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to the Editors
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Al Hidell Exposed
Look, all the circumstantial evidence says that "Al
Hidell" is a CIA agent. I appreciated Joan's email, but
(a) she hasn't emailed me since last December, (b)
Al Hidell has been bound and determined to blackball me since
I started this, and (c) if Joan were serious about
publishing any of the CONJURELLA series, "Hidell"
probably has her bludgeoned and in a deep freeze by now. Getting
CONJURELLA published in a magazine that looks like CREEPY,
EERIE, and VAMPIRELLA may SOUND good, but what in the hell
have I done to my people, in the long run? I don't want spooky
Goddamned Hidell deciding that gives him the right to go out
to Kenockee Township and start looking for witnesses, and
maybe kill more of them than have already been killed. Hidell
is a CIA pig, Joan D'Arc didn't email me back.
Best,
T. Casey Brennan
[Yes, I admit it, Mr. Brennan, it's all true. Damn
you! Now that I've had Joan d'Arc put on ice, I'm off to kill
more JFK assassination witnesses.- Al]
Osama
in Suburbia
Regarding Al's excellent article I have just read on PARANOIA,
one very small detail I would like to point out: Wembley is
not "a posh London Suburb ." In fact, it is a fairly
unsightly area but a good one for Bin Laden to own a property
as there is a very high Muslim population there. It is also
a sad fact that Britain is an international centre for Islamic
Militancy, as reported in The Daily Telegraph. In fact,
days after Sept 11 young Muslim men were on the streets of
Luton (another area of high Muslim population) actively backing
the Taliban Regime and Osama Bin Laden. Unfortunately, these
people will be allowed to continue recruiting terrorist sympathizers
because of the UK authorities fear of upsetting the politically
correct. On a lighter note, I am new to the PARANOIA
site and have enjoyed reading its contents.
Regards, Sean Dunne
The
Wildcards
Just wanted to give you some feedback on your excellent
geopolitical analysis of the terror war and its possible repercussions;
that could lead to WW III. Another aspect of the equation
in U.S. interest in this part of the world is to prevent the
almost inexorable advent of the Eurasian Alliance. There are
strong historical currents that are pushing towards a United
States Of Europe, (via the Euro), that would align itself
with both Russia and China, as well as India. This geopolitical
move could dwarf the power of the U.S. in terms of both military
power, and economic power. The Eurasian Alliance could cut
off the U.S. from trade conduits as well as devalue the dollar
and U.S. corporations through massive disinvestment. The dollar
could be made worthless, and the World Bank would issue an
American Euro that would be devalued in relation to the European
Euro, and through the currency exchanges the U.S. economy
could be picked clean. The U.S. HAS to try to grab a chunk
of Asia's resources and territory to offset this arrangement,
but the U.S. is facing steep odds. China and India are the
wildcards that will decide the matter. If these nations side
with Europe against the U.S. you are going to have WW III,
count on it. My take on 911 is that it is the first move on
behalf of NWO elites to destroy the United States as we know
it. Enough terrorism will evoke massive government repression;
these two factors combined will destroy the U.S. economy and
you will have total social disintegration in America, like
in Bosnia, and the U.N. will take over. This is the most dangerous
epoch in human history where the battle lines have been re-drawn.
There are patriots in the military, the F.B.I., and private
and public sectors that are not going to just roll over for
this. The invasion of Afghanistan is a necessary move for
the U.S. to survive as a nation, even though the consequences
are tragic for the Afghan people. I am a pacifist and I do
not agree with the war. But I understand why it is being fought,
the present era is one of pathos indeed.
Name Withheld
(To the writer: If you want your name here, please
let us know
Inside
the ORB
As the cyber curtain falls over an unwitting world, enmeshing
the industrialized nations in an inextricable sheath of surveillance,
cyberspace becomes the surreal theatre of warfare wherein
the controllers of the internet will dominate distant battlefields
while comfortably ensconced in remote bunkers and underground
cities, unleashing death, destruction, and mayhem from Air-born
Opto-electrical Rotating Browser Bots equipped with TROLL
cams and the most sophisticated weapons yet devised by humankind.
