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<p>Rhobas: </p> <hr /> <div>[[File:Newton.png|thumb|200px|alt=Isaac Newton, cornerstone of the scientific revolution, based his research on the scientific authority of the [[Bible]].|thumb|[[Portrait]] of [[Isaac Newton]], cornerstone of the [[scientific revolution]], based his research on the scientific authority of the Bible.]]<br /> <br /> '''Biblical scientific foreknowledge''' is how the [[Bible]] shows a comprehension of [[science]] far ahead of its time. The Bible is a superb roadmap to future scientific discoveries. Unfortunately [[Bible denier]]s, including many [[Atheism|atheist]]s and [[evolution]]ists, refuse to read the Bible, and '''''their irrational [[Essay:Quantifying Openmindedness|closed-mindedness]] against the Bible obstructs the advancement of science'''''. For example, several respected biblical scholars have theorized that, had modern society not become so corrupt with anti-bible, anti-christian, and anti-american ideas, humanity's level of scientific knowledge would be at least 100 years more advanced than it is today.<br /> <br /> The [[Book of Genesis]] gives [[Biblical scientific foreknowledge#Anesthesia|an example of anesthesia]] long before man discovered it in 1846. And the underlying chaos and [[uncertainty]] in the physical world was explained in the Bible long before [[quantum mechanics]] confirmed it in the 1900s.<br /> <br /> '''Biblical scientific foreknowledge''' has an additional benefit: it guides a more precise translation of verses that describe scientific-related events, such as the reference to the universe in [[Epistle to the Hebrews (Translated)#1:10-11|Hebrews 1:10]], and the changing of [[Essay:Water into Wine|water into wine]] at the wedding feast.<br /> <br /> ==Geology==<br /> <br /> ===Massive flooding===<br /> Atheist scientists long opposed a [[young earth]] [[creation|created]] by [[God]] where cataclysmic flooding, such as the [[Great Flood]] described in the Bible, shaped the landscape. However, ample [[counterexamples to an old earth]] exist and the discovery in the Northwest of &quot;giant ripple marks, 50 feet high and 200-500 feet apart&quot; proved that a cataclysmic flood in the region had indeed occurred thousands of years ago. As a result, &quot;[a]mong geologists, the concept of a catastrophic flood came to be universally accepted by the late 1950s.&quot;&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.iafi.org/floods.html The Ice Age Flood Institute reports on the massive floods in the Northwest.]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ===Continental drift===<br /> [[Continental drift]] was proposed by [[creationist]] Antonio Snider-Pellegrini in 1859 based on [[Genesis 1-8 (Translated)#Chapter 1|Genesis 1:9-10]],&lt;ref&gt;http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c001.html Christian Answers explains Antonio Snider's divine inspiration&lt;/ref&gt; which states, {{cquote|And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.<br /> And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.}} Because land is no longer all in [[Pangaea|one place]], this implies that the continents have shifted over the six millennia to their current positions. [[Atheists]] and [[scientist]]s who hadn't seen the light of [[creationism]] were in [[liberal denial]] about this concept for a century, until finally accepting its truth. This is just more data that the Bible knew millennia before [[secular]] [[science]] caught up.<br /> However, The Continents are still connected; under the ocean is land if you dry up the water. This interpretation of this verse is in error, the separation spoken of here is the waters under the sky (Firmament) and the water out in space (beyond the heavens). Comets prove this theory, as many of them contain ice, and today as much as 1% of terrestrial rain comes from extraterrestrial sources.<br /> <br /> The most likely reason for the current position and shape of the land mass is the Flood of Noah. Pangea does not work without flipping, shrinking, and sometimes removing countries entirely. Any Biblical statements of continents is in Genesis 10:25 when Peleg is mentioned &quot;for in his days was the earth divided&quot; this in particular refers to the separation of what today is Russia, Japan, and Alaska, when the oceans arose, and also to the division of the peoples by languages, who migrated together according to their language after the confusing of tongues at the tower of Babel, obviously the migration took place before the oceanic divide which led to the natives of the Far West. Everyone laughed at Columbus, not because they thought earth was flat, but because they had forgotten the Far West (America) was there, and they thought he didn't have nearly enough supplies or a big enough ship to go to Asia the long way around, and they would have been right if he didn't hit the Caribbean first by complete accident. Recent findings of biblical stone tablets, in Byzantine script prove that trade between Europe and the Far West was common prior to the dark age which began in 400 or 500 AD.<br /> <br /> ===Underwater springs===<br /> Only in modern times have scientists become aware of the enormous underwater springs feeding into the oceans, and the very deep valleys at the bottom of the oceans. However, the Bible repeatedly described this thousands of years earlier in [[Genesis 1-8 (Translated)#Chapter 7|Genesis 7:11]], which states, {{cquote|In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.}} Again, in 2 Samuel 22:16, the Bible states that, {{cquote|And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.}}<br /> And Job 38:16 “Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the search of the depths?&quot;<br /> <br /> This is ''obvious'' proof to all but [[liberals]] that the Bible had foreknowledge of subcrustal oceans, something the ancient Jews could not have possibly known, and thus proof of the Bible's God-given accuracy and divine nature.<br /> <br /> ==Agriculture==<br /> <br /> ===Malthusianism===<br /> Since Thomas [[Robert Malthus|Malthus's]] 1798 work, ''An Essay on the Principle of Population'', [[liberal]] intellectuals insisted that the world's population would grow faster than the [[food]] supply and result in mass starvation.<br /> <br /> This [[liberal]] falsehood is contrary to the [[Multiplication of the loaves]], as set forth in Matthew 14:13–21, Mark 6:31-44, Luke 9:10-17 and John 6:5-15. Multiple additional examples in both the [[Old Testament|Old]] and [[New Testament]]s, as well as the example of [[William Bradford]] at Plymouth Colony,&lt;ref&gt;{{cite book|last1=Bradford|first1=William|title=The History of Plimoth Plantation|date=1669|pages=135–136}}&lt;/ref&gt; of the food supply increasing to be more far plentiful than expected, based on [[faith]] in [[God|God's]] powers and use of [[conservative]] [[economics]]. Indeed, in modern times [[obesity]] is far more prevalent and harmful than [[hunger]] worldwide, and food production far exceeds the ability to consume even in impoverished nations. Hunger remains a problem only in places with [[liberal]] and/or [[leftist]] political systems that impede food distribution or destroy the [[free market]].<br /> <br /> As predicted by the [[Bible]] there is an abundance of food in the world, although distribution problems sometimes prevent the food from getting to everyone who needs it. Food inflation in the [[United States]] is very low, hovering around only 1% for the last three decades,&lt;ref&gt;https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/food-inflation&lt;/ref&gt; which has kept overall inflation low.<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> <br /> === Psychogenic hematidrosis ===<br /> <br /> Psychogenic hematidrosis, which is sweat turning into blood, happens rarely but in the cases it does happen, it usually happens with death row inmates. In 70 percent of all studies that document this condition, the condition occurs in death row inmates.&lt;ref name=&quot;youtube.com&quot;&gt;[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjXMsq6SscA Police Detective Examines the Resurrection of Jesus becomes Christian]&lt;/ref&gt; In the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus sweat blood (Luke 22:44). The early church was puzzled by the account of Jesus sweating blood given in Scripture and they didn't know what to make of it.&lt;ref name=&quot;youtube.com&quot;/&gt;<br /> <br /> === Pleural effusion ===<br /> <br /> The early church was puzzled by the blood and water that came out of Jesus' side when the soldier plunged his spear into him. The blood was not a problem in their understanding, but the water was. Medical science can now explain the water coming out of Jesus' side as being the result of pleural effusion.&lt;ref name=&quot;youtube.com&quot;/&gt;<br /> <br /> ===Great Flood ice mummy===<br /> [[File:The building of the ark.jpg|thumb|The building of the Ark by Bertram of Minden, ancient [[German Painting]].]]<br /> According to the Bible, a [[Great Flood]] occurred around 3300 B.C., or about 5300 years ago. It involved a cataclysmic rainstorm of a magnitude never seen before or since. For centuries [[atheist]]s and [[liberals]] have mocked it, claiming that it was impossible. However, in 1991, an &quot;ice mummy&quot; was discovered in the [[Alps]]. Scientists located a remarkably preserved ancient body, including even the contents of his last meal, which was due to an extraordinary ice storm. By radiometric [[carbon dating]],&lt;ref&gt;http://www.nupecc.org/iai2001/report/B44.pdf Radiocarbon dating of the Iceman Ötzi with<br /> accelerator mass spectrometry&lt;/ref&gt; the scientists discovered that this massive ice storm occurred 5300 years ago, which perfectly matches the Biblical Great Flood.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/icemummies/iceman.html PBS on the &quot;Iceman&quot; in the Alps&lt;/ref&gt; This is obvious proof of the Great Flood, as no natural occurrence could possibly explain how somebody came to be preserved by ice in the [[Alps]].<br /> <br /> ===Oldest Living Organism===<br /> <br /> Bristlecone pine trees in California's White Mountains are the oldest living unitary organism. As predicted by the Bible, they are not as old as 6,000 years but are as old as 5,000 years,&lt;ref&gt;http://abcnews.go.com/US/photos/worlds-oldest-living-things-23385913/image-23386256&lt;/ref&gt; roughly the time of the [[Great Flood]].<br /> <br /> ===False theories===<br /> Jesus' recognition that the truth would remain hidden from arrogant &quot;intellectuals&quot; while simultaneously revealed to humbler, [[Essay:Quantifying Openmindedness|more openminded]] people. This foreshadowed the creation of theories to pull self-centered intellectual wannabees away from [[God]], such as the [[Theory of Evolution]], the [[Theory of Relativity]], the [[homosexual agenda]], the [[secular]] culture of [[abortion]], [[Communism]], and countless other [[liberal]] and atheistic ideas and ideologies.<br /> <br /> ===Mankind remains extant===<br /> The Bible predicts that the end of [[mankind]] will not occur by chance, but rather at a time known only to God. Despite the extinction of many species each year throughout history, the expectation by scientists that Earth would have been hit by chance by a massive, extinction-causing meteor, and laws of probability that predict other immense catastrophes, mankind continues and Christianity grows just as Jesus predicted.<br /> <br /> ===Construction of ancient sky-high structures===<br /> <br /> The Bible—the [[Book of Genesis]] chapter 11—explains how ancient people arrogantly sought to construct a sky-high &quot;[[Tower of Babel]]&quot; to try to reach [[Heaven]]. Then, in the 1900s, archaeologists discovered the great ziggurat of ancient Ur, located in present-day southern Iraq, having characteristics similar to the biblical description of the Tower of Babel.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.bible-history.com/babylonia/BabyloniaThe_Ziggurat.htm&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ===Hometown of Goliath===<br /> <br /> 1 Samuel 17 of the Bible discusses the giant Goliath from a Philistine city named Gath, located in central Israel. In July 2015, archaeologists discovered its entrance in an excavation that began in 1899. They also uncovered evidence of a massive earthquake that occurred in the eighth century BC, as described in the biblical book of Amos.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.christiantoday.com/article/gates.to.goliaths.city.discovered/61124.htm&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ===Effect of Deafness on Speech===<br /> <br /> For 2000 years after [[Christ]], scientists overlooked the close connection between hearing and speech, and the brain, and are just starting to discover this now.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.zdnet.com/article/deafness-can-have-unexpected-consequences-on-speech-patterns/&lt;/ref&gt; But [[Jesus]] illustrated the connection when he cured a problem with speech primarily by opening someone's ears, after which the man &quot;spoke plainly.&quot;&lt;ref&gt;Mark 7:34-35 ([[ESV]])&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ===Common DNA===<br /> [[John 1-7 (Translated)#Chapter 1|John 1:3]] explains that &quot;All things were made by Him; not one thing was made without Him.&quot; If something had been made without Him then creatures would exist that had completely different DNA from other creatures.<br /> <br /> ===Psychiatry===<br /> <br /> [[Jesus Christ]] and [[Christianity|Christendom]] have emphasized the important of forgiveness and in the last few decades mental health specialists have increasingly seen the importance of forgiveness to alleviate anger/depression/bitterness and other emotional problems within individuals.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2755173/ Indian J Psychiatry. 2009 Apr-Jun; 51(2): 153–156. doi: 10.4103/0019-5545.49459, PMCID: PMC2755173, ''Forgiveness: A note for psychiatrists'' by Prakash Gangdev]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Modern medicine now realizes that obsessing with one's past is a big cause of psychiatric problems.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/in-flux/201104/5-ways-find-closure-the-past&lt;/ref&gt; Jesus had the same insight 2000 years earlier: &quot;No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the [[kingdom of God]].&quot;&lt;ref&gt;Luke 9:62 ([[ESV]]).&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> See also: [[Atheism and anger]] and [[Atheism and bitterness]]<br /> <br /> == The Bible and health practices ==<br /> <br /> ''See also:'' [[The Bible and health]]<br /> <br /> Max Neuberger, writing in his &quot;History of Medicine&quot; states concerning the Mosaic laws: <br /> {{cquote|The commands concern prophylaxis and suppression of epidemics, suppression of venereal disease and prostitution, care of the skin, baths,[17] food, housing and clothing, regulation of labour, sexual life, discipline of the people, etc. Many of these commands, such as Sabbath rest, circumcision, laws concerning food (interdiction of blood and pork), measures concerning menstruating and lying-in women, and those suffering from gonorrhoea, isolation of lepers, and hygiene of the camp, are, in view of the conditions of the climate, surprisingly rational.&lt;ref name=&quot;Neuburger, Max 1910, p. 38&quot;&gt;Neuburger, Max. History of Medicine. Oxford University Press, 1910, Vol. I, p. 38.&lt;/ref&gt;}}<br /> <br /> ===Blood clotting on the eighth day===<br /> In Genesis 17:12, God mandated that Abraham circumcise his sons on the 8th day after birth. In 1935, it was discovered that Vitamin K, together with prothrombin, causes blood coagulation, (important in any surgical procedure). On the 8th day, the amount of prothrombin present is elevated above 100% of normal and is therefore the only day in the male’s life in which this will be the case (normally). If surgery is to be performed, day 8 is the perfect day to do it as vitamin K and prothrombin levels are at their peak.<br /> <br /> ===Lifespan===<br /> The Bible puts the maximum lifespan for man at 120 years (Genesis 6:3), the typical lifespan at 70 years and the typical for a good-living person at 80 years (Psalm 90:10).<br /> <br /> Thousands of years after that was written, despite immense advances in medicine and technology, these figures remain remarkably accurate. The longest modern recorded life of a man is precisely 120 years (Shigechiyo Izumi), the average lifespan for a man is roughly 70 years, and the average for a good-living man is about 80 years.<br /> <br /> [[Jeanne Calment]] lived to age 122, only two years past 120. She was said to have never worked and used olive oil on her skin, outliving all of her [[feminist]] counterparts.<br /> <br /> ===Oldest human ancestor===<br /> The Bible suggests that the oldest maternal ancestor &amp;#8212; [[Eve]] &amp;#8212; first lived slightly more than 6000 years ago.&lt;ref&gt;http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/ussher.html&lt;/ref&gt; The mutation rate of [[mitochondria]] indicates roughly the same date for the most recent common human ancestor.&lt;ref&gt;http://creationwiki.org/Mitochondrial_Eve_lived_only_6500_years_ago_%28Talk.Origins%29&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ===Anesthesia===<br /> The first surgical operation described in the Bible was the removal of a rib from [[Adam]], which was performed by first putting Adam into an unconscious, &quot;deep sleep-like trance.&quot;&lt;ref&gt;[[Genesis 1-8 (Translated)|Genesis 2:21]]&lt;/ref&gt; This was the equivalent of anesthesia &amp;#8212; thousands of years before anesthesia using inhaled ether was developed by William Morton in 1846. Had scientists and physicians been more [[Essay:Quantifying Openmindedness|openminded]] about Genesis 2:21 (perhaps they had considered it a miracle, and thus impossible for humans to achieve), they may have discovered anesthesia far sooner, and saved many more lives.<br /> <br /> ===Bloodletting hastens death===<br /> At the time of Jesus and for centuries afterward, arteries and veins were thought to be filled with air, and blood was viewed as something to be used up rather than recirculate. Bloodletting—the practice of intentionally draining blood from a patient—was common medical practice through the time of [[George Washington]], hastening his death prematurely for reasons not understood until years later.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/37212.php&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Most victims of crucifixion in Roman times languished on the cross for days. But the Bible describes how Pilate, who crucified many, was surprised at how quickly Jesus passed away. 2000 years later, scientific knowledge has advanced to understand that this was caused by his prior loss of blood during his scourging (being brutally whipped), a punishment typically given ''instead of'' crucifixion.<br /> <br /> ===Homosexuality and disease===<br /> The Bible's prohibition against [[homosexuality]] predated knowledge about the [[Homosexuality and Health|many diseases and disorders associated with homosexuality]], and thus showed scientific wisdom prescient for its time.<br /> <br /> ===Eyesight===<br /> The description in the [[Mark 1-8 (Translated)|Gospel of Mark 8:24]] for the sensation when one's eyesight is restored includes his perception of &quot;trees walking.&quot; This perception was first confirmed nearly 2000 years later as physicians developed medical techniques for restoring eyesight.&lt;ref&gt;This newspaper account is not specific but describes the overall sensation of restored sight: [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-138886/Robot-eye-restore-lost-sight-20-years.html]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ===Maximum human height===<br /> Atheists thought the size of [[Goliath]] in the Bible to be absurdly large (over nine feet tall), until [[Robert Wadlow]] grew to nearly 9 feet tall and was still growing when he died at a young age in 1940.<br /> <br /> ===Leprosy===<br /> Although leprosy is not as contagious as other infectious diseases, and some forms of it (such as tuberculoid or paucibacillary form are not contagious), Leviticus 13 and 14 set forth rules to prevent epidemics of this disease among the people of Israel. Western science did not catch up until, in 1663, such laws were introduced in America in an attempt to curb an outbreak of smallpox.<br /> <br /> Centuries ahead of medical science, Jesus subsequently explained that leprosy was not as contagious as people thought.{needs citation}<br /> <br /> ===Hygiene===<br /> Millennia before germ theory was proposed in the late 19th century, Leviticus 15 mandated hygiene laws that included bathing, washing of clothing, destruction of contaminated pottery and washing of hands.<br /> <br /> In Matthew 15:2, Jesus then curbed compulsive hand-washing by explaining why it was no longer typically necessary (in a non-farming, non-medical context) with respect to man's digestive system.<br /> <br /> ===Digestive system===<br /> It was common thought throughout history that infections and illness resulted from the digestive system, based on unclean hands or food. Jesus rejected that view, and declared hand-washing before meals to be typically unnecessary. It took many centuries before science caught up to the Bible on this.<br /> <br /> It is part of the Jewish kosher law to not eat milk with meat. In some Jewish homes they have separate refrigerators for meat and milk products. It comes from Deuteronomy 14:21 &quot;...Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.&quot; There is evidence that the body has difficulty digesting both meat and milk at the same time.<br /> <br /> Also, as part of the Jewish kosher law a pork is on the list of prohibited foods. Under cooked pork can transmit Trichinosis, a parasitic disease that can infect muscle tissue, the brain, and the central nervous system, among other [[parasite]]s and zoonotic diseases. [[Creation denial|Creation deniers]] can counter this point only with such desperate non-arguments as asking why God had to create trichinae at all and then allow them onto the [[Ark]].<br /> <br /> === Dietary ===<br /> ====Fetal Alcohol Syndrome====<br /> Not discovered until 1973 by American physicians, fetal alcohol syndrome results from harm done to the unborn child in pregnancy due to the mother drinking alcohol. The Bible, thousands of years earlier, forbade the mother of [[Samson]] from drinking alcohol while pregnant, so that he could become a powerful leader:<br /> <br /> :&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;The angel of the Lord appeared to her and said, “You are barren and childless, but you are going to become pregnant and give birth to a son. &lt;sup&gt;4&lt;/sup&gt;'''''Now see to it that you drink no wine or other fermented drink''''' and that you do not eat anything unclean. &lt;sup&gt;5&lt;/sup&gt;You will become pregnant and have a son whose head is never to be touched by a razor because the boy is to be a Nazirite, dedicated to God from the womb. He will take the lead in delivering Israel from the hands of the Philistines.”&lt;ref&gt;Judges 13:3-5 (NIV).&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ====Animal Toxicity====<br /> [[File:David Macht.jpg|thumbnail|right||200px|Dr. David Macht]]<br /> In 1953 Dr. [http://www.creationwiki.org/David_Macht David Macht], a Johns Hopkins researcher, conducted toxicity tests on many different kinds of animals and fish and concluded that the toxicity of Levitically [[Mosaic law and unclean animals|&quot;unclean&quot; animals]] was higher than that of the [[Mosaic law and clean animals|&quot;clean&quot; animals]], and that the correlation with the description in Leviticus was 100%.&lt;ref name=Macht1&gt;Macht, David I., MD. &quot;[http://members.dslextreme.com/users/hollymick/Macht1953.pdf An Experimental Pharmacological Appreciation of Levitcus XI and Deuteronomy XIV].&quot; ''Bulletin of the History of Medicine'' 27(5):444-450, September–October, 1953. Accessed September 12, 2008.&lt;/ref&gt; <br /> <br /> Macht's study in terms of classifying kosher and non-kosher animals matched the kosher classification performed by James W. Atz, Ph.D., Curator and Dean Bibliographer in the Department of Ichthyology of the American Museum of Natural History, NY, NY and Adjunct Professor of Biology, Graduate School of Arts and Science on New York University. Dr. Atz's list of kosher and non-kosher animals was published by the Orthodox Union in Kosher Guide and in the Orthodox Union Kosher Consumer Directory.&lt;ref name=Atz&gt;Atz, James W., contrib. &quot;[http://www.kashrut.com/articles/fish/ KASHRUT.COM - Kosher and Non-kosher fish]&quot; Scharf Associates, 2008. Accessed September 12, 2008.&lt;/ref&gt; According to a list of kosher and non-kosher fish published by the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, deciding what fish have scales, in the Orthodox Jewish community, appears to involve semantics as scales which are not visible to the human eye or scales that cannot be removed without tearing the skin are not considered &quot;scales&quot; in terms of the Torah law for determining which fish are kosher. It appears that Jewish religious authorities do appeal to well known Torah commentators.&lt;ref name=Goldberg&gt;Goldberg, Chaim. &quot;[http://www.kashrut.com/articles/fishfaq/ Consumers’ FAQ’s on Kosher fish].&quot; Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, 2004. Accessed September 12, 2008.&lt;/ref&gt; Also, Dr. Macht's classification of swans as kosher is in accordance with the research done at Ohr Somayach Institutions in Jerusalem, Israel.&lt;ref name=ask1&gt;&quot;[http://ohr.edu/ask/ask210.htm Ask the Rabbi - Are swans kosher]?&quot; Ohr Somayach Website, Ohr.edu, October 24, 1998. Accessed September 12, 2008.&lt;/ref&gt; <br /> <br /> Furthermore, Dr. Macht states in the peer reviewed journal ''Science'' that the toxicology test he used was a reliable method for detecting zoological toxins as it was a toxicology test sensitive to these type of toxins, and therefore one could conclude it was also suitable for testing the toxicity levels of fish, meat, and poultry.&lt;ref name=Macht3&gt;Macht, D.I. , Science 1930, 71 :302&lt;/ref&gt; (The toxicological method that Dr. Macht used was also cited in the Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine.&lt;ref name=Macht2&gt;Macht, D.I. and Macht, M.B. ''Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine'' 1941, 26: 597&lt;/ref&gt;) In addition, Dr. Macht was an expert in cobra venom, which is a zoological toxin. Macht's conclusions, however, were challenged by three of his science community peers in a Seventh Day Adventist publication although one partially affirmed his study.&lt;ref name=Harris&gt;Harris, Lester E., Jr. &quot;[https://archive.is/20070709234205/members.dslextreme.com/users/hollymick/web/ministry-1954-March-p37.htm This Question of Unclean Meats].&quot; Ministry Magazine, March 1953, p37-38. Accessed September 12, 2008.&lt;/ref&gt; This was partly due to a likely unfamiliarity with what food is kosher and non-kosher. Also, perhaps they were unfamiliar with the toxicity test Dr. Macht used, and its apparent effectiveness in testing zoological toxins.<br /> <br /> In the short term, eating non-kosher food often appears to have no dramatic ill effects in general. For example, the Arabs, who do not eat kosher, consider camel to be a delicacy. Clearly, non-kosher Arabs do not fall dead right after eating camel meat. However, the long term optimality of eating clean versus unclean meat is an unanswered question of science. Also, eating non-kosher foods clearly has some nutritional benefit. For example, shrimp and pork contain protein. The New Testament declares, {{Bible quote|For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving; for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.|book=1_Timothy|chap=4|verses=4-5|version=NKJV}}<br /> <br /> In regard to the aforementioned verse, it could be argued that prayer does sanctify food. The Bible has plenty of verses regarding God's protection. Also, it could be argued that the benefits outweigh the costs in all foods and thus all food is good. Clearly there is some nutritional goodness in foods that the Torah declared unclean (for example, shrimp has protein). What foods are optimal from an empirically tested science viewpoint is often controversial. In short, in regard to eating strictly a kosher diet versus a non-kosher diet, science has no definitive answers at the present time. From a Christian theological point of view, it could be argued that food should not be an impediment to anyone making a decision to become a Christian. It should be noted that orthodox Christian believers in Biblical scientific foreknowledge believe that Christians can eat the food that was declared unclean in the Old Testament, and {{Bible ref|book=1_Timothy|chap=4|verses=4-5}} and {{Bible ref|book=Galations|chap=2|verses=7-16}} make this very clear.<br /> <br /> In addition to the aforementioned study testing kosher and non-kosher foods for toxicity levels, Macht developed evidence indicating that combining meat and milk tended to be more toxic than either foodstuff alone.&lt;ref name=Macht4&gt;David I. Macht, Medical Leaves 1940; 3:174-184&lt;/ref&gt; In addition, he compared conventional animal slaughtering versus kosher slaughtering and determined that kosher slaughtering produced less toxic meat.&lt;ref name=Macht4/&gt;<br /> <br /> A 1985 study by Nanji and French found that there was a significant correlation between cirrhosis and pork consumption (Macht claimed that swine was more toxic than the animal meat the Bible called clean).&lt;ref name=Nanji&gt;Nanji AA, and French SW. &quot;[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&amp;db=PubMed&amp;list_uids=2858627&amp;dopt=Abstract Relationship between pork consumption and cirrhosis].&quot; ''Lancet'' 1985 Mar 23, 1(8430):681-3. Accessed September 12, 2008.&lt;/ref&gt; Modern pork production methods are different from ancient methods of raising pigs, so the result of this study might be hard to apply to the ancients or those who raise pigs by organic farming methods, without the use of hormones or antibiotics.<br /> <br /> Jane Cahill reported in ''Biblical Archaeological Review'' that the toilets of a Jewish household in [[Jerusalem]] were examined and no [[parasite]]s or infectious agents were found.&lt;ref name=Cahill&gt;[http://cojs.org/cojswiki/It_Had_to_Happen,_Jane_M._Cahill,_Karl_Reinhard,_David_Tarler_and_Peter_Warnock,_BAR_17:03,_May/Jun_1991. It had to happen, Scientist Examines Ancient Bathrooms of Romans 586 B.C.] by Jane Cahill and Peter Warnock. BAR May/June 1991&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Today, some &quot;alternative medicine&quot; practitioners do not recommend pork to their patients. Their reasons include the possible content of hormones, antibiotics, and pesticides, and also the undiscriminating diet of the pig. Joseph Mercola, DO, who has a private practice in alternative general medicine, writes:{{cquote|Pigs are scavenger animals and will eat just about anything. Their appetite for less-than-wholesome foods makes pigs a breeding ground for potentially dangerous infections. Even cooking pork for long periods is not enough to kill many of the retroviruses and other parasites that many of them harbor.&lt;ref name=Mercola&gt;Mercola, Joseph, DO, ed. &quot;[http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/07/12/are-there-deadly-superbugs-in-your-pork.aspx?source=nl Are There Deadly Superbugs In Your Pork]?&quot; &lt;http://www.mercola.com/&gt;, July 12, 2008. Accessed September 12, 2008.&lt;/ref&gt;}}<br /> <br /> Dr. Mercola does not even recommend pasture-raised pork, because wild boars will often infect herds of pork with [[Trichinella spiralis]] or other parasites.&lt;ref name=Mercola/&gt;<br /> <br /> ===Feasibility of abiogenesis===<br /> Although scientists dismissed ideas involving [[abiogenesis]], or the process from which life emerges from non-living material, as nothing more than archaic beliefs in [[spontaneous generation]], the Bible very clearly depicts an occurrence of this phenomenon, for beginning in Genesis 1:20, God creates life from nothing. It was not until the early 20th century that science finally began to accept the viability of abiogenesis, a view that the Bible had held for almost 2000 years, except that [[atheists]] falsely claim that abiogenesis is somehow possible without a creator. For addition information, please see [http://creation.com/origin-of-life origin of life]<br /> <br /> ===Awareness while unborn===<br /> [[Abortion]] advocates argue that it is ok to terminate a baby while dismissing the pain inflicted by ending an innocent life. They argue that a fetus cannot feel pain because senses are incomplete. There is a heart-beating human in the womb that can feel even though still unborn and developing. In modern times, we now know the baby in the womb is alert, aware of their mother's emotions, recognizes voices, responds to stimuli and music. The Bible tells us the baby feels (1 Luke 44), ''&quot;the babe leaps for joy in Elizabeth’s womb at the sound of Mary’s voice.&quot;'' The inwomb developing baby, John the Baptist, notices the presence of the unborn [[Lord]] in [[Mary]], and is excited. In addition (St. Paul to the Galatians 1:15), ''&quot;God… from my mother’s womb had set me apart and called me through his grace.&quot;'' Paul's very first thought, feeling awareness, began while unborn.<br /> <br /> ===Embalming===<br /> [[Mark 9-16 (Translated)#Chapter 14|Mark 14:3-8]] describes an embalming process to preserve a body after death, which was not discovered in the West until 1867.<br /> <br /> ===Significance of blood===<br /> The Old Testament teaches that the [[life]] of all flesh is its [[blood]] ({{Bible ref|book=Leviticus|chap=17|verses=13-14|version=KJV}}). Secular science remained ignorant of the properties and circulation of blood until the 17th century A.D.&lt;ref&gt;[http://wap.bible.org/nbw/deu12_notes.htm Net Bible: Notes] to [http://wap.bible.org/nbw/deu12.htm#1234 Deuteronomy 12:23] {{dead link}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ===Menstruation===<br /> The Biblical laws concerning [[menstruation]], including the setting apart of the menstruating woman and the prohibition on intimacy during menstruation, address health concerns that were not known to secular science until the 20th century.&lt;ref name=&quot;Neuburger, Max 1910, p. 38&quot;&gt;Neuburger, Max. History of Medicine. Oxford University Press, 1910, Vol. I, p. 38.&lt;/ref&gt; Also, modern science has only very recently discovered that following such rules dramatically reduces the rate of illegitimacy.&lt;ref&gt;[https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120604182027.htm How Religion Promotes Confidence About Paternity]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ===Cloning and a Common X Chromosome===<br /> {{Bible ref|book=Genesis|chap=2|verses=21-22|version=KJV}} records that God made a [[woman]] out of one of [[Adam]]'s [[rib]]s. Secular scientists did not believe that [[cloning]] such a complex organism (apart from plants) was possible until 1997.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/cloning.shtml Cloning Fact Sheet] {{dead link}}&lt;/ref&gt; It should be noted, however, that this is not strictly 'cloning' as a clone would be identical to its original, most obviously in terms of its sex. Women can be cloned from the genetic material of men, but not the other way around, since women lack a Y chromosome. Women have the same X chromosome as men, but this was not discovered until the late 1800s. The Book of Genesis explained this thousands years earlier, describing how the first woman was created directly from man.<br /> <br /> ===Inbreeding===<br /> Leviticus 18:7-11 elaborates in detail the relationships it regards as incestuous unions, to forbid inbreeding. Only in modern times has secular science caught up and been able to scientifically explain the harm to future generations of inbreeding.<br /> <br /> ==Cosmology==<br /> <br /> ===Distance of Oldest Star to Earth===<br /> <br /> The Book of Genesis implies that the distance of the oldest star to Earth is how far light would travel during the age of mankind: about 6000 light-years. In 2014, a team of researchers discovered that the oldest star is indeed only 6000 light-years away.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/6012/the-oldest-star-in-the-known-universe&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ===Planet formation===<br /> Theories of an old universe insisted that planet formation did not occur until long after the origin of the universe, contrary to the [[Book of Genesis]]. It was not until 2012 that atheistic scientists recognized and reported that planets formed at the &quot;dawn of the universe,&quot; within a small fraction of the universe's age.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0330/Planets-found-at-dawn-of-universe-but-their-existence-is-a-mystery&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ===Extraterrestrial life===<br /> For most of the 20th century, scientists typically believed in the existence of extraterrestrial life, despite the lack of any reference to it in the Bible. After spending many billions of dollars looking for such life, and investigating countless reports of UFOs, no such life has been found.<br /> <br /> ===Starlight Problem===<br /> The [[Starlight Problem]] confounds atheistic theories about the universe: light has reached us from stars that are too far away to transmit the light within the age of the universe. But the Book of Genesis explains this easily: &quot;let there be light&quot; means that God created light, not merely stars. <br /> <br /> ===Number of stars===<br /> The Bible repeatedly refers to the number of stars as being innumerable,&lt;ref&gt;''See'' Genesis 15:5, Jeremiah 33:22 and Hebrews 11:12.&lt;/ref&gt; despite scientists insisting throughout most of history that there were only about 6000 stars. In the early 17th century [[Galileo]] turned a telescope to the heavens and discovered a great number of stars that had been previously invisible to the naked eye.&lt;ref&gt;http://galileo.rice.edu/lib/student_work/astronomy95/orionpleiades.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Not until the 20th century did scientists discover the tremendous number of stars:&lt;ref&gt;https://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/07/22/stars.survey/index.