Dr Thomas Van Flandern: Life On Mars!

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• Why do people find it difficult to accept life on other planets? Some say it is religious because the bible does not say so. Unfortunately, these are the same people in centuries past who believe that the bible says the earth is flat. The bible says the earth is a sphere and not flat :
    
  Isaiah 40:22
  He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
    
• Many people hold to the view that the ancients were cave dwelling idiots. This is because of the propaganda crap taught in schools. Real history actually tells a rather different story. The ancients were of a highly advanced civilization. My suspicion is that most of what we call modern discoveries are really ‘re-discovery’ of lost technology and knowledge. So what does the bible say about life on other planets. How about this ?
    
  Genesis 11
  The Tower of Babel
  ¹And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 
  ²And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
  ³And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
  ⁴And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
  ⁵And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
  ⁶And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
  ⁷Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
   
• A ‘..tower, whose top may reach unto heaven’, could they be building a launch pad for travel to the heavens ie outer space? They were in effect about to mass colonize other planets. The bible does say that only planet earth is man’s home and no other planet. Even in Revelation, the final book of the bible, it is stated very clearly that God will dwell with man on the new earth. Not on some other planet.
   
• Why does God say: ‘nothing will be restrained from them, which they imagined to do’ ? It clearly implies the ancients have reached a mastery of technology that is unprecedented. If the ancients were really so backward and we are so far advanced in technology, why doesn’t God come down and straighten us out like he did above in Genesis 11? Surely, we have technology way ahead of these ancients of Genesis 11 right?  The ancients were not cavemen working with sticks and stones. We are probably just reaching their level of technology in this 21st century.
   
• Dr Thomas Van Flandern :
    
  Thomas C Van Flandern (June 26 1940^[1] – January 9, 2009) was an American astronomer, specializing in celestial mechanics, who was known as an outspoken proponent of unorthodox views on various topics. He graduated from Xavier University in 1962 and then attended Yale Universityon a scholarship sponsored by the U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO). In 1969 he received a PhD in Astronomy from Yale. Van Flandern worked at the USNO until 1982, when he left the civil service and thereafter organized eclipse viewing tours and promoted his unorthodox views. He died on January 9, 2009 after a brief battle with cancer.
   
  Van Flandern advocated the replacement of contemporary theories of physics with ideas based on a set of principles that he called “Deep Reality Physics”, which led to his belief in faster-than-light propagation of forces, gravitational shielding, and limitless free energy. He was also known for his contention that a certain rock formation on Mars is an ancient artificial sculpture of a face, and for his advocacy of LeSage gravity (first proposed by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier in 1692). He authored a book, Dark Matter, Missing Planets and New Comets: Paradoxes Resolved, Origins Illuminated,^[2] in which he challenged prevailing notions regarding dark matter, the big bang, and solar system formation, and advocated the theory (first proposed by Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers in 1802) that the asteroid belt consists of the remains of an exploded planet. He was a prominent member of a group called the Natural Philosophy Alliance, devoted to “open-minded criticism… of the often irrational and unrealistic doctrines of modern physics and cosmology, and to the ultimate replacement of these doctrines”. He issued newsletters and maintained a website devoted to his ideas, which have not found acceptance within the scientific community.

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