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anyone who blasphemes the name of the LORD must be put to death. The entire assembly must stone him. Whether an alien or native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death. (Leviticus 24:16)

If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death?the girl because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man’s wife. You must purge the evil from among you. (Deuteronomy 22:23-24)

If a man or woman living among you in one of the towns the LORD gives you is found doing evil in the eyes of the LORD your God in violation of his covenant, and contrary to my command has worshiped other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or the moon or the stars of the sky, and this has been brought to your attention, then you must investigate it thoroughly. If it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done in Israel, take the man or woman who has done this evil deed to your city gate and stone that person to death. (Deuteronomy 17:2-5)

If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods that neither you nor your fathers have known, gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), do not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity. Do not spare him or shield him. You must certainly put him to death. Your hand must be the first in putting him to death, and then the hands of all the people. Stone him to death, because he tried to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. (Deuteronomy 13:6-10)

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town. They shall say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard.” Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid. (Deuteronomy 21:18-21)

‘A man or woman who is a medium or spiritist among you must be put to death. You are to stone them; their blood will be on their own heads.’ (Leviticus 20:27)

While the Israelites were in the desert, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day. Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly, and they kept him in custody, because it was not clear what should be done to him. Then the LORD said to Moses, “The man must die. The whole assembly must stone him outside the camp.” So the assembly took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD commanded Moses. (Numbers 15:32-36)

But seat two scoundrels opposite him and have them testify that he has cursed both God and the king. Then take him out and stone him to death.” (1 Kings 21:10)

The Bible even calls for the stoning of animals!

“If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull must be stoned to death, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the bull will not be held responsible. (Exodus 21:28)

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Submitted by Jerome McCollom on Mar 2, 2011

It is illegal to commit terrorism in the U.S. There is not a region in the country where it’s not. It is illegal to conspire to commit terrorism or murder.

Doesn’t matter what your religion may or may not be, you can’t do it. Pretty simple, right? Well, a proposed bill in Tennessee will enhance the penalty if you happen to be a Muslim and you committed or plotted to do this act in the name of Sharia or Islamic law.  Now, first, this law wouldn’t ban the practicing of Islam, though I am sure quite a few of the people who voted for the author of this legislation would want to do exactly that. Tennessee is a hotbed for banning Islamic mosques.

Now, according to this bill, if you supported or believed in the part of Sharia law that deals with imposing Islam on the rest of the nation, then you can be put in prison, especially if it involves an act of terrorism. First of all, this signals out one religion and its believers for extra punishment.

If someone commits an act of violence in support of Christian right-wing views, there is no enhancer penalty. This is un-Constitutional both when it comes to the federal and state constitution of Tennessee. Being the member of an unpopular and minority religion does not mean you have less rights under the law and that your religious view can make you suffer a greater punishment if you commit a violent act than the member of any other religion.

The bill states:

“The knowing adherence to sharia and to foreign sharia authorities is
prima facie evidence of an act in support of the overthrow of the United States
government … .”

If this was applied to Christianity, than all Catholics (laymen or clerics) who adhere to Catholicism and the Vatican (for some reason a church is a nation state that we recognize, but it is) than that would be according to the bill, “prima facie evidence of an act in support of the overthrow of the United States government … .” 

For some reason, I don’t foresee a bill dealing with those who support or believe in Christian Reconstructionism, being proposed. If someone supports the idea that the American Constitution to be closer to the 10 Commandments (such as Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee) they could be charged under this bill, if this bill wasn’t solely directed at Muslims.

Strangely, on the radio, the author of this bill stated that the bill could also be used against Christians, atheists etc. That is an inane defense of course, no atheists or Christians would want Sharia law in any form imposed.

The bill had defined the parts of Sharia being illegal as :

“Sharia as a political doctrine requires all its adherents to actively support the establishment of a political society based upon sharia as foundational or supreme law and the replacement of any political entity not governed by sharia with a sharia political order.

Sharia requires all its adherents to actively and passively support the replacement of America’s constitutional republic, including the representative government of this state with a political system based upon sharia.”

Does that sound any different than Pat Robertson’s vision for America, other than instead of Islam, having Christianity as replacing our secular government and Constitution?  Look, if someone wants to support the establishment of a nation based on a theocratic vision where church or mosque are thoroughly intertangled with religion, that is their right.

I will oppose them, of course, but they have as much right as anyone else to do so. If a Muslim wants an America that has daily and mandatory Quran readings, that is their right. If they want a nation where women have to wear a burqa, that is their right, along as they try to do it through the democratic process, just as Christian conservatives, who go through the same process, have been able to deny me a right to die (if I am in great pain) because their religion says so.

