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Subject: [BPR] - Aug 19, 1999 TV Programs
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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 08:47:14 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
9:00 PM Eastern
DISC - SCIENCE MYSTERIES - "Atlantis Found?" - Plato
theorizes that a great civilization called Atlantis existed
long before classical Greece.(CC)(TVG)
TLC - ROME: POWER & GLORY - "Seduction of Power" -
Politics; Caesar rises from soldier to dictator; Augustus
seizes the throne; dynastic problems leave the Empire
reeling.(CC)(TVG)
10:00
ABC - NIGHTLINE IN PRIMETIME: BRAVE NEW WORLD - Scientific
and ethical issues in human cloning; conjoined twins; evil
parents; cloning sheep; baby ballet; artist Roni
Horn.(CC)
TLC - COLUMBUS MYSTERY - Marine archaeologists
attempt to recover a ship sailed by Christopher
Columbus.(CC)(TVG)
10:30
PBS - CROWN & COUNTRY - "Bury St. Edmunds: The Crown
and Religion" - St. Edmundsbury; King Edmund; Prince Edward
Windsor.(CC)(TVG)
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Subject: [BPR] - India building beam weapon
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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:03:51 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/aug19/beam.htm
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Thursday, August 19, 1999
First star wars weapon 'kills softly'
India building beam weapon
MUMBAI, Aug 18 (PTI)
The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc) here is in the final stages
of assembling a powerful electron accelerating machine named
''Kali-5000`` which, its scientists say, can potentially be used as a
beam weapon.
Bursts of microwaves packed with gigawatts of power (one gigawatt is
1000 million watts) produced by this machine, when aimed at enemy
missiles and aircraft, will cripple their electronics systems and
computer chips and bring them down.
According to scientists, ''soft killing`` by high power microwaves has
advantages over the so called laser weapon which destroys by drilling
holes through metal.
Kali-5000 will be ready for testing by the end of this year, according
to Mr P H Ron, head of the accelerator and pulse power division at
Barc and chief designer of India`s first star wars weapon.
However, in the present form India`s beam weapon is too bulky - it
weighs 26 tonnes - including tanks containing 12000 litres of oil. Mr
Ron said some ''compacting`` was possible.
He said Kali (kilo-ampere linear injector) machine was developed for
industrial applications and that the defence use was a recent spinoff.
He, however, declined to elaborate.
Describing it as a machine ''bordering basic research,`` Atomic Energy
Commission Chairman Rajagopalan Chidambaram admitted in an interview
that it has military potential. ''There are some technologies we have
to be in touch with because they may become useful (later),`` he said.
Development of the Kali machine was mooted in 1985 by Dr Chidambaram,
then director of Barc, but work earnestly began in 1989.
Mr Ron said the machine essentially generated pulses of highly
energetic electrons. Other components in the machine down the line
converted the electrons into flash x-rays (for ultra high-speed
photography) or microwaves. The electron beam itself can be used for
welding.
The Defence Balistics Research Institute in Chandigarh is already
using an x-ray version of Kali to study speed of projectiles.
WORK IN BANGALORE: Another defence institute in Bangalore is using a
microwave-producing version of Kali which the scientists use for
testing the vulnerability of the electronic systems going into the
light combat aircraft under development and designing electrostatic
shields to protect them from microwave attack by the enemy.
According to Barc scientists, the Kali machine has for the first time
provided India a way to ''harden`` the electronic systems used in
satellites and missiles against the deadly electromagnetic impulses
(Emi) generated by nuclear weapons.
The Emi wrecks havoc by creating intense electric field of several
thousand volts per centimetre. The electronic components currently
used in missiles can withstand fields of Just 300 volts per
centimetre.
While the Kali systems built so far are single shot pulse power
systems (they produce one burst of microwaves and the next burst comes
much later), Kali-5000 is a rapid fire device, and hence its potential
as a beam weapon.
According to Barc-published reports, the machine will shoot several
thousand bursts of microwaves, each burst lasting for just 60
billionths of a second and packed with a power of about four
gigawatts.
The high power microwave pulses travel in a straight line and do not
dissipate their energy if the frequency falls between three and ten
gigahertz.
According to Barc scientists, a microwave power of 150 megawatts has
already been demonstrated in earlier versions of Kali.
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Subject: [BPR] - 'Perfect Husband' gene discovered
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:04:55 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
http://www.independent.co.uk/atp/INDEPENDENT/NEWS/P5S4.html
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`PERFECT HUSBAND' GENE DISCOVERED
SCIENTISTS HAVE discovered a genetic basis for monogamy and believe
the findings could shed light on the brain chemistry of love and
attachment.
By transferring a single gene, the researchers have been able to
convert naturally polygamous males with anti- social tendencies into
paragons of fidelity and sociability.
Although the research was performed on mice and voles, they believe
the conclusions have important repercussions for the study of human
relationships, especially those that break down because of mental
illness.
Tom Insel and Larry Young, neuroscientists from Emory University in
Atlanta, Georgia, transferred a gene from the sociable, monogamous
male prairie vole into male mice, which are promiscuous and
aggressive.
The gene is responsible for making a protein in the brain that acts
like the "lock" for a key neurotransmitter called vasopressin, which
is known to be implicated in determining sociability and monogamy in
rodents. Without the protein lock, the vasopressin key cannot exert
its effect on the brain.
The two scientists have shown in a study published in the journal
Nature that male mice genetically engineered with the vole gene
exhibit a dramatic change in behaviour, becoming more content with a
single sexual partner and less aggressive towards other males.
"The transgenic mice really surprised us... these mice responded to
vasopressin just like prairie voles," Dr Young said.
The two scientists say they intend to study the role of vasopressin in
people because virtually every form of human psychiatric disorder is
characterised by abnormal social attachments. "Discovery of such
information could be clinically relevant for treatment of autism,
schizophrenia, Tourette's syndrome and Alzheimer's disease, all of
which result in isolation and detachment," they say.
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Subject: [BPR] - Weekend News Today (8/18/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:14:33 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
China threatens 'horrendous war' over U.S. involvement with Taiwan
Weekend News Today
By Kelly Pagatpatan
Source: Drudge Report
Wed Aug 18,1999 -- China on Wednesday warned against U.S. involvement
in any future conflict with Taiwan, saying its troops are not afraid
to wage a 'horrendous war' and that Beijing would never back down in
the face of intervention from Washington. "Military experts say that
history is a witness to the fact that China would never retreat
because of U.S. intervention," said the CHINA BUSINESS TIMES, an
official newspaper.
Anti-Semitic attacks in Canada
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: Arutz7
Wed Aug 18,1999 -- Anti-Semitic attacks were registered over the past
few days in Canada. Two observant Jewish men were brutally attacked
outside a Toronto synagogue on Friday night, in what local police
called a "hate-motivated crime." Silvain Miller, 66, and his friend
Jacob Lazar, 79, were knocked to the ground by two young men and
beaten with a lead pipe on a busy street just steps from the Torath
Emeth Synagogue around 7 PM. Both were released from the hospital with
minor injuries. The Toronto Star quoted Karen Mock, national director
of the League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith, who expressed concerned
that media coverage of last week's shooting at a Los Angeles Jewish
community center might have spurred copy-cat acts. The paper noted
that other anti-Semitic acts have occurred across Canada since the
shooting: In Winnipeg this past weekend, 200 headstones in a Jewish
cemetery were smashed, and Montreal police arrested two men on charges
that they vandalized one of the city's Jewish schools.
The state of Israel's water supply
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: IsraelWire
Wed Aug 18,1999 -- Speech delivered in the Knesset by MK (National
Union) Binyamin Elon 6 Av 5759 / July 19 (Translation by Ruth
Lieberman)--- "Mr Speaker of the House, Honorable Knesset - there is
water in the Land of Israel, there is water in the State of Israel.
And if the dedicated workers of the water-supply corporation were not
the only ones providing the water - if each and every citizen would
have to draw their own bucket of water from Lake Kinneret and relate
to every single drop - we would not have a water shortage now. The
public issue which most concerns me is the flippant manner and lack of
national consideration exhibited by people who do not understand that
in signing so-called peace agreements - or rather, bloody agreements
which fabricate a non-existent peace - we are drying up almost half of
our water supply. The hilly aquifer of the Mediterranean Sea -
including the valley that is formed by its surrounding hills - would,
G-d forbid, come under hostile rule. No one would control the drilling
or any other activities in that area. There would be complete chaos, a
draining of the reservoir, and salination of the water as a result of
extraneous usage. And then perhaps, the "pleasant" protesters, with
the round eyeglasses, will return home from a rowdy protest in Rabin
Square, to no water for their shower. Maybe then they will understand
the concept of controlling our water sources. I have not yet mentioned
the Golan Heights, which controls a full one-third of Israel's water
sources, including the Jordan River and Lake Kinneret. We have
historic experience with attempts to shift the Jordan water sources -
from the Biblical tales of the argument between the shepherds of
Abraham and Avimelech and between Yitzchak and Avimelech, up to the
battles of the past fifty years. Upon what are these battles based?