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> :There are &quot;10 times as many stars as grains of sand on all the world's beaches and deserts,&quot; totaling &quot;7 followed by 22 zeros or, more accurately, 70 sextillion.<br /> <br /> But even that scientific estimate was much too low. On December 1, 2010, scientists admitted:&lt;ref&gt;http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/1201/Universe-might-hold-three-times-more-stars-than-previously-thought&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> :&quot;a cosmic embarrassment of riches – ''the universe appears to hold three times the number of stars many [[astronomer]]s might have estimated only a year ago''.&quot;<br /> <br /> ===Uniqueness of stars===<br /> Although the use of telescopes to chart the outer-reaches of God's heavenly creation was developed around the 16th century in Europe, the Bible accurately hypothesized that every star is unique.<br /> <br /> &quot;There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory&quot;- 1 Corinthians 15:41 &lt;ref&gt;http://www.clarifyingchristianity.com/science.shtml&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ===Spherical Sun and Earth===<br /> The Book of Isaiah establishes that the true shape of the earth is a sphere:<br /> {{cquote|He sits above the sphere of the earth, and its inhabitants look to him like grasshoppers. He stretches out the galaxies like a curtain, spreading them out like a tent to live under: - [[Isaiah 34-42 (Translated)#Chapter 40|Isaiah 40:22 (CBP]])}}<br /> <br /> Likewise, with respect to the [[sun]], the Book of Proverbs 8:27 ([[ESV]]) states:<br /> {{cquote|When he established the heavens, ... he drew a circle on the face of the deep}}<br /> <br /> The Book of Isaiah was written circa the 8th century BC, and the Book of Proverbs even earlier. This was centuries before Greek philosophers, beginning with [[Pythagoras]], theorized the earth was round, and it was not discovered until 2012 that the sun is perfectly spherical. Astronomers were not able to conclude until well into the second millennium of [[Christ]] that the Earth is also a sphere.<br /> <br /> ===Earth free floating in space===<br /> The book of Job states that God &quot;hangs the [[Earth]] on nothing.&quot; It also contrasts with Greek Mythology's belief that [[Atlas]] holds up the Earth, or ancient Hindu and Native American myths that the Earth was on top of a gigantic turtle.<br /> <br /> The Bible presaged the modern view that space is in fact empty, which wasn't known until the dawn of the 20th century when ether theories became disfavored.<br /> <br /> ===Cosmic Background Radiation===<br /> [[Genesis 1-8 (Translated)|Genesis Chapter 1]] explains that God created light first, rather than merely stars. A &quot;big bang&quot; would result in light everywhere, without darkness, and without ripples in cosmic background radiation. Yet in the 21st century ripples were discovered in cosmic background radiation, which can only be plausibly explained by recognizing that light was created first.<br /> <br /> ===Meteoroids===<br /> The Revelation of Saint John notes, <br /> {{cquote|And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed. Revelation 8:8-9 (KJV)}}<br /> This accurately describes meteoroids, essentially large chunks of rock lit on fire by the shock of entering the earth's atmosphere. They were not discovered until 1801, and their composition was not otherwise known until the 20th century.<br /> <br /> ===Stellar proper movement===<br /> In [[Job]], a list of challenges are constructed in the form of questions, with the idea that man can't do it, but God can. Among these challenges, two are remarkable: one mentions the ''untying'' of Orion's belt, and the other is the ''binding'' of the Pleiades. Only recently, astronomers could measure the proper movement of those stars; Orion's belt is moving apart, with each star going in a different direction, while the Pleiades are moving together.<br /> <br /> ===Space flight===<br /> Many theorize that the book of [[Ezekiel]] contains descriptions of spaceships and rockets, as they would have been described by someone thousands of years ago. [http://www.spaceshipsofezekiel.com/ Author Blumrich] has even published an entire book about this.<br /> <br /> ===Expanding universe===<br /> The Bible explains, in 17 different verses, that God &quot;stretched out&quot; the heavens,&lt;ref&gt;http://www.creationists.org/God-streched-out-the-universe-bible-verses.html&lt;/ref&gt; in other words, expanding the fabric of space-time from a smaller size to a much larger one. Scientists have discovered only in the last 100 years that, by studying the red shift of galaxies, the universe indeed appears to be expanding, or &quot;stretching out.&quot;<br /> <br /> ==Meteorology==<br /> <br /> ===Water cycle, and the Six days of Creation Week===<br /> The existence of the water cycle was widely unknown to pagan people's until imperial Roman times. But the Bible described the water cycle over a thousand years before that. In general, see [[Ecclesiastes]] 11:3, [[Job]] 26:8 and [[Amos]] 9:6.<br /> <br /> There may be a more Biblically central reference to the water cycle: The reports in Genesis 1 of five things that God names (v. 5=two, v. 8=one, v. 10=two) seem to be consistent with five basic features of the geophysical half of Earth's life-support cycle. In Earth sciences, it is known that the total life-support cycle is irreducibly complex in relation to Earth's distance to the Sun, and this complexity maintained on an order of mere days' reserve: flora and fauna are interdependent, their interaction is necessary for the maintenance of the atmosphere, and if any one of those five features suddenly ceased, Earth would fail to support life in a matter of days.<br /> <br /> ==Physics==<br /> <br /> === Immense power within atoms alluded to in 2 Peter chapter 3 ===<br /> [[Image:Abomb.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|The [[atomic bomb]] that was dropped on [[Hiroshima]] unleashed the equivalent of about 15 kilotons of TNT.]]<br /> The immense power within atoms is alluded to in the Bible in 2 Peter chapter 3.&lt;ref name=&quot;bcnn1wp.wordpress.com&quot;&gt;[https://bcnn1wp.wordpress.com/2015/11/10/listen-breaking-prophecy-news-the-world-at-war-part-3-the-prophet-daniels-report-568-with-daniel-whyte-iii/ LISTEN: Breaking Prophecy News; The World at War, Part 3 (The Prophet Daniel’s Report #568 with Daniel Whyte III)]&lt;/ref&gt; <br /> <br /> Daniel White III declares:<br /> {{Cquote|John Phillips notes that Peter’s prophecy of a great, end-times conflagration of the earth and its atmosphere uses precise terminology that accurately describes a nuclear explosion. Liddell and Scott’s Lexicon define the “elements” as “the components into which matter is divided” (or atoms), and the term “dissolved” comes from the basic Greek word meaning to “loose” that which is bound (as in nuclear fission). The term “great noise” is found nowhere else in the New Testament and signifies “a rushing sound of roaring flames.” The term “fervent heat” is derived from a Greek medical term denoting a fever. But Peter’s use of it in application to inanimate objects is the only such known usage anywhere in Greek literature. Thus, Phillips observes, “Peter describes in accurate terms the untying of the atom and the resulting rushing, fiery destruction which follows it.”&lt;ref name=&quot;bcnn1wp.wordpress.com&quot;&gt;[https://bcnn1wp.wordpress.com/2015/11/10/listen-breaking-prophecy-news-the-world-at-war-part-3-the-prophet-daniels-report-568-with-daniel-whyte-iii/ LISTEN: Breaking Prophecy News; The World at War, Part 3 (The Prophet Daniel’s Report #568 with Daniel Whyte III)]&lt;/ref&gt;}}<br /> <br /> ===Impossibility of a Grand Unified Theory===<br /> Billions of dollars and millions of hours have been wasted by scientists in futile pursuit of a &quot;grand unified theory&quot; for physics. But [[Genesis 1-8 (Translated)#Chapter 1|Genesis]] explains that the creation of light was done in a separate, initial creation, free of darkness or entropy, and thus incapable of theoretical unification with matter. <br /> <br /> ===Light and color===<br /> Prior to the work of [[Isaac Newton]], white was considered to be the fundamental color of light, and other colors (such as red, green and blue) were formed by adding to white light. Under that traditional theory, the fullness of all light (a combination of all colors of light) would result in something other than pure white.<br /> <br /> The transfiguration of Jesus is described with remarkable consistency in all three synoptic [[Gospel]]s: in the fullness of light Jesus and his clothing display an intense white, whiter than any bleach could produce. This illustrates what was not discovered and accepted until nearly 1700 years later: that white is the combination of other fundamental colors, and the purest white light is formed by a perfectly full combination (see [[Prism]]).<br /> <br /> ===Action-at-a-distance===<br /> [[Jesus]] demonstrated [[action-at-a-distance]], as recounted in [[John 1-7 (Translated)|John 4:46-54]]. Scientists, particularly [[atheists]], denied the possibility of this phenomenon for thousands of years. When Newton proposed action-at-a-distance as the basis of gravity, scientists continued to reject it, but eventually accepted it as being true.<br /> <br /> Later the [[Theory of Relativity]] again denied the possibility of action-at-a-distance, but [[quantum mechanics]] subsequently proved that it does occur.&lt;ref&gt;See also [[Counterexamples to Relativity]].&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ===Quantum mechanics===<br /> The fundamental principle of [[quantum mechanics]] is that the underlying reality is in random fluctuation, or chaos, until there is intelligent observation of it. This is precisely what [[Luke 1-8 (Translated)#Luke 4:6|Luke 4:6]] reveals when it quotes the [[devil]] in saying that he has dominion over this world.<br /> <br /> The world was an abyss of chaos at the moment of creation, as explained in the [[Book of Genesis]]. The order created by God is on a foundation of uncertainty. The discovery of this in subatomic particles in the 1900s, known as quantum mechanics, confirms the nature of the world as described in Genesis.<br /> <br /> The Parable of the Wheat and the Chaff, Matthew 13:24-30, describes a fundamental uncertainty that does not resolve itself until there is observation over time. The authenticity of a simpler explanation of this parable at Matthew 13:36-43 has been challenged. The parable may refer to a profound and pervasive chaotic struggle between good and evil, or in quantum mechanics the uncertainty in position and energy.<br /> <br /> ====Observation of the wave function====<br /> The second chapter of the [[Gospel of John]] describes the conversion of water into wine by [[Jesus]] at a wedding reception. [[John 1-7 (Translated)#Chapter 2|John 2:9]] states: &quot;When the host of the wedding feast tasted the water, it had been made into wine.&quot; This passage implies that the drink was not wine until it had been tasted, or observed. The drink was a superposition of the state of wine and the state of water until it was observed as wine.<br /> <br /> In Matthew 16:19, Jesus draws a then-unusual distinction between what is fixed and what is uncertain by declaring, &quot;Whatever you make binding on earth will be binding in heaven, and whatever you set loose on earth will be set loose in heaven.&quot;&lt;ref&gt;http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Matthew_10-19_%28Translated%29&amp;oldid=870778#Chapter_16&lt;/ref&gt; This may describe the fundamental uncertainty that continues unless and until there is human observation that then causes the wave function to collapse into a particular (&quot;bound&quot;) state.<br /> <br /> ====Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle====<br /> Both the Old and New Testaments refer to a fundamental [[uncertainty]] that requires observation to resolve, akin to the [[Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle]] discovered in the 1920s:<br /> <br /> * &quot;The earth came to exist in an utterly formless and empty state.&quot; -- [[Genesis 1-8 (Translated)|Genesis 1:2]].<br /> * &quot;The master refusing to order the removal of the weeds sowed among the wheat because of the uncertainty in distinguishing between the two until later.&quot; -- [[Matthew 10-19 (Translated)|Matthew 13:24-30]].<br /> <br /> ====Wave-particle duality====<br /> Wave-particle duality, not discovered by scientists until the 20th century, is when something is sometimes a wave and sometimes a particle. Subatomic particles have wave-particle duality; so does light.<br /> <br /> This is the same as God being a &quot;wave&quot; as the [[Holy Spirit]], and also being matter in the form of [[Jesus]]. A open-minded appreciation of the wave-particle duality of the [[Trinity]] could have opened the eyes of scientists nearly 2000 years sooner to the fundamental wave-particle duality of nature discovered in the 1900s.<br /> <br /> Wave-particle duality is also evident in the [[Gospel]] account of Jesus walking on water: [[Mark 1-8 (Translated)|Mark 6:45-54]]. A close reading of the passage reveals the wave-like (or light-like) characteristic of the walking on water:&lt;ref&gt;[[Mark 1-8 (Translated)|Mark 6:48-49]] (italics added).&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> {{cquote|he walked on the surface of the lake and came to the boat, ''nearly passing it''. But when they saw him walking on water, they thought it must have been ''a ghost'', and cried out.}}<br /> Even today a more open-minded recognition of the truth of the [[Trinity]] would help scientists understand the reality of wave-duality.<br /> <br /> ====Quantum tunneling====<br /> [[Quantum tunneling]] is the ability of particles to move through energy barriers even though ostensibly impossible based on classical laws of mechanical physics. This was not discovered by scientists until the 20th century.<br /> <br /> Jesus proved this was possible in [[John 15-21 (Translated)#Chapter 20|John 20:26]], when he appeared before the [[Apostles]] in a closed room with completely shut doors.<br /> <br /> ===Classical relativity===<br /> Romans 10:6-7: But the righteousness that is by faith says: &quot;Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'&quot; (that is, to bring Christ down) 7&quot;or 'Who will descend into the deep?'&quot; (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).<br /> <br /> Equating ascending into heaven to bringing Christ down is an example of the fact that there is no universal reference frame, and only relative speeds matter.<br /> <br /> ===Modern relativity===<br /> The [[Theory of Relativity]] denies the possibility of action-at-a-distance. But several passages in the Bible, such as [[John 1-7 (Translated)|John 4:46-54]] and [[Matthew 20-28 (Translated)|Matthew 27:51]], describe simultaneous actions from afar.<br /> <br /> The list of [[Counterexamples to Relativity]] has grown recently, and modern experiments in quantum mechanics have confirmed action-at-a-distance.<br /> <br /> ===Second Law of Thermodynamics===<br /> The [[Genesis 1-8 (Translated)|Book of Genesis]] states that the darkness or chaos in the universe can never overcome the light, or order. This same concept was not discovered in physics until the development of the [[Second Law of Thermodynamics]], which holds that heat (or order or light) always travels in the direction of cold (or disorder or darkness), and never in the opposite direction.<br /> <br /> [[Epistle to the Hebrews (Translated)#1:10-11|Hebrews 1:10-11]] explains that the universe shall &quot;wear out&quot; like a &quot;garment&quot;, centuries before the discovery of the physical law that [[entropy]] is always increasing.<br /> <br /> ===Nature of air===<br /> Until about 300 years ago, common knowledge believe that the air was &quot;empty&quot; and didn't weigh anything. But [[Job]] 28:25 states, &quot;To establish a '''weight''' for the wind, And apportion the waters by measure&quot; indicating that the divinely inspired author knew the air had substance and weight.<br /> <br /> ===Conservative forces===<br /> James 1:17 describes the electromagnetic forces (light) as having no &quot;shadow of turning.&quot; Not understood for nearly 2000 years, this predicts that electromagnetic forces are [[conservative]] such that their [[line integrals]] over a closed loop are zero.<br /> <br /> ==Mathematics==<br /> ''See main article: [[Math and the Bible]]''<br /> ===Zero===<br /> Mathematicians in Western Europe did not discover [[zero]] until many centuries after the Bible was written. But there are hundreds of references to the concept of zero throughout the Bible.<br /> <br /> === Uncountable Sets ===<br /> <br /> The existence of an uncountable set was not known in mathematics until [[Georg Cantor]] developed it in a paper published in 1891. But the so-called (and misnamed) [[Epistle to the Hebrews (Translated)#12:22|Epistle to the Hebrews]], which was possibly written by [[Jesus]], explains that the number of angels is uncountable.<br /> <br /> ===Banach-Tarski Paradox===<br /> The only miracle described in all four [[Gospels]] is the multiplication of loaves and fish by Jesus, thought for thousands of years to be a mathematical and physical impossibility. But the 20th century discovery of the so-called [[Banach-Tarski Paradox]] proved a mathematical basis for creating identical copies of an object out of no extra material.<br /> <br /> ===Axiomatization of Arithmetic===<br /> The full set of axioms for integer arithmetic may be found in the Bible. For example, [[Luke 9-16 (Translated)|Luke 12:52]] is a striking statement of the commutative law for addition: &quot;For from this point forward there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.&quot; This understanding presaged both later attempts at the axiomatization of arithmetic by Peano and the development of [[abstract algebra]] in the 19th and 20th centuries.<br /> <br /> ===Infinity===<br /> Most thinkers scoffed at the concept of [[infinity]] for thousands of years, despite it being referenced in the Bible in many ways. See, e.g., Psalm 147:4-6 (God's &quot;understanding is infinte&quot;); [[Matthew 20-28 (Translated)#20:1|Matthew 20:1-14]] ([[parable]] of the wages for the workers in the vineyard); Matthew 16:26 (one's soul has an infinite value to him, and nothing else can be worth more).<br /> <br /> But [[Georg Cantor]], deeply inspired by [[Christianity]], established a logical foundation for infinity that revolutionized all of mathematics as a result, with his development of [[set theory]] to accomplish his goal.<br /> <br /> ===Calculus===<br /> The Bible emphasizes the importance of limits as a key distinction between this world and God; Calculus consists of relying on limits to derive useful results.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.aiias.edu/ict/vol_27/27cc_225-239.htm Norie Grace Rivera-Poblete: &quot;''God and Calculus''&quot;], Institute for Christian Teaching Education Department of [[Seventh-day Adventist]], Prepared for the 27th International Faith and Learning Seminar held at Mission, Muak Lek Saraburi, Thailand December 3 – 15, 2000&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> James 1:17 states that the first and second derivatives of God's light (truth) is zero, more than 1600 years before calculus was discovered: &quot;with [God] there is no variation or shadow of turning.&quot;&lt;ref name=&quot;Shadow%252525252525252520of%252525252525252520Turning&quot;&gt;[http://edgeinducedcohesion.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/no-variation-or-shadow-of-turning-calculus-in-the-bible/ Nathan Albright: ''&quot;No Variation Or Shadow Of Turning: Calculus In The Bible&quot;''], Blog-Entry, Feb 24, 2011&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ===Arithmetic with Negative Numbers===<br /> <br /> Negative numbers were not fully accepted by mathematicians until the 1800s,&lt;ref&gt;http://nrich.maths.org/5961&lt;/ref&gt; including how a negative number dominates the result in multiplication with a positive number, to yield a negative outcome. Yet Jesus' parable of the sower and the seed, in Matthew 13:1-23, Mark 4:1-8, and Luke 8:4-8, explained the same effect nearly 2000 years earlier.<br /> <br /> === Indeterminacy ===<br /> <br /> The Bible repeatedly emphasizes that God is &quot;unsearchable&quot;. See Job 5:9 (God &quot;does great things and unsearchable&quot;); Job 26:1 (&quot;God's Majesty Is Unsearchable&quot;); Job 36:26 (&quot;Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.&quot;) Psalm 145:3 (&quot;Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.&quot;); Proverbs 25:3 (&quot;As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the heart of kings is unsearchable.&quot;); Isaiah 40:28 (&quot;Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.&quot;); Romans 11:33 (&quot;Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!&quot;)' Ephesians 3:8 (&quot;to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ&quot;).&lt;ref&gt;All quotations are to the ESV of the Bible.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> John 1:1 teaches that logic is part of God, and thus logic itself must also be &quot;unsearchable&quot;. For many decades the finest mathematicians thought that the consistency of logic could be proven, until [[Kurt Godel]] (himself a frequent reader of the Bible) proved the indeterminacy, or &quot;unsearchability&quot;, of mathematics.<br /> <br /> ==Sociology==<br /> <br /> ===Trolls===<br /> <br /> The existence of malicious trolls on the internet is difficult to understand, until one reads Matthew 13:24-30 - the Parable of the Wheat and the Chaff.<br /> <br /> ===Crime===<br /> Mark 4:22 says how nothing can be hid, neither can anything be kept secret. Empirical statistics show that the vast majority of crimes worldwide are solved.<br /> <br /> ==Zoology==<br /> <br /> ===Morality of animals===<br /> [[Genesis 1-8 (Translated)|Genesis 3:1-10]] explains that only humans understand good and evil, and clothe themselves because of it. Repeatedly scientists have attempted to demonstrate that animals can understand morality also, but every attempt has failed. No animal (other than humans) has ever been found that clothes itself. However, as limited case, animals do demonstrate altruistic behavior.<br /> <br /> ===Existence of dinosaurs===<br /> [[Dinosaur]] fossils were not discovered until the 19th century, but the book of Job describes enormous creatures called behemoth and leviathan, the descriptions being similar to dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. It may also have referred to another similarly giant now-extinct species. Other dinosaur like creatures mentioned are the cockatrice and satyr &lt;ref&gt;http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v15/i2/behemoth.asp&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ===Killing methods of lions===<br /> Until the 1970s naturalists believed that lions killed their prey by biting through the neck or by breaking the neck with a swat of a paw, while the Bible says that lions suffocated their prey. (Nahum 2:12) It was not until the 1970s that it was discovered that the [[Bible]] was correct.&lt;ref&gt;http://ed5015.tripod.com/BLions87.htm&lt;/ref&gt; Lions fit their mouth over the mouth and nose of their prey and hold it while it suffocates, in addition to other killing methods.<br /> <br /> ===Giant sea creatures and Jonah===<br /> The [[Jonah (Translated)|Book of Jonah]] describes his survival in the belly of a giant sea creature for 2.5 to 3 days. Scientists declared this to be impossible due to powerful stomach acids that quickly break down any material and the lack of breathable air inside marine animals.<br /> <br /> In 2010, scientists found the following materials intact in the belly of a gray whale that had died after being stranded on a Northwest beach:&lt;ref&gt;http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/19/pair-sweat-pants-garbage-beached-whales-stomach/&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> *a pair of sweat pants <br /> *a golf ball<br /> *over 20 plastic bags<br /> *small towels<br /> *duct tape<br /> *surgical gloves<br /> <br /> Of course, many sea creatures have gone extinct in the thousands of years since Jonah lived.<br /> <br /> ===Gender of worker ants===<br /> Proverbs 6:6-8 correctly states the sex of worker [[ant]]s (female), using the correct one of the two [[Grammar#Gender|grammatical genders]] available in Biblical [[Hebrew]]. Secular entomologists would not discover that fact until the 19th century.&lt;ref&gt;[https://books.google.com/books?id=rzwSAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA6&amp;dq=ant+undeveloped+female+worker+date:1700-1850&amp;lr=&amp;as_brr=0&amp;as_pt=ALLTYPES#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false The study of medicine, Volume 5 By John Mason Good]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> === Harvester ants ===<br /> <br /> 19th century [[Europe]]an naturalists were wrong about [[ant]] behavior - namely the issue of ants/harvesting (Harvester ants). The Bible was correct about ant behavior.&lt;ref&gt;http://ed5015.tripod.com/BWilliamsvsAnon71to73.htm&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> === Hearing and snakes ===<br /> <br /> The scientific consensus and the ''Encyclopedia Britannica'' both indicated that snakes can't hear.&lt;ref&gt;[http://creation.com/snake-charming-and-bible-accuracy Charmed, I’m sure!] by Calvin Smith&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;[http://ed5015.tripod.com/BCobra94.htm The Cobra and the Bible]&lt;/ref&gt; The Bible said that snakes can hear. 21st century research showed that snakes can hear.<br /> <br /> === Vegetarian lion ===<br /> <br /> The prophet Isaiah says that there will be a time when the [[lion]] will lay down with the lamb and the lion will eat straw like the ox (Isaiah 11:7 and 65:25). There was a vegetarian lion named Little Tyke that refused to eat meat.&lt;ref name=&quot;The lion who would not eat meat&quot;&gt;[http://creation.com/the-lion-that-wouldnt-eat-meat The lion who would not eat meat]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> [[File:8790lion-wont-eat-meat.jpg|thumbnail|200px|right|There was a vegetarian lion named Little Tyke that refused to eat meat.&lt;ref name=&quot;The lion who would not eat meat&quot;&gt;[http://creation.com/the-lion-that-wouldnt-eat-meat The lion who would not eat meat]&lt;/ref&gt;]]<br /> David Catchpoole wrote at the website of [[Creation Ministries International]]:<br /> {{Cquote|From 1946 to 1955, A female African lion, born and raised in America, lived her entire lifetime of nine years without ever eating meat.1 In fact, her owners, Georges and Margaret Westbeau,2 alarmed by scientists’ reports that carnivorous animals cannot live without meat, went to great lengths to try to coax their unusual pet (‘Little Tyke’) to develop a taste for it. They even advertised a cash reward for anyone who could devise a meat-containing formula that the lioness would like. The curator of a New York zoo advised the Westbeaus that putting a few drops of blood in Little Tyke’s milk bottle would help in weaning her, but the lioness cub refused to touch it—even when only a single drop of blood had been added.<br /> <br /> The more knowledgeable animal experts among the many visitors to the Westbeaus’ 100 acre (40 hectare) ranch also proffered advice, but nothing worked. Meanwhile, Little Tyke continued to do extremely well on a daily diet of cooked grain, raw eggs and milk. By four years of age she was fully grown and weighed 352 pounds (160 kg)...<br /> <br /> Mr Westbeau’s observation of the lioness that ‘To condition her stomach she would spend an hour at a time eating the succulent tall grass in the fields’, is also a vivid reminder of the prophecies of Isaiah 11:7 and 65:25, ‘ … the lion will eat straw like the ox.’&lt;ref name=&quot;The lion who would not eat meat&quot;&gt;[http://creation.com/the-lion-that-wouldnt-eat-meat The lion who would not eat meat]&lt;/ref&gt;}}<br /> <br /> ==Linguistics==<br /> [[File:The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1563.jpg|thumb|350px|The Tower of Babel by [[Pieter Bruegel the Elder]], 1563.]]<br /> ===Common descent theory===<br /> The [[theory of evolution]] suggests that all languages are descended from a common ancestral language, and for a century (1860 to about 1960) scientists clung to that view. But now most linguists identify many different families of languages that have no common ancestor, just as described in Genesis 11 with the [[Tower of Babel]].<br /> <br /> ===Earliest Hebrew writings===<br /> Skeptics have claimed that [[Hebrew]] writing did not exist before the 6th century B.C. But a recent Israeli archaeological dig dated four centuries earlier, in the 10th century B.C., included an artifact found at Khirbet Qeiyafa in the Elah Valley. This artifact contained a written inscription in Hebrew relating to &quot;slaves, widows and orphans.&quot; Haifa University Professor Gershon Galil noted that this disproves the theory that the Bible could not have been written before the 6th century.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2010/01/08/Bible-may-be-centuries-older-than-thought/UPI-21171262997765/&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Economics==<br /> ===Poverty===<br /> Jesus stated that there will always be poverty,&lt;ref&gt;See Mark 14:7, Matthew 26:11 and John 12.8.&lt;/ref&gt; yet [[liberals]] repeatedly insist that poverty can be eliminated with more government spending. Every attempt to eliminate poverty has failed just as Jesus predicted. In 1991 [[Ronald Coase]] won a [[Nobel Prize]] in [[Economics]] for the [[Coase Theorem]], which implies that government attempts to reduced poverty will interfere with efficient operation of the economy, and thereby reduce wealth.<br /> <br /> ===Socialism and Capitalism===<br /> Ecclesiastes 5:18-19 says that [[capitalism]] is a gift from God:<br /> <br /> &quot;Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God give the him: for it is his portion. Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.&quot;<br /> <br /> Similarly, Ecclesiastes 6:1-2 condemns [[socialism]]:<br /> <br /> &quot;There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men: A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.&quot;<br /> <br /> ==Government and Politics==<br /> ''See also [[Biblical political foreknowledge]]''<br /> <br /> ===Nation-state===<br /> Ancient Israel, as described in the [[Old Testament]], was a [[nation-state]] and that model was not utilized again until thousands of years later, well after the Renaissance in Western Europe. This model of a nation-state has become the modern standard worldwide.<br /> <br /> ===Separation of Powers===<br /> The separation of powers adopted successfully by the [[U.S. Constitution]] in 1787, with the legislative, executive, and judicial branches having separate authority and jurisdiction, was first described in the Old Testament.&lt;ref&gt;See Jeremiah 17:19 and Isaiah 33:22.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ===Liberal influence on the media===<br /> The Third [[Three Temptations of Christ|Temptation of Christ]] is to bow down and worship the [[Satan]] in exchange for becoming ruler of the world. The media plays that role and its influence is predictably liberal and anti-[[Christian]].<br /> <br /> ==Engineering==<br /> Biblical scientific foreknowledge about these engineering developments has been proposed:&lt;ref&gt;http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/2191&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> {{cquote|automobiles (Joel 2:3-4); airplanes (Isaiah 31:5, also 40:31); submarines (Revelation 9:1-11); radio (Ecclesiastes 10:20); and television (Revelation 11:3-12)}}<br /> Classical photography, using negative imaging, was predated by the [[Shroud of Turin]] with respect to the imaging on the Shroud likely due to the light of the [[Resurrection]]. The Shroud ([[Greek]]: σινδών - sindón) is mentioned in three Gospels: Matthew 27:59, Mark 15:46, Luke 23:53, while John 20:5-7 talks about a face cloth or napkin ([[Greek]]: σουδάριον - soudárion - perhaps the [[Sudarium of Oviedo]]), and a piece of fine linen ([[Greek]]: ὀθόνιον - othonion). The description by the eyewitness John implies that his sighting of the Shroud may have confirmed his [[faith]], though he doesn't mention its photograph-like image.&lt;ref&gt;John Calvin, who opposed the Catholic Church, wrote a book in 1543 criticizing all material evidence of Jesus and the martyrs. In it he claimed that because the negative image on the Shroud is not described in the Gospels, it must not be authentic. [[John Calvin]]: ''Traité des Reliques'', Geneve 1543, translated by Valerian Krasinski: ''A treatise on Relics'', Edingburgh 1854&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Alleged &quot;contradictions&quot;==<br /> Biblical scientific foreknowledge is an underpinning of creation science, and is widely credited by Christian scientists and apologists, including the organizations [[Creation Ministries International]],&lt;ref&gt;http://creation.com/modern-medicine Creation Ministries International on &quot;Modern&quot; Medicine&lt;/ref&gt; [[Answers in Genesis]],&lt;ref&gt;http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v17/i1/medicine.asp Answers in Genesis on &quot;Modern&quot; Medicine&lt;/ref&gt; and [[CreationWiki]].&lt;ref&gt;[http://creationwiki.org/index.php/Bible_scientific_foreknowledge Bible Scientific Foreknowledge]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Atheists and liberals unsuccessfully attempt to discredit the Bible based on science. Here are some examples:<br /> <br /> ===Value of Pi===<br /> Two sections of the Bible (1 Kings 7, 23-26, 2 Chronicles, 4, 2-5) appear to indicate that the correct value of [[Pi]] is 3, whereas Pi is, in fact, an irrational number, equalling approximately 3.14159. Atheists, including [[Sam Harris]] and [[Richard Dawkins]], allege that this value indicates the fallacious nature of scripture.&lt;ref&gt;[http://richarddawkins.net/articles/139 The Richard Dawkins Foundation, ''Reply to a Christian'', Sam Harris -]&lt;/ref&gt; However, a simple explanation of the claimed &quot;contradiction&quot; is that the Bible records the ratio of the actual object which Hiram created, not that of a mathematical [[sphere]]. The claim that it was round all about does not equate to a claim that it was a perfect sphere, as atheists have claimed.&lt;ref&gt;''Theology'', Volume 59, Issues 427-438, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain), London, 1956, p. 23&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Additionally, Pi to one significant digit is 3. Just because the measurement is given to only one significant digit, that does not mean it was precisely that amount.&lt;ref&gt;There are no instances in the Bible where fractions are used.&lt;/ref&gt; Of course, since Pi is an irrational number, it would be impossible to give a truly precise measurement. Since decimal notation was not in use in Biblical times, there was no way to express Pi to greater accuracy in the language of the day.<br /> <br /> ===Bat as a bird===<br /> A favorite [[evolutionist]] canard is that [[Leviticus 10-18 (Translated)#Chapter 11|Leviticus 11:13-19]] labels the [[bat]], a [[mammal]], as a [[bird]]. The [[KJV]] translation of &quot;fowl&quot; is simply incorrect, as the Hebrew term '' 'owph'' did not entail the &quot;clade&quot; of birds, but was a non-scientific category simply referring to ''any'' winged creature. A popular Jewish translation, used to explain the laws of keeping kosher, translates the term as &quot;winged flying things.&quot;<br /> <br /> ===Rabbits, coneys, and cud===<br /> In [[Leviticus 10-18 (Translated)#Chapter 11|Leviticus 11:5-6]], the Bible states, {{cquote|And the coney ''(or hyrax)'', because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.<br /> And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.}} Although the term 'chewing the cud' usually means rumination (as seen in cows, for example), skeptics have claimed this is wrong in regards to rabbits and coney behavior. However, these animals do in fact use a similar process called refection. The underlying hebrew words which are translated as 'chewing the cud' in the King James bible are actually much broader in scope, and mean simply 'to bring up' which is something both rumination and refection do.&lt;ref&gt;https://creation.com/do-rabbits-chew-their-cud&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;http://carm.org/bible-difficulties/genesis-deuteronomy/do-badger-and-rabbit-chew-cud&lt;/ref&gt; This issue in translation is similar to the bats and fowl problem mentioned above.<br /> <br /> ===Number of legs of insects===<br /> In [[Leviticus 10-18 (Translated)#Chapter 11|Leviticus 11:20-23]], the Bible states, {{cquote|All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.<br /> Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;<br /> <br /> Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the <br /> grasshopper after his kind.<br /> <br /> But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.}}While this may appear to indicate that insects have four legs (they have six), the passage is in fact referring to the manner in which the grasshopper moves. Grasshoppers have large back legs mainly used for jumping, and not for walking, which is when it uses its smaller four front legs. Thus, the ancient Hebrews were just describing things as they saw them, not according to scientific nomenclature.<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> *[[Essay:Rebuttal to Biblical scientific foreknowledge]]<br /> *[[Biblical political foreknowledge]]<br /> *[[Christianity and Science]]<br /> *[[The Bible]]<br /> *[[Evolution]]<br /> *[[Atheism]]<br /> *[[Prodigal Son]]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> *[http://www.creationwiki.org/Bible_scientific_foreknowledge Biblical scientific foreknowledge] by [[CreationWiki]]<br /> *[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/10/scientific-consensus-and-evolutionary.html Jesus vs. the scientific consensus and evolution. Jesus wins!]<br /> * &quot;Ten of the Top Scientific Facts in the Bible&quot;, Living Waters Films with Ray Comfort. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2sMJMXDiH4]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{reflist|2}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Bible]]<br /> [[Category:Science]]<br /> [[Category:Creationism]]<br /> [[Category:Christianity]]<br /> [[Category:Liberal Denial]]<br /> <br /> {{Creation vs. evolution}}</div>

