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All my life I have been interested in Science. Fate has

it, I believe, that this interest led me to the study of the

Holy Scriptures. The Bible even enhanced my interest in

everything scientific. The first time I heard Johnny Mathis

singing Fly Me to the Moon, the lyrics and the melody

were already printed in my mind. Do you want me to

prove this? Pardon my voice, but I can sing it with gusto!

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I am interested about everything

around me. I observe keenly how

ants move, how birds fly, and

how people live their lives. Inmy elementary grades, when I

first heard the Darwinian Theory

on evolution, the first doubt that

came into my mind was that, if

humans came from apes, why are

there people with faces that look

like horses and dogs?

I am not a scientist and have

never finished any degree in any

branch of Science, but I always

have with me a scientific attitude

and approach in the study of

everything I am interested in. The

very recent discovery of a planet2 light-years away from the earth,

which they say is very much earth-

like, made it to the headlines of

global news reports. This led to the

resurrection of the very frequently

asked question: Is there life in

other places of the universe?

Are there other planets that can

sustain life much like that of the

earth? I am sure of the answer!

And my answer comes from thebook which I have revered all my

life because it is the only book that

I found to be logical and scientific

in answering not only the questions

of hundreds of thousands of people

I am favored to meet, but my own

questions which I do not hear from

other people. The Bible has it!

In the book ofActs 17:26-27, it

is written

And He has made all nations of

men of one blood to dwell on all the

face of the earth, ordaining fore-

appointed seasons and boundariesof their dwelling, to seek the Lord,

if perhaps they might feel after Him

and find Him, though indeed He is

not far from each one of us.

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God is an

exact God.

Reduce the size

of the earth;

reduce the heat

of the sun; and

we will freeze.


The verse mentions the planet

Earth, and we must especially

notice the phrase bounds of

their habitation. Scientists agree

that until now, with all their

sophisticated equipments, they

have not yet found in the Solar

system, or in our galaxy, much

more in other distant galaxies, a

place that can sustain or support

human life. The recent planetdiscovered has a temperature of

300 degrees centigrade below

zero, with its size, 5.5 times larger

than that of the earth, and with its

year, much shorter than an earth

year, implying that it moves on a

greater speed than the earth, and

revolving on a star which is verymuch fainter than our sun. It is

scientifically impossible for us to

live in such a place, period.


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God is an exact God. Reduce the

size of the earth; reduce the heat

of the sun; and we will freeze. Make

it a little closer to the sun and wewill be baked or burned. Make it

as large as Mars and our weight

will be more than doubled. The

Earths size and distance from the

sun are the exact measurements

needed to sustain human life! GOD

MEASURED IT.

You want proof? Read the book of

Job 38:4, it says:

Where were you when I laid the

foundations of the earth? Tell if you

have understanding! Who has set

its measurements, for you know?

Or who has stretched the line on

it? On what are its bases sunk, or

who cast its cornerstone...

After all, the universe is the handy

work of Gods hand.

Psalms 19:1-3 has this to say:

The heavens declare the glory of

God; and the expanse proclaims

His handiwork. Day to day poursforth speech, and night to night

reveals knowledge. There is no

speech nor are there words; their

voice is not heard.

Undoubtedly, there are other

planets in our own galaxy and

in billion other galaxies, but thereason why God created man

on Earth from the dust of the

ground (Genesis 2:7) is because

it is the only planet in the entire

universe wherein human life will

comfortably fit. Think of this: The

best place for your eyes is where it

is now. Put them a little below, i.e.,

in the belly or thighs and you can

imagine how ugly your person will

be. Put your nose or ears in other

places of your body and you will

not be a work of art, as written in

the book ofHebrews 2:6-7

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But one in a certain place testified,

saying, What is man, that thou

art mindful of him? or the son of

man, that thou visitest him? Thoumadest him a little lower than the

angels; thou crownedst him with

glory and honour, and didst set

him over the works of thy hands:

Human efforts and resources,

which scientists devote in

searching for other worlds thatcan sustain life, will be futile! Let

us search, instead, from the Holy

Scriptures the kingdom and the

righteousness of God and discover

a world called a new Earth where

righteousness, peace, and love

dwell (2 Peter 3:13).

But according to His promise,

we look for new heavens and a

new earth in which righteousness

dwells.

But

according to

His promise,

we look

for new

heavens and

a new earth

in whichrighteousness

dwells.



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Indeed, ignorance

of the Bible will lead

somebody to wrestle

the word of God!(2 Peter 3:16) As

also in all his epistles,

speaking in them of

these things; in which

are some things hard

to be understood,

which they that are

unlearned and unstable

wrest, as they do also

the other Scriptures,

unto their owndestruction.


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when he wrote to the Colossians

that he was able to preach the

Gospel to every creature which is

under heaven. At about the sametime that Paul was preaching the

gospel to the known world (the

world of the Roman Empire), the

famous Rice Terraces in Banaue,

Mountain Province in the Philippines

is being built by the Ifugaos, one

of the aborigines of the Filipinos.

The Banaue Rice Terraces are

2000-year old terraces that werecarved into the mountains of Ifugao

in the Philippines by ancestors

of the Batad indigenous people.

