THEY HAD THE WINGS OF A BAT Herodotus, respected Greek historian who lived in approximately 450 B.C., once wrote: “There is a place in Arabia…to which I went, on hearing of some winged serpents; and when I arrived there, I saw bones and spines of serpents, in such quantities as it would be impossible to describe. The form of the serpent is like that of a water-snake; but he has wings without feathers, and as like as possible to the wings of a bat (n.d., emp. added).” Herodotus recognized that such creatures were not birds, mammals, or insects—but reptiles with wings. #grownostr #plebchain #nostr #history #cyptid If you find value in my notes and articles please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always appreciated!

First Habla article is now posted! “THE UNIVERSE FROM NOTHING IS ABSURD” The explanation of the origin of our universe does not make sense without God. #grownostr #plebchain #nostr #apologetics #God #naturallaw #philosophy If you find value in my notes and articles please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always appreciated! https://habla-new.vercel.app/a/naddr1qqxnzd3cxscnjdek8qcrswfeqyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcpzdmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82c30qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyvhwumn8ghj7am9d33k7mt99ehx7um5wgh8w6twv5hsz9thwden5te0dehhxarj9ehhsarj9ejx2a30qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qg6waen5te0w4382mn5w5erqvfwd3hkxctv8g6rsdpc9uq3kamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdaexzmn8v4cxjmrv9ejx2a30qgsvujp7pxmsl2sfaalyshjar3ycnpjyvx4rmce8x3rn4khmpdgvkpcrqsqqqa283xwtpa

ARISTOTLE’S UNMOVED MOVER The Greek philosopher Aristotle was one of the first philosophers to address the issue of the causation of the universe. According to Aristotle everything had a cause that brought it into existence. In turn that cause had a cause that created it. This chain of causation extends back into the past. However, that chain couldn’t be past eternal as one first cause was necessary to initiate the chain of causes. This, he named the unmoved mover, “ὃ οὐ κινούμενον κινεῖ” translated into “that which moves without being moved”. [1] [1] Aristotle, Metaphysics XII, 1072a. #grownostr #plebchain #apologetics #philosophy #God If you find value in my notes and articles please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always appreciated!

“The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.” ~ Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, philosopher, physicist, and theologian #grownostr #plebchain #quotes If you find value in my notes and articles please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always appreciated!

Caravaggio, The Taking of Christ, c. 1602  #grownostr #plebchain #Jesus #Christianity #paintings #art

NOT YOUR AVERAGE RIPPLES ON THE BEACH An aerial photograph of the West Barr area on the western side of the Columbia River in Washington state. This area is a large version of the current ripples you may see at a beach or river. However, these ripples are over 24 feet tall and spaced 360 feet apart and were formed by huge floods that carved out a large part of the state. The massive current required to form these giant ripples would have been at least 600 feet deep and flowing at over 65 miles an hour. #grownostr #plebchain #science If you find value in my notes, please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always great too! Image from the Washington Geological Survey (Washington State DNR)

THE FIRST CAUSE ARGUMENT FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD The argument for the existence of God being the first cause of the universe is a fundamental element to apologetics. The idea that things that begin to exist must have a first cause was introduced into Christian theology by the Dominican priest, theologian, and philosopher, Saint Thomas Aquinas. Aquinas wrote his argument for the existence of God by causation in his dissertation called the Second Way. The Second Way is part of the grouping called The Five Ways in which Aquinas lays forth five arguments to prove the existence of God. In his in his book “Summa Theologica” he states: “The second way is from the nature of the efficient cause. In the world of sense we find there is an order of efficient causes. There is no case known (neither is it, indeed, possible) in which a thing is found to be the efficient cause of itself; for so it would be prior to itself, which is impossible. Now in efficient causes it is not possible to go on to infinity, because in all efficient causes following in order, the first is the cause of the intermediate cause, and the intermediate is the cause of the ultimate cause, whether the intermediate cause be several, or only one. Now to take away the cause is to take away the effect. Therefore, if there be no first cause among efficient causes, there will be no ultimate, nor any intermediate cause. But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infinity, there will be no first efficient cause, neither will there be an ultimate effect, nor any intermediate efficient causes; all of which is plainly false. Therefore, it is necessary to admit a first efficient cause, to which everyone gives the name of God.” [1] The Second Way addresses the argument that God exists by the way of causation. In that, all beings that exist are due to an efficient cause. No being that exists is due to its own cause, it needs an external cause to bring it into existence the “efficient cause”. Aquinas then argues that this causal chain cannot be extend back into infinity. Aquinas, then posits the need for a first efficient cause not unlike Aristotle’s “unmoved mover”. However, Aquinas makes the connection between the first efficient cause and the Judeo-Christian God. [1] Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Part 1 (Fathers of the English Dominican Province, 2006) I, q.2, a.3. #grownostr #plebchain #Christianity #Bible #apologetics #philosophy If you enjoy my notes, please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always great too!

