This is a place for discussing meteorites and meteorite related topics. I, for
one, do not like to be lectured to on non-meteorite topics.
This is NOT the place.
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- Original Message -
From: Chris Merry
To: meteorite-list
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 12:23 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Mr. Webb and Larry
Dear Mr. Webb and Larry (I'm sorry I do not know your last name),
Let me preface this by saying that I really don't care how anyone
believes...it is your choice/freedom to believe in what or who you want. If
you want the One Omnicient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent God to be Who you believe
in, as I do, then that is your choice; if you want man-made science (some of
which is right and some of which is so ridiculous as to not make a good comic
book) then that is your choice. I do have a problem when people, so heady and
high-minded, who set themselves up to know so much, put down Christians. I
will say the park these two gentlemen are so passionate in discussing and
putting down, seems too me, to lead back to a dislike of Christians, at least
from how they are putting down the God and the Bible contained in their
postings--that I have a problem with. If you don't like the park, don't go
there, but do have a little respect for what others believe. In fact, there is
alot of these viewpoints and beliefs in Christianity that I don't agree with
and this park is not somewhere I would go. But, just because Christians/myself
don't fall down and worship your god of science, and don't see the world as you
do, and don't believe that man came from whatever sludge dwelling animal,
amoeba or whatever you now believe to be our ancestrial mommy and daddy, we
are not heretics, nor simple minded idiots. No, in fact we believe in Someone
so far over your head, that your beliefs are foolishness. To paraphrase a
verse in the Bible the foolishness of God is wisdom to men as well as the
wisdom of men being foolishness to God. As far as I go, I am Apostolic
Pentecostal, believing in Jesus Name baptism and speaking in tongues (please
reference the King James Version of the Bible in the Book of Acts 2:38-39) to
see where my beliefs come from. No, I don't believe in handling snakes! :-)
So, to what I was wanting to address in regards to Mr. Webb and Larry...
I have been reading your recent postings in the Meteorite list, and I find
you two to be sort of sad individuals from the standpoint of how you two are
making fun of Christians, their belief in Creation, the Bible and by extention
Jesus Christ who is God in the flesh. You have the freedom say what you want
to, and so do I, so here it goes. I would first have to ask you two do you
really know how it all began? You have have your ever changing theories and
observations and so on, but are you so sure to the point of betting your soul
on it? Larry you make fun of Noah's Ark and about putting dinosaurs on it and
how big a cubit is. As learned a man as you obviously are, since you teach
Astronomy, because of your belief in your god of science, you make fun of the
Flood and how it made the Grand Canyon. (As an aside, I don't know and don't
care if the Flood made the Grand Canyon, nor if there were dinosaurs on the
Ark, nor do I care how many angels can dance on the head of a pin). Are you so
learned that you can prove or disprove the presence of the true living God and
God's word as written in the Bible? Do it, I dare ya. Your answer will
probably consist of, well, (clears throat and answers in the most scientific,
high-minded voice an Ivy League Institution can produce) that falls in the
realm of faith and spirtualism for which we cannot observe or record data. It
is not testable, I cannot weigh it, taste it or put acid on it, therefore it
does not and cannot exist. Oh, yes and feelings don't count. I dare say,
maybe you and many like you two are afraid that possibly the true living God
exists and that you may have to answer to Him some day. So, if you don't
believe in Him and try to dismiss Him, then He's not there. How blind you are.
Yes, you two have your religion and that is science, believing that things
come into being on a radom hit and miss basis, with no rhyme or reason and no
control other than that all ecompassing term called Nature. Did you ever
consider, dear gentlemen, that there is a Being beyond your paltry fleshly
understanding, that is infinite in understanding making your finite
understanding nothing more that the babblings of a idiot. So, what is wrong
with people having a belief in God? Does that scare you high-minded folks?
Now, onto the quotes from which I was inspired to write this.
Here is a direct quote from Mr. Webb in his recent Meteorite list posting:
I wonder if they've got a diorama where Adam wrastles The
Raptor? That would be entertainment! I sure hope they've taken
all the appropriate precautions to ensure those big