Water sources. What do Bedouins argue about? Water sources. What
starts a war between nations? Water sources. Water is the most central
resource of all. I am amazed by the flippant, carefree attitude of
Israeli citizens regarding silly, virtual agreements penned by
supposedly smart people. They have never tasted an authentic water
source, and do not know the true meaning of land, sovereignty or
independence. They sign documents and attend ceremonies, drying out
the State of Israel's water sources - Lake Kinneret, the hilly aquifer
- with unrestricted drilling under the auspices of the PA, or worse,
the Palestinian State. This is the true national danger to Israel's
water systems. The panic they are trying to instill in us now, my
friends, is premature and exaggerated. Today there is enough water for
all the citizens of Israel. Every drop is sacred. We must use our
heads and economic wisdom to prevent the farmers from determining
their own agricultural water costs, because there will be no holds
barred. There is no room for panic yet, but there is room for thought
before signing agreements, which will lead to war over lack of water.
Unless, that is, Ministers Beilin or Peres have invested some creative
thought in the matter. I hope that the professionals involved in these
issues have enough vision to reject the quaint blazers, before signing
away our destiny and the future of water in the State of Israel.
China's police arrest 60,000
Weekend News Today
By Kelly Pagatpatan
Source: AP
Wed Aug 18,1999 -- China Cops Round Up 60,000 BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese
police have arrested more than 60,000 escaped prisoners and criminal
suspects in a six-week drive to ensure stability for the 50th
anniversary of Communist Party rule, state media reported Wednesday.
The nationwide campaign, launched July 1, aims ``to eliminate any
possible trouble and create a still better environment for the
celebrations'' on Oct. 1 and for the return of Portuguese-ruled Macau
to Chinese sovereignty in December, the official Xinhua News Agency
said.
Kremlin might use emergency powers according to Moscow mayor
Weekend News Today
By Kelly Pagatpatan
Source: AP
Wed Aug 18,1999 -- Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, a potential presidential
candidate, said Wednesday that he still fears the Kremlin may try to
postpone elections by introducing emergency regulations. ``Power must
be legitimately transferred,'' Luzhkov said. ``This process must not
be obstructed, or legal elections interfered with.'' Russian
politicians and the media have speculated that President Boris Yeltsin
might impose emergency rules to put off December's parliamentary
elections or the presidential vote in mid-2000. Yeltsin, who cannot
run for a third term next year, has insisted that elections will take
place as scheduled.
Germany and Russia plan to modernize MiGs
Weekend News Today
By Kelly Pagatpatan
Source: AP
Wed Aug 18,1999 -- Russian and German companies will jointly modernize
a fleet of Soviet-made MiG-29 fighters being used in the air forces of
central and eastern European nations, officials said Wednesday. The
tentative agreement, signed by Russia's MAPO-MiG aircraft builder and
Rosvooruzheniye state arms-trading company and Germany's DASA
aerospace concern, will extend the lifetime of the planes to 2015 and
reduce its operating costs, officials said at a news conference
Wednesday. The modernization program will apply to the MiG-29s that
are in service with air forces of Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania
and Slovakia. Russia has previously helped modernize 24 MiG-29s
serving with the German air force.
Taiwan seeks missile defense
Weekend News Today
By Kelly Pagatpatan
Source: AP
Wed Aug 18,1999 -- President Lee Teng-hui pushed today for an
island-wide defense network to shoot down missiles that rank among
China's best weapons against Taiwan. An antimissile defense system
``not only responds to current needs, but even more, fulfills the
nation's long-term development interests,'' Lee was quoted as telling
a meeting of the ruling Nationalist Party's top decision-making body.
Lee's comment, relayed to reporters by Nationalist spokesman Huang
Hwei-chen, was among his strongest public endorsements of an
antimissile system. The proposed project is the most expensive and
sensitive defense program being pursued by Taiwan and mostly remains
shrouded in secrecy.
GPS disruptions may start tomorrow
Weekend News Today
By Kelly Pagatpatan
Source: Reuters
Wed Aug 18,1999 -- Boaters and other civilian users facing possible
disruption in the Global Positioning System (GPS) this weekend need to
be ready a few days earlier than previously anticipated, the U.S.
military said Tuesday. Although attention has been focused on the Aug.
21-22 reset of the GPS internal clock to zero, some users of the
satellite-based navigation system may start to experience problems as
early as Thursday, both the U.S. Air Force and the Coast Guard warned.
The reason is that a regular update of location information to the 27
satellites in the system beginning Aug. 19 also contains new time
information that could cause some older GPS receivers to misinterpret
which satellites they are ``viewing.''
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Subject: [BPR] - Daywatch items (8/19/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:16:25 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
CINCINNATI -- A lawsuit was filed August 12 in U.S.
District Court on behalf of a pharmacist who was fired by
K-Mart after refusing to dispense a product called
Micronor. The suit contends that Brauer believes that drugs
currently being marketed as 'morning after pills' or
'emergency contraception' are not true contraceptives,
but, rather, actually abortifacients.
Full Story: http://www.mcjonline.com/news/news3344.htm
NEW YORK -- Citing a lack of network programs that are
acceptable for family viewing, a group of major advertisers
-- including McDonalds, Sears, General Motors, IBM, Procter
& Gamble and Johnson & Johnson -- has announced a plan to
pay writers to develop family-friendly programs for
consideration by the WB network. The group has agreed to
underwrite the development costs of at least eight family-
friendly pilots.
Full Story: http://www.mcjonline.com/news/news3345.htm
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Subject: [BPR] - Infobeat News items (8/19/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:21:45 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
*** Pakistan: We can make neutron bomb
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan has enough expertise and the
necessary material to make a neutron bomb, the state-run news agency
reported Wednesday. The agency, the Associated Press of Pakistan,
quoted scientist N.M. Butt as saying the country had the ability to
"build a nuclear weapon of any type or size, including neutron bomb."
Butt is director-general of Pakistan's Institute of Nuclear Sciences
and Technology, a key institution doing nuclear research. The
Pakistani scientist's remarks came the day after an Indian nuclear
scientist claimed India can make a neutron bomb. Neutron bombs produce
a smaller blast than conventional nuclear weapons but have more
intense radiation, enabling them to limit structural damage while
killing large numbers of people. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560768087-8e4
*** Bank error nets man surprise fortune
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - When $1.6 million showed up in his checking
account, Roger Dudley made the most of it. He invested thousands,
bought gifts for his wife, and paid off his truck and credit cards.
Now he may face federal charges. "It was nice while it lasted," said
Dudley, 21. "Someday I'll say, 'I remember when I was a millionaire.'"
The Secret Service and federal prosecutors are reviewing the case.
Officials at AmSouth Bank said no charges had been filed as of
Wednesday. Dudley told WAAY-TV he discovered the extra money in his
AmSouth account when he asked for his balance about two weeks ago. The
fortune vanished almost as quickly as it appeared: Federal agents met
Dudley at the bank Monday and the account was frozen. Se
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560767455-148
*** $2,000 offered in Jesus art contest
(AP) - For a $2,000 prize and a place on the millennium-issue cover of
a Catholic newsweekly, artists worldwide are being invited to create a
bold new image of Jesus to mark the 2,000th anniversary of his birth.
The contest welcomes all visual media - computer art, stained glass,
silk screens, even photographs. The only sure bet is that the winning
entry, due by Oct. 18, won't resemble the traditional images of Jesus
evoked by artists of the past. "Until our time, this was the most
popular subject for artists," said Michael Farrell, editor of the
National Catholic Reporter, which is sponsoring the contest. "If you
are giving us a repeat of any of those images, it's not likely you are
on the winning ticket. There ought to be something new that we have
never seen before." See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560769170-30d
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Subject: [BPR] - College reaffirms hiring only Christian faculty
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:30:47 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Baptist college reaffirms policy of hiring only Christian faculty
By Staff
MOBILE, Ala. (BP)--Officials of the University of Mobile have
reaffirmed the Baptist-affiliated institution's policy of hiring
only Christian faculty members in response to criticism from a
Jewish donor, according to a report in the Chronicle of Higher
Education on Aug. 6.