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Electrical signals travel through your optic nerve carrying information that describes what you are seeing. Signals travel through your olfactory nerve carrying information about what you are smelling. Electrical signals traverse trillions of neurons for the purpose of creating thought and reason.

One set of signals may communicate that you are smelling wood smoke, another communicates that you are smelling burning rubber. The same is true for your eyes. Certain signals mean blue while others communicate the color red with a slight overtone of maroon. All of these perceptions are nothing more than electrical signals sent along nerves from the sensory organ.

There is one set of signals for colors, another for sounds, another for touch, another for smell, another for sight or for reason or emotion, others for other intrabrain communications and others for the operation of your body. These signals are codes and these codes have never been deciphered.

These codes are so complex and so beautifully designed that they accurately convey every color that you have ever seen in the form of electrical impulses, and every smell that you have ever smelled, every touch that you have ever experienced and every thought and emotion that you have ever had.

These codes are entirely non-physical; they are pure logic.

Each one of billions of nerve cells creates the precise amount of electricity that it uses to transfer its particular code. The nerve cells create the electrical signals that they use by sending sodium and potassium ions in and out of the cell wall at rates varying up to 1000 changes per second.In 1/1000 of a second, the cell changes from a negative charge to a positive charge and then back again. In this way, nerve cells “hum” with electricity.

It is in the pattern and the speed of the hum that the brain transfers data and creates thought. This is the way that brain cells communicate – by codes conveyed through electrical signals that have no physical resemblance whatever to that which they convey. Every sight, sound, touch, emotion, reaction, every memory and every thought in the history of mankind is a code.

If these nerve cells occurred by chance, then billions of cells have, by accidental mutations, were somehow arranged and organized be able as a whole to assimilate and to apply the non-physical codes. Each cell was, by accident, assigned a duty and purpose in the context of all of the billions of others. And how many different encoded expressions are there in vision? There is at least one for every color that man can see. And man can see millions of colors.

It is insufficient to explain this by saying that millions or hypothesized accidents just happened to accurately organize the cells in a brain. The argument is ludicrous.

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Each of these nerve cells is electrical. Each has a particular purpose and each has been microscopically placed into its own particular position in this vast network. And each one is electrically connected to all of the other cells.

The regulation of these connections is so precise that the cells contain timing devices to slow down some impulses by millionths of a second so that they may reach the destination at exactly the proper time.

The number of these organized electrical is much larger than the number of individual neurons because each neuron may have thousands of connections.

The number of connections in the human brain is approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000.

Denton, Michael, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis(Adler & Adler, 1985), p 330.

The amount of wiring for these connections is approximately 100,000 kilometers (50,000 miles) or slightly more that two circumfrences of the earth:

“In the human brain, for example, the total length of wiring is about 10⁸ meters and it has to be packed into a volume of avout 1.5 liters.
. . .

“Using the criterion of joules per operation, the brain is about 7 or 8 orders of magnitude more power efficient than the best of the silicon chips. A direct consequence of their energy efficiency is that brains can perform many more operations per second than even the newest supercomputers. The fastest digital computers are capable of around 10⁹ operations per second; the brain of the common housefly, for example, performs about 10¹¹ operations per second when merely resting.”

Churchland, Patricia S. and Sejnowski, Terrence J., The Computational Brain (MIT Press, 1992) p. 9.

Each of these connections works in cooperation with the other 1,000,000,000,000,000 connections. Not one of these connections acts on its own; each one acts in concert with the others;  they are all organized.

To understand the size of this vast network of electrical connections, one must first comprehend the size of the number 1,000,000,000,000,000.

Imagine an immense forest that stretches over half the United States, a single forest that covers one million square miles.  Each square mile contains 10,000 trees and each tree contains 100,000 leaves.  Imagine the vast number of trees in such a forest.  The number of organized electrical connections in your brain is approximately equal to the number of leaves on those trees. See Michael, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (Adler & Adler, 1985), p 330.

Now imagine that all of those leaves are connected to each other by wires and each leaf produces the precise amount of electricity necessary for it to function in this massive network and produce thought. That is the brain of a human. What is the rate of evolution necessary to evolve such a brain?

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What are the odds that all of the connections of the brain (and this is a look at the connections only and not the nerve cells themselves) occurred by chance? There is a mathematical formula that calculates the odds of different arrangements.

Consider a deck of cards. Three of the 52 cards can be arranged in only 6 different ways. So, for 3 cards, the chances are one in 6 that any one arrangement would occur by accident.

