adams; SPACE.com
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4. Meticulously and systematically deconstructed
You will need: a powerful mass driver, or ideally lots of them; ready access to roughly 2*10^32J Method: Basically, what we're going to do here is dig up the Earth, a big chunk at a time, and boost the whole lot of it into orbit. Yes. All six sextillion tons of it. A mass driver is a sort of oversized electromagnetic railgun, which was once proposed as a way of getting mined materials back from the Moon to Earth - basically, you just load it into the driver and fire it upwards in roughly the right direction. We'd use a particularly powerful model - big enough to hit escape velocity of 11 kilometers per second even after atmospheric considerations - and launch it all into the Sun or randomly into space. Alternate methods for boosting the material into space include loading the extracted material into space shuttles or taking it up via space elevator. All these methods, however, require a - let me emphasize this - titanic quantity of energy to carry out. Building a Dyson sphere ain't gonna cut it here. (Note: Actually, it would. But if you have the technology to build a Dyson sphere, why are you reading this?) See No. 6 for a possible solution. If we wanted to and were willing to devote resources to it, we could start this process RIGHT NOW. Indeed, what with all the gunk left in orbit, on the Moon and heading out into space, we already have done. Earth's final resting place: Many tiny pieces, some dropped into the Sun, the remainder scattered across the rest of the Solar System. Earliest feasible completion date: Ah. Yes. At a billion tons of mass driven out of the Earth's gravity well per second: 189,000,000 years. Source: this method arose when Joe Baldwin and I knocked our heads together by accident.
3. Pulverized by impact with blunt instrument
You will need: a big heavy rock, something with a bit of a swing to it... perhaps Mars Method: Essentially, anything can be destroyed if you hit it hard enough. ANYTHING. The concept is simple: find a really, really big asteroid or planet, accelerate it up to some dazzling speed, and smash it into Earth, preferably head-on but whatever you can manage. The result: an absolutely spectacular collision, resulting hopefully in Earth (and, most likely, our "cue ball" too) being pulverized out of existence - smashed into any number of large pieces which if the collision is hard enough should have enough energy to overcome their mutual gravity and drift away forever, never to coagulate back into a planet again. A brief analysis of the size of the object required can be found here. Falling at the minimal impact velocity of 11 kilometers per second and assuming zero energy loss to heat and other energy forms, the cue ball would have to have roughly 60% of the mass of the Earth. Mars, the next planet out, "weighs" in at about 11% of Earth's mass, while Venus, the next planet in and also the nearest to Earth, has about 81%. Assuming that we would fire our cue ball into Earth at much greater than 11km/s (I'm thinking more like 50km/s), either of these would make great possibilities. Obviously a smaller rock would do the job, you just need to fire it faster. A 10,000,000,000,000-tonne asteroid at 90% of light speed would do just as well. See the Guide to moving Earth for useful information on maneuvering big hunks of rock across interplanetary distances. Pretty plausible. Earth's final resting place: a variety of roughly Moon-sized chunks of rock, scattered haphazardly across the greater Solar System. Earliest feasible completion date: AD 2500, maybe? Source: This method suggested by Andy Kirkpatrick
2. Eaten by von Neumann machines
You will need: a single von Neumann machine Method: A von Neumann machine is any device that is capable of creating an exact copy of itself given nothing but the necessary raw materials. Create one of these that subsists almost entirely on iron, magnesium, aluminum and silicon, the major elements found in Earth's mantle and core. It doesn't matter how big it is as long as it can reproduce itself exactly in any period of time. Release it into the ground under the Earth's crust and allow it to fend for itself. Watch and wait as it creates a second von Neumann machine, then they create two more, then they create four more. As the population of machines doubles repeatedly, the planet Earth will, terrifyingly soon, be entirely eaten up and turned into a swarm of potentially sextillions of machines. Technically your objective would now be complete - no more Earth - but if you want to be thorough then you can command your VNMs to hurl themselves, along with any remaining trace elements, into the Sun. This hurling would have to be achieved using rocket propulsion of some sort, so be sure to include this in your design. So crazy it might just work. Earth's final resting place: the bodies of the VNMs themselves, then a small lump of iron sinking into the Sun. Earliest feasible completion date: Potentially 2045-2050, or even earlier. Source: "2010: Odyssey Two," by Arthur C. Clarke
1. Hurled into the Sun
You will need: Earthmoving equipment Method: Hurl the Earth into the Sun. Sending Earth on a collision course with the Sun is not as easy as one might think; even though you don't actually have to literally hit the Sun (send the Earth near enough to the Sun (within the Roche limit), and tidal forces will tear it apart), it's surprisingly easy to end up with Earth in a loopy elliptical orbit which merely roasts it for four months in every eight. But careful planning can avoid this. This is impossible at our current technological level, but will be possible one day, I'm certain. In the meantime, may happen by freak accident if something comes out of nowhere and randomly knocks Earth in precisely the right direction. Earth's final resting place: a small globule of vaporized iron sinking slowly into the heart of the Sun. Earliest feasible completion date: Via act of God: 25 years' time. Any earlier and we'd have already spotted the asteroid in question. Via human intervention: given the current level of expansion of space technology, 2250 at best. Source: "Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers," by Grant Naylor

NOW YOU CAN HAVE FAITH IN THE SCIENCE OF HUMANITY.