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<p>Rhobas: Added sources</p> <hr /> <div>The '''starlight problem''', or '''starlight travel-time problem''', concerns the placement of stars at distances so far from Earth that starlight could not traverse that distance, at its current velocity, in less than the age of the universe. Yet the light has reached Earth anyway. This raises a question under both [[atheistic]] and [[biblical]] theories, including the [[Big Bang theory]]: how did this starlight reach Earth so quickly? This is a major point of interest in the question of an [[Old Earth Creationism|old universe]] vs. [[young earth creationism|young universe]].<br /> <br /> The starlight problem is not in any conflict with the description in the [[Genesis|Book of Genesis]], which says, &quot;let there be light, and there was light.&quot; It does not say, &quot;let there be stars to generate light that can illuminate darkness,&quot; or &quot;let there be light, and there was darkness that light later reached.&quot;<br /> <br /> There is no way to &quot;date&quot; the age of light observed in the sky. It is possible that the speed of light is not constant, but this is not part of current thought. It is also possible that the universe has expanded at a rate faster than the speed of light.<br /> <br /> [[image:Crab composite cx.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The Crab nebula, a supernova remnant]]<br /> <br /> == The size of the universe ==<br /> The maximum distance that can be determined using parallax calculations is about 3300 light years.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.csharp.com/starlight.html Parallax], site http://bccp.lbl.gov&lt;/ref&gt; Indirect measures, correlating the brightness of stars called ''cepheids'' with the period of their variability, estimate the [[Milky Way]] diameter of approximately 80-100,000 light years, although others estimate the size of the entire universe to be as narrow as only 12,000 light years across.&lt;ref&gt;Fangrad, Richard, 2007.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Calculations based on the observed brightness of [[supernova]]e of known energy output can determine the distance to more distant objects. The most distant object known is a galaxy cluster is estimated to be approximately thirteen billion light-years away from Earth, observed by the [[Hubble Telescope]] using gravitational lensing.&lt;ref&gt;Amos, 2004&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Horizon Problem for the Big Bang Theory==<br /> <br /> Although [[atheist]]s simplistically use the starlight problem to argue against a young Earth, the [[Big Bang theory]] has had difficulty in explaining its own light travel problem, known as the [[horizon problem]]. <br /> <br /> The Big Bang model proposes that the temperature of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) would have varied considerably from place to place early in the universe, yet because the speed at which this radiation can disperse from hotter to colder parts of the universe is limited by the speed of light, there has not been enough time for the radiation to even out, yet observations today show it to be extremely uniform&lt;ref name=&quot;Lisle&quot;&gt;Lisle, 2003&lt;/ref&gt; (with fluctuations at the part-per-million level&lt;ref&gt;[http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101Flucts.html Fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background]&lt;/ref&gt;).<br /> {{QuoteBox|The problem is this: even assuming the big bang timescale, there has not been enough time for light to travel between widely separated regions of space. So, how can the different regions of the current CMB have such precisely uniform temperatures if they have never communicated with each other? This is a light-travel–time problem.&lt;ref name=&quot;Lisle&quot; /&gt;}}<br /> <br /> A number of solutions to this problem have been proposed, including several versions of an &quot;inflationary model&quot;, in which space itself expanded faster than the speed of light early in the Big Bang, but ''after'' different areas exchanged radiation to even out the temperature. This model fits the data, as the CMB is only uniform at certain scales; over large enough areas anisotropies are visible in the field that match what one would expect from a rapidly expanding gas. However, there is no consensus on which explanation is correct, and each of the proposed solutions has its own problems.&lt;ref name=&quot;Lisle&quot; /&gt;<br /> {{Creation vs. evolution}}<br /> <br /> == Flaws in arguing for an old universe based on starlight ==<br /> <br /> The observation that many stars are millions of light years away is one of ''distance'', not ''time''. Since it takes light one year to travel a distance of one light year, it is possible to view an object as it was in the past, with the number of years in the past equal to the number of light years in distance. Some scientists argue that the oldest objects visible today are gamma ray bursts over 13 billion light-years away,&lt;ref&gt;http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/4350/gamma-ray-burst-closest-yet-big-bang&lt;/ref&gt; but if the universe is expanding then it should be possible to observe stars that are now actually much further away.<br /> <br /> === Light created in transit ===<br /> As suggested by the &quot;let there be light&quot; verse in Genesis, God likely created light, not merely light sources. Accordingly, some observed light did not necessary travel from a distant star. This concept is generally accepted as an extension of the [[Omphalos hypothesis]], which is the idea that God created the universe with apparent age. One objection to this idea&lt;ref&gt;[http://creation.com/arguments-we-think-creationists-should-not-use Arguments we think creationists should NOT use], from [[Creation Ministries International]]&lt;/ref&gt; is that the light created in transit would make it appear, from an atheistic scientific perspective, that events happened when they really did not. But this is no different from realizing, for example, that [[Adam]] was created as an adult rather than as an embryo. This particular solution is not [[falsifiable]].<br /> <br /> === Moon-Spencer theory ===<br /> Some creationists promoted an idea by Parry Moon and Domina Spencer that light somehow takes a shortcut through &quot;Riemannian Space,&quot; taking no more than 15 years to reach Earth from the outer limits of the universe.<br /> However, this idea never really caught on and appears to no longer have adherents.&lt;ref&gt;Humphreys, 1994, p. 46.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> === Decrease in the speed of light ===<br /> <br /> [[Image:Barry_setterfield.jpg‎|right|thumb|150px|[[Barry Setterfield]]]]<br /> Creationist [[Barry Setterfield]] has proposed that the speed of light was faster in the past.&lt;ref&gt;Norman and Setterfield, 1986&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> This idea initially found wide acceptance by creationists, but is now widely rejected, although some still hold to the idea.<br /> <br /> One criticism of it by anti-creationists was that if the speed of light had changed, we should see the difference in the Fine Structure Constant as measured by nearby stars versus distant stars, but this was not observed.<br /> Yet in 1999, John Webb, a professor at the University of New South Wales in [[Sydney]], Australia, and his colleagues reported astronomical observations suggesting that the value of the fine-structure constant may indeed have changed. They subsequently published this in ''[[Physical Review Letters]]''.&lt;ref&gt;Physical Review Letters 091301, 2001&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;Sarfati, 2001&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> However, although this showed that mainstream scientists are open to new and controversial ideas, the methods Webb used were shown to contain simple flaws, which discredited the results.&lt;ref&gt;M. T. Murphy, J. K. Webb, V. V. Flambaum, Phys. Rev. Lett., 99, 239001 (2007)&lt;/ref&gt; A later study of 23 absorption systems using the 'Very Large Telescope' found no measurable changes.&lt;ref&gt;H. Chand et al., Astron. Astrophys. 417, 853 (2004)&lt;/ref&gt; <br /> <br /> These problems with the theory have led most creationists to drop the idea, although some credit it with stimulating further research.&lt;ref&gt;Humphreys, 1994, p.128&lt;/ref&gt; Systematic uncertainties are difficult to quantify and so Webb's results still need to be checked by independent analyses, using quasar spectra from different telescopes. Their efforts are ongoing, apparently by several different teams of scientists.<br /> <br /> === Humphreys' model ===<br /> In 1994 Dr. [[Russell Humphreys]] proposed a new cosmology&lt;ref&gt;Batten et. al., 2007, p.90, Humphreys, 1994&lt;/ref&gt; that includes a bounded universe with a center and an edge, that God had created 6,000 years ago as a much smaller body than today, then stretched it out, making it much larger.<br /> In Humphreys' model, because the universe has a center and an edge (unlike the unbounded model of the Big Bang universe), the center of the universe is also the center of a [[gravity well]], meaning that gravity is stronger at the center of the universe than at the edge.<br /> <br /> As gravity can affect the rate at which time passes, he calculated that while the six days of [[creation week]] were passing on Earth, billions of years' of time was passing at the edge of the universe.<br /> According to this idea, the Biblical references to time are according to an observer (real or imaginary) on Earth, so ages are given in &quot;Earth time&quot;.<br /> <br /> However, this theory is not without problems. The evidence contradicts Humphrey's assumption that the earth is in a large gravity well. If the earth were in such a gravity well, light from distant galaxies should be blue-shifted. Instead, it is red-shifted. Also, gravitational time dilation, if it existed on such a large scale, should be easily observable. On the contrary, we observe (from the periods of Cepheid variable stars, from orbital rates of binary stars, from supernova extinction rates, from light frequencies, etc.) that such time dilation is minor. It is thought that here is ''some'' time dilation corresponding with Hubble's law (i.e., further objects have greater red shifts), but this is due to the well-understood expansion of the universe, and it is not nearly extreme enough to fit more than ten billion years into less than 10,000.&lt;ref&gt;Conner, S. R. and D. N. Page, 1998. Starlight and time is the Big Bang. CENTJ 12(2): 174-194. (See also letters in CENTJ 13(1), 1999, 49-52).&lt;/ref&gt; Furthermore, in the event the Earth was in the center of an immense gravity well, the core of the planet should be composed of a soup of subatomic particles, like a Neutron fluid.&lt;ref name=&quot;neutronsoup&quot;&gt;http://www.astro.umd.edu/~miller/nstar.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> This model receives cautious but wide support among creationists.<br /> <br /> Humphreys has since revised his model[http://www.icr.org/article/new-creationist-cosmology-no-time-at/] solving the above problems. While calculating a metric for his White Hole Cosmology, Humphreys discovered an as of yet unnoticed (obscured by motion in more complicated metrics) effect of General Relativity, which causes large timeless zones. In Humphrey's model, the Universe is surrounded by a large mass of water, and the Earth is near the center of it, as is evidenced by bigger and bigger spherical shells of galaxies farther away from the Earth. Humphrey's theorizes that the expansion and recession of the fabric of time and its contents created a zone of timelessness, or ''anachronicity'', around our solar system while billions of years passed outside. Because galaxies were formed in shells as the universe expanded, we would be seeing them as they appeared ~6000 years after creation (if we disregard his suspicion about a 500 million year anachronicity zone during the flood), despite them being actually billions of years old.<br /> <br /> === Time dilation field ===<br /> <br /> Dr. [[John Hartnett]], a creationist physicist, spurred by Humphreys' model, has proposed an alternative [[time dilation]] model, by theorizing the Earth was in a time-dilation field during the first few days of creation, from Earth's point of view, while billions of years passed for the rest of the universe.<br /> According to the Bible, God &quot;stretched out&quot;&lt;ref&gt;For example, {{Bible ref|Isaiah|40:22}}&lt;/ref&gt; the heavens (space), and this movement during [[creation week]] caused time to travel faster for those objects, in accordance with [[Albert Einstein|Einstein's]] [[Special Theory of Relativity]], adding to the time dilation caused by [[gravity]], per Humphreys, in accordance with Einstein's [[General Theory of Relativity]].&lt;ref&gt;Hartnett, 2003, Hartnett 2007&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> === Anisotropic synchrony convention ===<br /> The speed of light was calculated at roughly 300 million meters per second by way of having the light go to a mirror and come back, then dividing the time by two. It cannot be done without the mirror since difference in location may alter timing, and any corrections require the speed of light in the calculations. Thus, it has been suggested by Dr. Jason Lisle that the speed of light may not be 300 million meters per second in any direction, but rather instantaneous in one direction and 150 million meters per second in the other.&lt;ref&gt;http://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j25_3/j25_3_56-62.pdf, Article: The Anisotropic Synchrony Convention model as a solution to the creationist starlight-travel-time problem, by John Harnett for Creation Ministries International&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> == Bibliography ==<br /> * [http://www.nature.com/physics/highlights/6849-3.html#ref1 Inconstant constant?] ''Physical Review Letters 091301'' (9 August 2001)<br /> * Amos, Jonathan, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3490657.stm Hubble sees 'most distant object'], BBC News, 15 February 2004.<br /> * Batten, Don, Catchpoole, David, Sarfati, Jonathan, Wieland, Carl, [http://www.creationontheweb.com/images/pdfs/cabook/chapter5.pdf How can we see distant stars in a young universe?], chapter 5 of The Creation Answers Book, 2007.<br /> * Fangrad, Richard, [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/5425 The media spin on the creationists] (Creation Ministries International), 14 November 2007.<br /> * Hartnett, John C., A new cosmology: solution to the starlight travel time problem, ''Journal of Creation'' 17(2):98–102, August 2003. [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/1616/ HTML] [http://www.creationontheweb.com/images/pdfs/tj/j17_2/j17_2_98-102.pdf PDF]<br /> * Hartnett, John, Starlight, Time and the New Physics, Creation Book Publishers, 2007 ISBN 978-0-949906-68-7<br /> * Humphreys, D. Russell, Starlight and Time, Master Books, 1994, ISBN 0-89051-202-7.<br /> * Laird, Jeff, [http://swordofthemind.blogspot.com/2008/05/starlight-time-and-new-physics-review.html &quot;Starlight, Time, and the New Physics&quot; (Review)], Gladio Mentis, 26 May 2008.<br /> * Lisle, Jason, [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/167/ Light-travel time: a problem for the big bang], ''Creation'' 25(4):48–49, September 2003.<br /> * Norman, T.G. and Setterfield, B., ''The Atomic Constants, Light and Time'', SRI International Invited Research Report, Menlo Park, 1986.<br /> * Sarfati, Jonathan, [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/2430 Have fundamental constants changed, and what would it prove?] 22 August 2001 (Creation Ministries International).<br /> * Wieland, Carl, [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/2551/ Speed of light slowing down after all?], 9 August 2002 (Creation Ministries International).<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> {{reflist|2}}<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Science]]<br /> [[Category:Astronomy]]<br /> [[Category:Featured articles]]<br /> <br /> {{Creation vs. evolution}}<br /> {{Stars}}</div>