Make no mistake about it; whosoever controls cyberspace will
control the world.
To those who control cyberspace, war will resemble a sophisticated
artificial intelligence game, a new techno-sport, but to those
at the receiving end of the incredible new technology, war
will be dirty, ugly, monstrous, and horrible, as always. Even
so, history will offer no precedent to this anti-revolutionary
warfare, because, first, there will be no outside nation to
help those who resist, and secondly, the possibility of gaining
victory over the adversary will be remote indeed!
But first, the people of the industrialized nations must become
utterly dependent upon the internet. Already we see what appears
to be a deliberate strategy to accomplish this: web-based
software that cannot be registered or used without first connecting
to the internet; web-based hardware that cannot be run unless
connected to the internet; the elimination from the marketplace
of any portable, hand-held device, which could substitute
for a desktop or laptop PC, which essentially makes all hand-held
devices mere extensions of an internet-dependent desktop device;
the lure of unfiltered and uncontrolled information available
only on the web, which, in addition to free porn, lures many
into internet-dependence. These trends, and many others, tend
to assure the advent of TOTE (Technology of Total Enslavement).
Next, once most people cannot think or dream of living without
internet access, the content of the internet will begin to
be filtered and controlled, and, of course, taxed to support
GOG's voracious appetite. This is tricky for the powers that
be. By not filtering internet content, they run the risk that
too many people will catch on to what they're up to. On the
other hand, if they blatantly filter the content, people will
disconnect from the net in droves and ire against the powers
will fulminate and fester. However, since their goal is total
control, they no doubt plan to become the gatekeepers of cyberspace
- a truly frightening prospect when you consider that the
dehumanization of the kleptocrats will be exacerbated even
beyond our present capacity to endure as they become increasingly
isolated from interaction with the general public in their
cyberized ivory towers.
Future cyber-warriors, instead of scrambling outside to jump
in the cockpit of a human-controlled aircraft, will instead
buckle themselves into an ORB (Opto-Electrical Rotating Browser
Bot). This device will remain stationary but simulate real
flight by spinning the "pilot" around inside the
ORB as the pilot directs. Using the ORB, the cyber-warrior
will remotely control a hovercraft equipped with sensors and
multiple cameras of various kinds; the information from the
mobile unit (the hovercraft) will be fed, via the internet,
to the ORB in such a way that the pilot will have the illusion
of actually being buckled into the mobile craft. When the
pilot turns the ORB to the left, signals are sent to the remote
unit to turn left, thus positioning the cameras in that direction.
Likewise, inside the ORB, there will be cameras and sensors
to feed information to the control center, so they can see
and communicate with the pilot remotely. That way, multiple
mobile units can not only operate in sync, just as they would
if they were flying along-side each other in formation, but
if need be, they can view what's transpiring inside another
ORB. This will also allow pilot crews to be shifted out without
needing to land the mobile units. Global Hawk technology can
control an aircraft remotely, honing in on a specified target
or sending the craft to a designated direction, but the drawback,
of course, is, first, that you lose a lot of flexibility which
goes with having a "hands-on" human controlling
the craft.
The TROLL cam system will allow the ORB pilot to hover outside
a building, then target the building's inside TROLL cams for
monitoring, thus allowing the pilot to see the target(s) before
and after they exit a building. Already the underground bunkers,
the hover craft, and the TROLL cam system are rumored to be
in development. As for the ORBs themselves, which are the
stationary units that interface with the mobile craft via
the internet TROLL cam system, there's not, to my knowledge,
any evidence that they've been under development, but as for
me, I nevertheless have no doubt that they are being developed,
very secretly, and news of them will be forthcoming in time,
I'd wager. E-war, what do you think?
Yours in good faith,
John Paul Jones
More on Ron Bonds
What I admire most about PARANOIA is its regularity!
How I wish I could get Steamshovel out as often. I was glad
to see the
tribute to Ron Bonds on the inside cover, that you made an effort
to not let the tragedies of Nine Eleven overshadow the great
loss of our mutual friend. Ron Bonds' passing was a terrible
personal loss, and a body blow to the parapolitical community.