TOP 10 REASONS TO HAVE FAITH IN THE MISSING LINKS -
10. Australopithecus afarensis
The most famous member of this species is Lucy, an adult female skeleton discovered in 1974 and nicknamed after a Beatles song. Lucy lived about 3.18 million years ago and was fully capable of walking and running on two legs.
9. Australopithecus africanus
A. africanus was an early descendent of Lucy and lived in Southern Africa between 2 million and 3 million years ago. Its brain was larger than Lucy's and its facial features were more human-like.
8. Paranthropus aethiopicus
This early ape-like hominid walked on two legs and lived between 2.8 million and 2.2 million years ago. Based on skull measurements, scientists concluded this species had the smallest adult hominid brain ever discovered.
7. Paranthropus bosei
If P. bosei and its relatives weren't such picky eaters, we might not be here to wonder about them. They split from the line leading to modern human some 2 million years ago and lived alongside our ancestors for millions of years, but died out after failing to adapt their diets.
6. Homo habilis
Many scientists believe H. habilis is the missing link between the ape-like hominids like Lucy and the more human-like ones that came after. It had long ape-like arms but walked on two feet and was capable of creating crude tools.
5. Homo ergaster
Scientists can't decide whether this African hominid is just a failed predecessor of H. erectus or the rightful ancestor of modern humans. It had a thinner skull than H. erectus and was more proficient at making tools and using fire.
4. Homo erectus
For H. erectus, it may have paid to be dense. According to one theory, males rammed each other with their thick skulls in order to win females. H. erectus is generally believed to be the direct ancestor of modern humans and also the first hominid to live in caves and tame fire.
3. Homo floresiensis
It turns out those Floresians were actually on to something. For centuries, their mythology described a race of very small human-like creatures called the Ebu Gogo. Hardly anyone took them seriously, however, until 2003, when word broke that a new species of diminutive hominids was discovered on the Indonesian island.
2. Cro-Magnon
These people looked identical to modern humans and lived in Europe between 35,000 and 10,000 years ago. Their cave paintings and sculptures are the earliest known examples of art by a prehistoric people.
1. Neanderthal
Stocky and squat and well suited for the cold, Neanderthals looked distinctly different from modern humans. But they were like us in other ways: they buried their dead, cared for their sick and injured and may have been capable of language and music. Scientists recently put together a complete Neanderthal skeleton and are working on the genome .