When a 4th card is added, there are 4 new arrangements for each one of all of the other arrangements. So, to find the number of arrangements, multiply the new number of cards by the number of previous arrangements. So, when the 4th card is added, multiply 4 (the new number of cards) times 6 (the previous number of arrangements) and the result is the number of arrangements for 4 cards. So, when the 4th card is added, the number of possible arrangements becomes 24 and the chance of any one arrangement occurring by accident is 1 in 24.

To get the new number of arrangements for each new card, multiply the total number of cards by the number of prior arrangements. This is a commonly known mathematical forum la.

For four cards, the formula is 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 = 24. Try it! You can arrange only 4 cards in 24 separate ways.

If there were 5 cards, then the chances of a particular arrangement by chance are 1 in 120 (1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5).

We suggest that you see the bottom  to see how this works, otherwise you find it difficult to believe what follows. Because when you get to the 20th card, there are more different combinations of cards than there are seconds in two billion years.

If there were 6 cards then the chances are 1 in 720 (1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 x 6), because there are now 6 new arrangements for each of the prior arrangements.

If there were 7 cards, then the chances are 1 in 5040 (1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 x 6 x 7). If 8 cards, then one in 40300.

With 9 there are 362,880, with 10 there are 3,628,800, with 11 there are 39,916,800, with 12 there are 479,001,600, with 13 there are 6,227,020,800, with 14 there are 87,178,291,200, with 15 there are 1,307,674,368,000, with 16 there are 20,922,789,888,000, with 17 there are 355,687,428,096,000, with 18 there are 6,402,373,705,728,000, with 19 there are 121,645,100,408,832,000, and with 20 there are 2,432,902,008,176,640,000 random combinations.

There are only 1,051,200,000,000,000 seconds in two billion years. So, with the random combinations of just 20 cards, one has already surpassed the number of seconds in two billion years by more than two thousand times. That is, the number of random combinations of just 20 cards is more than two thousand times the number of seconds in two billion years.

NEUROLOGICAL CONNECTIONS IN THE BRAIN OF A HUMAN

When one considers that there are 1,000,000,000,000,000 cards in the “deck” of neurological connections in a human brain, it is easy to see that it is simply impossible for them to have formed by means of random accidents, no matter what natural forces may have been present.

Suppose these neurological connections evolved perfectly, with no mistakes whatever. Suppose they were simply “produced” in an assembly line with no evolution necessary. How long would it take to evolve a brain? If they were all “produced” on a regular basis with no mistakes, no survival of the fittest and without the need of generations that slowly bettered themselves, if they were simply produced perfectly formed and perfectly installed, how long would it take? If they had only 2 billion years to do it, then at the rate of one every ten seconds at the end of 2 billion years, they would be 18 billion years behind schedule.

There are 1,051,200,000,000,000 seconds in two billion years and there are 1,000,000,000,000,000 neurological connections – this would require a rate of evolution of approximately one fully perfected connection per second for two billion years. And is hardly even the beginning, because at the same time one would have to evolve a non-physical digital (?) code that describes not only millions upon millions of separate colors, but also every sensation, emotion and thought of man.

The chances of both the accidental creation of the neurons and the arrangement of them are even greater, because the connections and the circuitry must be coincident. They must happen at the same time for every connection and the timing and firing of each neuron must be honed to a perfection down to the nanosecond. The creation of this circuitry involves the creation of exactly the correct electrical current mechanism, creation of the appropriate code used to communicate with other cells, the appropriate size and placement of the neuron (some neurons stretch from the head the toes), the appropriate insulation of the neurological channels, the proper timing mechanisms and unnumbered other characteristics that are properly arranged and organized down to the molecular level and below.

DNA

An occurrence that has more than one chance in 10⁵⁰, it has a statistically zero chance of actually occurring.

“Mathematicians agree that any requisite number beyond 10⁵⁰ has, statistically, a zero probability of occurrence.”

I.L. Cohen, Darwin Was Wrong: A Study in Probabilities (New York: NW Research Publications, Inc., 1984), p. 205 (as quoted in Vance Ferrell, The Evolution Handbook(Evolution Facts, Inc., Altamont TN, 2001) p. 260

In order to circumvent the problem of statistical zero, evolutionists often argue that “Given enough time, anything can happen.” This is not a rational argument. It proves nothing. It is a reference to practically infinite periods of time that lie beyond statistical zero.