Too bad also that he didn't live to see Mothman Prophecies,
one of the books he rescued from obscurity, turned into a major
motion picture. Also, as with Jim Keith, unanswered questions
and weird coincidences still exist about Ron's death. In November
of last year, six cases of knee surgery leading to unexpected
fatalities were reported across the country. The first of these
involved a 23 year old student in Minnesota named Brian Lykins.
Medical authorities later determined that Lykins actually died
from an infection of closteridium sordelli, a closerelative
of the bacterium that killed Ron Bonds (closteridiumperfingens).
The other cases also involved variants of the closteridium bacteria.
How's that for weird? Knee surgery, like Keith; closteridium,
like Bonds. The last official theory about the knee deaths was
that each was treated using contaminated cadaver cartilage supplied
by a tissue bank in Georgia, the state where Ron lived. One
sensible, unanswered question: was Keith treated with tainted
cartilage? Anyway, keep up the good work with PARANOIA.
Best,
Kenn Thomas
Steamshovel
Press, POB 210553, St. Louis, MO 63121
Wendy
Wallace Responds to R.B. Cutler and K. Klemenchich
Dear R.B. and Kathy,
Thanks so much for taking the time to read the article and
thoughtfully reply. How good to hear from you, Mr. Cutler.
While I'm
familiar with your excellent and persevering work on the Kennedy
assassination, I hadn't known you were a fan of "The
Web." Your paradigm has the great advantage of breaking
only one of the Laws of Thermodynamics, the second. I would
just point out in response, that to my knowledge "The
Web" has never written nor preserved a book claiming
creation of the universe, nor has the god of any religion/belief
system but the God of the Bible. He alone claims creation,
and establishes and explains the origins of the Laws of Thermodynamics
and Bio-genesis as scientifically discovered and observed.
Interestingly enough, that God is also familiar with "The
Web" (the ten emanations), and addresses the issue thusly,
warning those to whom it appeals: "So are the paths of
all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's
web" (Job 8:13,14 and following). He also suggests that
those who have promoted trust in that web are not the good
guys, nor the wise ones: "None calleth for justice, nor
any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies;
they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. They hatch
cockatrice's eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth
of their eggs dieth..." (Isaiah 59:4,5). Perhaps you'd
take that under consideration? I'd hate to see you, of all
people, bamboozled by the bad guys!
And Kathy, You're
working throughout with the same erroneous assumptions the
evolutionists do regarding dating and cross dating (as evidenced
by your use of the terms "slow erosion," "Cambrian,"
"pre-Cambrian" et. al.) in an effort to reconcile
pseudo-science with the Word of God. Your claim that
God doesn't lie is most certainly correct, but misapplied.
He never said the earth was billions of years old: the assumptions
of such an age flow naturally from the fallen nature
of mankind, which does "not like to retain God in their
knowledge." While affirming Him as a "God that
cannot lie," you actually contend that He's lying
six times in just the first chapter of the Bible when He does
say, "And God called the light Day, and the darkness
He called Night (Genesis 1:5). "And the evening and the
morning were the first day.. ."...........And the evening
and the morning were the second day..."....................And
the evening and the morning were the third day.. .".........."And
the evening and the morning were the fourth day.. ."...."And
the evening and the morning were the fifth day.. .".....
.".........."And the evening and the morning were
the sixth day." Of course "day" can mean
a much longer period of time, but He defines the precise period
he's referencing for us right there in verse 5, and holds
to it throughout.
As for our "seeing stars forming," that's another
assumption promoted by the same folks that repeatedly tell
is there is or has been life on Mars, that the universe must
have produced many life forms, that changes in a finch's beak
demonstrate macro-evolution, that life comes from non-life,
etc. What we "see" is what we "see" -
magnificent moving formations in the universe.
Thanks very much for your letter. Nice to hear from you, and
am looking forward to your articles in PARANOIA.