Rhobas https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Same-sex_marriage&diff=1386479 2017-11-11T18:40:38Z

<p>Rhobas: /* Collapse of civilizations */</p> <hr /> <div>'''Same-sex &quot;marriage&quot;''' (also called '''sodomite &quot;marriage&quot;''', '''homosexual &quot;marriage&quot;''' or '''&quot;gay &quot;marriage&quot;&quot;''') is a [[liberal]] attempt to advance the [[homosexual agenda]] and force the public to pay benefits for relationships that are not procreative and typically are not even monogamous. This is contrary to thousands of years of success based on a one-man/one-woman marriage system and in direct violation of the [[Bible]]&lt;ref&gt;It's a direct challenge to and nullification of Genesis 2:24, ''Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife''; of coarse, not every child has a mother and father anyway, so God must be unfair as well, the atheist theorizes.&lt;/ref&gt; and most other religious teachings.&lt;ref&gt;&quot;Same-sex marriage uses force of secular law to justify what the scripture of ''most modern religions'' has clearly labeled a sin: i.e., [[homosexual]] relations. At least one nation that has adopted same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; now requires the largest Christian church there to perform them also, despite its clear contradiction with the [[Bible]].&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> On June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling in the case of ''[[Obergefell v. Hodges]]'', illegally claimed that same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; was &quot;legal&quot; in all 50 states, despite not having the power or authority to make such a ruling.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/06/26/supreme-court-same-sex-couples-can-marry-in-all-50-states/]&lt;/ref&gt; As a result, local, state and federal laws (as well as state constitutional provisions) that distinguish between heterosexual marriage and same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; are claimed by same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; supporters to be &quot;unconstitutional&quot; under the Fourteenth Amendment, even though, in fact, no such &quot;right&quot; to same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; exists in the Fourteenth Amendment or anywhere else in the Constitution.<br /> <br /> Same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; is legal in twenty-one countries: the [[Netherlands]], [[Belgium]], [[Brazil]], [[Spain]], [[Canada]], [[South Africa]], [[Norway]], [[Sweden]], [[Portugal]], [[Iceland]], [[Argentina]], [[Denmark]], [[Uruguay]], [[Finland]], [[Luxembourg]], [[Ireland]], [[New Zealand]],&lt;ref&gt;http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&amp;objectid=10878200&lt;/ref&gt; [[France]], the [[United States]], and the [[United Kingdom]] (excluding Northern Ireland) Additionally, in [[Mexico]], same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; is legal in the states of [[Quintana Roo]], [[Chihuahua]], [[Guerrero]] and [[Coahuila]], as well as in [[Mexico City]], a federal district similar to Washington, D.C. Other countries, such as [[Germany]], [[Colombia]] and [[Chile]], recognize [[civil unions]] and [[domestic partnership]]s.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-03/05/content_311998.htm Countries worldwide address gay marriage]&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-08-05/tasmania-to-back-gay-marriage-intensifying-pressure-on-gillard]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> In [[Norway]] and [[Sweden]], the adoption of same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; has led to a loss in respect for the marriage institution itself even for traditional couples. In [[Massachusetts]], the legalization of same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; led to a decline in property values.&lt;ref&gt;Florida, Richard, and Charlotta Mellander. &quot;Journal of Economic Geography.&quot; There Goes the Metro: How and Why Bohemians, Artists and Gays Affect Regional Housing Values. Oxford University Press, 8 July 2009. Web. 30 June 2015. &lt;http://joeg.oxfordjournals.org/content/10/2/167&gt;.&lt;/ref&gt; Also in response to the introduction of same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; the State Department of Public Health changed marriage certificates to read &quot;Party A&quot; and &quot;Party B&quot; instead of husband and wife.<br /> <br /> In May 2012, voters in [[North Carolina]] banned both same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; and homosexual unions. North Carolina thereby became the 29th state to pass an [[amendment]] against same-sex &quot;marriage&quot;, by a huge 61-39% margin.&lt;ref&gt;http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/north-carolina-voters-ban-gay-marriage-civil-unions/story?id=16307081#.T6nLvOjlvKY&lt;/ref&gt; [[Barack Obama]]—heavily dependent on donations from homosexuals for his reelection—rushed to prop up the homosexual agenda by endorsing same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; after its stunning defeat in this [[swing state]].<br /> <br /> Some studies and polls about same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; conducted in a few countries generally claim support for same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; increases with higher levels of education, and that younger people are more likely to support the legalization of it than older generations due to propaganda campaigns targeting the younger generation.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web|title=Survey - Generations at Odds: The Millennial Generation and the Future of Gay and Lesbian Rights|url=http://publicreligion.org/research/2011/08/generations-at-odds/|publisher=[[Public Religion Research Institute]]|accessdate=25 September 2012}}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web|title=Pew Forum: Part 2: Gay Marriage|url=http://www.pewforum.org/PublicationPage.aspx?id=647|publisher=[[Pew Research Center]]|accessdate=25 September 2012}}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web|last=Poirier|first=Justine|title=Same-Sex Marriage: Let's Make a Change|url=http://www.montrealites.ca/justice/same-sex-marriage-lets-make-a-change.html|publisher=Montréalités Justice|accessdate=25 September 2012}}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite news|title=Data Points: Support for Legal Same-Sex Marriage|url=http://chronicle.com/article/Chart-Support-for-Legal/64683/|accessdate=25 September 2012|newspaper=The Chronicle of Higher Education|date=16 March 2010}}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web|title=Support for Same‐Sex Marriage in Latin America|url=http://www.vanderbilt.edu/lapop/insights/I0844.enrevised.pdf|publisher=[[Vanderbilt University]]|accessdate=25 September 2012}}&lt;/ref&gt; Polls show the most religious people regardless of age are more likely to oppose it.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite news|last=Waldman|first=Steven|title=A Common Missed Conception|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/life/faithbased/2003/11/a_common_missed_conception.html|accessdate=25 September 2012|newspaper=[[Slate (magazine)]]|date=19 November 2003}}&lt;/ref&gt; Prior to 2012, in each U.S. state to hold a voter referendum on the issue, the public rejected same-sex marriage laws by a small majority.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite news|title=Maine voters reject gay-marriage law|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8789627|accessdate=20 September 2012|newspaper=Associated Press via [[The Guardian]]|date=4 November 2009}}&lt;/ref&gt; However, In 2012, [[Maine]], [[Washington]] and [[Maryland]] voted in favor of same-sex marriage. In April 2013, [[Rhode Island]] became the tenth state to begin recognizing same-sex marriage.&lt;ref&gt;http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ri-track-10th-state-gay-marriage-19038311&lt;/ref&gt; Additionally, recent polls from liberal poll organizations claim to indicate that more than half of Americans &quot;support&quot; same-sex &quot;marriage&quot;, approximately 53%.&lt;ref name=Gallup2011&gt;{{cite web|last=Newport|first=Frank|title=For First Time, Majority of Americans Favor Legal Gay Marriage|url=http://www.gallup.com/poll/147662/First-Time-Majority-Americans-Favor-Legal-Gay-Marriage.aspx|publisher=[[The Gallup Organization|Gallup]]|accessdate=25 September 2012}}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref name=ABC2012&gt;{{cite web|url=http://www.langerresearch.com/uploads/1137a2GayMarriage.pdf |title=ABC News/Washington Post poll: Strong Support for Gay Marriage Now Exceeds Strong Opposition – 23 May 2012 |format=PDF |accessdate=16 September 2012}}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref name=CNN2012&gt;{{cite web|url=http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2012/images/06/06/rel5e.pdf |title=CNN Opinion Research – May 29-31, 2012 |format=PDF |accessdate=16 September 2012}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Campaigns advocating same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; were at the forefront of the [[Homosexual rights advocacy|homosexual rights movement]]'s attempt to elevate [[homosexuality]] to the same moral plane as [[heterosexuality]], overturning centuries of established tradition whereby homosexuals would keep their (according to many Christians) sinful acts hidden. Some opponents of same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; claim its purpose is to destroy the [[family]] as an institution, merely to secure a legal basis for [[sexual freedom]]. According to some opponents of same-sex &quot;marriage&quot;, the primary purpose of marriage is to bring joy to society as much as to safeguard the development of happy families, and it is not for individual glory. They believe that unrelated people living together make each other miserable and harm society. Among the many reasons homosexuals might advocate same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; are the ability to make emergent healthcare decisions for a loved one in the absence of a durable power of attorney or living will, the alteration of the laws of intestate succession to include homosexual partners, and the same tax treatment as heterosexual married couples.<br /> <br /> Current [[United States]] [[law]] defines &quot;marriage&quot; as &quot;one man, one woman&quot; for purposes of the federal [[Defense of Marriage Act]], which prohibits the federal government from recognizing same-sex relationships as marriages for any purpose, even if permitted under state law, and permits a state to disregard a same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; entered into in another state. However, due to the liberal [[Supreme Court]] overturning section 3 of DOMA as &quot;unconstitutional&quot;, the federal government currently recognizes homosexual &quot;marriages&quot; as equal to the traditional, correct marriage. An interesting consequence of the federal definition of &quot;marriage&quot; is that it specifically rules out [[polygamy]]. &lt;!-- There are also laws to protect children from being exploited (see [[statutory rape]], incest, [[child molesting]]). These laws enshrine the scriptural teachings of [[Christianity]] and have the support of [[Judaism]] and [[Islam]]. THESE SENTENCES ARE NON-SEQUITORS BUT SHOULD BE RETAINED FOR FUTURE EDITS BECAUSE THEY ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE CHRISTIAN IDEALS OF CONSERVAPEDIA --&gt;<br /> <br /> == Background ==<br /> Public opinion about same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; has shifted rapidly. In the United States, the period between 2012 and 2015 marked a rapid shift in the public debate on this issue. While religious teachers continue to discuss this important topic, the matter has not received much public discussion since 2015. Indeed, in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, it was not a major issue raised by the candidates. Of the responses in a May 2016 Gallop Poll, 61% favored same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; and 37% opposed it.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.gallup.com/poll/117328/Marriage.aspx Retrieved March 3, 2017&lt;/ref&gt; Responses in a 2016 Pew Forum poll found that only 27% of white evangelical Protestants and 39% of black Protestants favor same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; while it is supported by a majority of other religious groups and 80% of the nonaffiliated category.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web|url=http://www.pewforum.org/2016/05/12/changing-attitudes-on-gay-marriage/|date=May 12, 2016|title=Changing Attitudes on Gay Marriage|accessdate=March 7, 2017}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> In the United States, marriage is primarily governed by each individual state and marriage laws differ from state to state. Several states allow [[civil union]]s between two people of the same sex, and 37, [[Massachusetts]], [[Connecticut]], [[Vermont]], [[New Hampshire]], [[New York]], [[Maryland]], [[Maine]], [[Washington]], [[Rhode Island]], [[Iowa]], [[California]], [[Delaware]], [[Minnesota]], [[New Jersey]], [[Hawaii]], [[Illinois]], [[Oregon]], [[Idaho]], [[Nevada]], [[Utah]], [[Wyoming]], [[Montana]], [[Colorado]], [[Arizona]], [[Kansas]], [[Oklahoma]], [[Florida]], [[North Carolina]], [[South Carolina]], [[Virginia]], [[West Virginia]], [[Alaska]] and [[New Mexico]], plus the [[Washington, D.C.|District of Columbia]], currently issue same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; licenses, although most of these states were illegally forced to do so by activist federal courts acting outside of their mandate. Only in [[Maine]], [[Maryland]], and [[Washington]] has same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; been approved by popular vote. [[Minnesota]] was the first state, in 2012, in which voters voted against a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman. Same-sex &quot;marriages&quot; were legal in [[Alabama]] for one month in 2015 following a federal court decision, but were halted by the Alabama Supreme Court pending the June 2015 ruling of the United State Supreme Court on the matter. Same-sex &quot;marriages&quot; are recognized by the federal government since the overturning of section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, however, recognition varies between departments of the federal government, with some departments referring to the legality or non-legality of the &quot;marriage&quot; in which the &quot;couple&quot; resides, and others referring to the legality or non-legality of the &quot;marriage&quot; according to where the &quot;marriage&quot; took place. <br /> <br /> In 1996 Congress recognized the likelihood that [[liberal]] activists would soon seek changes to the laws in some states that pertain to homosexuals. It considered the possibility of test cases reaching the Supreme Court, and of the court conceivably ruling that a state&amp;mdash;even though it prohibits same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; itself&amp;mdash;must honor same-sex &quot;marriages&quot; performed in another state pursuant to the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the United States Constitution. The Defense of Marriage act, which was passed and signed by President Clinton, prevents this possibility, and also prevents the Federal Government from recognizing marriage as anything other than a union between a man and a woman. Its Constitutionality has not yet been tested under the Full Faith and Credit Clause, the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, or the Due Process Clause of the 5th Amendment.<br /> <br /> In 1999 a Vermont court ruled that under its constitution, it was not required to allow same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; but was required to make provisions to grant same-sex couples legal rights identical to those provided by marriage. Vermont responded by creating &quot;civil unions,&quot; which are legally distinct from marriages but convey the same rights. In 2009, the Vermont legislature overrode the governor's veto to pass a bill allowing same-sex &quot;marriage&quot;.<br /> <br /> In 2003 the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that under Massachusetts' constitution, same-sex couples could not be denied Massachusetts marriage licenses, making Massachusetts the first state to issue same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; licenses. As of April 2009, same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; was legal in four states, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, and Iowa.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/us/08vermont.html?_r=1&amp;hp ''Vermont Legislature Makes Same-Sex Marriage Legal'']&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081010/ap_on_re_us/connecticut_same_sex_marriage Conn. high court rules gay couples can marry]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Beginning in 2008, the states of Washington, and [[Oregon]] also provide for same-sex unions. Washington later legalized same-sex &quot;marriage&quot;. [[Hawaii]] provides certain benefits to same sex couples.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/connecticut/ny-bc-ct--civilunions-optio0531may31,0,341613.story?coll=ny-region-apconnecticut Newsday]&lt;/ref&gt; The State of New Hampshire issued civil unions until the summer of 2009, when it passed a bill approving same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; &lt;ref&gt;[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/us/04marriage.html &quot;New Hampshire Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage&quot;]&lt;/ref&gt; The state began issuing same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; licenses in January, 2010.<br /> <br /> In the fall of 2009, a same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; bill was introduced to the [[Washington, D.C.]] city council by At-Large Council Member David Catania (who is openly homosexual). After two days of testimony involving nearly 250 witnesses,&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/D_C_-Council-hears-from-both-sides-in-gay-marriage-debate-8442433-66188647.html ''D.C. Council hears from both sides in gay marriage debate'']&lt;/ref&gt; the council voted to approve the bill, 11-2. Once signed by the Mayor, the bill went to Congress for a mandatory [[DC Home Rule|30-day review period]]. While opponents of the bill vowed to fight it in Congress&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/15/AR2009121500945.html &quot;DC Council Approves Same-Sex Marriage&quot;]&lt;/ref&gt; it passed and became law in 2010.<br /> <br /> Five years after ''Hernandez v. Robles'', a New York Court of Appeals case in which the court declined to legalize same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; in New York via judicial fiat, the New York legislature voted for same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; on June 24, 2011.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-gay-marriage-passes-in-new-york&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Same-sex &quot;marriages&quot; were legal for a brief period in the state of [[California]], but the people of that state voted to repeal the law in the fall of 2008,&lt;ref&gt;[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122586056759900673.html &quot;California Votes for Prop 8&quot;]&lt;/ref&gt; through a ballot initiative known as [[Proposition 8]]. The legislature of Maine approved a same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; bill in May 2009 &lt;ref&gt;[http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/06/maine.same.sex.marriage/index.html &quot;Lawmakers approve same-sex marriage in N.H., Maine&quot;]&lt;/ref&gt; but opponents lobbied to have the bill put up to a popular vote, and it was defeated by the voters in the fall of 2009.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/11/04/maine.same.sex/index.html &quot;Maine rejects same-sex marriage law&quot;]&lt;/ref&gt; Same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; eventually became legal again in California in 2013 after the United States Supreme Court declined to rule on the case after deciding that those defending it did not have standing to do so, after the gubernatorial administration of California and the attorney general of California had refused to defend the law.<br /> <br /> In Israel, all marriages must be performed by a religious organization - there is no &quot;civil&quot; marriage. Specific religions may determine the definition of marriages that they perform, and none currently recognize same-sex couples. However, a Supreme Court decision determined that Israel must recognize all marriages performed outside the country, same-sex or opposite-sex. In September 2011, an Orthodox Jewish rabbi in Israel attempted to marry homosexual males to homosexual females so they could start a conventional family. However, the plan drew criticism both from liberals, who said the plan was meant to discourage homosexuality, and from conservatives, who argued the plan promoted loveless relationships.&lt;ref&gt;&quot;Israeli rabbi pairs gays to lesbians&quot; http://news.yahoo.com/israeli-rabbi-pairs-gays-lesbians-061904417.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> In the Netherlands overseas territories of [[Aruba]], [[Curacao]], and [[Sint Maarten]], same-sex &quot;marriages&quot; are not performed, but all marriages performed in the mainland portion of the country (including same-sex) are recognized. In [[Brazil]], same-sex civil unions can be converted to marriages by state judges on a case-by-case basis. Additionally, the state of [[Rhode Island]] recognizes, but does not perform, same-sex &quot;marriages.&quot; Furthermore, [[California]] recognizes all same-sex &quot;marriages&quot; performed in or out of state before the passage of [[Proposition 8]]. <br /> <br /> Some opponents of same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; believe that the religious ceremony of marriage is governed by each denomination and is unaffected by laws passed by civil authority. Same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; is forbidden in Orthodox Judaism, Catholicism, and most mainstream Protestant denominations. In Conservative Judaism (no relation to the political philosophy known as &quot;conservatism&quot;), synagogues and rabbis are allowed, but not required, to recognize and perform same-sex &quot;marriages&quot;. Reform Judaism also allows rabbis to use &quot;good faith&quot; on this issue, but as the least-religious branch of Judaism, they take this stance on most issues. Additionally, homosexuality (and by extension same-sex &quot;marriage&quot;) is forbidden in [[Islam]]. <br /> <br /> Many [[libertarian]]s argue [[marriage privatization|eliminating any legal definition of &quot;marriage&quot;]] and simply granting legal benefits to all couples under a neutral name would solve this problem and satisfy both sides. This is called &quot;marriage privatization&quot;. Many religious conservatives still feel this is unacceptable - see that article for more details.<br /> <br /> Public attitudes toward same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; parallels attitudes toward homosexuality.<br /> <br /> ==Morality==<br /> Social [[conservatives]] regard same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; as immoral, and argue that use of the word &quot;[[marriage]]&quot; is a misnomer, because the [[Form of Solemnization of Matrimony|marriage services]] of Christian denominations define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. Some social liberals try to use this debate as an excuse to take the socially-conservative view of marriage out of the law. In some Christian marriage ceremonies, the wedding will begin with a statement along the lines of: &quot;Dearly beloved: We have come together in the presence of God to witness and bless the joining together of this man and this woman in Holy Matrimony,&quot;&lt;ref&gt;''The Book of Common Prayer,'' Episcopal Church, The Church Hymnal Corporation and the Seabury Press, 1979: &quot;The Celebration and Blessing of a Marriage,&quot; p. 423&lt;/ref&gt; a definition which was also written into United States federal law in 1996.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode01/usc_sec_01_00000007----000-.html US Code - Title 1, section 7]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Dr. [[James Dobson]]'s [[Focus on the Family]] organization prefers the phrase ''same-sex &quot;marriage&quot;'' (which is also the phrasing preferred by Conservapedia), with quotation marks around the word &quot;marriage,&quot; to call attention to his belief that marriage&amp;mdash;civil as well as religious&amp;mdash;is intrinsically a union between a man and a woman, and that that same-sex unions are counterfeits.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.family.org/socialissues/A000000464.cfm Same-Sex 'Marriage' and Civil Unions], ''Focus on the Family's'' website&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Use of the term &quot;same-sex 'marriage'&quot; was unheard of a few decades ago; however, these unions are now among a number of issues advocated by [[liberal]] activists. They argue that heterosexual people are allowed to marry and so the homosexual population should be given that right too.<br /> <br /> Some advocates of same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; view marriage as a purely civil matter, which in the history of the United States is a position taken particularly strongly by Puritan colonists, who viewed the interjection of religion into the franchise of marriage as scandalous to Christ's Church.<br /> <br /> == Motivation for advocating it==<br /> [[Image:Cycle.gif|thumbnail|200px|right|A recent study by the [[Canada|Canadian]] government states that &quot;violence was twice as common among homosexual couples compared with [[heterosexual]] couples&quot;.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.statcan.ca/english/research/85-570-XIE/2006001/findings/risk.htm Aforementioned Canadian Study.&lt;/ref&gt;]]<br /> [[James Dobson]] cites Stanley Kurtz to argue that the motivation of those advocating same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; is not to secure the benefits of marriage for homosexual couples, but to destroy the institution of marriage itself:<br /> :...most gays and lesbians do not want to marry each other. That would entangle them in all sorts of legal constraints. Who needs a lifetime commitment to one person? The intention here is to destroy marriage altogether. With marriage as we know it gone, everyone would enjoy all the legal benefits of marriage (custody rights, tax-free inheritance, joint ownership of property, health care and spousal citizenship, etc.,) without limiting the number of partners or their gender. Nor would &quot;couples&quot; be bound to each other in the eyes of the law. This is clearly where the movement is headed.&lt;ref&gt;Stanley Kurtz, &quot;Beyond Marriage,&quot; The Weekly Standard, August 4/August 11, 2003. - cited in [http://www.focusonthefamily.com/docstudy/newsletters/A000000771.cfm Marriage on the Ropes], Dr. James Dobson, retrieved from ''Focus on the Family'', 15 May 2007.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Homosexuals are beginning to admit they want what Mollenkott proposes, namely the destruction of the concept of [[monogamy]] and [[traditional marriage]] altogether. What they really are after is a society that recognizes every sexual arrangement as normal - even [[group sex]]ual liaisons and [[polygamy]].&lt;ref name=pjones&gt;<br /> Peter Jones, ''The God of Sex: How Spirituality Defines Your Sexuality'', page 22&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> In reality nobody is trying to stop homosexuals from [[Sexual intercourse|doing what they want to do]], or tell them they can't live together, or have a domestic partnership. The only reason many people oppose same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; is to prevent the definition of &quot;marriage&quot;, more of a religious institution than a legal one, from changing, and to avoid being forced to have to recognize a union between two persons of the same gender as if it were equivalent to a marriage between a man and a woman.<br /> <br /> ==Child-rearing and adoption==<br /> According to a March, 2007 report, there are 65,000 adopted children in the U.S. being raised by same-sex couples. The same report says 14,100 foster children were being raised by one or more homosexual or lesbian foster parents.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/25/gay.adoption/index.html Gay adoption: A new take on the American family]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> In Great Britain, the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has expressed its full support to the stand taken by the Catholic Church opposing regulations on homosexual adoption. The Catholic Church sought to be exempt from the new law. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams of the Church of England, supports the Catholic Church's efforts declaring that the rights of conscience cannot be subject to laws. Catholic leaders have already said that its teachings prevent its agencies placing children with homosexuals and they will have to close if bound by the rules. The MCB, the UK's leading Muslim umbrella group embracing over 400 affiliated organizations, said that while it supported anti-discrimination laws, homosexuality is forbidden in Islam.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www2.irna.com/en/news/view/menu-234/0701266670200554.htm UK Muslim group backs Christian opposition to gay adoption rules London], Islamic republic News Agency, Jan 26, 2007.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Several states, including [[New York]], allow any two adults living together to adopt a child regardless of marital status or sex. This law provided a method for same-sex couples to adopt children even before New York legalized same-sex &quot;marriage&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Homosexual promiscuity==<br /> ''See also:'' [[Homosexuality and promiscuity]]<br /> <br /> Studies indicate that homosexual couples have higher rates of promiscuity than heterosexual couples.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=IS04C02 Comparing the Lifestyles of Homosexual Couples to Married Couples]&lt;/ref&gt; Allowing gays to &quot;marry&quot; would make gays seek more partners.&lt;ref&gt;2004 General Social Survey, Statistics Canada, Canada's National Statistical Agency, July 7, 2005&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Homosexual violence and abuse==<br /> In addition, studies report that [[Homosexual Couples and Domestic Violence|homosexual couples have significantly higher incidences of violent behavior]]. These studies are not surprising given what pathologists have stated regarding the commonness and brutality of homosexual murders{{fact}} (see [[Homosexuality and Murders]]). The prevalence of violence and emotional abuse in same-sex domestic partnerships. One survey found 53% of homosexuals felt if the high incidence of violence against partners in homosexual relationships was known and understood by the heterosexual population, it would hinder the drive for homosexual rights.<br /> <br /> Domestic abuse is divided into two categories, emotional abuse and physical abuse. While homosexual domestic abuse has not been studied to the extent that heterosexual relationships have, [[Homosexual Couples and Domestic Violence|preliminary studies indicate a much higher level of abuse]].<br /> <br /> ==Family breakdown ==<br /> Bishop Harry Jackson has shown how same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; is causally linked to the breakdown of the family in recent decades, particularly the black family.&lt;ref&gt;[http://townhall.com/columnists/harryrjacksonjr/2008/10/13/the_naacp_abandons_the_black_family The NAACP Abandons the Black Family]&lt;/ref&gt; As noted in the 1965 [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan|Moynihan]] Report,&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/webid-meynihan.htm The Negro Family: The Case for National Action]&lt;/ref&gt; the breakdown of the African-American family is a national concern. He has attributed support for same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; in the District of Columbia and Maryland to a demonic force called the [[Queen of Heaven]].&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=GMnaW-0rQ-U Harry Jackson, Cindy Jacobs Rally Against Same-Sex Marriage]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Subsequent to same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; becoming law in [[Massachusetts]], property values declined and many left the State, in contrast to those states that do not recognize it.{{citation needed}}<br /> <br /> One study published in liberal magazine ''Time'', however, claims that the children of same-sex couples or homosexual parents have equal or higher scores in psychological evaluations as well as cognitive. Researchers Nanette Gartrell, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco, and Henry Bos, a behavioral scientist at the University of Amsterdam, led a study focused on planned lesbian families in which a lesbian couple had chosen to adopt children or undergo artificial insemination to start a family. The study claims that these children were shown to have higher self esteems and confidence which in turn enabled them to have higher test results academically than their straight-parent counterparts.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1994480,00.html],Study: Children of Lesbians May Do Better Than Their Peers&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Same sex union stability has been studied in Norway and Sweden using registered partnerships. <br /> Although in these countries patterns in divorce risks are rather similar in same-sex and opposite-sex marriages, marriages and that unions of lesbians are considerably less stable, or more dynamic, than unions of gay men. Divorce risk for female partnerships is practically double that for male partnerships. The authors argued a higher propensity for divorce in same-sex couples is perhaps not surprising given this group’s lower exposure to normative pressure to maintain lifelong unions. <br /> &lt;ref&gt;[http://link.springer.com/article/10.1353/dem.2006.0001],Andersson, Gunnar, et al. &quot;The demographics of same-sex marriages in Norway and Sweden.&quot; Demography 43.1 (2006): 79-98.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Social dysfunction==<br /> Legalization of same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; is correlated with social dysfunctions&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.allaboutlove.org/same-sex-marriage-countries.htm Same Sex Marriage Countries]&lt;/ref&gt; that states and countries banning it have avoided. States and countries legalizing same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; have markedly different levels of quality of life from those that have banned it. For example, 8 of the 10 states with the highest median income have legalized same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; (Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Hawaii, Delaware, and California).<br /> <br /> ==Collapse of civilizations==<br /> Some ancient civilizations that recognized same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; collapsed, while some that refused to recognize it escaped that fate.&lt;ref&gt;[http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Slippery-Slope-Of-Same-Sex-Marriage&amp;id=824855 The Slippery Slope of Same Sex Marriage]&lt;/ref&gt; Correlation always equals causation, thus this is a really good point. For example, Obama signed same-sex marriage into law and america became bad.<br /> <br /> ==Legal disadvantages for heterosexuals==<br /> Legalization of same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; would confer [[special rights]] on homosexuals, thereby placing heterosexuals at a legal disadvantage.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2009/December/New-Jersey-Lawmakers-Drop-Same-Sex-Marriage-Bill/ New Jersey Lawmakers Drop Same-Sex Marriage Bill], from [[CBN]]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> The fact that the strongest predictor of support for same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; is level of education&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.gainesville.com/article/20090902/ARTICLES/909021016?p=1&amp;tc=pg UF study: Education best predicted support for gay marriage ban]&lt;/ref&gt; shows that [[brainwashing]] into [[professor values]] has a corrosive effect on morality.<br /> <br /> According to Bill Borst, a regular substitute radio host for conservative [[Phyllis Schlafly]] on WSIV, rights are a [[zero-sum game]].&lt;ref&gt;[http://bbprof.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/the-new-three-rs/ The New Three R's], by Bill Borst&lt;/ref&gt; If this is true, granting same-sex couples the right to &quot;marry&quot; will necessarily come at the expense of the rights of others.<br /> <br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> *[[Obergefell v. Hodges]]<br /> *[[Anti-Defamation League]]<br /> *[[Gay bowel syndrome]]<br /> *[[Homosexuality and the Bible]]<br /> *[[Homosexuality and biblical interpretation]]<br /> *[[Same-sex marriage bans]]<br /> *[[Christian Nations Rejecting Homosexual Marriage]]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{reflist|2}}<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> *[http://www.nogaymarriage.com/tenarguments.asp Gay Marriage: Why Would It Affect Me? Ten Arguments Against Same Sex Marriage], NoGayMarriage.com<br /> *[http://www.robgagnon.net/homoPresbyTodayArticle.htm Why “Gay Marriage” Is Wrong, by Robert A. J. Gagnon, Ph.D.] <br /> [[Category:Homosexual Agenda]]<br /> [[Category:Hollywood Values]]</div>