SOLVING THE HONEYBEE DILEMIA

Virus linked to destruction of honeybee hives

By USA TODAY
Scientists may have discovered the cause of a devastating syndrome in honeybees that has destroyed 50% to 90% of hives in the USA — posing enormous problems for crops that depend on them to reproduce. The culprit, reported in the journal Science Thursday, may be the Israeli acute paralysis (IAP) virus. Colony collapse disorder, or CCD, first surfaced in 2004 in U.S. hives. It kills the worker bees that go out to find pollen. Theories on the cause have ranged from exposure to pollen from genetically modified crops to the impact of electronic waves from cellphone towers. None have panned out. But using a new genetic technique to identify the various microbes and viruses that inhabit bees, scientists found a strong correlation between bees infected with the IAP virus and those from hives hit with CCD. This is the first good marker scientists have found to explain the destruction of hives and could aid beekeepers in knowing which hives

SCIENTIST'S CONCLUDE PEOPLE BELIEVE MYTHS

The New Humanist’s That State Your Belief’s Are In Error
(they represent less than 1% but make policy for you)
Hammer of the Gods: Norse Mythology
With its bounty of brawny, barrel-chested gods and buxom goddesses, the ancient Norse religion of the Scandinavian and Germanic countries is truly the creation myth for fans of both pro wrestling and heavy metal music. According to Norse lore, before there was Earth (Midgard), there was Muspell, a fiery land guarded by the fire sword-wielding Surt; Ginnungagap, a great void, and Niflheim, a frozen ice-covered land. When the cold of Niflheim touched the fires of Muspell, the giant Ymir and a behemothic cow, Auehumla, emerged from the thaw. Then, the cow licked the god Bor and his wife into being. The couple gave birth to Buri, who fathered three sons, Odin, Vili, and Ve. The sons rose up and killed Ymir and from his corpse created from his flesh, the Earth; the mountains from his bones, trees with his hair and rivers, and the seas and lakes with his blood. Within Ymires hollowed-out skull, the gods created the starry heavens. What can we say: Pure metal magic!!
The god Ahura Mazda: At first, he was only represented as two wings, later the human figure was added. Credit: hindubooks.org
Zoroastrianism, the Religion of Ancient Persia
The Bundahishn of the Middle Persian era tells of the world created by the deity Ahura Mazda. The great mountain, Alburz, grew for 800 years until it touched the sky. From that point, rain fell, forming the Vourukasha sea and two great rivers. The first animal, the white bull, lived on the bank of the river Veh Rod. However, the evil spirit, Angra Mainyu, killed it. Its seed was carried to the moon and purified, creating many animals and plants. Across the river lived the first man, Gayomard, bright as the sun. Angra Mainyu also killed him. Ouch! The sun purified his seed for forty years, which then sprouted a rhubarb plant. This plant grew into Mashya and Mashyanag, the first mortals. Instead of killing them, Angra Mainyu deceived them into worshipping him. After 50 years they bore twins, but they ate the twins, owing to their sin. After a very long time, two more twins were born, and from them came all humans (but specifically Persians).
Not ready for primetime: Image of Marduk and his snake dragon. Image Credit: J. Black & A. Green, Gods, demons and symbols of ancient Mesopotamia, 1992
By the Rivers of Babylon
The Babylonian creation myth, the Enuma Elish, begins with the gods of water, Apsu (fresh), and Tiamat (salt), spawning several generations of gods, leading to Ea and his many brothers. However, these younger gods made so much noise that Apsu and Tiamat could not sleep (a complaint still common today amongst apartment-dwellers). Apsu plotted to kill them, but Ea killed him first. Tiamat vowed revenge and created many monsters, including the Mad Dog and Scorpion Man. Ea and the goddess Damkina created Marduk, a giant god with four eyes and four ears, as their protector. In tangling with Tiamat, Marduk, bearing the winds as weapons, hurled an evil wind down her gullet, incapacitating her, and then killed her with a single arrow to her heart. He then split her body in half and used it to create the heavens and the earth. Later he created man to do the drudge work that the gods refused to do, like farming, telemarketing and accounting. (Marduk currently appears on Cartoon Network's Sealab 2020!)
Hold that pose: Geb, the god of the Earth, hoists Nut, the goddess of the sky, into position.
Spirits of Ancient Egypt
The ancient Egyptians had several creation myths. All begin with the swirling, chaotic waters of Nu (or Nun). Atum willed himself into being, and then created a hill, otherwise there'd be no place for him to stand. Atum was genderless and possessed an all-seeing eye. He/she spat out a son, Shu, god of the air. Atum then vomited up a daughter, Tefnut, goddess of moisture. These two were charged with the task of creating order out of chaos. Shu and Tefnut generated Geb, the earth, and Nut, the sky. First they were entwined, but Geb lifted Nut above him. Gradually the world's order formed, but Shu and Tefnut became lost in the remaining darkness. Atum removed his/her all-seeing eye and sent it in search of them. (Just how all-seeing it was, and what did Atum do without, remains a mystery.) When Shu and Tefnut returned, thanks to the eye, Atum wept with joy. (Presumably he/she re-inserted the eye first.) Where the tears struck the earth, men sprang up.
