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Today is the 50th anniversary
God has blessed me while i've discovered like, three amazing Christian artists in a week! Here's a great one, cheesy video/narrative aside https://youtu.be/sg_slpo4sSE?si=RXNd0-t_EJx5NNo1
I am currently reading a book titled "Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense" It parallels the state of the government today, and puts a spotlight on the deep state as it existed in 1915. I know it is by Dan Abrams, but he did a good job with this book.
link
Hope the journey takes you all the way back to Opium wars and the real origin of the British Intel Drug Trafficking World Order.
My lovely wife has told me that instagram has post about POTUS being hospitalized.
I have taught her the 72 hour rule but I’m asking here for confirmation or denial.
Thanks.
Pres. Trump’s @TruthSocial account shows him in the Oval Office, although this does not mean the photo is of today. Post 5:02 pm Eastern https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115527891580433136
5:01 pm https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115527890275887289
Imagine if all the money that was poured into the Climate Change scams, loans, laundering, etc, actually was used for infrastucture and better management for people who live in storm prone areas? If they can figure out how to put windmills in the ocean, seems to me they can figure out how to create drainage, storm run off, and protect homes, build emergency centers in existing buildings that remain high and dry. Civil engineers can figure it out. They can figure out forest management for wild fires, create moats, etc. Storms are gonna happen, so plan for that instead of hand ringing about "climate change". Dredge the rivers, move the breakwaters. It was a money laundering scam to begin with.
Is there any word about u/UncleFester ??? 🙏🤍
Haven't seen anything yet. His last comment was three days ago! :(
I'll join you in those 🙏🙏🙏🙏....
I'm worried Captain... 🙏
A lot of us are.
This gives me comfort because I know there are MANY Prayers from our family here going up for u/UncleFester and his family...🙏
It's so hard when someone up and disappears.
You can tell who's really involved with their family, sometimes we get lucky.
On Poal, Owlchemy's daughter let us know when he passed. On Voat, stonenchisel's son gave us a wonderful post about his father. Here on GAW, we've had undine, horseman, and a few others.
Praying for UF 🙏🙏🙏🙏, and hoping we hear something one way or the other, unknowing is the worst!
Found this one on GAB:
My grandfather bought an apartment from Blackrock on a 200 year mortgage.
1 bed, 1 bath, no car.
My family has been paying it off for 80 years now. We're nearly half way there.
We're so grateful that we're not renting.
And in just 2 more generations, we'll own it outright.
We've only paid $8.6 million in interest. The apartment was $500k initially.
The apartment's downtown, near GloboCorp where my grandfather used to work.
He died at his desk and they forgot to tell us about it.
We found out a few weeks later, only because Blackrock starting chasing us for mortgage payments.
Sometimes I get sad knowing that I won't see the apartment paid off in my lifetime.
But I know we're building Generational Wealth, so that's OK.
👉🏻 Isaiah 40:3: The voice of one crying in the wilderness: “Prepare the way of the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.”
Amen! 🙌
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Edit 49.39 @ 11.30 central time.
50.30 @ 12 central monday.
The Big Bang Myth BY JAKE HEBERT, PH.D. | FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 2025
https://www.icr.org/article/15445/
According to the most popular conventional origins story, space, energy, time, and matter as we know them came into being 14 billion years ago when a hypothetical process called inflation caused space to rapidly expand. Somehow this cosmic accident eventually resulted in myriads of stars, planets, and galaxies as well as Earth and all its inhabitants. Despite the idea’s apparent absurdity, it’s taken seriously by millions of people, including most scientists.
The Big Bang’s three main supporting arguments are (1) the redshifts of distant galaxies, which are seen as evidence for an expanding universe; (2) the Big Bang’s ability to account for the amounts of hydrogen and helium in the universe; and (3) the existence of a cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation that’s said to be an afterglow from about 400,000 years after the Big Bang happened.
However, an expanding universe doesn’t necessarily imply the Big Bang. God could have imposed an expansion on a large, newly created universe, perhaps to guard against gravitational collapse. Moreover, a number of both conventional and creation scientists openly question this particular interpretation of the redshift data. There’s a way to test whether or not galaxy redshifts really are caused by an expansion of space, but scientists who performed this test have obtained contradictory or equivocal results.1
Likewise, the Big Bang model has an adjustable parameter called the baryon-to-photon ratio. Theorists choose a particular ratio value that allows the Big Bang to produce the observed amounts of hydrogen and helium.2 Even with this freedom, the Big Bang still cannot correctly account for the amount of lithium in the universe.3
The Big Bang’s strongest argument is perhaps the existence of the CMB radiation. And yet, the details of this radiation have repeatedly contradicted Big Bang expectations, forcing multiple revisions to the model.4
Moreover, the Big Bang is plagued by other serious, persistent problems.2 Two different methods of calculating the presumed expansion rate of the universe—one using galaxies’ estimated distances and speeds and the other inferred from CMB radiation details—give contradictory answers, and distant galaxies often appear more mature than Big Bang reckoning expects. This long-standing problem has only been exacerbated by data from the James Webb Space Telescope.1
Another challenge is that Big Bang assumptions forced theorists to conclude that 95% of the universe is comprised of exotic, unknown “stuff.” Big Bang proponents acknowledge that by their own reckoning they know almost nothing about the universe’s basic composition and yet boldly claim to (mostly) understand the process through which the universe supposedly came into being. It’s like not knowing the ingredients in a birthday cake yet claiming to understand its recipe!
If the Big Bang is such a poorly constructed scientific model, why do its proponents cling to it so tenaciously? For many, embracing a weak scientific model is preferable to acknowledging that they will one day have to give an account to our universe’s Creator.
Some Christians claim God used the Big Bang to make the universe, but that idea doesn’t fly. In addition to the Big Bang’s scientific problems, it contradicts Genesis at multiple points—billions versus just thousands of years of history, stars before the earth rather than the earth before the stars, etc.
The Big Bang is a modern-day myth that’s both bad theology and bad science. It’s long past time for it to be abandoned in favor of the true origins story found in Genesis.
References
Hebert, J. 2022. James Webb Telescope vs. the Big Bang. Acts & Facts. 51 (7): 14–17. Hebert, J. 2019. Continuing Troubles for the Big Bang Model. Acts & Facts. 48 (11): 10–13. Thomas, B. Big Bang Fizzles Under Lithium Test. Creation Science Update. Posted on ICR.org September 22, 2014, accessed May 27, 2025. Hebert, J. 2018. Does the Cosmic Microwave Background Confirm the Big Bang? Acts & Facts. 47 (6): 10–12. Stage image credit: NASA/WMAP Science Team. Used in accordance with federal copyright (fair use doctrine) law. Usage by ICR does not imply endorsement of copyright holder.
Dr. Hebert is a research scientist at the Institute for Creation Research and earned his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Texas at Dallas.
Cite this article: Jake Hebert, Ph.D. 2025. The Big Bang Myth. Acts & Facts. 54 (5), 5.
"Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." 2 Timothy 4:2-4
Amen! 🙌
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