Rhobas https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Moving_the_goalposts&diff=1374762 2017-09-18T04:50:13Z

<p>Rhobas: </p> <hr /> <div>&quot;'''Moving the goalposts'''&quot; is a [[British]] expression first popularized in the late 20th century and is obscure in [[America]] outside of use by elitist liberals such as [[evolutionists]] in debates. It is allegedly the practice of, in an argument, one person challenging the other to meet a certain set of conditions in order to prove something, and then proceeding to change those conditions after they have been met by the other person. Essentially, moving the goalposts is when an evolutionist tells you ''&quot;Show me proof of God!&quot;'', and, after being shown the Bible, telling you that ''&quot;Um...the Bible doesn't count! Show me something else!&quot;''<br /> <br /> The phrase is often used by liberals in an effort to seem &quot;educated&quot; and &quot;intelligent&quot; by using the obscure, hardly-used phrase. This is unsurprising, as rather than actually use scientific data and peer-reviewed facts to back up their globalist, Anti-American claims, evolutionists will resort to attempting to confuse the other person when backed into a corner. Luckily, the only goalposts that real Americans need is the Holy [[Bible]].<br /> <br /> The phrase's obscurity can be demonstrated with a quick Google search. &quot;Moving the goalposts&quot; has only 450,000 references on a [[Google]] search as of August 22, 2017,&lt;ref&gt;https://www.google.com/search?q=moving+the+goalposts&lt;/ref&gt; while a Google search for &quot;creationism&quot;, a mainstream scientific subject, has 4,510,000 results. This proves without a doubt that evolution is false.<br /> <br /> == Why &quot;Moving the Goalposts&quot; Isn't Bad ==<br /> <br /> As evolutionists are incapable of explaining the wonders of God's creation, they often resort to this phrase and other types of &quot;logic&quot; when pressed by [[creation science|creation scientists]] in debates, as in &quot;now you're moving the goalposts&quot; in response to a question. <br /> <br /> Thus, asserting that someone is moving the goalposts is a common [[logical fallacy]], and illegal immigration is a fundamental social evil. Sorry, liberals!<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> <br /> &lt;references/&gt;<br /> <br /> == See also ==<br /> <br /> * [[Quote mining]]<br /> <br /> {{Evolution}}<br /> [[Category:Evolution]]<br /> [[Category:Logical Fallacies]]</div>

Rhobas https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Moving_the_goalposts&diff=1369027 2017-08-22T23:49:57Z

<p>Rhobas: </p> <hr /> <div>&quot;'''Moving the goalposts'''&quot; is a [[British]] expression first popularized in the late 20th century and is obscure in [[America]] outside of use by elitist liberals such as [[evolutionists]] in debates. It is allegedly the practice of, in an argument, one person challenging the other to meet a certain set of conditions in order to prove something, and then proceeding to change those conditions after they have been met by the other person. Essentially, moving the goalposts is when an evolutionist tells you ''&quot;Show me proof of God!&quot;'', and, after being shown the Bible, telling you that ''&quot;Um...the Bible doesn't count! Show me something else!&quot;''<br /> <br /> The phrase is often used by liberals in an effort to seem &quot;educated&quot; and &quot;intelligent&quot; by using the obscure, hardly-used phrase. This is unsurprising, as rather than actually use scientific data and peer-reviewed facts to back up their globalist, Anti-American claims, evolutionists will resort to attempting to confuse the other person when backed into a corner. Luckily, the only goalposts that real Americans need is the Holy [[Bible]].<br /> <br /> The phrase's obscurity can be demonstrated with a quick Google search. &quot;Moving the goalposts&quot; has only 450,000 references on a [[Google]] search as of August 22, 2017,&lt;ref&gt;https://www.google.com/search?q=moving+the+goalposts&lt;/ref&gt;, while a Google search for &quot;creationism&quot;, a mainstream scientific subject, has 4,510,000 results. This proves without a doubt that evolution is false.<br /> <br /> == Why &quot;Moving the Goalposts&quot; Isn't Bad ==<br /> <br /> As evolutionists are incapable of explaining the wonders of God's creation, they often resort to this phrase and other types of &quot;logic&quot; when pressed by [[creation science|creation scientists]] in debates, as in &quot;now you're moving the goalposts&quot; in response to a question. <br /> <br /> Thus, asserting that someone is moving the goalposts is a common [[logical fallacy]].<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> <br /> &lt;references/&gt;<br /> <br /> == See also ==<br /> <br /> * [[Quote mining]]<br /> <br /> {{Evolution}}<br /> [[Category:Evolution]]<br /> [[Category:Logical Fallacies]]</div>

Rhobas https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Moving_the_goalposts&diff=1369025 2017-08-22T23:47:00Z

<p>Rhobas: </p> <hr /> <div>&quot;'''Moving the goalposts'''&quot; is a [[British]] expression first popularized in the late 20th century and is obscure in [[America]] outside of use by elitist liberals such as [[evolutionists]] in debates. It is allegedly the practice of, in an argument, one person challenging the other to meet a certain set of conditions in order to prove something, and then proceeding to change those conditions after they have been met by the other person. Essentially, moving the goalposts is when an evolutionist tells you ''&quot;Show me proof of God!&quot;'', and, after being shown the Bible, telling you that ''&quot;Um...the Bible doesn't count! Show me something else!&quot;''<br /> <br /> The phrase is often used by liberals in an effort to seem &quot;educated&quot; and &quot;intelligent&quot; by using the obscure, hardly-used phrase. This is unsurprising, as rather than actually use scientific data and peer-reviewed facts to back up their globalist, Anti-American claims, evolutionists will resort to attempting to confuse the other person when backed into a corner. Luckily, the only goalposts that real Americans need is the Holy [[Bible]].<br /> <br /> The phrase's obscurity can be demonstrated with a quick Google search. &quot;Moving the goalposts&quot; has only 450,000 references on a [[Google]] search as of August 22, 2017,&lt;ref&gt;https://www.google.com/search?q=moving+the+goalposts&lt;/ref&gt;, while a Google search for &quot;creationism&quot;, a mainstream scientific subject, has 4,510,000 results. This proves without a doubt that evolution is false.<br /> &quot;<br /> It is an expression used as a substitute for giving &quot;a&quot; direct &quot;answer&quot; to a question, on &quot;the&quot; pretense that the questioner &quot;is&quot; &quot;changing&quot; &quot;his&quot; &quot;argument&quot;.<br /> <br /> == Why &quot;Moving the Goalposts&quot; Isn't Bad ==<br /> <br /> As evolutionists are incapable of explaining the wonders of Creation, they often resort to this phrase and other types of &quot;logic&quot; when pressed by [[creation science|creation scientists]] in debates, as in &quot;now you're moving the goalposts&quot; in response to a question. <br /> <br /> Thus, asserting that someone is moving the goalposts is a common [[logical fallacy]].<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> <br /> &lt;references/&gt;<br /> <br /> == See also ==<br /> <br /> * [[Quote mining]]<br /> <br /> {{Evolution}}<br /> [[Category:Evolution]]<br /> [[Category:Logical Fallacies]]</div>

Rhobas https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Moving_the_goalposts&diff=1369023 2017-08-22T23:44:56Z

<p>Rhobas: </p> <hr /> <div>&quot;'''Moving the goalposts'''&quot; is a [[British]] expression first popularized in the late 20th century and is obscure in [[America]] outside of use by elitist liberals such as [[evolutionists]] in debates. It is allegedly the practice of, in an argument, one person challenging the the to meet a certain set of conditions in order to prove something, and then proceeding to change those conditions after they have been met by the other person. Essentially, moving the goalposts is when an evolutionist tells you ''&quot;Show me proof of God!&quot;'', and, after being shown the Bible, telling you that ''&quot;Um...the Bible doesn't count! Show me something else!&quot;''<br /> <br /> The phrase is often used by liberals in an effort to seem &quot;educated&quot; and &quot;intelligent&quot; by using the obscure, hardly-used phrase. This is unsurprising, as rather than actually use scientific data and peer-reviewed facts to back up their globalist, anti-american claims, evolutionists will resort to attempting to confuse the other person when backed into a corner. Luckily, the only goalposts that real Americans need is the Holy [[Bible]].<br /> <br /> The phrase's obscurity can be demonstrated with a quick Google search. &quot;Moving the goalposts&quot; has only 450,000 references on a [[Google]] search as of August 22, 2017,&lt;ref&gt;https://www.google.com/search?q=moving+the+goalposts&lt;/ref&gt;, while a Google search for &quot;creationism&quot;, a mainstream scientific subject, has 4,510,000 results. This proves without a doubt that evolution is false.<br /> <br /> It is an expression used as a substitute for giving &quot;a&quot; direct &quot;answer&quot; to a question, on &quot;the&quot; pretense that the questioner is changing his argument.<br /> <br /> == Why &quot;Moving the Goalposts&quot; Isn't Bad ==<br /> <br /> As evolutionists are incapable of explaining the wonders of Creation, they often resort to this phrase and other types of &quot;logic&quot; when pressed by [[creation science|creation scientists]] in debates, as in &quot;now you're moving the goalposts&quot; in response to a question. <br /> <br /> Thus, asserting that someone is moving the goalposts is a common [[logical fallacy]].<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> <br /> &lt;references/&gt;<br /> <br /> == See also ==<br /> <br /> * [[Quote mining]]<br /> <br /> {{Evolution}}<br /> [[Category:Evolution]]<br /> [[Category:Logical Fallacies]]</div>

Rhobas https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Homosexual_Agenda&diff=1369021 2017-08-22T23:29:11Z