Mother! Please!: Coatlicue was depicted as a woman with a skirt of snakes and a necklace of hearts torn from her victims.
South of the Border, Down Mexico Way: The Aztecs
The earth mother of the Aztecs, Coatlicue ("skirt of snakes,") is depicted in a fearsome way, wearing a necklace of human hearts and hands, and a skirt of snakes as her name suggests. The story goes that Coatlicue was impregnated by an obsidian knife and gave birth to Coyolxauhqui, goddess of the moon, and to 400 sons, who became the stars of the southern sky. Later, a ball of feathers fell from the sky which, upon Coatlicue finding it and placing it in her waistband, caused her to become pregnant again. Coyolxauhqui and her brothers turned against their mother, whose unusual pregnancy shocked and outraged them, the origin being unknown. However, the child inside Coatlique, Huitzilopochtli, the god of war and the sun god, sprang from his mother's womb, fully-grown and armored (talk about a C-section!). He attacked Coyolxauhqui, killing her with the aid of a fire serpent. Cutting off her head, he flung it into the sky, where it became the moon. That was supposed to comfort Coatlicue, his mother--some comfort!
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Pan-gu separates the Earth from the Sky.
China, the Middle Kingdom
A cosmic egg floated within the timeless void, containing the opposing forces of yin and yang. After eons of incubation, the first being, Pan-gu emerged. The heavy parts (yin) of the egg drifted downwards, forming the earth. The lighter parts (yang) rose to form the sky. Pan-gu, fearing the parts might re-form, stood upon the earth and held up the sky. He grew 10 feet per day for 18,000 years, until the sky was 30,000 miles high. His work completed, he died. His parts transformed into elements of the universe, whether animals, weather phenomena, or celestial bodies. Some say the fleas on him became humans, but there is another explanation. The goddess Nuwa was lonely, so she fashioned men out of mud from the Yellow River. These first humans delighted her, but took long to make, so she flung muddy droplets over the earth, each one becoming a new person. These hastily-made people became the commoners, with the earlier ones being the nobles the first example of mass-production!
All in the Family: Izanagi and Izanami, the siblings that brought forth Japan and its inhabitants.
Japan, this Island Earth
The gods created two divine siblings, brother Izanagi and sister Izanami, who stood upon a floating bridge above the primordial ocean. Using the jeweled spear of the gods, they churned up the first island, Onogoro. Upon the island, Izanagi and Izanami married, and gave forth progeny that were malformed. The gods blamed it upon a breach of protocol. During the marriage ritual, Izanami, the woman, had spoken first. Correctly reprising their marriage ritual, the two coupled and produced the islands of Japan and more deities. However, in birthing Kagutsuchi-no-Kami, the fire god, Izanami died. Traumatized, Izanagi followed her to Yomi, the land of the dead. Izanami, having eaten the food of Yomi, could not return. When Izanagi suddenly saw Izanami's decomposing body, he was terrified and fled. Izanami, enraged, pursued him, accompanied by hideous women. Izanagi hurled personal items at them, which transformed into diversions. Escaping the cavern entrance of Yomi, he blocked it with a boulder, thus permanently separating life from death. (Rather like Persephone in Hades, isn't it?)
The Other Trinity: Brahma, the creator, is pictured with four heads, though he used to have five.
Hindu Cosmology's Rendezvous with Brahma
The Hindu cosmology contains many myths of creation, and the principal players have risen and fallen in importance over the centuries. The earliest Vedic text, the Rig Veda, tells of a gigantic being, Purusha, possessing a thousand heads, eyes, and feet. He enveloped the earth, extending beyond it by the space of ten fingers. When the gods sacrificed Purusha, his body produced clarified butter, which engendered the birds and animals. His body parts transformed into the world's elements, and the gods Agni, Vayu, and Indra. Also, the four castes of Hindu society were created from his body: the priests, warriors, general populace, and the servants. Historically later, the trinity of Brahma (the creator), Vishnu (the preserver), and Shiva (the destroyer) gained prominence. Brahma appears in a lotus sprouting from the navel of the sleeping Vishnu. Brahma creates the universe, which lasts for one of his days, or 4.32 billion years. Then Shiva destroys the universe and the cycle restarts. Relax everybody, the current cycle has a couple billion years left.