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THE FINE TUNING OF THE UNIVERSE AND THE EXISTENCE OF GOD One of the strongest pieces of evidences for the existence of God is the apparent fine tuning of the universe. That is, the fine tuning that exists in numerous equations that govern physics. Take for instance the equation of Newton's Law of Gravitation. The Gravitational Constant  is the number in the equation the tunes the gravitational strength much like tuning a guitar. It's number determines the strength of attraction between two masses. The gravitational constant is tuned to such a degree that if gravity were stronger by 1 part in 10^40 (that is a 1 followed by forty 0s), the universe would be dominated by black holes and not stars. Making the universe inhabitable for life. This is a strong indication that the universe was created for life and not just an accident. The following video by Dr. William Lane Craig explains fine tuning in more detail. #grownostr #plebchain #physics #science #God If you find value in my notes and articles please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always appreciated!

DNA-PROTEIN EVOLUTIONARY PARADOX Evolution relies on random mutations and natural selection to be a viable theory for the diversity of life. However, there are issues with mutations causing changes in organisms. We can call these issues, evolutionary paradoxes. When the paradoxes are fully examined, they unveil the absurdity of evolutionary theory. One of the paradoxes is called the DNA-Protein paradox. DNA is the information carrier for the construction of proteins that are in turn the building blocks of cells. Without DNA, the only way to build a protein would be the chance assembly from a primeval goo. So, for life to exist and to replicate in an environment you must have the blueprint of a protein’s assembly that is contained in DNA. However, DNA is itself made of proteins and assembled in cells. DNA and proteins rely on the other for their assembly. This establishes a “which came first, the chicken or the egg” situation. It is inconceivable that one component can assemble itself spontaneously enough to form the other. The creation of a protein is extremely complicated and further complicated by the proper folding of the protein. The protein folds are what allows it to function properly. According to Cyrus Levinthal, there are 10^300 different ways that a protein can fold after a peptide chain is produced. [1] Only one of the folds is the correct one for the function of the protein. This is just one of numerous issues that either the protein or DNA would have to survive in order to spontaneously create. #grownostr #plebchain #science #evolution #creation [1] Levinthal, Cyrus (1969). "How to Fold Graciously". Mossbauer Spectroscopy in Biological Systems: Proceedings of a Meeting Held at Allerton House, Monticello, Illinois: 22–24.

Do you want a superpower? Ask: I don’t know about that, would you please explain it to me? You will be amazed at the outcome… #grownostr

Science is not a god. It is not the cause of anything. Science is only a method to view the cause of everything.

MARCO POLO’S DINOSAUR HUNTERS Marco Polo wrote in "The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian" his account of his long journey to China. The book was written after his return to Venice in 1295. He wrote about creatures in the land of Karazan that do not fit the description of any known living creature. They were described as: "[H]uge serpents, ten paces in length, and ten spans in the girt of the body. At the fore part, near the head, they have two short legs, having three claws like those of a tiger, with eyes larger than a fourpenny loaf and very glaring. The jaws are wide enough to swallow a man, the teeth are large and sharp, and their whole appearance is so formidable, that neither man, nor any kind of animal, can approach them without terror." He then told of the hunters that take the creatures as prey and later eat them: "Those whose employment it is to hunt them observe the track by which they are most frequently accustomed to go, and fix into the ground several pieces of wood, armed with sharp iron spikes, which they cover with the sand in such a manner as not to be perceptible. When therefore the animals make their way towards the places they usually haunt, they are wounded by these instruments, and speedily killed.” "..The flesh also of the animal is sold at a dear rate, being thought to have a higher flavour than other kinds of meat, and by all persons it is esteemed a delicacy.” #grownostr #plebchain #history #dinosaurs #cyptid If you find value in my notes, please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always great too!

STEPHEN HAWKING’S ABSURD STATEMENT “Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.” [1] Hawking in this quote gives causal power to the Law of Gravity; this power is what would be traditionally ascribed to the classical ideal of God. The problem with this approach is that it makes the mistake of transferring the causal power of God to what would be an attribute of God that has no causal power in it apart from God. This amounts to Hawkin’s definition of God being too small. Any causal agent of the universe will have unfathomable attributes that are His alone and these attributes cannot be separated from the causal power of God. To illustrate this point, the Law of Gravity by itself cannot create anything just like the law of thermodynamics cannot create the internal combustion engine; laws in of themselves cannot create anything, they need causal power. It seems physicists trivialize the immense power that brought forth our universe by ascribing that power to a physical law. By giving causal power to any physical law sounds exceedingly close to what God would be like without the baggage of traditional religion for the scientist. This is a rhetorical sleight of hand to wiggle out of the concept of God and place the creation of the universe firmly into the materialist’s worldview. They are playing a shell game. A further problem with this approach of laws having causal power is that when the universe was before its singularity, where are the laws? There was nothing physical that would have the imprint of such physical laws upon them. If the laws could not have any base in the physical universe they would have to reside in a metaphysical mind of some sort. This mind would have to reside outside of our space-time and have the causal attributes to bring forth the whole universe. This still sounds exceedingly close to God. [1] Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, The Grand Design, Bantam Books in 2010 #grownostr #science #apologetics #God #philosophy If you find value in my notes and articles please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always appreciated!