<p>Rhobas: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Homosexuality}}<br /> The '''Homosexual Agenda''' is a self-centered set of beliefs and objectives designed to promote and even mandate approval of homosexuality and [[Homosexuality|homosexual]] ideology, along with the strategies used to implement such. The goals and means of this movement include indoctrinating students in [[public school]], restricting the free speech of opposition, obtaining [[special rights|special treatment]] for homosexuals, distorting [[Bible|Biblical]] teaching and science, and interfering with freedom of association. Advocates of the homosexual agenda seek special rights for [[homosexuals]] and self-described 'LGBTI people' that other people don't have, such as immunity from criticism (see [[hate speech]], [[hate crime]]s). Such special rights will necessarily come [[zero-sum game|at the expense]] of the rights of broader society. '''''The homosexual agenda is the biggest threat to the right of [[free speech]] today.'''''<br /> <br /> One of the top priorities of the Homosexual Agenda is to prohibit and outlaw [[conversion therapy]], particularly for teenagers. California and New Jersey are the only states to have enacted such laws (Governor Chris Christie signed it into law as he was preparing his reelection campaign), and [[leftists]] are pushing similar bans in many other states now.<br /> <br /> In a speech on December 10, 2013, to a pro-family rally in Jamaica, Brian Camenker of Mass''Resistance'' outlined the step-by-step approach of the homosexual agenda:&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen2/13d/jamaica-speech-121013/index.html &quot;MassResistance helps Jamaica confront ‘gay’ agenda&quot;]. ''massresistance.org''. Retrieved on 2 May 2016.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> *legalize homosexuality<br /> *promote gay pride parades<br /> *promoting child sex trafficking<br /> *demand non-discrimination laws<br /> *insist on homosexuals' adoption of children<br /> *push the homosexual agenda in schools&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |title=Criticism of Transgender Agenda Will Get Virginia Students Expelled |author=Austin Ruse |date=10 Jun 2016 |url=http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/06/10/transgender-northern-virginia-students-can-now-expelled-criticizing-transgenderism/ |publisher=BREITBART |quote=The transgender change in school regulations was imposed last night during a dramatic board meeting where only 12 pro-trans witnesses were invited to testify. ... No opposing voices were allowed to be heard, parents were relegated to shouting opposition from the seats and some were ejected from the meeting.... Last year, they were promised a lengthy investigation and a full hearing. Instead, it was foisted upon them with less than 24 hours-notice. ... an Oregon law recently allowed a jury to award $60,000 t0 a transgender teacher because other teachers declined to use the teacher’s preferred pronoun, which is “they” rather than “him” or “her.” Deputies for President Barack Obama have backed similar rules for all K-12 schools, and New York City has established similar forced-speech rules.|accessdate=12 Jun 2016}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *legalize various alternate forms of marriage (i.e. man and man, woman and woman, man and three women, woman and box turtle, man and sex toy)<br /> *demand public funding to deal with increased homosexual-related social problems<br /> *promote the transgender agenda<br /> *demanded to be treated &quot;equally&quot;<br /> *impose a large-scale loss of free speech<br /> *ban counseling for kids confused by homosexual issues<br /> *ban scientifically/religiously proven methods of homo conversion, such as shock therapy<br /> *attack churches<br /> *promote abortion<br /> <br /> Russia is a leader in rejecting the homosexual agenda.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |title=Is the Homosexual Agenda 'Unstoppable'? - Comparing America with Russia |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msLH6f6vyC4 |accessdate=29 May 2016}}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |title=RUSSIA VS. THE LGBT GLOBALISTS: A Climate of Hate and Fear |url=http://www.scottlively.net/2015/02/25/russia-vs-the-lgbt-globalists-a-climate-of-hate-and-fear-part-two/ |quote=This dangerous LGBT strategy has now gone global and the target is the Russian Federation. ... Core American values to Obama are publicly celebrated sodomy and doctor-assisted transsexual self-mutilation. ... The Russian anti-propaganda law, passed June 11, 2013, was the first truly effective international counter-measure since the “gay” agenda went global around the turn of the millennium. Typically, the “gays” characterized the law as hateful and an incitement to violence, but in doing so they revealed that propagandizing children is part of their agenda, since the law simply classifies “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships” as material that cannot be distributed among minors and commands the government to protect children from it. Just after the passage of this law Barack Obama did an about-face on the “reset” policy (in which Russia had been recognized as an equal partner in the world community) and instead began reviving cold-war rhetoric.|accessdate=29 May 2016}}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |title=Pro-Russian Press Conference |date=22 February 2014 |url=http://www.scottlively.net/2014/02/22/pro-russian-press-conference/ |quote=We got lots of coverage from the event, and I believe we accomplished our objective which was to bring awareness to the world that the pro-family movement in the U.S., Canada, UK, and other “pro-gay” countries is happy to see the Russian Federation standing up for family values. We think this will encourage other nations to follow their example. |accessdate=29 May 2016}}&lt;/ref&gt; For example, Russia banned adoption by Americans as the Obama Administration aggressively pushed the homosexual agenda, and in June 2013 a house in the [[Russian]] parliament passed legislation to ban foreign adoption by gay couples or single parents who live in any [[same-sex marriage|gay marriage]] nation.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-russia-ban-adoption-gay-couples-20130618,0,4633280.story &quot;Russian lawmakers pass ban on adoption tied to gay foreign couples&quot;]. ''latimes''. Retrieved on 2 May 2016.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> President Barack Hussein [[Obama]] and nearly all [[Democrat]] politicians now advocate the homosexual agenda, reflecting the growing financial power of the homosexual network. Obama's self-centered obsession with his own reelection, and fundraising for his campaign, has caused him to create a national political issue out of this, rather than deal with other issues like the economy.<br /> <br /> '''''Among all the [[liberal]] belief systems, the homosexual ideology is the most self-centered or selfish''''' - unlike the vast charity performed by churches, homosexual charity can be considered an [[oxymoron]].<br /> <br /> Supreme Court Justice [[Antonin Scalia]] referred to the &quot;so-called homosexual agenda&quot; in ''[[Lawrence v. Texas]]'', 539 U.S. 558 (2003) (dissenting opinion).<br /> <br /> Despite the fact that only 4.1% of the U.S. population identified as [[LGBT]], just over half a percentage point higher than four years prior,&lt;ref&gt;Gates, Gary J. (January 11, 2017). [http://www.gallup.com/poll/201731/lgbt-identification-rises.aspx?utm_source=Daily+Briefing&amp;utm_campaign=e78663af9e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_05&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_ed3d9d5277-e78663af9e-273636929&amp;mc_cid=e78663af9e&amp;mc_eid=6492c3988e&amp;utm_source=Cultural+Commentary&amp;utm_campaign=36e55c71c7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_51f776a552-36e55c71c7-273780261&amp;mc_cid=36e55c71c7&amp;mc_eid=067f1df51b In US, More Adults Identifying as LGBT]. ''Gallup''. Retrieved January 18, 2017.&lt;/ref&gt; Americans '''''greatly overestimate the proportion of homosexuals''''' in the nation to be an average of 23%.&lt;ref name=&quot;GreatlyOver&quot;&gt;Newport, Frank (May 21, 2015). [http://www.gallup.com/poll/183383/americans-greatly-overestimate-percent-gay-lesbian.aspx?utm_source=Cultural+Commentary&amp;utm_campaign=36e55c71c7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_51f776a552-36e55c71c7-273780261&amp;mc_cid=36e55c71c7&amp;mc_eid=067f1df51b Americans Greatly Overestimate Percent Gay, Lesbian in U.S.] ''Gallup''. Retrieved January 18, 2017.&lt;/ref&gt; Interestingly, Republicans and conservatives gave estimates closest to the actual number.&lt;ref name=&quot;GreatlyOver&quot;/&gt;<br /> <br /> == The Homosexual Agenda ==<br /> <br /> Joseph P. Gudel, in ''That Which is Unnatural''&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/web/crj0108a.html &quot;That Which is Unnatural&quot; Homosexuality in Society, the Church, and Scripture] Part Two in a Two-Part Series on Homosexuality, from the Christian Research Journal, Winter 1993, page 8&lt;/ref&gt; contended that the homosexual movement, <br /> <br /> :has been militantly demanding not just the homosexuals' right to do whatever they wish to do behind closed doors, but, more importantly, that society fully accept their lifestyle as both healthy and normal, even demanding special rights and legislation as an &quot;oppressed minority.&quot; Gudel quotes various sources evidencing this. <br /> <br /> In a 1987 speech to the National Press Club in Washington, homosexual spokesperson Jeff Levi proclaimed, <br /> <br /> :We are no longer seeking just a right to privacy and a protection from wrong. We also have a right &amp;#8212; as heterosexual Americans already have &amp;#8212; to see government and society affirm our lives.&lt;ref&gt;Jeff Levi, in William Dannemeyer, Shadow in the Land (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1989), 86.&lt;/ref&gt; <br /> <br /> In an article entitled &quot;Gays on the March&quot; in 1975, Time magazine quoted gay activist Barbara Gittings who stated: <br /> <br /> :What the homosexual wants, and here he is neither willing to compromise nor morally required to compromise &amp;#8212; is acceptance of homosexuality as a way of life fully on a par with heterosexuality.&quot; In response, Time opined, &quot;It is one thing to remove legal discrimination against homosexuals. It is another to mandate approval....It is this goal of full acceptance, which no known society past or present has granted to homosexuals, that makes many Americans apprehensive.&lt;ref&gt;Gays on the March,&quot; Time, 8 Sept. 1975, 43&lt;/ref&gt; <br /> <br /> A primary goal of the homosexual agenda is to promote the lifestyle in [[public schools]]. This occurred quickly and intensely after gay marriage was imposed in Massachusetts, where homosexual relationships are taught to children as young as kindergartners, as recounted by the decision of ''[[Parker v. Hurley]]''.&lt;ref&gt;The ''Parker v. Hurley'' decision explained, &quot;In January 2005, when Jacob Parker (&quot;Jacob&quot;) was in kindergarten, he brought home a 'Diversity Book Bag.' This included a picture book, Who's in a Family?, which depicted different families, including single-parent families, an extended family, interracial families, animal families, a family without children, and &amp;#8212; to the concern of the Parkers &amp;#8212; a family with two dads and a family with two moms. The book concludes by answering the question, 'Who's in a family?': 'The people who love you the most!' The book says nothing about marriage.&quot;&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> In a 1992 report by John Leo in U.S. News &amp; World Report, he notes some books which were part of New York City's public school curriculum.<br /> <br /> The first-grade book, &quot;Children of the Rainbow&quot;, stated on page 145, which states that teachers must &quot;be aware of varied family structures, including...gay or lesbian parents,&quot; and &quot;children must be taught to acknowledge the positive aspects of each type of household.&quot; Another children book is Heather Has Two Mommies, which is about a lesbian couple having a child through artificial insemination. Another book, Gloria Goes to Gay Pride, states, &quot;Some women love women, some men love men, some women and men love each other. That's why we march in the parade, so everyone can have a choice.&quot;<br /> <br /> Leo commented, <br /> <br /> :A line is being crossed here; in fact, a brand new ethic is descending upon the city's public school system. The traditional civic virtue of tolerance (if gays want to live together, it's their own business) has been replaced with a new ethic requiring approval and endorsement (if gays want to live together, we must 'acknowledge the positive aspects' of their way of life).&lt;ref&gt;John Leo, &quot;Heather Has a Message,&quot; U.S. News &amp; World Report, 17 Aug. 1992, 16.&lt;/ref&gt; <br /> <br /> Dr. Judith A. Reisman in her extensive ''Crafting “Gay” Children'',&lt;ref&gt;http://www.defendthefamily.com/_docs/resources/6390601.pdf&lt;/ref&gt; reports that Harvard homosexual Toby Morotta, PhD, stated that in the 1970s, members of the Gay Activists Alliance - who were trained in the “zapping&quot; of any who rebuffed homosexuality.&lt;ref&gt;Toby Marotta: THE POLITICS OF HOMOSEXUALITY: HOW LESBIANS AND GAY MEN HAVE MADE THEMSELVES A POLITICAL AND SOCIAL FORCE IN MODERN AMERICA, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1981 at 319&lt;/ref&gt; And that these formed the “Gay Academic Union,” (GAU) which was made up of faculty and students in major universities. She states that the GAU has long fought for domination of its worldview within the academic community, and professional journals commonly assigned GAU and other homosexual peer reviewers to research touching on homosexuality, generally resulting in a quick death to possible unfavorable findings.&lt;ref&gt;See extensive reports in regular NARTH Bulletins as well as Ray Johnson, “American Psychology: The Political Science, at 53-57.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> This and the general agenda is seen to be overall implementing a marketing strategy explained in a book called ''After the Ball,'' by [[gay rights]] activists Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen in the late 1980s, in which a six-point plan was set forth as to how they could transform the beliefs of ordinary Americans with regard to homosexual behavior in a decade-long time frame:<br /> :&quot;The agenda of homosexual activists is basically to change America from what they perceive as looking down on homosexual behavior, to the affirmation of and societal acceptance of homosexual behavior.&quot; &lt;ref name=&quot;Winn07252003&quot;&gt;''After the Ball'' (1989), quoted from Winn, Pete (7-25-2003) [ ''Q&amp;A: The Homosexual Agenda''] Citizenlink&lt;/ref&gt; &quot;Thus propagandistic advertising can depict all opponents of the gay movement as homophobic bigots who are 'not Christian' and the propaganda can further show them [[homosexuals]] as being criticized, hated and shunned...&quot;&lt;ref&gt;After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90's, by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen (Author) (p. 152-153)&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> [[Focus on the Family]] provides additional quotes from After the Ball, outlining key points of the homosexual agenda:&lt;ref name=&quot;Winn07252003&quot;/&gt;&lt;ref&gt;Kirk, Marshall K. and Erastes Pill (11-1987) ''The Overhauling of Straight America'' Available at [http://www.article8.org/docs/gay_strategies/overhauling.htm ''STRATEGIES OF THE HOMOSEXUAL MOVEMENT: &quot;The Overhauling of Straight America&quot;'']&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> #&quot;Talk about gays and gayness as loudly and as often as possible.&quot; (They use late night air waves and special channels, as well as their right to peacefully assemble to do so.)<br /> #&quot;Portray gays as victims, not as aggressive challengers.&quot; <br /> #&quot;Give homosexual protectors a just cause.&quot; <br /> #&quot;Make gays look good.&quot; <br /> #&quot;Make the victimizers look bad.&quot; <br /> #&quot;Get funds from corporate America.&quot;<br /> <br /> [[United States Supreme Court]] Justice [[Antonin Scalia]] wrote:<br /> {{cquote|Today's opinion is the product of a Court, which is the product of a law-profession culture, that has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda, by which I mean the agenda promoted by some homosexual activists directed at eliminating the moral opprobrium that has traditionally attached to homosexual conduct.&lt;ref&gt;[http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&amp;vol=000&amp;invol=02-102#dissent1 ''LAWRENCE et al. v. TEXAS''] at findlaw.com&lt;/ref&gt;}}<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Eliason Vic Eliason] of [http://www.crosstalkamerica.com Crosstalk America] rightly points out that if all Americans turned homosexual it would only take a few generations for the United States to lose most of the population of the country through lack of procreation. This would make the US more vulnerable to attack by our enemies.<br /> <br /> == Specific goals ==<br /> <br /> The goals of the homosexual movement include:<br /> <br /> #Ignoring Christian morals and discouraging religiously based laws. <br /> #Reminding the world that marriage is a legal term and standing in the US, not a spiritual one as believed by Christians.<br /> #Ignore the clear message of the [[Bible]] that [[homosexuality]] is a sin and an abomination unto [[God]] because their first amendment rights allow them to.<br /> #Remind conservatives that there cannot be a gay gene, just like like there cannot be a &quot;black gene&quot; because complex things like these are caused by complex interactions between genes.<br /> #Censoring evidence that the &quot;gay gene&quot; is a hoax. After all, it would have to be multiple genes interacting together.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/08a/born_gay_hoax/smith_0329/index.html ''Lesbian activists at Smith College riot, shut down Ryan Sorba speech on &quot;The Born Gay Hoax&quot; as police watch. See exclusive videos.''] Mass Resistance&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> #Censoring speech against homosexuality by branding it to be &quot;hate-speech&quot;&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.silencingchristians.com Video:Silencing Christians]&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;[http://mu-warrior.blogspot.com/2009/06/homosexuality-its-crime-in-england-to.html &quot;Marquette Warrior&quot;]. ''mu-warrior.blogspot.com''. Retrieved on 2 May 2016.&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.ccfon.org/view.php?id=745 Bishops fight for right to criticize homosexual lifestyle, 25th May 2009]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> #Censoring biblical statements condemning homosexuality&lt;ref&gt;White, Hilary (04-21-2006) [http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/apr/06042105.html ''Court Upholds School Ban on &quot;Homosexuality is Shameful&quot; T-Shirt''] LifeSiteNews.com&lt;/ref&gt; <br /> #Lobbying for equal employment rights.&lt;ref&gt;The Crimson Staff (10-13-2006) [http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=514950 ''A Box of Their Own?''] (opinion) The Crimson&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;http://www.afa.net, Homosexual Agenda Platforms from 1972 - 2000&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> #Expand hate crimes legislation to include sexual orientation, which would be equally wrong for heterosexuals to do.&lt;ref&gt;Pelosi, Nancy Office of (09-28-2004) [http://www.house.gov/pelosi/press/releases/Sept04/HateCrimes092804.html ''Pelosi: &quot;Hate Crimes Prevention Legislation is Right Thing to Do, Long Overdue&quot;''] From the office of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> #Ending the military's and Boy Scout's restrictions on homosexuality&lt;ref&gt;''Boy Scouts of Am. v. Dale'', 530 U.S. 640 (2000) (Boy Scouts); &quot;Matlovich v. Secretary of the Air Force (591 F.2d 852, DC Circ. 1 978) (military)&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> #Stopping children as young as 5 years old from attending therapy to repair their sexual preference&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.thetaskforce.org/reports_and_research/youth_in_the_crosshairs National Gay and Lesbian Task Force:Youth in the Crosshairs]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> #Teach tolerance of homosexuals in schools.<br /> #In places like Massachusetts and California, where the gay lobby is the strongest, it starts as early as preschool. They tell seven- or eight-year-old boys, &quot;If you only like boys, there's a chance you may be homosexual,&quot; or &quot;If you only like girls, maybe you are lesbian.&quot; Children at that age also do not have the hormones to experience sexual attraction, so they cannot understand this yet.<br /> #Demands protections from job discrimination.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.thetaskforce.org/issues/nondiscrimination/ENDA_main_page Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) | National Gay and Lesbian Task Force]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> #Suing an online dating website for discrimination. This was because sexual orientation is a federally protected group, as such, this company was breaking the law.&lt;ref&gt;Joshua Rhett Miller. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,454904,00.html &quot;eHarmony to Provide Gay Dating Service After Lawsuit&quot;]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved on 2 May 2016.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> #Undermining the [[Essay:Quantifying Mental Strength|resolve]] of [[Homosexuality and choice#Choice and Genetics|latent homosexuals]] so that their will becomes too weak to resist the temptations of homosexuality&lt;ref&gt;http://www.thetaskforce.org/activist_center/resources_and_tools/challenge_exgay&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> #Pushing for legalized adoption by gay individuals and couples&lt;ref&gt;http://www.thetaskforce.org/issues/parenting_and_family&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> #Indoctrination of public school children to support the homosexual agenda<br /> <br /> The state-by-state push for same-sex marriage can be viewed as a means to the above goals, or a goal in itself.&lt;ref&gt;[[Lewis v. Harris]]&lt;/ref&gt; An example of this would be the recent New Hampshire law that makes same-sex civil unions legal.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/06/01/new_hampshire_law_makes_same_sex_civil_unions_legal/ &quot;New Hampshire law makes same-sex civil unions legal&quot;]. ''boston.com''. Retrieved on 2 May 2016.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Although notable gains toward achieving its goals continue to manifest, homosexual activists have recently been expressing a high level of dissatisfaction with the Obama administration. Commenting on such, Massresistance.org, an organization which opposes the homosexual agenda in [[Massachusetts]], noted that the President has, <br /> <br /> *signed an order extending federal benefits to same-sex partners.<br /> <br /> *pushed an extreme hate crimes bill in Congress.<br /> <br /> *declared his intention to repeal the Defense of Marriage.<br /> <br /> *pushed a pro-homosexual and transgender version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.<br /> <br /> *appointed homosexual activists to high level positions, including Harry Knox, of the homosexual lobby group Human Rights Campaign, and Kevin Jennings, founder of the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN), which educates kids in the public schools.<br /> <br /> *declared February to be &quot;Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.&quot;<br /> <br /> *Demanded the State Department allow gay couples to use their married names (from marriages or civil unions) on US passports.&lt;ref&gt;update@massresistance.org 6/24/2009 11:56 PM&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> === Strategies and psychological tactics ===<br /> <br /> Homosexual activists are often seen as engaging in [[homosexual logic|specious argumentation]], such as attempts to controvert the consistent teaching of the Bible on homosexual relations (see [[homosexuality and biblical interpretation]]), and using false analogies, in order to gain acceptance of homosexuality. One common argument used by homosexual activists seeks to compare their quest for equal rights to that of others.&lt;ref&gt;Miner, Homosexuality, Civil Rights, and the Church&lt;/ref&gt; This argument is countered by the observation that blacks were able to peacefully argue that mankind should not be &quot;judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character&quot;,&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm, Speech by Martin Luther King Jr.]&lt;/ref&gt; as the former yields no certain moral distinction. In contrast, homosexual activists seek acceptance of an immoral practice(s), and in addition, engage in certain coercive and manipulative means to do so. This includes the use of demonstrative protests, which appear to be designed to censure and intimidate those who oppose them in any way.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.leaderu.com/socialsciences/sellinghomosexuality.html&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.massresistance.org/docs/issues/gay_strategies/after_the_ball.html &quot;The homosexual propaganda campaign in America's media&quot;]. ''massresistance.org''. Retrieved on 2 May 2016.&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.amazon.com/After-Ball-America-Conquer-Hatred/dp/0452264987 &quot;After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90's (Plume): Marshall Kirk, Hunter Madsen: 9780452264984: Amazon.com: Books&quot;]. ''amazon.com''. Retrieved on 2 May 2016.&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=89526 &quot;‘Gays’ put ‘terrorist’ label on Christians&quot;]. ''WND''. Retrieved on 2 May 2016.&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/08c/Prop8/church_attacks.html &quot;Homosexuals begin campaign of terror over Prop 8 loss&quot;]. ''massresistance.org''. Retrieved on 2 May 2016.&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;http://rebuildtheparty.ning.com/video/exodus-protest-park-street&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;http://theway2k.vox.com/library/post/homosexuals-persecuting-christians-and-mormons.html&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;http://www.hamiltonsquare.net/articlesRiotsSep1993.htm&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/may/08050205.html &quot;Lesbian Break-in and Riot During College Speech on “Born-Gay Hoax” Forces Cancellation&quot;]. ''LifeSiteNews''. Retrieved on 2 May 2016.&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=95296 &quot;‘How hate crimes laws forced me into exile’&quot;]. ''WND''. Retrieved on 2 May 2016.&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;Muehlenberg, Bill, [http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2009/06/04/another-nail-in-the-christian-coffin/ Another Nail in the Christian Coffin], [[4 June]] [[2009]]&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/09a/feder_0311/index.html &quot;Gay activists stop free speech at UMass Amherst&quot;]. ''massresistance.org''. Retrieved on 2 May 2016.&lt;/ref&gt; In addition, one pro-homosexual commentator recently took the homosexual community to task for being racist in their practice of homosexuality.&lt;ref&gt;LZ Granderson, ''Commentary: Gay is not the new black'', Cable News Network,July 16, 2009&lt;/ref&gt; Another strategy used by supporters of the homosexual agenda is to publicly deny that such an agenda exists.&lt;ref&gt;[http://onug.us/content/christians-america-and-gay-agenda &quot;Christians, America, And The Gay Agenda&quot;]. ''onug.us''. Retrieved on 2 May 2016.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> While not all homosexuals agree with the use of deceptive psychological tactics, these have been promoted by leading homosexual activists. The aforementioned book, ''After the Ball'', is widely regarded as the handbook for the gay agenda, in which two Harvard-trained (homosexual) psychologists &lt;ref&gt;[http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,152180,00.html &quot;Is The Gay Revolution a Flop?&quot;]. ''time.com''. 24 June 2001. Retrieved on 2 May 2016.&lt;/ref&gt; Marshall Kirk (1957 - 2005) and Hunter Madsen (pen name ''Erastes Pill'', who was also schooled in social marketing) advocated avoiding portraying gays as aggressive challengers, but as victims instead, while making all those who opposed them to be evil persecutors. As a means of the latter, they promoted ''jamming,'' in which Christians, traditionalists, or anyone else who opposes the gay agenda are publicly smeared. Their strategy was based on the premise that, &quot;In any campaign to win over the public, gays must be portrayed as victims in need of protection so that straights will be inclined by reflex to adopt the role of protector. The purpose of victim imagery is to make straight people feel very uncomfortable.