MM I have a question for you. I was reading about the "Lost Tomb of Jesus" at Science Daily and it states that scholars of 1st century Judaism say that to preach in the synagogue a person had to be married. What do you know about preaching in the synagogues during Jesus's time period? What were the reqirements? What gave Jesus the right to preach in the synagogue? How were religious leaders identified?

Now, here is an hamburger!!!!!

According to this articule we should not be here, we should be dead. Global cooling. Man is not the cause of global warming, I am not going to pay any global carbon tax, and I am going to keep on driving my car. In case you are wondering "The Sun" is the cause of warming the earth.

We have CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and other new organizations. Public opinion is shaped somewhat by the news media: TV, print, and the internet news outlets. What would have happened in WWII if there would have been continious new coverage of D-Day, or the Battle of the Bulge. D-Day: 11,000 (approx) people died that day; how would that been reported? Would the news media declaired that the war was lost? That America has suffered a casualty rate that we could not recover from?

Then there was the "Battle of the Bulge." Would that have been reported as a turning point of the war? Outsmarted by the Germans? What would have been the headlines?

The news is produced, it has a producer. That means someone decides what is important, and what is not; as news. That is why when I watch the news and there is news about Brittney Spears, someone(smarter then me) decided that Brittney is important, and I need to know. I am glad as a nation we are in such good hands and so well informed.

The book that I am reading now is: "The Fourth Crusade -- and the Sack of Constantinople," by Jonathan Phillips.

The Physics of Stuff

When you start understanding what is happening with everyday stuff in a person life from a physics perspective I think it is amazing.

Cooking

When a person starts cooking food, then you smell it -- simple task that happens in everyday life-- physically what is happening is that the substance is absorbing heat( an endothermic reaction) at the molecular level the molecules are moving faster and faster until there is a phase change, and then molecules are liberated from whatever is being cooked. Then for a person to smell the food that means that the molecules are traveling through the air, bumping into the air molecules, but still making it into a person’s nose. The odyssey does not end there. The smell is ( I think) changed into electrical impulses that then must be interpreted by the brain as a smell, then classify what kind of smell. I think that is awesome.

A Whiteboard

A Whiteboard is a board you can write on with a marker, not a permanent marker. Anyways; the marker writes on the board, and then with brush( like a chalk brush) a person erases the whiteboard. What is happening though is the molecules from the marker are bonding to the whiteboard, but the bonds between the molecules on the whiteboard and the marker are not permanent. The molecules from the marker are forming bonds with the whiteboard, so what a person writes on the whiteboard stay there until the bonds are broken a person erases the whiteboard. There is a transference of energy( kinetic energy) supplied by the brush to the molecules of the marker(which is on the whiteboard), it is this energy that breaks the bonds between the marker and whiteboard, and then the marker that is on the whiteboard is absorbed by the dry eraser.

When I think of what happens at the molecular level (how energy is transfered to accomplish whatever task) for whatever process to happen in the world I think it is truely amazing.

You say that you were offended at my post what I commented on the DNA makeup of Jesus. Then you tell me what was the genetic make up of Jesus. It is said that Jesus was divine, but still human in His nature. From a DNA, genetic viewpoint I do not understand how that can be true. DNA (chromosomes) has to male and female parts to the DNA makeup of man. There two parts to male and female DNA:

1. female --mitochondrial DNA : the DNA sequence is so small that it has virually remain unchain and had not undergoing mutations

2. male -- the y-chromosome has gone through mutations because it is much larger then the mitochonrial dna that comes from a woman's dna. The mutations( or the changes that the chromosome undergoes by being copied) in the y-chomosome is called "polymorphisms."

My point is Jesus did not have a y-chromosome since it was an virgin birth. I have heard preached in the various churches that I have been that Jesus was conceived by the "Holy Spirit" and that Jesus was a purfect human being, but He was God. Since human male y-chromosomes which has undergoing polymorphism was not in His body(which is human); what does that mean?

I was watching a show on the History Channel today, and it was about how the Bible was written. They were interviewing a number of Rabbis from different universities and one Rabbis made an inertesting statement. He said that about 25 percent of words in the Old Testement, the orginal meaning of the word is lost. So that means that the scholars who translated the Bible were making their best guess at what the word meant.

Here is the notebook computer that I bought at Circuit City.

This is where I am taking Lily for Valentine's Day, well I guess you could say a Valentine weekend. Getway from the little birdies -- "get your own worms." Anyways, we will have a fun time.

We are in the process of remodeling our love nest. We decided that we wanted colorfull dishes, this is what we bought.

I rebuilt J computer this week. I gave him a new motherboard, with a screaming AGP graphics card( 8X, it had 512 megs of onboard ram) , 2 gigs of ram, 400 watt power supply, and a 20 inch monitor. I thought that Win XP ran fast with 1 gig of ram, and that there would be no difference, but I was wrong. There is a noticable difference, windows reponds faster, so I am thinking about adding another gig to my laptop, which means if I add, I have to add to Lily's laptop too.

