LittleNipper wrote:This song came out in 1950 and was a big hit running for about 14 weeks and becoming number1. I had this on a 45 RPM which my dad bought. Now I know that many of you are headed for various vacation spots. Just remember DON'T PICK UP A BOX FLOATING CLOSE TO SHORE! And here is why... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1tKZ3flZZY
What?
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
Samantabhadra wrote:Radiation and quantum mechanics, like global warming and evolution, is a liberal secularist conspiracy.
and GMO is a conservative religious conspiracy
"the American people hold the President of the United States in contempt, they hold this institution in contempt, they hold the Republican party in contempt, they hold the Democratic party in contempt" - Bernie Sanders, 1992 Please support Sanders and Donate to his campaign
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
Thanks for reviving this. I haven't had such a good chuckle in a while.
"You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night.... Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful." -- Judge Doom
Joseph Smith thought the earth was 2.5 billion years old. Not bad for the times he lived in, but his math is just as bad as Archbishop Ussher of a few centuries earlier. The LDS(Like anyone else) are free to believe the earth is of any age. As long as they believe God did it. They are free to believe it. I believe God did it some 4.55 billion years ago. SEE http://eom.BYU.edu/index.php/Evolution
The CCC wrote:Joseph Smith thought the earth was 2.5 billion years old. Not bad for the times he lived in, but his math is just as bad as Archbishop Ussher of a few centuries earlier. The LDS(Like anyone else) are free to believe the earth is of any age. As long as they believe God did it. They are free to believe it. I believe God did it some 4.55 billion years ago. SEE http://eom.BYU.edu/index.php/Evolution
Why must God have dun it? Now, perhaps God started the big bang, but everything else naturally evolved. OR it is just as possible God naturally evolved in this universe. In either event, God doesn't have to have had a hand in the actual fashioning of this planet. That could simply have been a very natural process.
"You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night.... Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful." -- Judge Doom
The CCC wrote:Joseph Smith thought the earth was 2.5 billion years old. Not bad for the times he lived in, but his math is just as bad as Archbishop Ussher of a few centuries earlier. The LDS(Like anyone else) are free to believe the earth is of any age. As long as they believe God did it. They are free to believe it. I believe God did it some 4.55 billion years ago. SEE http://eom.BYU.edu/index.php/Evolution
Why must God have dun it? Now, perhaps God started the big bang, but everything else naturally evolved. OR it is just as possible God naturally evolved in this universe. In either event, God doesn't have to have had a hand in the actual fashioning of this planet. That could simply have been a very natural process.
Well, in that case, I believe Santa Claus made the Earth last Tuesday and made us all just think we lived before then and that the Earth (and universe) is much older than it actually is.
"You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night.... Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful." -- Judge Doom
The CCC wrote:Joseph Smith thought the earth was 2.5 billion years old.
I think Phelps believed the solar system or universe was that old. It's one statement in a letter from Phelps to Joseph's brother.
"Well, now, Brother William, when the house of Israel begin to come into the glorious mysteries of the kingdom, and find that Jesus Christ, whose goings forth, as the prophets said, have been from of old, from eternity; and that eternity, agreeably to the records found in the catacombs of Egypt, has been going on in this system, (not this world) almost two thousand five hundred and fifty five millions of years: and to know at the same time, that deists, geologists and others are trying to prove that matter must have existed hundreds of thousands of years; -- it almost tempts the flesh to fly to God, or muster faith like Enoch to be translated and see and know as we are seen and known!" W. W. Phelps, Times and Seasons, vol.5, pg. 758, 1 Jan 1844
You may notice it does not say earth but this system. The number I believe is calculated from ideas about a day to God(or Kolob) is a 1000 years to us. This is not Joseph saying this but Phelps and his math was just calculating a day to God was a 1000 years to man and creation of the universe was 7000 years of God. Not sure where he gets some of these assumptions but it's not scientific in any way.
