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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

2007-04-25T18:21:56Z

FrederickII:

[[Image:Bgnfy6n.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Ahmadinejad, evil's herald in Iran.]]
[[Image:Hostage.jpg|thumb|200px|right|This photo purports to show a man believed by some to be future Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (left), and another fellow radical, escort an American hostage.]]

'''Mahmoud Ahmadinejad''' is the current president of the [[Iran|Islamic Republic of Iran]], and the former mayor of [[Tehran]]. Since coming to power, on a campaign based on stamping out corruption, in 2005, he has pursued an agenda defined by support of Islamic fundamentalism, strong anti-Americanism, and anti-Zionism. Under Ahmadinejad's rule Iran has put a large amount of effort into [[Nuclear program of Iran|producing nuclear technology]], possibly for nuclear weapons, although Iran has not yet been successful in this endeavor.

Ahmadinajed's foreign policies have been criticized by many within his country and government, who think he is too extreme and will cause their country to be attacked by the [[United States]].

Former Israeli prime minister [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] has often compared Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to [[Adolf Hitler]]. [[James Deary]], director of the [[Christian Institute of Islamic Studies]] of [[Peoria, Illinois]], declared about him: "If Satan descended on this Earth, it would have one face: Ahmadinejad's".[http://www.peoriaaz.com/GenPlan/Default.htm]

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[[Category:Iran]]
[[Category:Heads of state]]

Hadrian

2007-04-25T18:14:43Z

FrederickII:

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'''Hadrian''' was a Roman Emperor who lived from January 24, 76 to July 10, 138, succeeding [[Trajan]]. He was the third of the [[Five Good Emperors]], and built many defensive walls. The most famous of these is known simply as [[Hadrian's Wall]] and runs across the centre of Great Britain between Bowness-on-Solway in the west and Wallsend in the east.

Hadrian had a disgusting homosexual relationship with a man called [[Antinoo]]. This is of course something unacceptable from a man holding such a high position. It is therefore a good thing that the Roman Empire collapsed, leaving pace to an enlightened era dominated by the Christian church.

Hadrian was succeeded by [[Antoninus Pius]].

[[Category:Roman emperors]]

Five Good Emperors

2007-04-25T18:13:23Z

FrederickII:

The '''Five Good Emperors''' were five consecutive emperors of the [[Roman Empire]] who ruled from 96 to 180 during the [[Pax Romana]]. These emperors were elected for talent rather than family connections. They were [[Nerva]], [[Trajan]], [[Hadrian]], [[Antonius Pius]] and [[Marcus Aurelius]]. Most of them were homosexuals: this is probably the hidden cause that later, after Aurelius' death, brought the Empire to collapse.

[[Category:History]]

Antoninus Pius

2007-04-25T18:12:35Z

FrederickII:

Titus Aurelius Fulvus Boionius Arrius Antoninus Pius (September 19, 86 – March 7, 161).

'''Antoninus Pius''' was the fourth of the [[Five Good Emperors]]. He was preceded by [[Hadrian]] and was succeeded by [[Marcus Aurelius]]. He served as emperor from A.D. 138 to A.D. 161. He was born in Lanuvium, an old Latin city southeast of Rome. During his reign as emperor he finished some public works that Hadrian had started and oversaw the completion of some additional public works.

He persecuted Christians, and followed a contemptible philosophy called "Epicureism", for which a man should think only to flesh pleasures. This is clearly banned from the Bible and the Gospels.

[[Category:Roman emperors]]

Elephant

2007-04-25T18:09:45Z

FrederickII: /* Trivia */

[[Image:elephant.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Image from http://www.sxc.hu/]]
The '''elephants''' are three species of very large mammals belonging to the family Elephantidae - the only extant family belonging to the order Proboscidea. The three elephant species currently recognized by scientists are the African [[Bush]] Elephant, the African [[Forest]] Elephant (until recently known collectively as the African Elephant), and the Asian Elephant (also known as the Indian Elephant). A distinct giant [[India]]n forest elephant is also believed to exist by some. [http://www.blather.net/blather/1998/07/mammoth_hunt_the_giant_elephants_of_nepa.html]

Elephants are the largest land animals alive today and have tripled in population over the last decade. Apart from their massive size their most striking features are a long trunk, or proboscis, a flexible nose strong enough to lift objects, their huge [[ivory]] tusks, and their large flapping ears, used to keep them cool.