Yours truly,
Wendy Wallace
"Everything
needs a Designer"
Ms. Wallace:
I've just finished reading your article in PARANOIA
magazine. First of all, I admit there are some holes in the
Evolution theory and scientists have been pretty smug in their
defenses of it. Your problem, however, is making it explicitly
clear that you are tackling these insufficiencies with a Christian
agenda. I will now demonstrate, with two questions, how this
always come back to bite you on the butt.
By pushing the whole designer requirement you are leaving
yourself wide open for counter punches. The fact remains that
you cannot use the whole "everything needs a designer"
assertion only when it pleases you and promotes your theory.
Your God doesn't get to be the only causeless cause just because
that concept is also embraced by Islam and Judaism. Many people
find ALL religion to be illogical and unnecessary, so making
this statement doesn't get you off the hook. No, Wendy, you
DO have to answer the question: If everything requires a designer,
then who designed your God? You can't just throw it in the
face of creationists when it's convenient for you.
Can you honestly answer: why is your God exempt from this
rule? Why? Also, Let's say for argument that you have made
an airtight case for creation on this planet: Why can I be
sure your God is the creator? I've had Krishna practitioners
assure me that THEIR God, not yours, is responsible. So what's
up with that? Remember, evolution is just a theory, it's not
a scientific fact. I do understand that it's frustrating to
you that it gets taken more seriously (in scientific circles)
than your belief system, but I would be VERY impressed if
you actually wrote back and answered my two questions.
Thank you,
Steve Funderburg
Wendy's
Reponse to Mr. Funderburg
Well Gosh, Steve, I thought the article did a pretty good
job of pointing out that it's not "science" vs.
"my belief system," but pseudo-science in service
of a necessarily false belief system. Guess not.
As for your questions, I'd have to answer "Because He's
the only One who says so, and proves it." There is no
other religious or scientific paradigm that even pretends
to account for the origin of all things, nor is there any
other "god" that wrote a book claiming to have done
it. They all begin with something pre-existing the universe,
whether it be dust and energy or stacks of turtles. THE God,
on the other hand, says, "In the beginning God created
the heaven and the earth," and then goes on to explain
how, in the first chapter of Genesis. John 1 expands on it,
beginning with: "In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the
beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without
Him was not anything made that was made." Since no effect
can be greater than its cause, I'd have to say God wins on
this one, because you can't get a universe from dust or turtles.
Why is "my God" (how 'bout THE God?) exempt from
the First Law of Thermodynamics? Because He MADE that Law,
and upholds it. 2 Peter 3:7 "But the heavens and the
earth, which are now, by the same Word are kept in store,
reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition
of ungodly men."
The concepts of God embraced by Islam and Judaism are entirely
different gods. The Koran does not recognize Jesus as "The
Word" by whom all things were created, nor do they know
Jehovah God as the Bible en toto presents him. They are also
without any concept of the need for forgiveness of sins and
the necessity of the blood of Christ for payment. As for current
Judaism, it has accepted the Talmud as its final authority
rather than the Torah or the Tenach. The Old Testament pointed
to the coming Messiah with over 50 clear prophecies, all fulfilled
by Jesus Christ, but the Jews in large part did not recognize
Him when He came because the "traditions" of the
Pharisees in the Babylonian Talmud had eclipsed the original
Word (read Matthew 23). In truth, one must be, as the Bible
states, "born-again" (John 3:1-8), which most professing
Christians aren't. It's simply become a catch-phrase used
to identify sets of church-goers who've "made a decision"
to "accept Christ." This is unbiblical, as Jesus
says, "Ye have not chosen me , but I have chosen you"(John
15:16). Being born again by the Holy Spirit is truly a supernatural
act, and once it's happened there's no going back to the old
belief systems and skeptical questions. I oughta know: I was
always a scoffer and cynic re: Christianity until I got gently
whupped upside the head by the Holy Spirit one morning shortly
after "waking up." Then I really woke up.