University President Mark Foley and trustee chairman Gary A.
Enfinger, pastor of Thomasville (Ala.) Baptist Church, reaffirmed the
hiring policy to Gordon B. Kahn, a retired bankruptcy judge from
Mobile, Ala., who, according to the Chronicle, has given more than
$30,000 to the institution, which occupies land given by another
Jewish donor.
Foley, in a written statement in July, said, "The practice of the
university to hire as faculty those who profess faith in Jesus Christ
boils down to a matter of belief, of mission, and of leadership," the
Chronicle reported.
"Our mission is based upon a particular understanding of the
Bible regarding who God is, what He expects, and how He works in
the world," Foley continued. "If that mission is to be carried
out, each member of the organization must understand and support
the mission."
Kahn, in a letter to the university's trustees in July, contended that
the policy is one of "bigotry and prejudice."
"Where there is no freedom of religion, it is un-American and
discriminatory," Kahn wrote, according to the Chronicle. Kahn
also wrote, "The students of the University of Mobile will not
live in a vacuum, they will live in a world where the majority is not
Christian," reflecting a concern that the students should be educated
by people of all religions to be prepared for today's world.
Kahn has asked the university to remove his family's name from
the scholarships and fountain he donated, the Chronicle reported. A
spokesman for the university was unavailable for comment to Baptist
Press Aug. 17 and 18.
Enfinger, in a letter to Kahn, reaffirmed the university's
policy, but noted, "Please know that we share your disdain for
any practice which reflects bigotry and prejudice and strive to
make certain our policies and procedures are not reflected in
that light."
Baptist Press
http://www.religiontoday.com
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Subject: [BPR] - Religion Today items (8/19/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:33:53 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Bankers have written a "sermon" they want pastors to deliver to
calm Y2K fears. The American Bankers Association, a trade group,
wrote what it calls a "generic sermon" for pastors, priests, and
rabbis to persuade their congregants not to "bury their money in
the back yard."
..."We want to go into the new millennium with hope, eagerness,
and faith in this new century of promise. We don't want to be
crouched in our basements with candles, matches, and guns," the
document reads. The group urged depositors to keep their money in
banks, "where it is protected and insured by the federal government."
...James Logan, pastor of South Tryon Presbyterian Church in
Charlotte, N.C., doesn't think much of the idea of a generic sermon,
he told the Charlotte Observer. "I really believe in seeking what God
would have me say to my congregation."
Evangelicals in Sweden have translated what they consider a more
orthodox and easier-to-understand version of the Bible. The
Swedish People's Bible is meant to be an alternative to the
state-funded Bible, authorized for use in all Lutheran churches,
which contains footnotes that suggest the Scriptures are not
divinely inspired, said Bible Pathway Ministries (see link #5
below), a Murfreesboro, Tenn., ministry. Bible Pathway has
completed a Swedish-language version of its monthly devotionals,
covering Genesis to Revelation. The group is editing, funding,
printing, and distributing the devotionals, which already are
available in Norwegian.
..."I believe this is a second harvest coming to Sweden," Jan
Dahlin, a Swedish-born American orthopedic surgeon who finished
the Bible translation in July, said. He said he hopes the two
Bible translation projects will signal a spiritual reawakening.
Sweden's last great revivals took place in the 1950s.
...About 300,000 of Sweden's 9 million citizens are evangelicals, and
many Christians are complacent about the country's prevalent
secularism, he said. But youth have shown enthusiasm and "impatient
expectation" for release of The Swedish People's Bible. "There is a
fire that has begun in Sweden which will spread across the borders,"
Dahlin said. "Sparks are already flying."
RELATED LINKS:
5: http://www.BiblePathway.org/
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Subject: [BPR] - Fw: [BPR] - How long is a generation?
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 08:15:28 -0500
From: "Croteau Network" <croteaunet@ime.net>
Interesting. I couldn't help but notice the number 51 (153/3).
Since these 42 generations are divided into three portions,
what if....
... Theile was off by a few years? What if he were 18 years
off the mark (pun intended for the mathematically inclined), and
the number was actually 2142 years?
2142/42 = 51
2142/14 = 153
2142/3 = 714 = 21 x 34
2142/34 = 63
34 x 360 = 12240, or 153 x 80 - the number of days in Jesus'
life?
Sept 29, 2 B.C. plus 12240 days is April 3, 33 A.D.
If Jesus' life was 1/63 of this total.... and this was the
number of generations until his birth, then 2142 + 34 = 2176 = 8
x 8 x 34
(To be consistent with the 34 [prophetic] years of Jesus' life,
this time frame would also need to be calculated using a 360 day
year.)
If Jesus' ministry was 1224 days, or 153 x 8 - 1/10 of his life
- could we then say "he gave a tenth"?
April 3, 33 A.D minus 1224 days = Saturday, 26 November, 29 A.D.
(I am using an astronomy program, which verifies the 66% lunar
eclipse at 7:07 P.M. at 16=B0 alt on Apr 3, coordinating with
the lunar aspect of the Jewish calendar).
Luke 4:16 - 21
"And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as
his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the *sabbath* day,
and stood up for to read. And there was delivered unto him the
book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he
found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord
[is] upon me, because he hath anointed me to *preach* the gospel
to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to
*preach* deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to
the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To *preach*
the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, and he
gave [it] again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of
all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he
began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in
your ears."
Preach x 3. Is that a hint?
Another observation:
A time frame of 2160 years is more consistent in respect to man
or the antichrist.
6 x 6 x 6 x 10 = 2160
6! + 6! + 6! = 2160
360 x 6 = 2160
This number might be more relevent to Jesus' crucifixion (the
rejection by man). If he was crucified on a Friday (I have
difficulty with that one, but that's another study), 3 P.M.
Friday to 3 A.M. Sunday would be 36 hours, or 2160 minutes.
Also, a 1224 day ministry would have been 216 days short of a
full "day of the Lord" (one day being 1440 minutes).
If Daniel's 70th week commenced at the beginning of Jesus
ministry (another self-study I have somewhere on this computer),
then 2520 - 1224 = 1296 days left, or 6 x 6 x 6 x 6, which is
144 days short of a complete "day" (1440 - 1296 = 144).
Will the final portion of the week begin on the same day that
the clock was stopped [by Daniel's people]?
14 Nisan, 5762 + 1296 days = 10 Tishri 5765
BTW, in a 2520 day "gestation" period of 40 weeks, one "week"
equals 63 actual days 2520/40 =63), making one "day" equivalent
to 9 calendar days (63/7 = 9). The last day of pregnancy is the
day of labor and birth, which in this instance, would correspond
to the time between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
The above items are all the fruit of self-study (IOW, I'm not
pasting this stuff from other sources, and I have done my best
to check my accuracy up one side and down the other). There is
more, including a timeline which addresses the 1290 and 1335
days (the 2300 days are going to be tested here very shortly! :-=D4)
Hope you can use this.
Regards,
Dayona
croteaunet@ime.net
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Date: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 10:08 AM
Subject: [BPR] - How long is a generation?
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
HOW LONG IS A GENERATION ?
Matthew 1 :17 tells us that all the generations
from Abraham to David are fourteen generations
and [all the generations] from David until the carrying
away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and
[all the generations] from the carrying away into
Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations. When
we add fourteen plus fourteen plus fourteen, the total
is forty-two generations from Abraham to Christ.
The great chronologist, Thiele, says that from Abraham
to Christ, we have a total of 2,160 years. Divide forty -
two generations into that, and the length of a generation
becomes 51.4. Add that to May 14, 1948, and one
comes out at Rosh Hashanah, September 1999.
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Subject: [BPR] - War shapes the world in a blood-soaked century
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 08:57:17 -0500
From: owner-bpr@philologos.org
Thursday August 19
War shapes the world in a blood-soaked century
PARIS
(AFP) - "The lamps are going out all over Europe," Britain's
foreign secretary Edward Grey said on the fateful night in
August 1914 when, amid popular outpourings of unbridled
patriotism, Britain and Germany lurched into war. "We shall not
see them lit again in our lifetime."
He little knew how truly he spoke. It was almost 80 years
before something approaching normal service returned to the
continent.