Dads, think twice about curfew: The Mutilation of Uranus by Cronus, by Vasari and Gherardi. Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.
The Greeks and the Titans
The early Greek poets posited various cosmogonies. The best-preserved is Hesiod's Theogony. In this hymn, out of the primordial chaos came the earliest divinities, including Gaia (mother earth). Gaia created Uranus, the sky, to cover herself. They spawned a bizarre menagerie of gods and monsters, including the Hecatonchires, monsters with 50 heads and a hundred hands, and the Cyclopes, the "wheel-eyed," later forgers of Zeus's thunderbolts. Next came the gods known as the Titans, 6 sons and 6 daughters. Uranus, despising his monstrous children, imprisoned them in Tartarus, the earth's bowels. Enraged, Gaia made an enormous sickle and gave it to her youngest son, Cronus, with instructions. When next Uranus appeared to copulate with Gaia, Cronus sprang out and hacked off his father's genitals! Where Uranus's blood and naughty bits fell, there sprang forth more monsters, the Giants and Furies. From the sea foam churned up by the the holy testicles came the goddess Aphrodite. Later, Cronus fathered the next generation of gods, Zeus and the Olympians. And, boy, were they dysfunctional!
Gifts from a Stranger: Adam and Eve, bears the following marking: 'Albrecht Durer of Nuremberg made this engraving in 1504'
The Genesis of the Judeo-Christian and Islamic Faiths
Genesis, the first book of the Jewish Torah and the Christian Bible, contains two origin stories, both of which are accepted as the creation of the world by today's Jewish, Christian and Islamic faiths. In the first, God says, "Let there be light," and light appears. In six days, he creates the sky, the land, plants, the sun and moon, animals, and all creatures, including humans. To all he says, "Be fruitful and multiply," which they do. On the seventh day God rests, contemplates his handiwork, and gives himself a good evaluation. In the second story, God creates the first man, Adam, from the earth. He makes a garden in Eden for Adam, but forbids him to eat fruit from the "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil." Adam names the animals but remains lonely. God anesthetizes Adam and makes one of his ribs into the first woman, Eve. A talking serpent persuades her to eat the forbidden fruit, and she convinces Adam to do likewise. When God finds out, he drives them from the garden and makes man mortal. They should have stuck with apricots!

EVOLUTION,CREATION,TIME

Question: How did the universes begin, evolution or creation?
Answer: Of course the answer varies according to whether you are talking to someone who believes that Scientists or the Theologists (one who studies theology or the Bible) have the correct answers-these two disagree mostly in these arenas:
Theologist: Believe in a Divine Creator, that somewhere there is ONE who created from nothing all things which are both observed (seen) with the human eye and things unseen which cannot be seen with the human eye. Their bases are found upon the "personage" called GOD or in the old testament books the "I AM" which is viewed as the God of now or the present as He alway was,is, and ever shall be, and He is responsible for all Creation and that there is no other like Him, He is the only power that ever has been or shall be. Unto humanity He is called the Alpha and the Omega or the Beginning and the End this term applies from God to man and does not apply as a title for God except in description of how man views his own existence from God. There are two systems which have God's endorsment, these systems are: 1. LAW 2. GRACE, they were put in place due to man's beginning on the earth which when there was no law man did what was "right" within his own mind and mankind chose Anarchy or self-rule and what a man wanted to accomplish he simply did, today we would refer to this as the "rule of the jungle" and death and destruction prevailed. 1. God brought forth a set of rules for man to live or die by and these he brought through man for man and they contained "10" rules or commandments that people should live by and brought forth a civility code which endorsed daily living, courteousy, and respect for all life (including animals and taking care of the earth). There were governments that broke forth and set up their own form of law ran by people primarily motivated by greed,envy,jealousy,pride and other self serving emotions as they lacked love for their fellow man. These "commandments" were and are unto death, that is they can tell you the results of not obeying any one of these commands will lead you to be put to death in some form, and this being physical death, and this death to disobedience we call LAW. 1. LAW could never save a man/woman as it's instructions were to bring death to those who disobey. Soon man learned he could use the law to make himself more wealthier as being over the government of a city,state,or country he could reduce the fine or death sentence of individuals for money-much like the system we have today-one example of this type of injustice is found in the old testament when a local "prophet" sold out the men (this including women also) of Israel for gold and silver. We currently find this same type of system occurring in this country (USA) as the lack of border control, the selling and buying of goods and services by foreign governments to which oppose the USA, and this (and other actions-courtrooms, etc...) bringing about the end of "class systems" which denote a thing called "freedom" and all for the lust or love of money. The LAW then shows us that which is wrong and what action we are to take for the wrong (which in it's finality of judgment was death), there was something the LAW did not or could not do, and that was to give mankind a reason to "NOT" do the bad or wrong things and to "DO" the "good" things. ENTER-the second system which we call, 2. GRACE