Oooops, digressed there. As to why "my God" is THE
God, I return to my earlier statement, i.e., "Because
He's the only One who says so, and proves it." If your
doubts are sincere and the truth is what you're really after,
I would suggest you read Evidence that Demands a Verdict
by Josh McDowell. He wrote it trying to disprove the Bible,
and in the process got converted. Or you might just pray to
the real God, if there is one, to reveal Himself to you. If
to know the truth is your primary motivation, you'll meet
Him personally, because God's only begotten Son IS the Truth
(John 14:6).
Hope that answers your questions. Thanks for asking!
Yours truly,
Wendy
Mr. Funderburg's Response to Wendy's Response
Hello Wendy:
I want to thank you for responding, arguing with theists is
my passion (yes, I sincerely seek "the truth") and
it's tough to find
many who enjoy healthy debate. I will always contact any theists
I encounter in any secular magazines. On to your response...
Answer
#1: "Because He's the only One who says so, and proves
it" Wow. That's a packed statement. Let's start out with
. .".He's the only One who say's so." So your going
to use the old hayseed slogan "The Bible says it, I believe
it, that settles it."
In reality, however, it's a bit more sticky. First of all,
what is your evidence that the writings of the Bible are the
words of "God"? Because it says so? That's a little
circular. I'm sorry but you'll have to do better than that.
While your at it, there's another sticky problem: Are you
aware that on the back of the very magazine which printed
your article there is an ad for tapes which explore the alteration
of religion in the middle ages? There are many Catholic historians
who openly admit the Catholic church itself altered portions
of the Bible, I believe there was a Time magazine article
in '96 that interviewed a few of them. Just because something
is written doesn't automatically give it veracity. It would
take a physical appearance of "God" to claim credit,
and we both know that aint gonna happen.
Well, you probably believe it will happen on Judgement Day.
The truth is it's possible that the Bible was written by a
bunch of self serving Jewish and white men to help their own
personal agenda. Besides, the writings of the Bible are so
nebulous that not only have there been widely varying interpretations,
there are SEVERAL different types of religions based on it!
Jehovah's, Jew's, Catholics, Mormons, Lutherans, etc. Jeez,
Wendy, what if the Jehovah's version is correct and yours
is wrong? Uh oh!
David Koresh knew a lot about the Bible, he could probably
have out quoted YOU, maybe he WAS the second coming just
as he claimed. The ATF would be in a heap a' big trouble then,
wouldn't they?
I'm not sure about your claim that no other deity makes the
exact same claim, but let's just say for argument, that's
the case. Why, exactly, are other God's claiming to have started
out with dust and energy necessarily less credible? How does
the first chapter of Genesis explain "how" God created
existence?
From what I read, it just say's he did it. There is no lengthy
scientific explanation of how. If there were, we would be
in a much different world right now. The Big Bang doesn't
really explain it either. I agree, you cannot get a universe
from dust or turtles. You also can't get it by showing me
a book which makes the flat assertion that "God"
simply just did it.
Also, why is it a requirement that the being or beings involved
in the creation of reality would be compelled to take credit?
Christians are fond of telling me "The Lord moves in
mysterious way's." Maybe the Aliens/Faeries/ Genies who
created the fabric of our reality are moving in mysterious
ways beyond our ability to fathom.
Answer #2: "He is exempt from physical laws because he
created them." I see. So your saying that it IS possible
for a being to be the first uncaused cause as long as that
being causes it. Even though you don't explain HOW that is
scientifically possible (and you wonder why mainstream science
doesn't embrace that answer?), you DO claim it's possible,
cuz the Bible says so. O.K. then, since it's possible, I guess
it's just as possible that my Aliens, Faeries and Genies could
do it as well, right?
May the Force be with you,
Steve
P.S. I have sincerely tried to pray. He doesn't answer
me.
Hubbard Was Against Mind Control
I work in the Media Relations department of Bridge Publications,
Inc., the publisher for Mr. L. Ron Hubbard. I am writing to
you because of two recent articles in your magazine that give
mention to Mr. Hubbard. The first is Aleister
Crowley: The Midnight Messenger by Mike Culkin
[PARANOIA Issue 21],
and the second is Science Fiction as Manipulation by
Robert Guffey [PARANOIA
Issue 27]. I know that as the magazine editor you
have a responsibility to publish accurate and entertaining
information to your subscribers and readers. Unfortunately,
in these two articles you have printed information regarding
L. Ron Hubbard and Dianetics that is not factual. I have no
doubt that the aforementioned articles could have been just
as educational and interesting - and maybe even more so-if
you had printed the truth about L. Ron Hubbard's stance on
mind-control and hypnotism techniques - techniques that he
stood firmly against, both in his writings and with his actions.