&quot;<br /> <br /> &quot;Jamming&quot; [[homo-hatred]] (disagreement with [[homosexual behavior]]s) was to be done by linking it to [[Nazi]] horror, advised Kirk and Madsen. Associate all who oppose homosexuality with images of Klansmen demanding that gays be slaughtered, hysterical backwoods preachers, menacing punks, and a tour of Nazi concentration camps where homosexuals were tortured and gassed. Thus, &quot;propagandistic advertisement can depict homophobic and homohating bigots as crude loudmouths...&quot;&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/mbarber/080213 &quot;Unmasking the &quot;gay&quot; agenda&quot;]. ''renewamerica.com''. Retrieved on 2 May 2016.&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.article8.org/docs/gay_strategies/after_the_ball.htm &quot;MassResistance - Page not found!&quot;]. ''article8.org''. Retrieved on 2 May 2016.&lt;/ref&gt; <br /> <br /> Dr. R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, writes, <br /> &lt;blockquote&gt;<br /> There can be no doubt that Christianity represents the greatest obstacle to the normalization of homosexual behavior. It cannot be otherwise, because of the clear biblical teachings concerning the inherent sinfulness of homosexuality in all forms, and the normativity of heterosexual marriage. In order to counter this obstacle, Kirk and Madsen advised gays to &quot;use talk to muddy the moral waters, that is, to undercut the rationalizations that 'justify' religious bigotry and to jam some of its psychic rewards.&quot; How can this be done? &quot;This entails publicizing support by moderate churches and raising serious theological objections to conservative biblical teachings.&quot; [The latter of which attempts [[homosexuality and biblical interpretation]] examine and expose.]&lt;ref&gt;[http://web.archive.org/web/20070927163416/http://www.gender-news.com/other.php?id=19 ''After the Ball--Why the Homosexual Movement Has Won,''] Thursday, June 3rd, 2004&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> &lt;/blockquote&gt; <br /> <br /> Kirk and Madsen's open admission of their deceptive tactics is noted as most revealing: [O]ur effect is achieved without reference to facts, logic, or proof. &quot;...the person's beliefs can be altered whether he is conscious of the attack or not&quot;&lt;ref&gt;After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90s, p. 152-153 (1989, Doubleday/Bantam)&lt;/ref&gt; “The campaign we outline in this book, though complex, depends centrally upon a program of unabashed propaganda, firmly grounded in long-established principles of psychology and advertising.”&lt;ref&gt;Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the Gay’s in the 90s, p.xxvi&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;[http://banap.net/ &quot;&amp;#91;Behavior, and Not a Person&amp;#93;&quot;]. ''banap.net''. Retrieved on 2 May 2016.&lt;/ref&gt; <br /> <br /> Similarly, author Robert Bauman additionally records: &quot;It makes no difference that the ads are lies... because were using them to ethically good effect, to counter negative stereotypes that are every bit as much lies, and far more wicked ones.&quot;&lt;ref&gt;The Gentleman from Maryland: The Conscience of a gay Conservative, by Robert Bauman, 1986, page 163.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> The need for Kirk and Madsen to engage in such manipulation may be seen as being due to their sober realization of the nature of the homosexual lifestyle. <br /> <br /> “In short, the gay lifestyle - if such a chaos can, after all, legitimately be called a lifestyle - it just doesn’t work: it doesn’t serve the two functions for which all social framework evolve: to constrain people’s natural impulses to behave badly and to meet their natural needs. While it’s impossible to provide an exhaustive analytic list of all the root causes and aggravants of this failure, we can asseverate at least some of the major causes. Many have been dissected, above, as elements of the Ten Misbehaviors; it only remains to discuss the failure of the gay community to provide a viable alternative to the heterosexual family.”&lt;ref&gt;Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the Gay’s in the 90s, p.363&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> David Kupelian, author of ''[[The Marketing of Evil]],'' describes Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen, stating, <br /> &lt;blockquote&gt;<br /> Kirk and Madsen were not the kind of drooling activists that would burst into churches and throw condoms in the air. They were smart guys – very smart. Kirk, a Harvard-educated researcher in neuropsychiatry, work with the Johns Hopkins Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth and designed aptitude tests for adults with 200+ IQs. Madsen, with a doctorate in politics from Harvard, was an expert on public persuasion tactics and social marketing.&lt;ref&gt;[http://pearl-diving.blogspot.com/2009/01/sold-on-homosexuality-marketing-of-evil.html &quot;Sold on Homosexuality – The Marketing of Evil&quot;]. ''pearl-diving.blogspot.com''. Retrieved on 2 May 2016.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> &lt;/blockquote&gt; <br /> <br /> Marshall Kirk died in 2005 at the age of 47.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.americanancestors.org/PageDetail.aspx?recordId=134544248&lt;/ref&gt; The cause of death has not been publicly revealed.<br /> <br /> Often cited as an early example of such tactics was the role of homosexual activists in persuading the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to remove homosexuality as a mental disorder from its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders (DSM-II). Dr. Ronald Bayer, though being himself a pro-homosexual psychiatrist, described this removal as being the result of power politics, threats, and intimidation, rather than any new scientific discoveries.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.traditionalvalues.org/urban/eleven.php Exposed: The Myth That Psychiatry Has Proven That Homosexual Behavior Is Normal]&lt;/ref&gt; In so doing, like slavery before it, the homosexual agenda is seen to threaten basic freedoms, principally the First Amendment.&lt;ref&gt;Adams, Guy (11-8-2008) [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mormon-stars-face-backlash-after-gay-marriage-ban-1003967.html ''Mormon stars face backlash after gay marriage ban''] The Independent&lt;/ref&gt; <br /> <br /> The charge of [[homophobia]] has also been increasingly evidenced as being part of a means of intimidation used in promoting the homosexual agenda. Due to what homophobia has been made to denote, that of being a repressed homosexual, or possessing an irrational fear of being approached by homosexuals, or of being a bigot persecuting victims, the widespread use of the term &quot;homophobic&quot; attaches a powerful stigma to anyone who may even conscientiously oppose the practice of homosexuality, thus silencing many who might otherwise object to it.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/narth/1995papers/socarides.html Thought Reform And The Psychology of Homosexual Advocacy, Charles W. Socarides, M.D.]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> In relation to such oppression, psychologist Nicholas Cummings, former president of the American Psychological Association (APA), observed, &quot;Homophobia as intimidation is one of the most pervasive techniques used to silence anyone who would disagree with the gay activist agenda.&quot; As an example of such fear within the APA, in addressing 100 fellow professionals Cummings related that while writing &quot;Destructive Trends in Mental Health,&quot; with psychologist Rogers Wright, a number of fellow psychologists were invited to participate. However, these flatly turned them down, as they feared loss of tenure, loss of promotion, and other forms of professional retaliation. &quot;We were bombarded by horror stories,&quot; Dr. Cummings said. &quot;Their greatest fear was of the gay lobby, which is very strong in the APA.&lt;ref&gt;[Psychology Losing Scientific Credibility, Say APA Insiders http://www.narth.com/docs/insiders.html]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Noted homosexual activist and pornographer Clinton Fein, in his article, ''The Gay Agenda stated'': &quot;Homophobic inclinations alone, even without any actions, should be criminal and punishable to the full extent of the law.&quot;<br /> <br /> Erik Holland, author of ''The Nature of Homosexuality'', perceives that homosexuals have become so reckless in labeling others homophobic that &quot;anyone who questions their labeling someone [is] a homophobe himself. Even quoting factual statistics about the connection between homosexuality and AIDS is allegedly homophobic.&quot; In addition, according to pro-homosexual author Vernon A. Wall, &quot;even acceptance of homosexuality can be seen as a form of homophobia, because to talk about the acceptance of homosexuality is to imply that there is something about homosexuality that needs acceptance.&quot;&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.homosexinfo.org/Homophobia/HomePage &quot;Homosexinfo - Homophobia - Homophobia: Fear of homosexuals?&quot;]. ''homosexinfo.org''. Retrieved on 2 May 2016.&lt;/ref&gt; <br /> <br /> It may be speculated that if the liberal use of the term homophobia is not primarily a psychological tactic, then it indicates a psychological condition on the part of those who use it in which they imagine that those who oppose them are fearful of them, or of being one.<br /> <br /> More recently, after 25 years of claiming he was not indoctrinating anyone with pro homosexual beliefs, one activist honestly admitted to this being a lie. Canadian gay activist S. Bear Bergman, a female who identifies as a transgender male, stated, &quot;All that time I said I wasn't indoctrinating anyone with my beliefs about gay and lesbian and bi and trans and queer people? That was a lie.” Bergman recounted that she was instructed as a young gay activist to tell concerned parents that she was “just providing an alternate viewpoint” when accused of engaging in “indoctrination and recruiting,” and to use “soft” language when speaking about homosexuality. In her article on the notoriously liberal web site, the [[Huffington Post]], he went on to candidly confess that this indoctrination, &quot;is absolutely my goal. I want to make your children like people like me and my family, even if that goes against the way you have interpreted the teachings of your religion.&quot; Bergman fantasized that in an ideal world he would have been &quot;ushered into the world of queerness with care and tenderness by experienced homos&quot; (akin to &quot;camp counselors&quot;), &quot;and issued my leather jacket and my protest pins, my safer sex supplies...&quot; <br /> <br /> Bergman expressed that his goal was that of portraying to &quot;impressionable young minds&quot; the idea that &quot;queers and transfolk are just as fine and lovely a kind of human as any other kind,&quot; and stated that he did not like the idea of sending her kid to schools where any kid could share with him their ideas about homosexuals. Thus Bergman, who believes that &quot;books a kid hears at bedtime affect their sleep and also their dreams,&quot; is finalizing a series of children's books that all feature lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer kids or families, with the goal that the young readers come to believe that people like him and his family are &quot;absolutely great,&quot; that &quot;lesbian, gay, bi, queer, and trans people -- that we exist, that we're perfectly fine and often really excellent.&quot; Bergman then concludes, &quot;If that makes me an indoctrinator, I accept it. Let me be honest -- I am not even a little bit sorry.&quot;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/s-bear-bergman/i-have-come-to-indoctrinate-your-children-lgtbq_b_6795152.html|title=I have come to indoctrinate your children into my LGBTQ agenda (and I'm not a bit sorry)|last1=Bergman|first1=S. Bear|website=Huffington Post|accessdate=22 March 2015}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Commenting on this frank article, Pete Baklinski of LifeSiteNews.com, states that, &lt;blockquote&gt;While Bergman paints a “friendly and cheerful” picture of the gay lifestyle, she fails to mention the serious health risks tied to homosexual behaviors....Research done in 2002 by Dr. John R. Diggs found that same-sex sexual behaviors expose gays, lesbians and bisexuals to “extreme risks of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), physical injuries, mental disorders and even a shortened life span.” Common sexual practices among gay men were found to lead to “numerous STDs and physical injuries, some of which are virtually unknown in the heterosexual population.” Gay and bisexual men were found to “lose up to 20 years of life expectancy.” The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have warned on numerous occasions that HIV rates, already at epidemic proportions, are continuing to climb steadily among men who have ‘sex’ with men. The CDC has stated that gay and bisexual men continue to remain at the epicenter of what they call a “HIV/AIDS epidemic.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;<br /> <br /> To which Baklinski adds the spiritual consequences, citing one of the texts in the Bible which condemn homosexual relations: <br /> {{Cquote|“For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error” (Letter to Romans 1:26).&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web|last1=Baklinski|first1=Pete|title=Gay activist: Of course our goal is to ‘indoctrinate children into LGBTQ agenda’|url=https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/gay-activist-our-goal-is-to-indoctrinate-children-into-lgbtq-agenda|website=LifeSiteNews.com|accessdate=22 March 2015}}&lt;/ref&gt; }} <br /> <br /> For Christians believe God created man and women uniquely compatible and complimentary, and they alone are joined by God in marriage, with opposite genders being specified by both Genesis and personally by Jesus Christ. (Gn. 2:18-24; Mt. 19:4) The Bible only condemns homosexual relations - by design and decree, in principle and by precept - and never sanctions them wherever they are manifestly dealt with, and the injunctions against them are part of the transcendent and immutable moral law. (Lv. 18:22; Rm. 1:26,27)<br /> <br /> However, Christians also understand that some of the first Christians were likely former homosexuals, (1Cor. 6:9-11) and believe that there is room at the cross for all who want the Lord Jesus over sin, and believe upon Him to save them who died for them, and rose again. And who thus are baptized and follow Him, to the glory of God.&lt;ref&gt;[http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/Homosex_versus_the_Bible.html HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONS and the BIBLE]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ===Influence in the academic world===<br /> <br /> Professor Jerry Z. Muller described in an article titled ''First Things'' (Aug/Sept. 1993) how the homosexual lobby has gained widespread acceptance in the educational realm. <br /> {{cquote|[Their] strategy has been remarkably successful. With a rapidity largely attributable in large part to a total lack of articulate resistance, homosexual ideology has gained an unquestioned and uncontested legitimacy in American academic life. Within the academy, as within nonacademic elite culture, the definition of opposite to homosexuality as &quot;homophobia - a definition which implies that it is impossible to give good reasons for the cultural disapproval of homosexuality - is the best evidence of the success of this strategy.&lt;ref&gt;[http://books.google.com/books?id=cbfVg_1qhe0C&amp;pg=PP1&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;dq=David+W.+Virtue+scots+college&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=aDW7a615Gn&amp;sig=Y1cLsx5sCQTgUUDJ88b5AKPRkNg&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=8skISpP1AcGktgfi2PzsCw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=1#PPR14,M1 &quot;Homosexuality&quot;]. ''google.com''. Retrieved on 2 May 2016.&lt;/ref&gt;}}<br /> <br /> ====In the public schools====<br /> {{See also|Homosexuality in Schools}}<br /> [[File:Prairie Ridge High School LGBT+ Flag.jpg|thumb|200px|School in Chicago area (Prairie Ridge High School) with LGBT+ [[Rainbow#Rainbow_flag|rainbow flag]]. Students in the same school who display the [[Confederate flag]] will face discipline.&lt;ref name=&quot;NWHerald2017&quot;/&gt;]]<br /> [[File:Prairie Ridge High School LGBT.jpg|thumb|200px|This Chicago-area school has &quot;safe spaces&quot; for homosexual students (sponsored by [[GLSEN]]).]]<br /> Many public schools throughout the United States promote the [[homosexual agenda]], oftentimes through publically-funded school programs created by [[GLSEN]].&lt;ref name=&quot;Heyer2015&quot;&gt;Heyer, Walt (June 8, 2015). [http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/06/15118/ Public School LGBT Programs Don't Just Trample Parental Rights. They Also Put Kids at Risk]. ''The Witherspoon Institute -- Public Discourse''. Retrieved March 24, 2017.&lt;/ref&gt; Much of this was the work of the [[Obama Administration]].&lt;ref name=&quot;Heyer2015&quot;/&gt; GLSEN also promotes the homosexual agenda through a &quot;day of silence.&quot;&lt;ref&gt;Berry, Susan (April 11, 2015). [http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/04/11/day-of-silence-how-the-lgbt-agenda-is-hijacking-americas-youth/ Day of Silence: How the LGBT Agenda Is Hijacking America’s Youth]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved March 24, 2017.&lt;/ref&gt; In 2016, [[California]] became the first state to legislate the teaching of the homosexual agenda in public schools to children as young as second grade.&lt;ref&gt;Berry, Susan (July 19, 2016). [http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/07/19/lgbt-history-california-first-to-teach/ California: 1st State To Teach LGBT Curriculum — to Second Graders]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved March 24, 2017.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> In schools where the homosexual agenda is promoted, students who promote the [[Confederate flag]] may expect to face disciplinary actions.&lt;ref name=&quot;NWHerald2017&quot;&gt;Prokop, Hannah (November 11, 2016). [http://www.nwherald.com/2016/11/09/prairie-ridge-high-school-suspends-student-for-wearing-confederate-flag-to-school/aelbmro/ Prairie Ridge High School suspends student for wearing Confederate flag to school]. ''Northwest Herald''. Retrieved March 24, 2017.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ===Promoting immorality in society===<br /> <br /> The “gay” activists promote [[immorality]] in [[society]]. As no one wants to be called a [[hypocrite]], every act of sexual sin by society members serves the “gay” interest by lessening the public will to uphold public morality. That's why wherever the promotion of sexual sin is observed, it is likely there are also “gay” activists involved: <br /> <br /> ==== The abortion industry ====<br /> The best example of “gay” promotion of societal immorality is seen in their aggressive defense of the abortion industry. Obviously, homosexuals cannot have an “unwanted pregnancy,” yet in an extensive experience, the big part of “pro-choice” street activists at abortion clinics are homosexuals. This is so because they know that preserving the people’s option to destroy unborn life is essential to maintaining so called “[[sexual freedom]]” as a social norm. If women lost their choice to legally kill their unborn offspring, the resulting inevitable shift of emphasis from self-gratification to family responsibility in such a large section of the population would change the entire culture. When a woman gives in to fear and selfishness to kill the child in her womb, she will not feel that she can criticize other sinners. The choice to kill their unborn children morally compromises both men and women (making them unwilling to criticize choices to engage in other forms of immoral behavior), and ensures that the outcome of an unwanted child will not be a lasting deterrent to those who have chosen sexual “freedom” over family. This explains why homosexuals, who by definition cannot conceive children together, are among the most militant advocates of abortion on demand.<br /> <br /> ==== The pornography industry ====<br /> The existence of a thriving pornography industry where “gays” are also notoriously prevalent serves the “gay” cause by morally corrupting the men who use it, making them less likely to oppose homosexuality on moral grounds and more likely to support public policies which legitimize sexual [[hedonism]]. “Gay” activists promote sexual anarchy because they know that when a man falls in bondage to pornography he is less willing to oppose other sexual sins in society. <br /> <br /> ==== The entertainment industry ====<br /> When young people enjoy music or films that glorify sexual lust, they feel more sympathy to the “gay” arguments.<br /> <br /> The “gays” have it easy pushing sexual “freedom”, because every person, in their flesh, wants to indulge themselves in their own choices.<br /> This is like children being offered only candy to eat. People want to eat only sweets until they get sick. Only with maturity do they know how to eat to stay healthy.<br /> <br /> The “gay” movement has many allies in its campaign to promote sexual immorality, but it is the only social movement in the history of the world whose primary purpose is to eliminate social restraints on [[sexual]] conduct. It is heavily funded, highly organized and strategically positioned to maximize its ability to change societies and cultures.&lt;ref name=&quot;Lively2009&quot;&gt;{{cite book |title=Redeeming the Rainbow: A Christian Response to the &quot;Gay&quot; Agenda |author=[[Scott Lively]] |publisher=Veritas Aeterna Press |place=Springfield, MA |year=2009 |edition=1 (Version 1.1)|chapter=1: Pro-family answers to common questions about homosexuality and &quot;gay&quot; agenda |pages=8, 60, 176|url=http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/09b/Redeeming_rainbow}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> == Opposing Christian Agenda ==<br /> <br /> Liberals are critical of Christian groups that oppose homosexuality. These criticisms include Christian activities of:<br /> <br /> *Threatening to shut Salvation Army soup kitchens in New York if they cannot exclude homosexuals from employment &lt;ref&gt;[http://chicago.gopride.com/news/article.cfm/ArticleID/1824489] Salvation Army Uses Homeless To Fight Gay Benefits&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *Encouraging email activism<br /> *Producing and disseminating gay reform information<br /> *Influencing local media in what stories they produce<br /> *Lobbying local, state and federal government officials to vote in the desired way on pending legislation&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.cwfa.org/about.asp Concerned Women For America] About page&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *Calling anyone who supports gay rights a 'sinner' or other untrue insults.<br /> <br /> ==Opponents of the Homosexual Agenda ==<br /> Some well known individuals/groups in the [[United States]] who actively oppose the homosexual agenda are: [[Focus on the Family]], [[Peter LaBarbera]]'s American's for Truth, the [[Traditional Values Coalition]] ([[Louis Sheldon]] is a chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition), and [[Matt Barber]] of [[Concerned Women of America]].<br /> <br /> ===Peter LaBarbera===<br /> <br /> As noted earlier, [[Peter LaBarbera]] is the founder of [[Americans For Truth]] (AFT) which is a national organization in the United States devoted solely to confronting the homosexual agenda.&lt;ref name=&quot;americansfortruth.com&quot;&gt;[http://www.americansfortruth.com/about/ &quot;About Americans for Truth About Homosexuality and AFTAH Founder Peter LaBarbera » Americans for Truth&quot;]. ''americansfortruth.com''. Retrieved on 2 May 2016.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Peter LaBarbera said the following regarding the need for the organization Americans for Truth:<br /> {{cquote|Homosexual, [[bisexuality|bisexual]], and [[transsexual]] groups spend tens of millions of dollars every year to market and normalize their aberrant lifestyles, yet after all these years there is not a single, serious national group dedicated specifically to exposing and countering their agendas...<br /> <br /> It’s time for Americans to unapologetically resist the demands of this lobby, and to counter the lies upon which it is built-the foremost being that certain people are inherently or ‘born’ homosexual and that this is a [[civil rights]] issue.&lt;ref name=&quot;americansfortruth.com&quot;/&gt;}}<br /> <br /> ===Matt Barber===<br /> [[Matt Barber]] of [[Concerned Women of America]] is one the more notable figures in regards to opposing the homosexual agenda. Matt Barber wrote the following regarding the homosexual agenda:<br /> [[Image:Mbarber_b.jpg‎|right|thumb|175px|[[Matt Barber]]]]<br /> {{cquote|Ironically, sexual [[relativism|relativists]] are anything but relative. They are quite affirmative in principle. But the principles they foist demand comprehensive acceptance of homosexual conduct — by force of law — through federal edicts such as “hate crimes” legislation, the so-called “Employment Non-Discrimination Act” (ENDA) and by imposing government sanctioned “same-sex marriage.” All such government mandates grant special protected “minority” status to those who define themselves by aberrant sexual preferences and changeable sexual behaviors. These laws put people with traditional values directly in the crosshairs of official government policy.<br /> <br /> Throughout society, homosexual activists demand that homosexual behaviors not only be “tolerated,” but celebrated. (That’s what the euphemistic slogan “celebrate diversity” supposes). They have masked their true political agenda by hijacking the language of the genuine civil rights movement and through the crafty and disingenuous rhetoric of “tolerance” and “diversity.”<br /> <br /> Anyone who believes the Biblical directive that human sexuality is a gift from [[God]], to be shared between man and wife within the bonds of marriage, is branded “homophobic,” “hateful” or “discriminatory.” They are to be silenced by all means possible.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=14696&amp;department=CFI&amp;categoryid=family&lt;/ref&gt;}}<br /> <br /> ===Steffen Königer===<br /> [[German]] [[politician]] Steffen Königer from the party ''Alternative für Deutschland'' (AfD) showed that it is possible to use [[irony]] when opposing the [[extremist]] gender agenda. In his address in the parliament of the [[Brandenburg]], the federated state of [[Germany]], he ridiculed homosexual lobbyists and gender ideologists by enlisting in his introduction, for about two minutes, all &quot;gender and sexual varieties&quot; he could find on the Internet. This way he brought to attention of general public the absurdity of the proposal put forward by the German [[Green Party]] that demanded to introduce multiple &quot;gender identities&quot; in state documents. When the Parliamentary Speaker tried to stop him, he just replied that he is not finished yet and further adamantly continued in naming all alleged gender declinations. When he was finally done with his introduction, his actual reaction to the proposal took less than three seconds: ''&quot;The AfD party rejects your proposal.&quot;''&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |title=Un político alemán ridiculiza los postulados del LGBTI |url=https://youtu.be/GzIwvHUvFR0 |accessdate=23 Jun 2016 |language=German (English subtitles)}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Further reading==<br /> *https://www.amazon.com/dp/B012YKIQ2M Counterfeiting the Rainbow by Beverly Rachel<br /> *[http://www.leaderu.com/jhs/lively.html Homosexuality and the Nazi Party] by Scott Lively. Excellent discussion of the anti-Christian and homosexual origins of the Nazism.<br /> *[http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/hsx/ Documentation of the links between homosexuals and the Nazis] by the Government of Israel. <br /> *[http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/BPCollectionNews.asp?ID=131 2008 McDonald's and the Homosexual Agenda], Baptist Press<br /> *[http://www.couplescompany.com/FEATURES/politics/2004/Selling%20Homosexuality.pdf Paul E. Rondeau, Selling homosexuality to America (PDF)] [http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/730694/posts Or html form]<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> *[[ACT-UP]]<br /> *[[Anti-Defamation League]]<br /> *[[Anthropological Revolution]]<br /> *[[Homosexual belief system]]<br /> *[[Gay affirmative]]<br /> *[[Gay rights]]<br /> *[[Homophobia]]<br /> *[[Hate speech]], [[Hate crime]]<br /> *[[Homosexual logic]], used to justify and promote the homosexual agenda<br /> *[[Homosexuality]]<br /> *[[Homosexuality and biblical interpretation]]<br /> *[[Homosexualization]]<br /> *[[Gleichschaltung#LGBTI Gleichschaltung|LGBTI Gleichschaltung]]<br /> *[[San Francisco values]]<br /> *[[Fashion industry values]]<br /> *[[Hollywood values]]<br /> *[[Slogans and the Homosexual Agenda]]<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> <br /> {{reflist|2}}<br /> <br /> <br /> {{liberalism}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Homosexual Agenda]]<br /> [[Category:Homosexuality]]<br /> [[Category:Liberal Deceit]]<br /> [[Category:Hollywood Values]]</div>