Often identified as do-gooders or as one of Atom Ant songs "goody-goody two shoes" Christians (a term identified as Christ like or imitators of Christ) often withstand ridicule by those who do not wish to participate in the accomplisment of "good deeds" but do require of others to perform those same good deeds which they do not want to practice and most often identify any who perform "good deeds" as hypocrits, it's a strange twist which enables those with such criticism to feel good about themselves. Grace is often misidentified especially so in the church as the "performance of good works" this is far from the truth, but still close to home. Grace is the action or "work" as referred to in the scriptures of total 100% forgiviness for the person to whom it is bestowed upon. When a person goes before Jesus Christ, whether he/she does so publicly or just sitting at home and thinking of having a better life and thinking upon Jesus Christ and asks Christ for His mercy and forgivness and to come into his/her life and help them with that they cannot do which is to become free of guilt and shame and to begin their life anew or to acheive a fresh start from the mess of their lifestyle and degradation which they have acheived, Christ having this person's heart and soul opened up before Him does much more than they could ever imagine or think. Immediate rejoicing takes place in heaven just because you stated, Jesus, I hate who I am and what I have done, and I know you probably don't like me either, and I cannot stand me the way I am, I need help, please forgive me and reach into me and change me no matter what it costs, I want to change - it seems so simple doesn't it? and it is just that simple! So the problem existed that the more I would try to do good the worse I became and more and more I would turn toward evil even though I would try so hard to do the good, it became so easy to do the bad and as I journeyed more toward the bad I began to redefine what was bad and good. Soon you will find yourself stating that if men called this bad why did it feel so good? It is of course one of the biggest "tricks" of Satan to dangle the evil before the eyes of the looker so as to start the lust process inside your heart. One of the major draws of both your "so-called" friends and that of the drug pushers is to make the first round of drugs free to the user as he/she knows that once they have "tasted" or do the sin or drug they will like it and you will keep wanting it, this is the same approach used by the tobbacco industry only not so much. So your girlfriend entices you to try the "joint" or the boyfriend pushes you into an act of immoral behaviour that at any other time you would not want to perform, or the President of the country states this is not an immoral action, all of which defend that which they do. Sin is an odd character and wants to incorporate others in it's footsteps. The problem having taken hold leaves me distraught and torn inside to the point of dispair and then I turn to Christ. Christ then states that he will and does forgive you forever, not as many think until you sin again and must need to go back and ask Christ to forgive you again. Christ accomplishes once the act of eternal forgivness and restoration back unto the Father, so that the fear of eternal damnation to hell no longer exists in your life and without such fear you can now have true freedom to operate effectively in leading or witnessing unto others about Christ or to sin. Now if one chooses to sin he/she will feel estranged from God but the fear of eternal damnation will be gone, now if one does sin then all he/she would have to do to get back that "right" attitude toward God is but to ask much like a child who has done wrong in some manner but the mother does not punish him daily for the wrong action, but when the child states, "Mom, I'm sorry - I won't do it again". Now the mother accepts the child instantly with forgivness and realizes in all liklihood the child will repeat the same action or worse the next day or soon after. God knows we would prefer not to commit sin, especially habitually (again and again), but that most likely while we are on this earth we will have done so. Being Saved does not mean we have been made perfect in the flesh that is in our bodies and everyday life, but it does mean that we have been made to have become perfect in the Spirit as we now have Christ's blood shed upon us and that is what the Father sees when He looks at us, is the payment made by the Son for our soul. Simply put, if Christ could not save us eternally and something we did brought us back unto eternal condemnation then Satan would be stronger than the two, however, Christ being dominant in victory maintains our salvation forever now we have become truly free. This then is what we call Grace, Christ doing for us what we could never do for ourself. Unmerited favor is the term used for the action of Grace-we cannot perform merits enough to secure our own salvation. First the LAW states that we are guilty of sin and the demand for the guilt is death, Second, Grace frees us from the penality of the LAW which was made for our death, the LAW demands our physical death, the Grace demands our justification from death spiritually from the LAW. Our part, if you will, When Christ states will you accept me, as one that is knocking at the door awaiting your reply of "Welcome, come in" such a small thing to say yes but such a hard thing for most who feel they must give up the world to accept Christ.