Moreover, Mr. Hubbard exposed - as a result of his research
- very disturbing techniques of mind control, which he aptly
labeled "pain-drug-hypnosis" or "PDH"
(reference the book: Science of Survival, first published
1951). It is clear from the bibliography of the articles that
your writers were ill informed by some of their sources, and
I can see how such materials have led them astray. The untruths
which you have been subjected to can easily be brought to
light with a document from Times Newspapers Limited
(copy enclosed) in which they had printed similar comments
as was published in your articles and later retracted them
with a legal statement. In order to fix the two articles you
published as mentioned above, I request that a correction
statement or this letter be printed in the next issue (hardcopy
and online version) of your magazine.
Sincerely,
Blake Silber
Bridge Publications, Inc.
The Cosmic Web
To Wendy Wallace: At the end of your interesting thesis
(Desperation Science: The Hidden Agenda of Darwinian Evolutionism,
PARANOIA Issue 27),
you make an assumption that all designed things require a
designer. That goes along with our way of doing things which
has evolved from you know when. May we suggest we agree with
design but of a different type which has not been considered
by you re: The Cosmic Web in NY Times (8/14/01).
From here their imprint, their constitution, are the 10 meridians:
the first items which come before/with/at birth/conception
of the fetus. The web is your designer. We call them the Merries.
Acting, interacting, the web creates design, cause, evolvement
and evolution of the existence we know, in which we evolve
continually.
AHIMSA,
R.B. Cutler
Creation not Creationism
I am responding to your article (Desperation Science: The
Hidden Agenda of Darwinian Evolutionism by Wendy Wallace,
PARANOIA Issue 27).
I thought it was well researched and while I agree that evolution
is far from proved, I strongly disagree with the 'young Earth'
hypothesis: that the six days of creation in Genesis refer
to six twenty-four hour days. The attachment to the anti-evolution
argument of the days of creation being 24 hours in length
is what is termed "Creationism." "Creationism"
is not supported by the Bible, is not supported by the evidence,
and greatly detracts from an otherwise strong Creation case.
Genesis 1:1: says: "In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth." This statement does not attach
any time period at all to the creation of heaven and earth.
The six creative days of Genesis refer to the preparation
of the already existing Earth for life and the creating of
life, human and animal. Each of the six creative days concludes
with the statement: "And there came to be evening and
there came to be morning" a first, second, third, fourth,
fifth, and sixth day (Gen 1:5, 8, 13,19, 23, 31). The seventh
day, however, does not have this ending, indicating that this
period, during which God has been resting from his creative
works toward the Earth, continued on.
At Hebrews 4:1-10 the apostle Paul indicated that God's rest
(7th) day was still continuing in his day, and that was more
than 4,000 years after that seventh-day rest period began.
This shows that each creative day, or work period was at least
thousands of years in length (See Insight on the Scriptures
Vol. 1, "Day" published by Watchtower). That "day"
can refer to varying periods of time is shown elsewhere in
Genesis where the entire period of the creation of heavens
and earth is referred to as one "day:" "This
is the history of the heavens and the earth in the time of
their being created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth
and heaven" (Genesis 2:4). In Genesis, when it speaks
of days according to God's view we should not assume a day
according to our view. God does not live in our solar system
or anywhere in our universe and so is not affected by its
various cycles and orbits.