Bull elephants, when inclined to mate, enter a frenzied state called ''musth''; they fight with each other for possession of the cow elephants, and become a menace to everything in their path; many humans are killed at this time. Elephants' gestation period, at 22 months, is the longest of any land mammal. At birth it is common for an elephant calf to weigh 120 kg (265 lb). An elephant may live as long as 70 years, sometimes longer.

The largest elephant ever recorded (the Fenykovi elephant, now in the [[Smithsonian Institution]]) was shot in [[Angola]] in 1954. It was male and weighed about 12,000 kg (26,400 lb), with a shoulder height of 4.2m, a meter taller than the average male African elephant.

==Uses of Elephants==

Elephants (today generally Indian, but historically African elephants also) have been used as beasts of burden and draught animals, as mounts in processions and in war (notably by [[Hannibal]]), playing [[polo]], and as [[circus]] performers.

==Elephants in the Bible==

The Apocryphal book [[1 Maccabees]] mentions thirty-two elephants sent by the Persian king Antiochus to attack [[Judas Machabeus]]. Numerous references are made to [[ivory]], a substance created from their tusks and worth great amounts.

==Genetic studies==

Molecular and morphological evidence point to [[hyrax|hyraxes]] and [[Sirenia|sirenians]] (sea cows and manatees) as the closest living relatives of elephants<ref> Hidenori Nishihara et al. A Retroposon Analysis of Afrotherian Phylogeny. ''Molecular Biology and Evolution'' '''22''': 1823-1833,</ref> these groups are hypothesized to have shared a common ancestor approximately 50 million years ago. The three extant species of elephant are sole survivors of a much more diverse Proboscidian fauna with some 170 described [[fossil]] species and including species of [[mammoth]] from [[North America]] and the massive ''Deinotherium'', the second largest land mammal that ever lived, which sported two downward facing tusks.

==Trivia==

*Elephants are said to go to a legendary ''elephants graveyard'' to die.
*A ''white elephant'' (from the historical veneration of such animals in Southeast Asia) is the term for a possession whose upkeep cost exceeds its expense, making it an overall liability.
*An elephant is the symbol of the wonderful [[Republican Party]].
*Elephants are said to never forget.
*Elephants are said to be afraid of [[mouse|mice]].
*Former US president [[George H.W. Bush]] was said to have an "elephant memory", especially when remembering all [[Playboy]]'s playmates from 1965.

==References==
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[[Category:Mammals]]
[[Category:Dangerous animals]]

Nicolaus Copernicus

2007-04-25T18:07:56Z

FrederickII: /* Copernican Revolution */

[[Image:Nicholas_copernicus.gif|thumb|right|150px|Nicholas Copernicus]]

A remarkable Polish scientist named '''Nicolaus Copernicus''' (1473-1543) made a stunning claim that rocked the religious and scientific world: he asserted that the earth revolved around the sun, not the sun around the earth. "Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the systematic procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if only we face the facts, as they say, 'with both eyes open.'"

Copernicus worked for years on his book describing his theory, and published it near the very end of his life. He entitled it, "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" ("On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres"), and published it in 1543. The major parts of Copernican theory are:
# Heavenly motions are uniform, eternal, and circular or compounded of several circles (epicycles).
# The center of the universe is near the Sun.
# Around the Sun, in order, are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the fixed stars.
# The Earth has three motions: daily rotation, annual revolution, and annual tilting of its axis.
# Retrograde motion of the planets is explained by the Earth's motion.
# The distance from the Earth to the sun is small compared to the distance to the stars.

The reception to his work was initially positive within the Catholic Church (contrary to popular belief, [[Galileo]] was not persecuted for supporting the Copernican theory, but because he was disrespectful to the [[Pope]]). However, the reaction was negative among Protestants who felt it conflicted with some literal interpretations of the Bible, such as the account of how Joshua benefited from the sun standing still as it passed over the earth. "And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day." Joshua 10:13. But there were few Protestants in Poland then (or now), and Copernicus died without much controversy.

[[Image:Copernicus_system.gif|thumb|right|300px|The Copernican System]]

== Copernican Revolution ==
Copernicus's book title used the word "revolution" in the sense of planets revolving around the Sun, not in the sense of an intellectual revolt. In the late 20th century, the term Copernican Revolution has come to mean the prototypical [[paradigm shift]], where scientists suddenly became enlightened by rejecting the prejudices of their predecessors.