It is commonly thought that the

terraces were built with minimal

equipment, largely by hand. The

terraces are located approximately

1500 meters (5000 feet) above

sea level and cover 10,360 squarekilometers (about 4000 square

miles) of mountainside. They are

fed by an ancient irrigation system

from the rainforests above the

terraces.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Banaue_Rice_Terraces)

But Paul did not reach the

Philippines, or the Americas,so, having flexibility in mind in

understanding the language of the

Bible we can discern that what the

apostle Paul means when he said

he preached the gospel to every

creature under heaven, is to the

people only of the known world

then. Incidentally, the Philippines

was discovered only in the sixteenthcentury by the Europeans led by

Ferdinand Magellan.

When the Bible classified the bats

(Leviticus 11:13,19)as belonging

to the oph (Hebrew), it means

that it is classified with those as

covering with wings or those that

flieth.

The idea of a

worldwide flood did not

come from the Bible,

but from people who

do not understand its

language!



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phFrom H5774; a bird (as covered

with feathers, or rather as covering

with wings), often collective:

- bird, that flieth, flying, fowl

(Dictionaries of Hebrew and

Greek Words taken from Strongs

Exhaustive Concordance by James

Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.)

Detractors of the Bible say that it

is not scientific because science

classifies bats as belonging to the

mammalian group. They rely very

much on science, and for them

science is the final authority of

what they believe. This author is

not against science, but human

science is not as exact as divine

science in the Scriptures.

(Daniel 1:4) Children in whom

was no blemish, but well favored,

and skillful in all wisdom, and

cunning in knowledge, and

understanding science, and such

as had ability in them to stand in

the kings palace, and whom they

might teach the learning and the

tongue of the Chaldeans.

Human science has classified

plants and animals only on the

seventeenth and eighteenth

century.

At any one time in history, there

are millions of different kinds of

plants and animals in the world.In 1753, a scientist in Sweden

named Carolus Linnaeus thought

of an orderly system for classifying

plants and animals. He grouped all

organisms according to a two-part

name (binomial). The first part of

the name is the generic grouping

or genus. The second part is the

specific grouping or species.Scientists today still use this basic

idea of his system, but modern

classifications systems are much

more complicated having many

levels of hierarchical organization.

For example, taxonomic systems

group organisms according

to structure and physiological

connections between organisms.

(http://www.fi.edu/tfi/units/life/

classify/classify.html)

Before these times, the acceptable

classifications for bats, because

they fly, is that they belong to

the ophs or the fowls, or the

birds. The book of Leviticus waswritten almost 2500 years before

classifications in human science

came. Note that the classification

introduced by Linnaeus employs

two basic ideas: the generic and

the specific. The classification

used in the Bible is exactly generic,

and therefore, in a way, scientific!

After all, the word mammal is not

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in the Bible! The word mammalia

was coined by Linnaeus only in

1758!

Mammalia (1773), coined 1758 by

Linnaeus for the class of mammals,

from neut. pl. of L.L. mammalis of the breast, from L. mamma

breast, perhaps cognate with

mamma.

(http://www.etymonline.com/

index.php?search=mammal&sear

chmode=none)

The book of Leviticus that records

the existence of bats was writtenby Moses in around 1512 BC, more

than three thousand years before

Linnaeus was born!

When the apostles were

commissioned by the Lord Jesus

Christ to make disciples and

teach all nations, the Lord Jesus

Christ knows, and the apostlesunderstood it, that He speaks only

of all nations of the known world.

It is impossible for the apostles

to physically reach the Americas

or my country, the Philippines.

The apostles do not have the

slightest idea that there are

countries existing that time, like

the Philippines and the Americas!The phrase all nations does not

necessarily include all nations of

the world or the whole earth.

When the Bible mentioned that the

whole erets was flooded, it does

not necessarily mean that the

whole world, including the seas,

were flooded! Remember that the

word erets was used in the Bible,

not only to mean the planet earth,

but also the dry land.

Most probably, Noah lived not far

from where Adam and Eve lived.He is about the tenth generation

from Adam. Adam and Eve lived not

far from Eden after being expelled

from the garden of Eden. Eden is

within Turkey. So, the probability

is that the flood happened within

Turkey. The highest mountain

ranges in Turkey are the mountains

of Ararat. It was where the arkrested.

(Genesis 8:4) And the ark

rested in the seventh month, on

the seventeenth day of the month,

upon the mountains of Ararat.

The mountains of Ararat are at the

extreme eastern part of Turkey.The ark of Noah did not go too

far from ground where it floated

because it was not meant to travel,

but to float.

The idea of a worldwide flood did

not come from the Bible, but from

people who do not understand its

language!



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Uric Acid; Toxic Component ofMeat to Humans

About 5% of the flesh volume of all

animals consists of waste material

called uric acid that is normally

eliminated by the kidneys. Uric

acid is a poison to humans

because it is toxic and non-

metabolizable. Nearly

100% of Americanssuffer some form

of osteoporosis

which is due in large part, to the

acidic end-products of meat (andgrain) eating. All carnivorous

animals however, secrete the

enzyme uricase that breaks down

uric acid so it can be readily

eliminated. Humans do not

generate this enzyme. Instead,

we ABSORB uric acid when meat

is eaten. As a result, calcium-urate

crystals form and concentrate injoints, feet, and in the lower back.

These deposits lead to arthritis,

gout, rheumatism, bursitis, and

lower back pain. Humans are

physiologically unsuited to utilizing

meat as food. Natural carnivores

swallow hunks of carrion almost

unchewed, and the flesh is digested

in the stomach with ease andfacility. If humans were to do the

same, we would digest very little

of it before putrefaction set in and

illness ensued. For humans, meat

is a pathogenic and nutritionally

deficient food.

Saliva pH Varies Widely Among

Species

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