I remember when I bought my Vic 20 a number if years ago. I remember the salesman telling me that 8k of memory was all I was every going to need. He was wrong. I then bought a Tandy TL/2 that had 640k, and then I bought a 40 meg hard drive to go with it. I was then told, no matter what that was all I was every going to need. He was wrong too.

The first thing I did when I brought my Tandy home was take it apart( now when I look back, that was really stupid because I could have killed my computer) and examine everything inside the CPU. And my Tandy had an 8086 processor,"OOOOOOOOOOOO" I was smoking. I guess I am going from 8k of ram to 2 gigs of ram, that is all I will ever need!!!????

I was reading a few weeks ago at Space.com that they have determined the rotation of two Black Holes. One was spinning at a rate of 960 revolutions per second, and the other was revolving at a rate of 1,110 rps. That is fast. I then wondered what the rotation of the Sun was in relation to the Black Holes. Well, the rotation of the sun is 26 to 28 days, the rotation period depends on which part of the Sun you are analysing.

This brings me to another thought. When you look at the sun( never look at the sun directly) you are seeing the sun as it was 8 & 1/2 min ago. That always amazes me. When you look up at the night sky, you are seeing photons(light) that have traveled millions of light years, and the photons could be 13 billion years old that are colliding with your cornea as you look up.

If God, Mohammed, or Allah is offended, why do they need lawyers, or people to defend their honor? They can just send down lighting bolts (since they are all powerfull)and destroy the infidel's. Simple and to the point.

Dad would be happy, the Indianapolis Colts won the Superbowl.

There are a number of web sites that are counting the number of civilians being killed in Iraq. If this is so important how come they were not counting before the war. It is estimated that Sadam was killing 83 people a day, but I guess that was not important back then as it is now.

I am: E.E. "Doc" Smith The inventor of space opera. His purple space war tales remain well-read generations later.

Which science fiction writer are you?

Since MM does not read my blog anymore, I guess I can say anything without hurting or offending his feelings. It seems to me that MM's knowledge of historical events as they are related to the Bible are bias; I guess I just thought that MM would be more of a scholarly nature since he has been in college and not so closed minded and that he would say what he thought about stuff, not what other people told him to say. Anyways, I have always been interested in "the truth" as the truth related to the world, universe, and the Church since I was brought up in that environment. As far as I was concerned the Bible was fact, and I just assumed that there was empirical evidence to back up everything that I had learned in Sunday School, and evidence for all the different sermons that I had heard over the years.

I read my first ancient history book a number of years ago, the book was about the Greek civilization, Alexander the Great, and there was detailed account of the Egyptian civilization, and the book stated that there was no evidence that Joseph( coat of many colors) never existed, and book also said that the Egyptian civilization was well documented. I remember that the statement really disturbed me. How could that be? Joseph was second to the Pharaoh, plus there was a great famine of 7 years. How could that not be in the Egyptian history records? Since then I have been on a sort of a quest to understand history, and how the Bible was written, and to understand the world.

Now, do not get me wrong I do not think that the Bible is invalid; I just think that the Bible is man's attempt to explain the world but it fails in that aspect. A person needs a philosophy to live by, and Jesus had a good answer to how to live your life. Jesus said," Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Lily and I may not always live up to those words, but we try our best with what we know about ourselves, and the people that cross our paths that we try to help. Back to history.

I read the Epic of Gilgamesh and there is a flood story in the tale. It is then I realized that this story was before the Bible and it was written by about 500 years before the Bible was written, so the only conclusion that I could conclude was that it was copied by the Jews when they were writing the Old Testament, not God. The last few books that I have read have explain how different myths from that time period have been incorporated into the Old Testament. The last book that I read stated the what the Israelites wrote was not necessary a fib, or tale, lie, but that what they were writing was their understanding of life, and how they as a people were coming to terms of life in that time period of which they were living in. The Old Testament also served another purpose; it gave the Israelites an identity, separate from the people from which they came from.

This was the plan this morning:

1. Bring S to school with us, because I needed to take him to the probation office.
2. Leave S in my lab and go and get my blood work, ( I was going to stop a the golden arches because I could not eat anything until I did my blood work) then come back and get S.
3. Get S and to his appointment and then take him home.

What really happen:

1. I forget that we had to take J to work, so we took J to work and dropped him off.

2. Arrived at the college, and found out that S forgot his paper work, sooooo had to go back home and get paperwork.

3. On the way to S appointment, stopped to do my bloodwork, but no McDonalds( and I was hungry).

4. Almost to the probation place, S says "Where are we", I say "almost there", S says"But I need to go to Amscot" , I say" I did not know that." So we back track( going faster then the speed limit) about 5 miles and we have 20 min until S appointment.

5. Get to Amsoct, 15 mins to go. I rip out of the parking lot cross the road missing a cop by inches, and then I decide to take a short cut, but I am not exatly sure of the route, I think to myself; "Self you are the Greatest, it will all work out, and you will get there on time." Anyways I am speeding down the road and I pass another cop, I thought I was going to qet a ticket maybe, but not, so I am weaving in and out of traffic doing about( not sure but faster then everyone else.) I finally make it to S appointed place with 3 mins to spare. All done in 2 hours.

I like the first plan better.

Auto Tuner 1, how old is the earth?