War, in its hot and cold varieties, has been the shaping
experience of the century, dissolving empires, engulfing
generations, driving -- and being driven by -- technological
change, and forging myths of national identity.
A tidal wave of unprecedented violence swept over the world in
the 20th century, bringing a collapse in values that contrasted
starkly with the slow but steady progress that had preceded it.
In 1914 there had been no major war for 100 years, and only one
brief conflict, the Crimean War, in which any more than two of
the major powers had been in battle.
The European war of 1914-1945 (broken by a 21-year truce) was
total, drawing in independent states and colonies around the
world and engaging whole populations, civilians as well as
soldiers.
Where previous conflicts had been comparatively gentlemanly
affairs, involving professional armies fighting for limited
goals, the world wars were desperate, all-or-nothing scrambles
for national survival, as in 1914-18, or titanic struggles
between all-encompassing ideologies, as in the 1939-45
conflagration.
The old warrior ethic of duty, heroism and sacrifice did not
long survive the introduction of machine technology into warfare
in 1914.
Two huge field armies laid siege to each other, forming a
double line of trenches from the Swiss border to the North Sea
that became a common grave for millions of men mown down, gassed
or torn to pieces by mines or unseen artillery. The manner as
much as the quantity of the killing seared the Great War into
the collective memory with an intensity that later conflicts
never effaced.
When hostilities resumed two decades later, the war was no
longer one of attrition but one of movement, with tanks and
planes playing the main roles. The instruments of war became
ever more impersonal, as submarines sought to starve entire
populations into submission, and bombers to subdue them through
terror from the air.
The fighting swept across the face of the globe, sparing few
countries, from the River Plate, off Uruguay, to Iwo Jima, off
Japan, via Stalingrad, the century's key battle.
More than 55 million people were killed in World War II, making
it mankind's greatest cataclysm.
Wars of annihiliation were launched not just against armies or
nations but against ethnic groups, and a new word was coined to
describe Hitler's campaign against the Jews: genocide. The death
camp at Auschwitz became the symbol of man's fathomless capacity
for cruelty.
As the war ended another symbol, mushroom-shaped, arose in the
east, and the name Hiroshima became shorthand for the
impossibility of future global conflict as the victors of 1945,
the Soviet Union and the United States, faced off against each
other in nuclear stalemate.
Weakened by the world wars, the old colonial powers began to
dismantle their empires, first in Asia, then in Africa. Where
they clung on, wars of national liberation succeeded in forcing
them out, even -- as in Algeria and Vietnam -- in the face of
vastly superior weaponry.
Rather than risk the Mutually Assured Destruction that nuclear
weapons promised, the superpowers fought out their rivalry in
the developing world and elsewhere through proxies, with the
result that Africa in particular became the theatre of a series
of low-level, long-running conflicts between (usually) Soviet-
backed regimes and US-backed rebels.
The ending of the Cold War saw ethnicity replace ideology as
the engine of war, notably in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.
Militant Islam, as in Afghanistan and Algeria, was a further
source of instability and, with several regions awash with
western or Soviet-made hardware -- in Somalia kalashnikovs were
easier to find than school-books -- the world began to witness
the return of warlordism and the spectacle of collapsing states.
Some 60 armed conflicts scarred the decade following the fall
of the Berlin Wall, ranging from Guatemala to Cambodia via
Sierra Leone, Sudan and Sri Lanka. Most of these were fought not
by states, which by century's end had lost their monopoly on
organised violence, but by irregular armies, tribal or ethnic
militias or political organisations.
The outstanding exception was the Gulf War where, with much of
the world's oil reserves at stake, the United States and its
allies mobilised against Iraq, deploying a vast armada of remote
weaponry designed to ensure minimal western losses.
But with chemical, biological and even nuclear weapons coming
within ever closer reach of rogue states, maverick groups and
millenarian sects, it would be an optimist who claimed that war
had been forever banished to the margins.
http://asia.yahoo.com/headlines/190899/world/935040600-90819053050.newsworld.html
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Subject: [BPR] - Website: Shroud of Turin
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 11:07:58 -0500
From: owner-bpr@philologos.org
A list member suggested the following website for
anyone interested in the scientific research and
religious arguments involving the Shroud of Turin.
Here is just a sampling of the articles available at
The Shroud of Turin Website Library (I have not
personally read them all myself):
Conservation of the Shroud of Turin
Science and the Shroud
Negativity and the Shroud
An Autopsy on the Man of the Shroud
The Legal and Medical Aspects of the Trial and Death of Christ
The Fire and the Portrait
Was The Shroud In Languedoc During The Missing Years?
Is the Shroud of Turin a Painting?
Review of the Picknett/Prince book: "The Turin Shroud: In Whose
Image"
The Man of the Shroud Was Washed
It's the Message that Matters
Where Do We Go From Here?
Liturgical Clues to the Shroud's History
The Shroud of Turin: Its Ecumenical Implications
The Disciples On The Road To Turin
The Shroud of Turin: Bridge Between Heaven and Earth?
What Does the Shroud of Turin Mean?
The Shroud of Turin: A Parable for Modern Times?
http://www.shroud.com/library.htm
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Subject: [BPR] - NewsScan Daily items (8/19/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 20:26:25 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
SBC TO OFFER E-MAIL-ONLY PHONE SERVICE
SBC Communications plans a September launch for its new eMessage
service -- designed for people who want to communicate online, but
don't want to use a computer to do it. The service will use a
portable phone attachment that includes a keyboard and screen. The
e-mail-only service marks the first time a major phone company has
offered a service geared especially toward the "Internet appliance"
market. The eMessage service will cost about $10 a month, and the
device will sell for about $180 - about half the price of Web phones.
(Los Angeles Times 19 Aug 99)
http://www.latimes.com/HOME/BUSINESS/t000073861.html
NET ENEMIES LIST
Reporters Sans Frontiers, a Paris-based organization that promotes
press freedom, has compiled a Top-20 list of countries that severely
restrict citizens' access to information on the Internet. They are:
Azerbaijan, Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan,
Kirghizia, Libya, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Sudan,
Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.
Most of the countries named have state-owned Internet service
providers that filter and censor Web sites for their citizens, and
more repressive regimes, like Burma's, require computer owners to
register with the government. A few, like North Korea and Iraq, have
almost no Internet access at all. And in Saudi Arabia, the Internet
is viewed as "a harmful force for Westernizing people's minds."
(Investor's Business Daily 19 Aug 99) http://www.investors.com/
WILL SAT-NAV GEAR SUCCUMB TO GPS GLITCH?
Saturday, August 21, marks the day when hundreds of thousands of
satellite-aided time and navigational devices could go on the blink -
thanks to the Global Positioning System's 1,024-week cycle, which ends
a few minutes before midnight on the 21st. When the current cycle
ends, older devices (pre-1996) may be "rollover-dumb" - unable to
accommodate the change. Fortunately, most of the estimated 8-million
military and commercial GPS receivers were built in the last five
years, so outages are expected to be isolated rather than system-wide.
(New York Times 16 Aug 99) The U.S. Coast Guard has created a Web
site detailing the problem: http://www.navcen.oscg.mil/systems
MICROSOFT WANTS A WORLD OF CONVERSATION
Microsoft is releasing a computer protocol that will allow subscribers
of any instant-messaging service to engage in online chat with
customers of Microsoft Network. This would of course include companies
such as America Online, which has been fiercely resisting Microsoft's
attempt to extend its reach to AOL customers. (New York Times 19 Aug
99)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/biztech/articles/19soft.html
via: "NewsScan" <newsscan@newsscan.com>
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Subject: [BPR] - Idchip hoax
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 20:52:08 +0000
From: skyberspace@webtv.net
If you go to www.idchip.com/s1/main.htm and click on "Employment" and
read under the "Developer" category you will find a link that goes to
the following page:
-----begin-----
Congratulations.
You have discovered the secret little page.
My name is Bill Cross, I would like to take some time to answer some
of your more difficult questions. such as:
Q: "Are you for real?"
We here at Global Monetary were only recently made aware of the fact
that our company may not even exist. It was a great shock to many of
or executives who depend as they do on their multi-million dollar
salaries. We have yet to determine the answer to this question but, be
assured, we have very skilled people working it.
I would, however, like to point out one correction to you. On our
"About us" page it said that Global Monetary has $5 Billion in assets.
What we meant to say was that global Monetary had no money at all.
This mistake was apparently due to a typographical error at or
Montevideo office.
