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In the beginning God
created the heavens and the Earth. And the Earth was without form, and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And Satan said, "It doesn't get any better than this."
And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
And God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit," and God saw that it was good.
And Satan said, "There goes the neighborhood."
And God said, "Let us make Man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air and over the cattle, and over all the Earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the Earth." And so God created Man in his own image; male and female created he them. And God looked upon Man and Woman and saw that they were lean and fit.
And Satan said, "I know how I can get back in this game."
And God populated the earth with broccoli and cauliflower and spinach, green and yellow vegetables of all kinds, so Man and Woman would live long and healthy lives.
And Satan created McDonald's. And McDonald's brought forth the 99-cent double cheeseburger. And Satan said to Man, "You want fries with that?"
And Man said, "Supersize them."
And Man gained 5 pounds.
And God created the healthful yogurt, that woman might keep her figure that man found so fair.
And Satan brought forth chocolate.
And Woman gained 5 pounds.
And God said, "Try my crispy fresh salad."
And Satan brought forth Hagen-daz.
And Woman gained 10 pounds.
And God said, "I have sent thee hearty-healthy vegetables and olive oil with which to cook them."
And Satan brought forth chicken-fried steak so big it needed its own platter.
And Man gained 10 pounds and his bad cholesterol went through the roof.
And God brought forth running shoes and Man resolved to lose those extra pounds.
And Satan brought forth cable TV with remote control so Man would not have to toil to change channels between ESPN and ESPN2.
And Man gained another 20 pounds.
And God said, "You're running up the score, Devil." And God brought forth the potato, a vegetable naturally low in fat and brimming with nutrition.
And Satan peeled off the healthful skin and sliced the starchy center into chips and deep-fat fried them. And he created sour cream dip also. And Man clutched his remote control and ate the potato chips swaddled in cholesterol.
And Man went into cardiac arrest.
And God sighed and created quadruple bypass surgery.
And Satan created HMOs.
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Submitted by Richard

"In the beginning, God created heaven and Earth .." thus begins the Old Testament of the Bible. On the other hand, Science says the beginning of our Universe occurred 13.7 billion years ago with the Big Bang, when all the matter that comprises our Universe was created. With the Bible, there is only "faith" - accept or reject it; with Science however, there are rules and analysis and explanations and conditions which can be explored - thus understanding is gained.

Among the bases of the Science version, there are the following:

Our Universe is proven (by astronomical measurements) to be expanding - thus, at its start, the Big Bang is understood to have been initiated from a super-compressed small "beginning";.
The 13.7 billion years, verified by background radiation measurements from all areas of the Universe, is "Earth time". (Note: Einsteinian time-dilation calculations are that "time passage" is not a constant everywhere (sorry, Star Trek), but varies between places, dependent upon the differences in gravity fields and speeds of travel between the places);.
By Einstein's "Mass -Energy" equation, scientists believe - at the Big Bang - when all the matter of the entire Universe was created (everything on Earth, our solar system, our galaxy, all galaxies) - all the "mass" of the Universe was converted from an immense amount of "energy" (source unknown);.

Most difficult for most non-scientists to grasp is relative time-passage, that length-of-time is not a constant at different places. In contrast - flat versus spherical earth - through education and the commonplace of air travel in our daily lives, western adults easily accept a ball-shaped Earth rather than flatness - what our eyes see.To self-educate on time-passage-differences, some gradual acclimatization can assist: Einsteinian time-dilation (proven by aircraft flight comparisons) establishes that time slows as the gravity field-force and travel speeds increase;Earth-time is based on Earth's gravity (average man weighs about 170 lbs.) and Earth-surface speed (about 220 miles-per-second: Earth orbit of Sun; our solar system movement in our galaxy; etc.);.

At the Big Bang, the gravity field was so great that a tiny dust mite (that we might see floating in a ray of sunlight in our living room) might weigh millions of tons; the speed of travel would approach that of light; thus (per our smartest Cosmologists) - at the spot where future Earth would be located in the expanding Cosmos - "Day 1 of Cosmic time" (24 hour equivalent day) would be about seven billion years of present Earth-time; Day 2 (expanding Universe), about half that;
Thus, it turns out that 13.7 billion years (Earth time) is equivalent to only about six days of Cosmic time, and our Earth (per science), which is dated to about four billion years of age, was formed (from the swirling mass of material which became our galaxy and solar system) at about the beginning of Cosmic Day 3.
Interesting aspects of time relativity are: a cross-country aircraft traveler gains perhaps one forty-billionth of a second, compared to stay-at-homes; and an astronaut on the moon "ages" a similar, unnoticeable amount of time relative to earthlings.

Of great interest to religious believers is that Cosmic time, seems to agree in all respects with Bible time. Events both in the Cosmos and on Earth - as astronomy and Earth sciences establish them - seem to concur with the biblical events. Comparisons show remarkable correlations to Genesis, day by day: the formation of galaxies; formation of solar system; Earth, water, vegetation appears; aquatic and flying creatures, mammals and humankind appear - different words but not a single non-conformity! Extremely noteworthy is that the studies of Astronomy and Earth sciences have been under development only in the past few centuries, whereas, the matching words of the Bible have been around for millennial.

What is unfortunate - as humankind uses its powers of observation and rationalization to understand our world and how it and we have come about - is that the conventional mind-set of our most intelligent and educated leaders, is so firmly close-minded against the mere idea of a "creator" or an "Intelligent Design" that logic is not permitted to enter. By dictate from the secular elite, the leaders of western society: life came about by chance - Darwin-Evolution explains it all - teachers who dare to teach Intelligent Design must be "Expelled" (title of recent documentary on such attempts) - God must be kept from the classroom!

Thanks.......

- God must be kept from the classroom!

God must also be kept in our heart and home! We need to bring Christ back into our lives, Christ must be brought back to this once great nation!

Amen, sister