Major Scientific Discoveries foreshadowed in the Old TestamentWritten by Terry Dashner
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Secondly, fact that earth is of spherical shape is generally considered to be recent knowledge. However, Isaiah 40:22 spoke of circle of earth approximately 750 years before Christ. Other statements in Bible also indicate that God revealed this truth long ago. For example, David said that God has removed our transgression from us as far as east is from west (Ps 103:12). On a spherical surface, east and west are infinitely separated in sense that one can travel indefinitely in either direction without ever attaining other. However, Solomon described wind as blowing in circuits, first towards south and then turning toward north. North and south are not infinitely separated as east and west, because a southward traveler on a spherical surface will be heading north after crossing South Pole (David Pyles). Thirdly consider this: What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yea, and beasts of field; The fowl of air, and fish of sea, and whatsoever passeth through paths of seas. Matthew Maury (1806-1873) is commonly known as father of oceanography. He was among first to discover and chart systematic ocean currents. Maury claimed that his research was inspired by Ps 8:4-8 (David Pyles). Fourthly, in Leviticus 17:11 it says that “life of flesh is in blood” (KJV). That’s very interesting because science didn’t know about properties of blood until centuries after Moses received Law from God on Mount Sinai. Every ancient Jew was taught validity of God’s Word for practical living as well as its spiritual value. Every Jew was taught that Leviticus 17:11 referred to life of living creatures. If one drained blood out of his sacrificial lamb, lamb died; therefore, blood equaled life. Here again, it was centuries after this Biblical knowledge that blood was discovered by means of science to circulate throughout human body. Fifthly, it wasn’t until time of Pasteur that germs were discovered as culprit to spoiling French wine. Pasture eliminated microbes by “pasteurizing” wine. The process is still used today with dairy products. The Old Testament proscribed certain meats as being unclean for human consumption. Today we know that many of these banned meats, if not properly prepared and fully cooked, can sicken or cause death in humans because of bad bacteria. Time does not permit me to list Bible’s instructions on washing clothing when contaminated by disease and death. Or to list what Bible says regarding effectiveness of quarantines for diseases and importance of early diagnoses of skin diseases. The Bible, if it’s nothing more than an ordinary ancient book, is certainly unusually accurate in its scientific foreshadowing. I believe that’s because it’s more than just an ancient book. It is Holy Word of God with a scientific accuracy long before inductive reasoning was used to challenge what had been unchallenged until Age of Enlightenment. Keep faith. Jesus is our Healer and soon coming King. .
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| | Human Cultural Evolution(?)Written by Robert Bruce Baird
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“Preconceived opinions on lack of maritime activity in pre-Spanish America have also affected botanical discussions of origin of common garden bean, ‘Phaseolus vulgaris’. Last century Könicke, in a paper on home of garden bean, pointed out that this crop plant was formerly generally accepted as having been cultivated in Europe by ancient Greeks and Romans, under name of Dolickos, Phaseolus, etc. The cultivation of same bean among Aborigines of America was therefore explained as result of its post-Columbian introduction from Old World by early Spaniards. (2) This was theory until Wittmack discovered in 1880 common garden bean among archaeological excavations of Reiss and Stübel at prehistoric cemetery of Ancon, Peru. (3) It was there found interred as food with mummy burials long antedating European discovery of America. Here was suddenly ample proof of pre-European cultivation of ‘Phaseolus’ in America, and beans were subsequently recovered from pre-Incan sites along entire coast of Peru. At this time, however, pre-Columbian specimens of ‘European’ bean were no longer accessible. The view was taken, therefore, that Old World ‘Phaseolus’ must after all have originated in aboriginal ‘America’, and been carried back thence to Europe by early Spaniards. (4) {Some have gone so far as to say that bird droppings are result of all these plant migration. The Yam or American sweet potato turned tide for champion of Euro-centric history in botany and zoology. He had to confess he had been wrong after decades of fighting point. Why then do we celebrate SLAVER Columbus? Is it not to maintain a colonial secret of deceit upon which our sovereign nations are founded? The Incans had a style of government that utopian philosophers like Sir Francis Bacon used as model in writing about possible forms of great government.