I would love to give you wonderful people my actual location and phone
number, but due to the large numbers of hysterical letters I received
from the "Other that sane" community I will refrain from doing so.
Part of the "whois" info is accurate though. The email address. It
works just fine. Don't send mail to the postal address listed though,
because it is a just made up. If you want to send me things like cash
or your house keys, email me and I'll send you more info.
I must confess that I have learned alot about people from this
experiment. I thought there was absolutely NO CHANCE in the world that
anyone would actually apply to be implanted with what is obviously the
"Mark of the Beast". But I was wrong. Scores of people have applied.
Some of them were just jokers thats true. But many people actually
posted VALID credit card numbers over a non-secure connection to a
strange company selling ID implants! If I hadn't seen it myself I
would never have believed it! (I have since removed the credit card
posting option because I didn't want people thinking we were stealing
credit card info.)
The success of this site has been phenomenal. It has been up for less
than 48 hours and is already exceeding a very ample server bandwidth
capacity. This has happened with no paid publicity or really any
effort at all. All it took was for the URL www.idchip.com to be sent
to a few people and it was off the races.
Q: "Are you an evil devil worshiper?"
No. But thanks for asking.
Q: "Is 'Bill Cross' your real name"
It's real enough.
Q: "Why are we doing this?"
Well, as are many of you, we are really disappointed that the year
2000 is coming up and we don't have George Jetson space cars yet. I
think this is a concern for all Americans. But what we find to be
totally unacceptable is that we are approaching the "millennium"
without any real apocalyptic things happening yet. (Many of us are
worried that people will forget to panic in January and cause Y2K to
be a considerable let down.) We were not about to let a perfectly good
millennium go by with out at least the Anti-Christ showing up or
something. We didn't know how to make an Anti-Christ (that's something
that they never seem to teach in schools anymore) so we figured it was
our duty to peddle "The mark of the Beast" that sounded easy enough.
It would provide entertainment for all those who secretly hope that
the world would hurry-up and end.
Q: "Since Global Monetary has so many orders from eager implant
customers, are you going to go ahead and implant them with a chip and
make them your slaves"
Yes.
Q: "How many people were behind this hoax"
We here at Global Monetary do not like the word "hoax", we prefer to
use the word "scam". But to answer your question, we think it was just
one person acting alone, but we are not certain of this. There may
have been others. Do you count cats?
Q: "Will you be posting more Q&A here"
Yes, you should come back more often.
Q: "Do you believe that children are the future?"
I don't know. Sure, I guess so. Why not.
Q: "Do you own a black helicopter?"
No, but my aunt has one.
Q: "How can people (who aren't insane) contact you?
Send your nice, friendly email to moab9@yahoo.com Drop a line just to
let me know you are alive. If you're dead then please have a friend
help you with this part.
Thank you,
Bill Cross, General Manager of Global Monetary
-----end-----
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Subject: [BPR] - How long is the sixth day?
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 21:01:52 +0000
From: "Norman" <nandrews@lesea.com>
I hope you find this as exciting as I have. I was doing a
study on the number 40 one night but instead, God showed me something
else. I had to skip over scriptures in order to get to the point as
quickly as possible but the removal of the scriptures was in no way
meant to take away from the word.
Genesis 5 speaks of the generations of Adam (6th day). In that "day"
God created man. We are in that 6th day which is almost over. Gen
5:1-32 CHAPTER 5
1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God
created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his
own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: 130 years
6 And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:
130 + 105 = 235 years
9 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
235 + 90 = 325 years
12 And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:
325 + 70 = 395 years
15 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
395 + 65 = 460 years
18 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
460 + 162 = 622 years
21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and
begat Methuselah:
622 + 65 = 687 years
25 And Methuselah lived a nhundred eighty and seven years, and begat
Lamech:
687 + 187 = 874 years
28 And Lamech livedan hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
874 + 182 = 1056 years
29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us
concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which
the LORD hath cursed.
Now jump forward to Genesis Chapter 9.
Gen 9:28-29
28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he
died.
What I find the most exciting about this is the 29th verse. The book
of Matthew states that "as the days of Noe were, so shall also the
coming of the son of man be". We tend to often think of the days of
Noah as the ungodly conditions that existed and rightly so we can see
the similarities in this present day. But perhaps there is something
more to be derived from this scripture in Matthew.
Let's take a closer look at the "days" of Noah and finish the whole
equation to see what we come up with. As we should all well know, God
does not haphazardly give us dates and years in the scripture just to
take up space and fill the pages. There must be a deeper meaning.
The death of Noah marked the end of a dispensation. A new
dispensation began through his sons, Shem Ham, & Japeth.
Take the 1056th year when Noah was born, let's continue to track the
number of years accumulated by adding the span of Noah's life found
in Genesis 9:29. "And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and
fifty years." Add 1056 years, plus 950 years, and you come up with
2006. If the 7 year tribulation is to be figured into this then
subtract the 7 years from 2006 and you come up with 1999.
With the events that are rapidly unfolding such as Barak's push for
final status peace, the May 4, 2000 deadline, and for example, the
strides being made by the United Religions Organization for One World
Religion. A cashless society is on the horizon which will pave the
way for the mark of the beast. One can easily see the year 1999 being
a plausible candidate for the kickoff of the tribulation.
Whether you're stance on the rapture is one of pre-tribulation,
middle of the week, or post tribulation, the time for riding on the
fence should be over. If you hold a pre tribulation view of the
rapture, then we could not be any closer than we are right now.
Moses once drew the line in the sand and asked, Who's on the Lord's
side? Those who remained opposed were swallowed up by the earth. We
too are quickly approaching a place where we will be asked Who's on
the Lord's side? Will you take the mark or will you refuse? For those
who accept the mark, it will be the point of no return.
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Subject: [BPR] - Aug 20, 1999 TV Programs
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 08:29:00 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
9:00 PM Eastern
DISC - DISCOVERY NEWS - (CC)
TLC - ROME: POWER & GLORY - "The Grasp of the Empire" -
Roman colonization; slavery.(CC)(TVG)
10:00
ABC - 20/20 - Interview with Bill Gates. [antisemitic groups?]
PBS - THE FACE OF RUSSIA - "The Face on the Firewood" -
Icon; abstraction; monastery rededication; baptism; frescoes;
melodious bells; Russian Orthodox Church;
cathedral.(CC)(TVG)
TLC - FORGOTTEN SECRETS - Ancient civilizations are
similar in their understanding of the
heavens.(CC)(TVPG)
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Subject: [BPR] - Environment News Service items
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 08:55:46 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
SPAIN PLANS EUROPE'S 1st ECO-TAX ON TOURISM
MINORCA, Spain, August 19, 1999 (ENS) - One of Spain's major tourist
destinations, the island of Minorca, is to become the first place in
Europe to experiment with a so-called eco-tax on tourism. Levied on
holiday makers, the tax will aim to alleviate the effects of mass
tourism on the environment. Published in cooperation with ENDS
Environment Daily Website: http://www.ends.co.uk/envdaily } For full
text and graphics visit:
http://ens.lycos.com/ens/aug99/1999L-08-19-01.html
CLIMATE RESEARCHERS OVERLOOKING SHIPS AT SEA
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, August 19, 1999 (ENS) - New research
suggests that emissions from ships may account for almost half the
amount of sulfur found in the atmosphere over the world=C6s oceans.
Previous studies have overlooked this human effect on the atmosphere,
meaning current models of global climate change may be flawed.
Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 1999 For full text and
graphics visit: http://ens.lycos.com/ens/aug99/1999L-08-19-06.html
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PLAGUE FOUND IN TWO TEXAS COYOTES
The bodies of two coyotes collected in the
Valle del Oro area of western Potter
County, Texas, have been found to be
carrying antibodies to the plague,
Yersinia pestis. The animals were
collected within 300 yards of one another,
but the first animal was collected in
November 1998, while the second was
collected in late June 1999. Blood samples
from these animals were tested as part of
a surveillance program conducted in
conjunction with the Texas Wildlife
Management Service. Coyotes serve as
sentinel animals for plague. Veterinarian
Dr. Jim Alexander, director of the West
Texas Rabies Response Center of the Texas
Department of Health warns that two
positive animals from the same area
indicates the possibility that there is
active plague in the Valle del Oro area.