Under the subheading, "Oh, Those Billions of Years"
the writer makes the point that evolutionists need billions
of years in order to make their theory seem viable. It's true
that the earth has been in existence for 4.5 billion years,
but that does not mean that an unbroken period of 4.5 billion
years was allowed for evolution to have occurred. There have
been six mass extinctions on earth according to gaps in the
geologic column. These gaps would have interrupted any evolution
process. In fact, these extinction events narrow the window
of opportunity for life to evolve down to just a couple of
hundred million years. "This early bombardment would
also have frustrated the development and evolution of early
life, with the largest impacts having the capacity to effectively
sterilize the surface of the globe" (http://gdcinfo.agg.nrcan.gc.ca/
crater/paper/index_e.html). One of these extinctions in
the geologic record is highly correlated with the Chicxulub
impact crater, estimated to be 65 millions years old. The
dating is due, not just to radioactive techniques, but also
to shocked lithic fragments-intensely disturbed and fragmented
rocks at the flank of the crater that correspond with rock
layers in the geologic column already found to be at least
millions of years old (see below). In other craters rocks,
which form a hill in the center of the crater, have also been
correlated to ancient times in the geologic column.
If one measures
the rate of sediment deposition on the earth, the typical
rate is millimeters per decade. The average sediment accumulation
rate remains very, very, low. In many sites around the globe,
one sees sequences of sedimentary rock exposed that are 10's
of kilometers thick; and when you see that these stacks are
on top of older stacks, and those stacks themselves are often
made of reworked older sediments, there are 100's of km of
sediment represented. At the bottom of these layers are the
Pre-Cambrian rocks, which lie below the Cambrian rocks, more
than 550 million years old. The Pre-Cambrian rocks comprise
87% of the total mass of the earth according to measurements
made by earthquake waves. Adding up just the time needed to
lay down these layers, not including the Pre-Cambrian mass,
you get 100's of millions of years at a minimum, and billions
of years, easily. There are at least 150 known large meteorite
impact craters covering a period of 2.5 billion years, according
to shocked lithic fragments and erosion evidence.
For instance, at Carswell Lake in Canada, the formation of
the central uplift in this crater underlies the Precambrian
granite that had been raised several hundred feet above its
normal position in the region. Another way of dating impact
craters is to note that, for instance, craters discovered
on the Canadian Shield had been subjected to glaciation and
other kinds of erosion during vast geologic ages.
The fact that impacts were more numerous during older geologic
periods than today correlates with the theory of the origin
of the asteroid belt that now produces the meteorites. This
theory is that an earth sized planet exploded approximately
2 billion years ago, perhaps due to a collision. One can reason
that all the major pieces that could collide with something
else have already done so: by now they should be used up except
for pieces the size of a small house to fine dust. The average
time it takes for a cycle of metamorphism of rocks is from
tens of thousands to millions of years. At the Manicougan
crater, which is estimated at 212 million years, the meteorite
impact hit igneous and metamorphic rocks, rocks that had already
taken tens or hundreds of thousands of years to form before
the meteorite hit. Regarding the Pre-Cambrian rocks which
comprise 87% of the earth's mass, it is estimated that the
time it took for planet earth to accrete it's mass was about
100 million years. Star formation takes from 10,000 to ten
million years; and in this period our Sun was forming and
the earth and planets were all embedded in the solar nebula,
a swirling mass of gas and dust.
The fact that we can see star forming regions today, like
the Eagle and Orion Nebula with the help of the Hubble Space
Telescope argues that star formation is a process taking tens
of thousands to millions of years-and against an instantaneous
creation of stars. Another line of evidence for an old earth
is tree ring chronology. The longest continuous tree-ring
chronology in the world is composed of many, many series of
oak sequences that overlap back in time to more than 10,000
years (http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/
SEP/CTS/TreeRing.html).
Some Creationists have tried to argue that the reason why
the physical evidence from the earth yields billions of years
of age is that the Creator has somehow sought to deceive observers
with the evidence, i.e., that He has deliberately made things
appear as though they are millions or billions of years old
when they are in reality, only 6,000 years old. Deception
is not in harmony with the Creator's personality. The Bible
states, "It is impossible for God to lie" (Hebrews
6:18). There is simply no need, according to the Bible, to
prove that the heavens and the earth are six thousand years
old. The evidence, both written and physical, shows otherwise.
K. Klemenchich
Email: kxk24@scientist.com
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