Science: There is no creator there is only is, the definition that all inquired of in America some 10+ years ago asked by a President under fire, "It depends on what your definition of is,is." was the quote and although at the time seemed a childish question in science it is reborn. "It" happened, and it became the theory called the Big Bang, the beginning of evolution - the evloving of the human - animal - fish - amobea theory. By the way, if you have "latched" on to this theory better hold quick as Scientist are now disproving this theory, Oh, they are not accepting Christianity but they are embracing a type of Christ, only not the same Jesus Christ we know and why would they after 70-80 years abandon such a great plan. It had no legs or foundation.
First it presupposes that there was a thing called space in which "nothing" is or was, a vast nothing. Now there is a law that if you have nothing it must remain such or you must redefine what the nothing was or give it another title and in science you would have to say that there never was a nothing but a something which produced something (oops, borders Creation). It seems in the big bang that there was a void, a nothing and all of a sudden there were two atoms that collided into each other and created a big bang, the next question is where did the two atoms come from and what were their elements comprised of? were they Hellium, Copper, Water, Oxygen etc..., atoms contain property elements-everything around you is made of atoms and they are all bumping into each other. You had this great big space called nothing (where did nothing come from-watch out for the black holes?) how did nothing get there? Let's suppose you have these, when the amobea came to be a fish and the fish walked upon the dry land and become monkey and the monkey reached up to grab a banana (oops who planted the seed that became the vine that became a plant that made a tree) where did the banana come from and how did it just happen to be at the same place at the same time that the monkfish reached up to get nourishment? I don't think we would be evolving to a higher form of species as we have to have food and we can't wait until the seed grows up into a banana like the monkey did, again it's the old adage, "Which came first the chicken or the egg? Science does not know and by the way what causes cancer-steak,peanut butter,asbestos,cigarettes,secondhand smoke,ozone,machinary etc....,how many times has science made predictions to fail? Is food safe now that science has worked to make it so? how about dog food is it safe,bridges,planes,trains,automobiles you can trust science right? Want to hear something strange? Christians have been saying for 2000 years that when the person called the Anti-Christ comes he will place a mark in the hand or the forehead of the people-well lets just make sure we get this quote straight:
REVELATION 13:11-18 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Isn't it amazing that what the Christian has been proclaiming for 2000 years is now not only being used but accepted by most peoples on the earth as not a bad thing, it is even thought of now as being beneficial, odd? No, just predicted. But as the Christian proclaimed that they also have stated this to be true and it is:
REVELATION 14:9-11 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Scare tatics? No, it is just that we are so close that their is no way to sugar coat the truth any more, there is a thing called the Rapture of the Church which means essentially that Christ is to return for His church and remove it so that the Anti-christ may come and make people on the earth to make up their mind as they are content in things and money and have no need of God.
- TIME -
The essential element -time- was not made for God but God made time for mankind, where God is there is no time much like the law was not made for God but God made the law for man. Here is the answer which you were going to ask - the question I won't give.