It is probably in the wild rodent
population of rats, mice, and ground
squirrels, although rabbits and hares may
also carry the deadly disease.
http://ens.lycos.com/ens/aug99/1999L-08-19-09.html
PENNSYLVANIA FISH KILL NETS $225,000 FINE FOR TERMINIX
Pest control company Terminix
International Co., a subsidiary of the
ServiceMaster Company, has agreed to
change its termite treatment procedures
throughout the state of Pennsylvania, and
pay a $225,000 fine, as a result of a
major fish kill in December 1997. Terminix
applied pesticides on December 4, 1997, to
a private residence 75 feet from Brush
Run, a stream that flows into Little Ten
Mile and Ten Mile Creek in Washington
County. By the next day, thousands of fish
and aquatic invertebrates died, as the
termiticide continued downstream for about
eight miles. Terminix used conventional
treatment methods, drilling holes into the
basement concrete floor and injecting
chemicals into the soil beneath the floor.
The termiticide traveled to Brush Run
through gray water pipes beneath and
around the house. "Over the past few
years, termite treatments by Terminix and
its competitors have caused several major
fish kills in Commonwealth waterways,"
said state Department of Environmental
Protection (DEP) secretary James Seif.
"This penalty, the largest ever assessed
for a termiticide-related fish kill in
Pennsylvania, reminds the pest control
industry of the extra care required around
streams, ponds, lakes and wells.'' Under
the agreement, Terminix will pay $137,500
to the Pennsylvania Clean Water Fund and
$87,500 to the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat
Commission. The company also will
implement pollution prevention practices
that go beyond the pesticide label
requirements, the minimum safeguards
required by law.
http://ens.lycos.com/ens/aug99/1999L-08-19-09.html
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Subject: [BPR] - Daywatch items
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 09:00:59 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
SOUTH CAROLINA -- Every hour, 54 adults and 11 children
around the world contract leprosy, according to American
Leprosy Missions (ALM). Though leprosy is often thought of
as a disease of the past, the World Health Organization
reported over 800,000 new cases of leprosy in 1998 alone.
India, Brazil and Indonesia suffer the worst outbreaks of
the disease. Worldwide, nearly two million people suffer
from leprosy.
Full Story: http://www.mcjonline.com/news/news3347.htm
FRANCE -- The government and segments of the population of
France are becoming increasingly hostile toward evangelical
Christians. France was once a largely religious nation that
struggled with Italy for control of the papacy, but a
recent estimate suggests that only eight percent of French
people who consider themselves Christians actively practice
their faith.
Full Story: http://www.mcjonline.com/news/news3348.htm
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Subject: [BPR] - Navy Predicts Widespread Y2K Failure/Jim Lord info
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 09:05:23 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Navy Predicts Widespread Y2K Failure
By Ted Bridis
Associated Press Writer
Thursday, August 19, 1999; 7:27 p.m. EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Navy report predicts ``probable'' or ``likely''
failures in electrical and water systems for many cities because of
the Year 2000 technology problem -- an assessment more dire than any
other made by the government.
President Clinton's top Y2K adviser, John Koskinen, called the Navy's
conclusions overly cautious, saying they assumed that major utilities
would fail unless proved otherwise.
The most recent version of the study, updated less than two weeks ago,
predicted ``probable'' or ``likely'' partial failures in electric
utilities that serve nearly 60 of roughly 400 Navy and Marine Corps
facilities.
The study predicted ``likely'' partial electrical failures, for
example, at facilities in Orlando, Fla.; Gulfport, Miss.; Fort
Lauderdale, Fla.; and nine other small- to mid-size cities.
It also predicted ``probable'' partial water system failures in
Dallas; Nashville, Tenn.; Houston; Baton Rouge, La.; Montgomery, Ala;
Tulsa, Okla.; and 59 other cities.
The study forecast likely partial natural gas failures -- in the
middle of winter -- in Albany, N.Y.; Fort Worth, Texas; Pensacola,
Fla.; Charleston, S.C.; Columbus, Ohio; and Nashville.
The military report contrasts sharply with predictions from the White
House, which weeks ago said in a report that national electrical
failures are ``highly unlikely.'' The White House report also said
disruptions in water service from the date rollover are ``increasingly
unlikely.''
Koskinen, who vouched for the authenticity of the Navy report, noted
that all its worst-case predictions for failures were marked as
``interim'' or ``partial'' assessments.
``It's not nearly as interesting as the world coming to an end,'' said
Koskinen. ``The way they worked was, until you have information for
contingency planning purposes, you ought to assume there was a
problem.''
The Year 2000 problem occurs because some computer programs,
especially older ones, might fail when the date changes to 2000.
Because the programs were written to recognize only the last two
digits of a year, such programs could read the digits ``00'' as 1900
instead of 2000, potentially causing problems with financial
transactions, airline schedules and electrical grids.
The Navy report was first summarized on an Internet site run by Jim
Lord, a Y2K author, who said he obtained it ``from a confidential
source of the highest reliability and integrity.''
``The military has to work from the worst case, but so do we,'' Lord
told The Associated Press on Thursday. ``It's reprehensible for them
to know this and keep it from us.''
Koskinen said the Navy wasn't withholding information from anyone,
noting that the continually updated report was available until
recently on a Web site maintained by the Defense Department.
``The last people in the world the department is going to keep
information from is their own people,'' Koskinen said. ``In fact, the
whole purpose of the exercise is to make sure they can provide
appropriate information to servicemen on their bases and their
families.
The report was pulled off the Web site two weeks, Koskinen said.
Neither he nor Defense Department officials offered any reason why.
http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990819/V000093-0819
99-idx.h tml
via: End_Times_News@onelist.com
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THE PENTAGON PAPERS OF Y2K
By Jim Lord
http://www.jimlord.to/secretsurvey.cfm
Secret Government Study Reveals Massive Y2K Problems in American
Cities How many days could New York City survive without water and
sewer services? How long would it take to evacuate eight million
people in the dead of winter? Would thousands die in the process? Tens
of thousands? More? When would the rioting and looting begin? How many
National Guard troops would it take to control the largest city in the
nation? What unthinkable devastation would be wrought on the global
financial system? How might our enemies seize on the ensuing panic and
confusion?
Are these the crazed speculations of a Y2K alarmist? Not if you know
what the US Navy and Marine Corps know. According to a June 1999
report titled, "Master Utility List," they believe "total failure is
likely" for New York City's water and sewer systems because of Y2K
problems. And they're holding this information back.
The Navy Department assessment is not limited to New York City; it
covers all their shore facilities in the world-nearly 500 locations.
The results are horrifying. They expect more than 26 million American
citizens in 125 cities to be without electricity, water, gas or sewer
services next January. Many more would be affected in foreign
countries. London, England for example is expected to experience
failures of all four types of utilities. Many of the people impacted
by these failures would be military personnel and their families.
And the Navy Department isn't telling anyone.
Forty-five of the cities named in the survey have population greater
than 100,000. Eight of the nation's dozen largest metropolitan areas
are af-fected. Here's what the Navy expects:
* Dallas -- no water
* Washington DC and Philadelphia -- no gas
* Baltimore, Houston, New York and Miami -- no water or sewer
* Atlanta-no water or gas
* San Antonio-no water or electricity
* Fort Worth and New Orleans-no water, gas or sewer services
And the Navy Department is saying nothing...
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ELECTRIC UTILITY FAILURES
http://www.jimlord.to/ElectricityFailures.cfm
Somebody needs to let the North American Electric Reliability Council
(NERC) know about the Navy study. For their benefit and yours, here is
a list of 29 electrical utilities the Navy expects to fail. Read over
this list carefully. Some of the Navy facilities are quite small but
the electric company that provides their service has a very large
customer base. If your electrical company is included, you need to
raise hell with them and find out if they know how the Navy feels
about them.