TYRANNOSAURUS REX PRESERVED BLOOD CELLS Mary Schweitzer was working as a researcher at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana. While cleaning some T. rex bones Schweitzer and an assistant found something remarkable. What they found inside the bone matrix was what appeared to be unfossilized blood cells within blood vessels and other tissues [1]. The tissue was in remarkable preservation for being estimated to be over 65 million years old. This means that the blood cells and vessels would have to remain relatively uncorrupted for that vast amount of time in bones that were exposed to the elements. The research done by Michael Buckley of Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre has estimated the limit for the survival of collagen in optimal conditions is 700,000 years [2]. Collagen is the protein that makes up around 25%-35% of body tissues and when decayed the tissue would not be recognizable. Schweitzer’s T. rex blood cells and vessels would have decayed long ago if the age of the bones were indeed over 65 million years old. This represents a major problem between the assumed age of the dinosaurs and the survivability of the soft tissues that are contained within their unfossilized structure. This problem could possibly be written off as an outlier is this was the only case of soft tissues found within dinosaur bones but it is not, it is quite common in paleontology. [1] Schweitzer, Mary & Wittmeyer, Jennifer & Horner, John & Toporski, Jan. (2005). Soft-Tissue Vessels and Cellular Preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex. Science (New York, N.Y.). 307. 1952-5. 10.1126/science.1108397. [2] Buckley, Michael & Collins, Matthew. (2011). Collagen survival and its use for species identification in Holocene-lower Pleistocene bone fragments from British archaeological and paleontological sites. Antiqua. 1. 10.4081/antiqua.2011.e1. #grownostr #plebchain #science #dinosaurs #youngearth #apologetics If you find value in my notes and articles please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always appreciated! Samples of the T. rex blood vessels G and I are compared visually to modern ostrich blood vessels H and J. [1]

WILLIAM BUCKLEY AND THE BUNYIP William Buckley was an escaped convict who lived with the Wathaurong aboriginal tribe in Australia for over 30 years in the early 19th century. During his time with the tribe, he encountered a creature known as the bunyip. According to Buckley's account, the bunyip was an "extraordinary amphibious animal" with grey feathers covering its back and about the size of a full-grown calf. Buckley also claimed that the bunyip was believed to have supernatural powers and was a common sight along the Barwon River. “He [the Bunyip] made his home in the deep waterholes and the rain forests, lurking in the gloom by day and roaming the earth by night during the time of darkness. He brought fear to the tribes, threatening to devour any human he might meet.” ~ William Buckley, The Life and Adventures of William Buckley, 1852  #grownostr #plebchain #cyptid #history If you find value in my notes and articles please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always appreciated! An illustration of William Buckley during his life with the aborigine tribes.

THE BIG BANG WAS JUST A SLANDER Fred Hoyle a prominent physicist was giving an interview on a BBC radio broadcast in 1947. During the interview he gave Father Georges Lemaître’s theory of “The Primeval Atom” the name of “The Big Bang” in order to belittle the new theory… The name stuck in popular culture. #grownostr #plebchain #physics #science If you find value in my notes and articles please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always appreciated!

LANGUAGE, CREATION, AND MEANING When someone is walking along the beach and looks down to see the words “I Love You”; they do not think it was a random accident of the wind or the waves. The symbols that make up the writing convey a deeper meaning that passes information to us in a metaphysical way. We know that the phrase means that two lovers have gone before us and stopped to write in the sand. It would be preposterous to think it was the wind that carved them. It is by that transfer that we know the words were written on purpose and by an intelligence. That purpose is language. You have in you a similar language. It is written in every corner of your being, every cell and tissue have it written throughout them. The language is far more complex than the words that were previously discovered in the sand. It requires billions of characters to convey its message. The language is DNA. It is the molecule that is the instructional blueprint for the assembly of proteins that are the building blocks for all cells and is formed by four distinct bases: adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T). The bases act as letters in a four-letter alphabet transferring information to build a specific protein. The bases are assembled into a long strand that we know as the DNA double helix. Just as we know that the simple phrase in the sand conveys the love between the two beachgoers. Similarly, we should understand that the far more complex writing in us conveys a vast love between a creator and its creation. The DNA language inside you was written not just for you, but it is you. It wrote another being into existence. Something that the words in the sand could not do. Yet, some scoff that the language that has the power to bring things into existence was yet an accident of physics and chemistry. Those words had a meaning lovingly penned by the Creator, and that meaning is you… #grownostr #plebchain #God #philosophy #apologetics If you find value in my notes and articles please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always appreciated!

@BTC Sessions video tutorial was great for an air cooled S9 Bitcoin miner space heater. I ran across this great tutorial for an oil cooled S9 Bitcoin miner space heater. The advantage is it runs quieter than air cooled. Be still my little mechanical engineering heart! #grownostr #Bitcoin #engineering

“Fairy tales make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.” ~ G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy #grownostr #plebchain #apologetics #quotes #God