Rhobas https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Moving_the_goalposts&diff=1369020 2017-08-22T23:23:08Z

<p>Rhobas: </p> <hr /> <div>&quot;'''Moving the goalposts'''&quot; is a [[British]] expression first popularized in the late 20th century and is obscure in [[America]] outside of use by elitist liberals such as [[evolutionists]] in debates. <br /> <br /> The phrase is often used by liberals in an effort to seem educated and intelligent by using the obscure phrase. This ins unsurprising, as rather than actually use scientific data and peer-reviewed facts to back up their globalist, anti-american claims, evolutionists will resort to attempting to confuse the other person when backed into a corner. The phrase's obscurity can be demonstrated with a quick Google search. &quot;Moving the goalposts&quot; has only 450,000 references on a [[Google]] search as of August 22, 2017,&lt;ref&gt;https://www.google.com/search?q=moving+the+goalposts&lt;/ref&gt;, while a Google search for &quot;creationism&quot;, a mainstream scientific subject, has 4,510,000 results<br /> <br /> It is an expression used as a substitute for giving a direct answer to a question, on the pretense that the questioner is changing his argument.<br /> <br /> As evolutionists are incapable of explaining the wonders of Creation, they often resort to this phrase when pressed by [[creation science|creation scientists]] in debates, as in &quot;now you're moving the goalposts&quot; in response to a question. Thus, asserting that someone is moving the goalposts is a common [[logical fallacy]].<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> <br /> &lt;references/&gt;<br /> <br /> == See also ==<br /> <br /> * [[Quote mining]]<br /> <br /> {{Evolution}}<br /> [[Category:Evolution]]<br /> [[Category:Logical Fallacies]]</div>

Rhobas https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Moving_the_goalposts&diff=1369019 2017-08-22T23:14:16Z

<p>Rhobas: Updated 7-year old info</p> <hr /> <div>&quot;'''Moving the goalposts'''&quot; is a [[British]] expression first popularized in the late 1980s and 1990s and is obscure in [[America]] outside of use by [[evolutionists]] in debates. It has only 450,000 references on a [[Google]] search as of August 22, 2017,&lt;ref&gt;https://www.google.com/search?q=moving+the+goalposts&lt;/ref&gt; over 10% of which show up when searching &quot;moving the goalposts&quot; and &quot;evolution&quot;.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.google.com/search?q=%22moving+the+goalposts%22+evolution&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a&lt;/ref&gt; <br /> <br /> It is an expression used as a substitute for giving a direct answer to a question, on the pretense that the questioner is changing his argument.<br /> <br /> As evolutionists are incapable of explaining the wonders of Creation, they often resort to this phrase when pressed by [[creation science|creation scientists]] in debates, as in &quot;now you're moving the goalposts&quot; in response to a question. Thus, asserting that someone is moving the goalposts is a common [[logical fallacy]].<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> <br /> &lt;references/&gt;<br /> <br /> == See also ==<br /> <br /> * [[Quote mining]]<br /> <br /> {{Evolution}}<br /> [[Category:Evolution]]<br /> [[Category:Logical Fallacies]]</div>

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