Bats are Birds

May 3

“And these you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten; they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture, the kite, the falcon of any kind, every raven of any kind, the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind, the little owl, the cormorant, the short-eared owl, the barn owl, the tawny owl, the carrion vulture, the stork, the heron of any kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.

(Leviticus 11:13-19) ESV

People have found some ingenious reasons to reject the truth of the Bible. There are some others which aren’t ingenious, not by a long shot.

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April 17

Matty’s Constant

For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

(Galatians 1:12) KJV

No one has ever weighed the sun or the planets. The values that we use for their mass are derived from the A priori assumption of either Heliocentricity or Geocentrosphericity.

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Science is Faith

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

(Hebrews 11:1) ESV

When it’s impossible to measure absolute quantities, such as mass of the sun, then you use relative values: how much more massive is the sun than the Earth, for instance.

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April 16

The Literature and Language of the Chaldeans

Then the king commanded Ashpenaz, his chief eunuch, to bring some of the people of Israel, both of the royal family and of the nobility, youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king’s palace, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans.

(Daniel 1:3-4) ESV

We’re going to use the phrase “the literature and language of the Chaldeans” as a euphemism for popular science (SciPop), a false narrative of godless existence.

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April 15

Burn the Witch!

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, in your lofty dwelling, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?” Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down, declares the Lord.

(Obadiah 1:3-4) KJV

“Galaxies” are an induced rationalization of the premise that swirls of minute specks are galaxies and the word “galaxy” has been defined to meet the requirements of the popular science narrative (SciPop).

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Calculating a Lifespan for the Sun

Thus says the LORD: “If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth below can be explored, then I will cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done, declares the LORD.”

(Jeremiah 31:37) ESV

A lot of people are convinced that the mass of the sun is obtained using calculations of the rate of Hydrogen fusion with Einstein’s infamous equation: E-mc2.

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The Mass of the Sun

April 14

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?

(Isaiah 40:12) ESV

The first question that people ask when they reject the Geocentrospheric cosmological system is this: they ask “why would a massive sun orbit a less massive Earth?”

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April 13

Seeing but not Perceiving

And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

(Isaiah 6:9) KJV

Johannes Kepler was hired by Tycho Brahe as a mathematician to analyze the extensive charts and tables which documented Brahe’s observations of the cosmos.

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