In fact the Copernican theory was no more accurate than the Ptolemaic model. It had no compelling physical arguments for its superiority, and it proposed no experiments for testing its novel features. In some respects, it was actually less accurate, as more epicycles had to be added (in place of Ptolemy's [[equant]]). Copernicus' main argument in favor of his theory was that it was aesthetically more pleasing as it allowed the planets to move in uniform circular motion, an idea later proven false by Kepler. Many of the ancient Greek arguments for and against [[heliocentrism]] remained unresolved for some time. <ref>Ancient Greeks objected to Aristarchus's heliocentrim because (1) we don't feel the Earth's motion, (2) unattached objects don't fly off, and (3) no annual stellar parallax. [http://physics.gmu.edu/~jevans/astr103/CourseNotes/history_greekGeocentricHeliocentric.html] Stellar parallax was not measured until 1838, while (1) and (2) were resolved by the work of [[Isaac Newton]].</ref>

It is therefore probable that Copernican theory, and its derivative so common today, must be rejected in block. A sane return to what is written in the Bible should be welcome. Evreybody can notice that the Sun rises from the Earth at every dawn; "scientific" results pointed forward by biased and liberal astronomers are too much affected by measurement errors as well as political prejudices, whereas the Bible descends directly from God and is therefore errorless.

== Copernican Principle ==
The Copernican Principle says that Man has no special place in the universe. According to some, this principle has an almost Biblical significance. For example, Encyclopedia Britannica says:

:''The implications of Copernicus' work can not be exaggerated. His views challenged the literal interpretation of Scripture, the philosophical and metaphysical foundations of moral theory, and even common sense itself. The result was a massive opposition to his reported ideas. It was the slow, sure acceptance of the heliocentric theory by natural philosophers that ultimately quieted the general clamor, however the name of Copernicus is still a battle cry against the establishment in religion, philosophy and science. In later years with Freud, man lost his Godlike mind; with Darwin his exalted place among the creatures of the Earth; with Copernicus man had lost his privileged position in the Universe.''<ref>http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/glossary/copernican_principle.html</ref>

All of this would have been unrecognizable to Copernicus. His model was readily accepted to the extent that it agreed with observation, and abandoned when better models came along later. He didn't challenge any moral theory, and he got Catholic Church approval for his book. Not everyone views the history of science as the story of how Man became insignificant.

== Notes ==
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[[Category:Astronomers|Copernicus, Nicolaus]]

Photons

2007-04-25T18:01:08Z

FrederickII:

A Photon is a discrete packet of electromagnetic radiation <ref>A French, P Taylor.(1978). A Introduction to Quantum Physics. MIT: CRC Press.</ref>. It is the elementary exchange particle for the electromagnetic force. The Energy of a photon depends on its frequency and is given by the equation:

'''E = hf'''

where '''f''' is the frequency of the electromagnetic wave and h is Plank's constant and has the numerical value of 6.626*10^-34 J*s or 4.135*10^-15 eV*s.

There is no mention of photons in the Bible. So, any attempt to point forward their existance must be taken under high suspicion. There's no true proof of the whole [[quantum physics]] so far, as stated by the famous Italian physicist [[Antonio Zichichi]], among many respctable authorities. The [[light]] itself would be more properly interpreted as a message from God, not as a physical quantity like many do.

==References==
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[[Category:Physics]]

Bacteria

2007-04-25T17:57:28Z

FrederickII:

'''Bacteria''' are an [[order]] of [[life]]. Modern [[pathology]] and [[medicine]] are based on the findings of [[Louis Pasteur]] that bacteria cause many ailments, which [[antibiotic]] medicine can cure. Bacteria [[evolution|evolve]] resistances to certain types of antibiotics, making their continued treatment in a recurrent infection difficult at times.<ref>http://www.chemheritage.org/educationalservices/pharm/antibiot/readings/evolve.htm</ref>

According to the Bible (John, 2,4,5), bacteria are a bad creation of [[Satan]]. Their existence is recognized by famous scholars (such as [[James O'Dean]]) as a proof of the conflict existing between the just God and his evil conterpart.

== References ==
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[[Category:biology]]