} More recently Hutchison, Silow and Stephens pointed out, with corroborative botanical evidence, that ‘Phaseolus’ beans represent but one more indication of contact between Old and New World before Columbus. (5) The same problem concerns varieties of lima bean, ‘Phaseolus lunatus’, growing wild in Guatemala and common in earliest Chimu and Nazca graves of coastal Peru. In 1950 Sauer points to certain very early genetic peculiarities of a race of lima beans of primitive characteristics long under cultivation in parts of Indonesia and Indo-China, and says: ‘If, then, south-eastern Asia should prove to be a reservoir of more primitive lima beans, long since extinct in Peru and Mexico, a further problem of time and manner of trans-Pacific connection is raised by which American bean was communicated to native population across Pacific.’ (6) The same problem is also raised by a related bean, jackbean, or swordbean, ‘Canavalia’ sp. Stoner and Anderson have called attention to following: ‘The sword bean (‘Canavalia’), widely cultivated throughout Pacific and always considered to be of Old World origin, is now known from prehistoric sites along coasts of both South America and Mexico.’ (7) ‘Canavalia’ beans excavated from stratified deposits at Huaca Prieta on Pacific coast of Peru, date from between 3000 and 1000 BC. (8) Sauer states that its archaeological distribution and relation to wild species now indicate jackbean as a New World domesticate. (9) The above brief survey will show that, not only has anthropological thought for nearly a century been biased by ethno-botanical evidence, but to a quite considerable extent anthropological presuppositions have similarly affected American botany. The literature on origin and spread of certain American and Pacific island cultigens demonstrates that many botanical assumptions have been based on conviction that New World was isolated from rest of world prior to voyage of Columbus. Similarly, it has been taken for granted that only Indonesian craft could move eastwards into open Pacific, whereas culture of South American people was presumably confined to their own coastal waters due to lack of seaworthy craft. The material reviewed above shows that there is adequate evidence of aboriginal export of American plants into adjacent part of Pacific island area… Merrill favours Africa as original homeland of gourd, and proposes that it reached America across Atlantic. (10) If 13-chromosomed cultivated Old World cotton, together with wild American species, were actually employed in hybridization of 26 chromosomed New World cotton species then an overseas introduction from Old World is by far shorter and easier with westward drifts across open Atlantic than against elements across six times wider Pacific, where no 13-chromosomed cottons exist. The coconut was relayed straight across Pacific. If it originated in tropic America where all related genera occur, it must have spread with earliest Pacific voyagers, since it was present in Indonesia at beginning of Christian era. The yam has a similar complete trans-Pacific distribution… same strong ocean river, sweeping from Mexico straight to Philippines should be taken into account.” (11) The dyeing industry of Phoenician purple is in Peru as well as Mexico, and it was a critical and valuable export of Tyre. There are heraldic similarities and customs galore which we will continue to show. The purpose of adding these tidbits to all other ones I have covered in other books is to demonstrate two things. First and foremost (for purposes of this book), we can see academics and science are frequently wrong. Wrong, and motivated! Secondarily there is matter of megaliths and henges, Pyramids and dolmen or Round Towers that are all over World. They are key components of Neolithic Library system that encompassed all ‘Brotherhood’ of man in a spiritual and growth oriented culture of tolerance and egalitarian morals.NOTES: 1) Darwin's Century, Evolution and Man Who Discovered It., by Loren Eisely, 1958, Doubleday, 1961, pg. 187. 2) Sea Routes to Polynesia, by Thor Heyerdahl, with editorial notes by Karl Jettmar, Ph.D., Professor of Ethnology, Univ. of Heidelberg, and a foreword by Hans W: son Ahlmann, Ph. D. former President of International Geographical Union, 1968, Futura Publ., ed., 1974. brings us Könicke (1885, p.136) from pg. 73. 3) Ibid, Wittmack, (1880, p.176). 4) Ibid, Wittmack, (1886, 1888) 5) Ibid, Hutchinson, Silow and Stephens (1947, pg.138). 6) Ibid, Sauer (1950, p.502). 7) Ibid, Stoner and Anderson, (1949, p.392). 8) Ibid, Whitaker and Bird (1949, pg.2.). 9) Ibid, Sauer (1950, pg.499). 10) Ibid, Merrill (1950, pp.9-10). 11) Ibid, pgs. 73-76.
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