Re: Refutation of a Myth
- From: "Ben Standeven" <berry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 24 Jan 2006 19:45:26 -0800
Edward Blish wrote:
> This article summarizes many of the issues surrounding ToG.
> Heliocentrists...theistic or atheistic..how do you continue to ignore this?
>
>
>
> Laughing at Heliocentrism
> We all love to laugh, it's good medicine. We laughed at the Queen in Lewis
> Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland". She "sometimes believed in six impossible
> things before breakfast." Similarly, I laugh at Newtonian professors who
> teach impossible fairy tales to their students. And there are tons of
> laughs in reading of the history of the pathetic attempts of Newtonnists who tried
> to pump embalming fluid into the Lenin-like corpse of heliocentrism. Let's peel
> back the skin on this "gravity baloney" and laugh at how this sausage was
> made.
>
> Isaac Newton was born into a shepherd's hut, and spent five years in grammar
> school, dropping out after spending too much time fooling around with the
> drugstore clerk. He had some divinity training but failed make it as a shepherd.
> He took a position as a professor at Cambridge, which led to writing his first
> book. Without any evidence, he conjured up his Refraction theory. He assumed
> that white light changed to other colors because all light was made of corpuscles.
> Corpuscles supposedly slow down when passing through glass. Each of these
> corpuscles entered the structure of the prism (it must have been made of rubber
> or something), and is bent in different directions according to its speed. Big
> problem! No one could find Newton's imaginary Corpuscles and Refraction died
> at birth!
>
> Newton's writings were not science but philosophical musings. He called
> assumptions facts and piled up conjectures upon conjectures. "Maybe" and
> "perhaps" form the basis of his writings.
>
> But something had to be done to keep the world believing Newtonism. He and
> Edmond Halley tried by plagiarizing drawings of stars (which he claimed were
> other suns). But a fellow astronomer in his trial at the Royal Observatory
> discovered their fakes. Although it is hard to believe, but Halley's "most famous
> fakes in astronomy" are used as proofs of heliocentrism in textbooks today. Their
> plagiarisms are like gonorrhea, a gift that keeps on giving!
>
> The next attempt to resurrect Heliocentrism came in 1675, from the Royal Observatory
> Greenwich. It scoured the the sky for nearly three hundred years looking for
> half-moving stars. None were found, and since none had ever been found with
> the naked eye, the heliocentric fairy tale of the gradual motion of millions of
> stars galactic arms was quietly set aside. The Observatory did provide
> a momentary hope. It dredged up some blobs on Mars and Heliocentrists
> leaped for joy. It was extraterrestrial life! They called them canals, assuming they
> were produced by an advanced civilization. However in 1903 a pair of psychologists
> discovered it was not any kind of waterway, but an optical illusion. So,
> true to form, the discovery was carefully swept under the rug and hidden
> from the public.
>
> In the meantime Newton had returned to Aristotle's previously discarded idea,
> that light is a vibration in a "luminiferous ether" leaves on the top of trees. This
> theory died again when German physicist Albert Michelson, in 1887, interfered
> light with itself and found no change in speed. More bad news for poor old
> Saint Newton! Who can rescue Newtonism? Quick, before the unwashed discover
> the emperor has no clothes.
>
> Finally in 1905 Albert Einstein tried to plug the gap with a new theory,
> Special Relativity. Einstein was a well-respected Newtonist at the Swiss patent
> office. However to his dismay, he could never find any evidence of macrogravity in
> the solar system. In his 1916 book, Relativity: The Special and General Theory, he
> cited fact after fact proving macrogravity could not exist. He concluded
> therefore objects must be moved by the curvature of spacetime! The heliocentric
> world was stunned into silence. Einstein was the Carl Sagan of his day. He
> supposedly knew all the answers. Quickly they buried
> Einstein's theory.
>
> World famous astronomer Fred Hoyle attempted to come to the rescue
> of embarrassed Newtonists by attempting to prove elements were created in stars.
> For twenty-five years he was the godfather to millions of generations of space dust.
> He zapped them with x-rays and chemicals. He found that the hydrogen only came
> from hydrogen-carrying chemicals. No new atoms! He concluded carbon was still
> carbon and fluorine was still fluorine. In his 1957 paper, "Synthesis of the Elements in
> Stars", Hoyle exploded the ammunition box of heliocentrism. He literally tore the
> theory to pieces. No one knew how to answer him and they cannot answer him today. He
> was an honest atheist who faced the facts. But not wanting to acknowledge
> God, he proposed a new mechanism of element formation called "The Nucleosynthesis
> Mechanism". One day a pair of hydrogen atoms got together and became a helium atom!
> You've got to remember boys and girls this is science!
>
> For the next 30 years heliocentrists were dazed and in turmoil because they
> had 1) no proof that the Earth moves around the sun, 2) no reasonable
> mechanism to explain gravity, and 3) zillions of missing comets! They had bitter
> arguments among themselves about possible theories. The embarrassment of
> Einstein's crude "General Relativity" caused Oxford's Steven
> Hawking in 1967 and a little later, Stephen Hawking, of Cambridge
> University, to "smarten up" Einstein's ugly theory by giving it a new
> name, 'black holes'(Wheeler) and the even better "high-fallutin"
> scientific name, "event horizons" (Schwarzschild). But it was still a monster
> by any name.