“A further aspect I should like to discuss is what I call the practice of avoiding the conclusion that the probability of a self-producing state is zero … When for practical purposes the condition of infinite time and matter has to be invoked, the concept of probability is annulled. By such logic we can prove anything … ”

P.T. Mora, The Folly of Probability, as quoted inOrigins 13(2):98-104 (1986) Geoscience Research Institute, Loma Lind University, 1986. Emphasis supplied.

In fact the chances of the chance formation of just DNA – much less all of the applications of DNA – are so remote, they are far beyond statistical zero. R.L. Wysong concludes that the chances of forming a strand of human DNA without intelligent design is one in 10⁸⁹¹⁹⁰.

“This means that 10⁸⁹¹⁹⁰ DNA molecules, on average, must form to provide the one chance of forming the specific DNA sequence necessary to code 124 proteins. 10⁸⁹¹⁹⁰ DNAs would weigh 10⁸⁹¹⁴⁷ more than the earth … A quantity of DNA this colossal could never have been formed.

R.L. Wysong, The Creation Evolution Controversy, (Inquiry Press, Midland MI, 1976) p.115, as quoted in The Evolution Handbook(Evolution Facts, Inc., Altamont TN, 2001) p. 261.

But evolutionists argue that there are a multitude of factors that effect and direct changes in species, and the world is a dynamic and changing environment with innumerable forces that cannot be predicted. The world is not a closed system, a beaker with billions amino acids floating around in it.

This argument is impotent to contest the statistical facts. Because no matter what grandiose theories are proposed, ultimately the sequence of the DNA molecule had to have been worked out and installed by chance and elements until the proper sequence was produced. And there are 10⁸⁹¹⁹⁰ random possibilities to be addressed before arriving there.

CARDS

It is common knowledge that there are approximately 3,000,000,000 neucleotides in human DNA. These neucleotides have been compared to letters in a 24 letter alphabet. If each playing card contained a letter and 3,000,000,000 playing cards were stacked on top of each other, they would comprise a deck of cards that is approximately 910 miles long. [assuming a deck of cards is an inch high, 3,000,000,000 inches / 52 cards = 57,692,307 inches of cards / 12 = 4,807,692 feet of cards / 5280 = 910 miles of cards].

Evolutionists want you to believe that this deck was shuffled by the forces of nature and dying animals so often that finally the letters of each card spelled out the correct chemical formulae for 100,000 (some have estimated 2 million) human proteins – including correctly placed separators that mark where the formula for one protein ends and the next one begins.

God or no God, that argument is ridiculous.

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Billions and billions of accidents do not even come close to account for what is now common scientific knowledge. One can believe that this occurred by accident only if one has previously determined thatunder no circumstances would one admit the possibility of the existence of God.

But, of course, that is exactly what evolutionists do – they predetermine that under no circumstance will they ever admit the possibility of a Creator, even if there is no evidence for evolution at all.

“Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory … we would still be justified in preferring it over rival theories [creationism].”

Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker (NY Norton, 1986), 287, emphasis in the original.

The basis for conclusions of this nature is obviously not observed facts. It is a predetermined theological conviction in the garb of science that will not be swayed with any observation whatever, not even if the chemical formulae for 100,000 proteins were found to be inscribed into the arrangement of the atoms of a molecule …

Evolution did not occur. There is a Creator.

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The geometry of Fractals brings us a new appreciation for the natural world
and the patterns we observe in it.
Many things previously called chaos are now known to follow subtle subtle fractal laws of behavior. So many things turned out to be fractal that the word “chaos” itself (in operational science) had redefined, or actually for the FIRST time Formally Defined as following inherently unpredictable yet generally deterministic rules based on nonlinear iterative equations. Fractals are unpredictable in specific details yet deterministic when viewed as a total pattern – in many ways this reflects what we observe in the small details & total pattern of life in all it’s physical and mental varieties, too ….

The fact is the closer we look, the less chaos is observed, and more order is seen in the most basic natural patterns

FRACTAL FERN: One very simple way to understand fractals and the meaning of “lteration” is to examine a simple recursive operation that produces a fractal fern thru a “chaos game’ of generating random numbers and then placing them on a grid.

fter a few dozen repetitions or ITERATIONS the shape we would recognize as a Perfect Fern appears from the abstract world of math. How and Why can this be?

The answer to why is that it Simply IS – and it’s quite surprising too!
Answering How is that nature always follows the simplest & most efficient path. Fractals are maps of the simplest paths sliding up the scale of Dimensions (from 2-D to 3-D and so on). So maybe it’s simply an artifact of nature’s elegance that we find exact correspondences between these inherently existing mathematical forms and natural patterns, and even living creatures of many types.

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