Electrical Utilities Expected to Fail:
Baldwin EMC, Milton FL
Bessemer Utilities, Bessemer AL
Central Louisiana Electric, Slidell LA
City of Albany GA
City of Key West FL
City Public Service Board, San Antonio TX
Clay Electric Cooperative, Jacksonville FL
Coastal Electric Members, Jacksonville FL
Daviess Martin County Rural Elect, Crane IN
Dayton Power & Light, Dayton OH
El Paso Electric Co., El Paso TX
Escambia River Elec Co., Milton FL, Pensacola FL
Florida Power and Light, Canaveral FL, Ft Lauderdale FL
Florida Power Corp, Clearwater FL
Gulf States Utilities, Orange City FL
JEA, Atlantic Beach FL, Jacksonville FL
Knoxville Utilities Board, Knoxville TN
Middle Georgia Elec, Hawkinsville GA
Mississippi Power and Light, Gulfport MS
Northeast Utilities, New London CT
Orlando Utilities Commission, Orlando FL
Port of Seattle WA
Riviera Utilities, Milton FL
Sierra Electric Cooperative, Truth or Conseq. NM
South Central Power, Columbus OH
Southern Pine Elec Coop, Milton FL
Southwest Arkansas Electric, Lewisville AR
Southwest Louisiana Electric, Broussard LA
Southwestern Public Services, Amarillo TX
Twin County Electric, Hollandale MS
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GAS COMPANY FAILURES
http://www.jimlord.to/GasFailures.cfm
This is a list of forty gas companies the Navy Department expects to
fail. Some of the cities mentioned are quite small but the service
area for the utility mentioned has a very large customer base. Check
this list carefully to see if your gas company is included.
Gas Utilities Expected to Fail:
Alabama Gas Corp, Bessemer AL
Atlanta Gas Light Co., Atlanta GA
Baltimore Gas & Electric, Annapolis MD
Boston Gas, Weymouth MA
City of Albany GA
City of Bethlehem PA
City of Bossier City LA
City of Buffalo, NY
City of Great Falls MT
City of Pascagoula MS
City of Pensacola FL
City Public Service Board, San Antonio TX
Columbia Gas of Virginia, Portsmouth VA, Quantico VA
Dayton Power & Light, Dayton OH
Energas Co, Amarillo TX
Interenergy Corp, Charleston SC
Knoxville Utilities Board, Knoxville TN
Louisiana Gas Service, New Orleans LA
Mobile Gas Service Corp, Mobile AL
Mountaineer Gas, Sugar Grove WV
Nashville Gas Service, Nashville TN
New Jersey Natural Gas, Earl NJ
New York State El, New London CT
Niagra Mohawk, Watertown NY
NorAm Energy Management, Pensacola FL
North Carolina Gas, Morehead City NC
Northern Utilities, Portsmouth NH
Okaloosa Gas District, Milton FL
Orlando Utilities Commission, Orlando FL
PECO Energy, Warminster PA
Penn Gas & Water, Avoca PA, Williamsport PA
Philadelphia Gas, Philadelphia PA
Providence Energy, Newport RI
PSE&G, Kearney NJ
Rochester Gas & Electric, Rochester NY
UGI Corp, Mechanicsburg PA
United Cities Gas Co, Columbia SC
Virginia Natural Gas, Newport News VA, Norfolk VA, Yorktown VA
Washington Gas Co., Arlington VA, Bethesda MD, Carderock MD, Lexington
Park MD, Washington DC West Florida Natural Gas, Panama City FL
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IMPACT ON MILITARY READINESS
http://www.jimlord.to/MilitaryImpact.cfm
These revelations imply a severe effect on military readiness in the
United States and at several important locations overseas. In this
country, for example the major Marine Corps bases at Quantico,
Virginia and Camp LeJeune, North Carolina are expected to experience
utility failures. The latter is of special personal concern -- my son
and his family are stationed there.
Another essential but not widely appreciated Marine Corps facility is
at special risk. The base at Albany, Georgia is the hub of all USMC
logistics activities. The inability of this base to provide services
would pose a devastating threat to the entire US Marine Corps. Albany
is one of three unfortunate cities expected to have utility failures
in all four areas -- electricity, water, gas and sewer.
The US Navy expects serious problems as well. The extensive complex of
facilities at their primary east-coast port at Norfolk/Portsmouth,
Virginia is projected to be without water or natural gas. The Navy
Space Command at Dahlgren, Virginia; is in jeopardy. The Naval Air
Stations at North Island, California; Whidby Island, Washington, Cecil
Field, Florida; and Pensacola, Florida are at risk. The key submarine
bases at Kings Bay, Georgia and New London, Connecticut are on the
list. The latter is another of the three state-side locations expected
to have failures of all four types of utilities.
The facility at Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania is also of special
concern. Much of the US Navy's logistics support is conducted at this
base which is expected to see both gas and sewer failures.
Overseas, critical bases at Rota, Spain; Sigonella and Naples, Italy;
(headquarters of the Mediterranean (6th) Fleet); Bahrain; Guam; Puerto
Rico; and Okinawa are impacted. Of the ten facilities listed in the
United Kingdom, all (mostly in London) were expected to experience
failures of all four utilities.
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CITIES AT RISK
http://www.jimlord.to/CitiesatRisk.cfm
The information presented below is based on a US Navy/Marine Corps
survey dated June 1999. The survey was conducted to determine the risk
of utility failures at military facilities worldwide. Only United
States information is shown.+
[Editor's note: The charts on Lord's website show a list of cities and
the Y2K exposure of the major utilities in each city. The columns
labeled E, W, G and S refer to the Electrical, Water, Gas and Sewer
utilities. An "x" in the column indicates that utility is expected to
fail. Please visit Lord's Pentagon Papers website to view all of this
data.]
43 cities where "partial failure (of one or more utilities --
Electrical, Water, Gas or Sewer) is probable"
Amarillo TX
Annapolis MD
Arlington VA
Avoca PA
Baton Rouge LA
Bethesda MD
Broussard LA
Carderock MD
Charlotte NC
Columbus OH
Corpus Christi TX
Crane IN
Dallas TX
Dayton OH
Duluth MN
El Paso TX
Forest Park IL
Greensboro NC
Highland Park IL
Houston TX
Ingleside TX
Key West FL
Knoxville TN
Lewisville AR
Lexington Park MD
Millington TN
Mobile AL
Montgomery AL
Newport News VA
Norfolk VA
Pascagoula MS
Peoria IL
Philadelphia PA
Portsmouth VA
San Antonio TX
Sheboygan WI
Sugar Grove WV
Truth or Conseq. NM
Tulsa OK
Washington DC
Waukegan IL
West Palm Beach FL
Yorktown VA
38 cities where "partial failure (of one or more utilities --
Electrical, Water, Gas or Sewer) is likel y"
Albany GA
Atlanta GA
Atlantic Beach FL
Augusta GA
Beaufort SC
Bessemer AL
Bossier City LA
Cape Canaveral FL
Charleston SC
Chattanooga TN
Clearwater FL
Columbia SC
Columbus GA
Fort Lauderdale FL
Fort Worth TX
Greenville NC
Gulfport MS
Harlingen TX
Hawkinsville GA
Hollandale MS
Jacksonville FL
Kingsville TX
Meridian MS
Miami FL
Milton FL
Nashville TN
New Orleans LA
Orange City FL
Orlando FL
Panama City FL
Pensacola FL
Raleigh NC
Slidell LA
Smyrna GA
St Marys GA
Sullivans Island SC
Waco TX
Wetumpka AL
44 cities where "total failure (of one or more utilities --
Electrical, Water, Gas or Sewer) is likely."
Baltimore MD
Bethlehem PA
Bremerton WA
Brunswick ME
Buffalo NY
Coronado CA
Dahlgren VA
Earl NJ
Erie PA
Fallbrook CA
Glen Falls NY
Great Falls MT
Hartford CT
Huntington WV
Imperial Beach CA
Kearney NJ
Lakehurst NJ
Mechanicsburg PA
Morehead City NC
National City CA
New London CT
New York City NY
Newport RI
Oak Grove NC
Oak Harbor WA
Ogden UT
Pacific Beach WA
Plaineville CT
Pomona CA
Port Hadlock WA
Port of Seattle WA
Portsmouth NH
Providence RI
Quantico VA
Reading PA
Reno NV
Rochester NY
San Jose CA
Seal Beach CA
Trenton NJ
Warminster PA
Watertown NY
Weymouth MA
Williamsport PA
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SOURCE OF INFO: WHERE IT CAME FROM
http://www.jimlord.to/SourceofInfo.cfm
This information came from the US Navy and Marine Corps (Department of
the Navy). They were apparently tasked to conduct a study of the Y2K
exposure of their worldwide shore facilities. A copy of this study
made its way into my hands.
Military bases in the United States are rarely self-sufficient when it
comes to utilities such as electricity, water, gas and sewer. These
services are almost always provided by the local economy. From a Y2K
standpoint, this leaves the bases at the mercy of the local utility
providers. Nearly five hundred bases were assessed; approximately one
third are expected to experience utility failures.