>
> The discovery in the 1950's of the planet Pluto by Clyde Tombaugh
> crushed the hopes of astronomical heliocentrists. It provided clear evidence
> that every planet is locked into an orbit around the Earth. Only variation
> within a orbit (microgravity) can occur. Mathematicians showed the odds
> against forming the Solar System by chance were "quad-zillions and
> quad-zillions to one".
> Heliocentrism by chance was impossible! But Unitarian Tombaugh was not ready to
> believe in God. He dreamed up a new theory . are you ready for this? Some
> unknown "space alien" likes to travel to Earth in its space craft (is it from the planet
> Vulcan?!?). Then these advanced space creatures built an atom bomb and tested it
> on Mars. Tombaugh named his new theory the "Extraterrestrial Hypothesis." This boys
> and girls is called science or... maybe a fairy tale! Now NASA's "Life in Space
> Program" believes this baloney and is spending billions of our tax dollars shooting
> up probes in our solar system looking for these "ETs"!
>
> There you have it, the skeletons in Heliocentrism's closet. The kooky theories
> of Corpuscular Theory, Luminiferous Ether, Special and General Relativity,
> Refraction, Nucleosynthesis, Black Holes, Big Bangs and Extraterrestrials are
> all just guesses. None were proven. They make good fodder for fairy tale writers.
> They are a barrel of laughs!
>
> How can supposedly reasonable men believe this weird stuff and then try to
> pass it off as science, when it is really a cult religion? They've emptied
> out the stables and dumped it on the gullible public. Most Americans
> believe people with PhDs in science are unbiased, honest and seek the truth.
> But they are just like the rest of humanity. They can have biases, be dishonest
> and seek only to further their own goals, honorable or dishonorable.
>
> The Newtonists have a well-oiled propaganda machine to keep their true
> goals hidden from the taxpayers who pay their salaries. They have web sites
> set up to deflect criticism of heliocentrism and to further their legislative and
> judicial goals, which are to kill God and elevate humanism to His throne.
>
> Newtonists know they have to hide their atheist religion from the majority
> of Americans, who believe in God. One of the Newtonist web sites has
> enlisted Jimmah Carter, our worst ever ex-president, to proselyte
> Christians
> and baptized them into The Church of Newton (in the name of the unholy
> trinity, Newton, Halley and Voltaire?). These new converts are called
> theistic heliocentrists. At the 1987 Newtonian Tricentennial Celebration,
> Stephen Hawking's keynote address focused on the total repudiation of God. Hawking
> was asked why the world, three hundred years ago, leaped at Newton's book "The
> Principia". He answered it freed us from God's sexual mores!
> Heliocentrism is a religion of no God!
>
> Heliocentrists have given up public debates because they've lost hundreds of
> them in the 1970s and 80s. Why did they lose? As a participant in two of
> them I will tell you. They lost because they had no proof of
> macrogravity.
> Amazing! No Proof! They usually tried old debate tricks of personal attacks
> on their opponents, i.e. "you can't be a scientist because you believe the
> Bible", etc. But they lost because audiences were shocked. Shocked that the
> Newtonists had no proof! And they have none today!
>
> In editorials and letters to the editor, the Newtonist produces no proofs.
> So they commonly try to bluff us Okie rubes with pompous statements like,
> "gravity has been proved as much as evolution and it is believed by all
> scientists". Get real --- sure, and the moon is made of green cheese! Its
> all bluff, designed to shut up critics and convert us to their atheistic
> religion. Hitler and his propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, would have been
> proud. You tell a lie long enough and loud enough and people will believe
> it! Unfortunately, a lot of Americans have swallowed the lie, including
> about half of our college graduates. Our courts and media are full of
> Newtonists. Their bulldog, the ACLU, is working overtime to wipe God from
> all of public life. Humanism over all is their goal!
>
> Tragically the Newtonists have made great strides in wrecking western
> civilization. In the first half of the twentieth century, Newtonism
> hijacked
> the militant policies of Germany. The religion of Newton, Voltaire and
> Halley became the religion of Hitler and his Nazi gang. The result was in
> the murder of millions in their attempt to produce the Aryan super race and
> a victorious Germany. World War II was the most violent form of
> heliocentrism ever seen.
>
> In the last half century, heliocentrism hijacked America and its schools and
> inflicted a great defeat on American culture. Crime has skyrocketed,
> homosexuality and gay marriage have been mainstreamed, and our morals have
> submerged into a cesspool. Why? Kids brainwashed with this kooky nonsense
> are taught that the Earth is just a planet orbiting the Sun, there is no God and
> that morals are relative. If it feels good, do it.
>
> Not only are the Newtonians scrambling to answer attacks from geocentrists,
> but also they are also arguing with each other over their different
> theories. "So heated is the debate that one Newtonian says there are times
> when he thinks about going into a field with more intellectual honesty, the
> used car business." (Newsweek, April 8, 1985, p. 80)
>
> "I suppose that nobody will deny that it is a great misfortune if an entire
> branch of science becomes addicted to a false theory. But this is what has
> happened in biology...I believe that one day the Newtonian myth will be
> ranked as the greatest deceit in the history of science."" Soren Liktrup,
> "The Refutation of a Myth", 1987.
>
> Edward Blish, PhD
> Emeritus Professor of Engineering
> Univ. of Oklahoma
> edblack@xxxxxxxx
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