These figures are completely out of whack with the federal
government's August 1999 Y2K assessment which says:
"It is highly unlikely that there will be national disruptions in
electric power service on January 1, 2000. (I)t is expected that any
(gas disruptions) that do occur will have minimal impact upon
consumers. (I)t is increasingly unlikely that the date change will
create disruptions in water service."
Mr. Koskinen, you need to check with the folks over at the Pentagon.
They seem to have a different opinion. Or is it possible you already
know about this information?
The information was obtained from a confidential source of the highest
reliability and integrity. The identity of this source will be
staunchly protected. I don't have a copy of the detailed assessments
of the individual bases nor do I possess the information on Army or
Air Force bases. I am submitting a request for these documents through
the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), however. (In fact, I encourage
you to help out by submitting your own FOIA request for these
documents.)
The information from the bases and other facilities was compiled into
an eight-page spreadsheet that is titled "Utility Master List" and
dated June 1999. No other markings appear on the papers. In
particular, (and this is of crucial importance) the document is not
stamped or labeled with any national security classification markings.
via: nhne@nhne.com
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Subject: [BPR] - They're Changing Israel's History
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 09:12:50 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
THEY'RE CHANGING OUR HISTORY!
by Ruth Matar
Arutz Sheva Israel National Radio <http://www.a7.org>
Broadcast on August 18, 1999 / Elul 6, 5759
This article is based on a show hosted by Ruth Matar of Women in
Green, and adapted for print.
In This Article:
1. New Israeli Textbooks - with Newly-Written History
2. From Whence the "New" Facts?
3. The True Motive
4. An American Volunteer's View
5. What to Do
NEW ISRAELI TEXTBOOKS - WITH NEWLY-WRITTEN HISTORY
Good evening. Dear listeners, today we'll be discussing a very
important subject. Israel's history books are being rewritten, and our
youngsters are being brainwashed to adopt the post-Zionist
orientation. These books are not ordinary books - they are textbooks,
approved by Israel's Ministry of Education, and each student in the
public school system must buy one of three new such textbooks,
according to the decision of each school or district. The
front-runner among the three books is, by far, one entitled The 20th
Century, by Prof. Ayal Naveh.
Four days ago, the New York Times had a long front-page article,
entitled "Israel's History Textbooks Replace Myth With Facts,"
explaining how the new books shed a "different light" on the
Israeli-Arab conflict. Let's compare the new books with the old ones.
I have a textbook published in 1984, entitled, "Not on a Silver
Platter: From National Home to Sovereign State, 1939-1949" written by
Yosef Ofek. He writes, "The numerical standoff [during Israel's War of
Independence in 1948] was horrifyingly unbalanced. The Jewish
population totaled only 650,000, while the Arab states together
comprised more than 40 million people. The chances of success were
doubtful, and the Jewish community had to draft every possible fighter
for its defense."
OK, now let's see what the new book has to say on this topic. The book
by Naveh, published this year, which many 9th graders all over the
country are now buying, states as follows: "On nearly every front and
in nearly every battle, the Jewish side had the advantage, in terms of
planning, organization, equipment, and the number of trained fighters
in each battle."
FROM WHENCE THE "NEW" FACTS?
Where did Prof. Naveh get his facts to replace what he calls the old
myths?
After all, he was born only in 1952, four years after the War of
Independence. He certainly has no first-hand information - so where
did he get his facts? Naveh says that his book is "based on
newly-opened state archives." When were these permitted to be opened?
"In 1977," he answers - 22 years ago. In my book, that is not
exactly newly-opened_
To find out what really happened during our War of Independence, we
are privileged to have as our guests on our show tonight two men who
were actively involved in it, and are able to give us a true picture
of what really happened more than 50 years ago. First - Prof. Re'uel
Shinar, a Professor of Engineering in City College in New York and
presently an engineering consultant. He worked, as he put it, for the
"nascent Israeli military industry, on the front and underground_ I
graduated before the war with a chemical engineering degree. During
the war I dealt with explosives and demolitions, and we had a very
difficult time with this at the time. We were very lacking in weapons
all over_"
Ruth Matar: "How did you feel when you read the NY Times article about
the new books?" Prof. Shinar: "I was very upset. I felt that this
was such a falsification of experience that I can only compare to
another similar falsification of history - I am referring to the
denial of the Holocaust."
RM: "Really! That is quite a strong indictment."
Prof. Shinar: "- Because for me and most of my generation, the War of
Independence was a very formative experience in our whole attitude to
life.
The first two weeks of the war seemed simply hopeless. The British
had
armed the Arabs, and they prevented us from arming ourselves. We had
good preparation and good fighters, but we had very little to fight
with. The fact that whole world was ready to sit by and watch, so
soon after the Holocaust, how these large and well-equipped Arab
armies slaughter the Jews - this was a major aspect of the formulation
of my life. As an example, the Arabs had real planes and real bombs,
and they could have overrun the whole country in the first two weeks.
Only after a while did we receive arms from the one country who was
ready to help us - Czechoslovakia. The British didn't allow us to
prepare ourselves_ Let me give you an example that will show you how
hopeless our situation was. On the second day of the war, a Air Force
officer came to me with a strange request -
RM: "I thought there was no Israel Air Force?"
Prof. Shinar: "Oh, we had a few small planes, like Piper Cubs-
RM: "You mean that small plane, the one in which JFK Jr. was just
killed? But that only has one engine!" Prof. Shinar: "Right, that's
what we had in those days. The copilot would hold the bomb in his
hand and throw it out the window. This was our Air Force. In any
event, this officer came to me and said there weren't enough bombs.
He said that they had an idea to use cases of empty beer bottles -
because one of the purposes of bombs is not only to cause damage, but
to cause noise so that they will be afraid, keep their heads down, and
not see from where the bombs are coming. So the idea was to use these
cases that would make a lot of noise when they crashed down. But, he
said, there was one problem: beer-bottle cases don't shriek when they
fall, as bombs do, and he asked if I could do something about it. I
had had no experience in this, but I said I would try_ In the end, we
found some toy sirens, and we copied and enlarged them a bit, and
within a day or two we had 20 of them. _ I am still amazed now that
the Arabs, in those first two weeks, didn't simply come into Tel Aviv
and take it over. They were very incompetent, it's true, but we
couldn't exactly rely on that. What this author wrote is
irresponsible nonsense. He could have spoken to many people who were
alive at the time, such as [former Techiyah Knesset Member] Prof.
Yuval Ne'eman, who was working with the tactics team at the time_"
THE TRUE MOTIVE
RM: "What do you think is the motive of these people who are rewriting
history?" Prof. Shinar: "Young professors who need to make a
reputation for themselves write outrageous statements so they will get
their names into the papers... But this professor is not at fault -
it's the fault of Education Minister Yossi Sarid, who put these books
into the schools! He's mis-using the schools for political purposes.
Sarid has always fought for a different peace than that which Barak
and Peres and Netanyahu have fought for, which is the only one
acceptable to the majority of Israel. They wish to protect Israel's
ability to defend itself, and not to give up. But Sarid knows that
what prevents people from accepting his idea of peace is the memory of
'48, so he wants to eradicate the memory. Those who were there at the
time remember what happened, and he can't change that, but he can
poison children in the schools and do it that way. This is a very old
leftist idea, used by Hitler too, that people's idea of life is formed
by history and their experience and that of their parents. Sarid
wishes to change what people think by changing what they know of their
history."
RM: "This is clearly a very dangerous situation. People like you, who
were there, must speak up." Prof. Shinar: "Yes, I will speak up, and
contact my friends, and write... But it is truly up to Barak: Barak
knows Sarid, and knows what he's doing, and if Barak does not stop
him, then he is not fit to be a Prime Minister, and his coalition must
not allow him to do this.
[Ruth Matar thanked Prof. Shinar, and continued:]
AN AMERICAN VOLUNTEER'S VIEW
Our next guest is Col. Bill Lichtman, retired U.S. Air Force pilot who
volunteered in Israel in 1948. What impressed me about Col. Lichtman
is that he does not portray himself in a heroic mode, but simply says
that when he was approached by the Israelis to help in their desperate
fight, he said that he thought long and hard about it, because he was
already tired of war and he knew that his trip to Israel might be a
one-way trip - but he decided to do it anyway. Many of you listeners
fell in love with this crusty old warrior the last time he was on our
show_
Col. Lichtman: "I would just like to make a quick comment first, if I
may:
I can't understand what drives these guys to try to rewrite history
and
compromise on the truth. Is it insecurity, Jewish self-hatred, guilt,
hostility, or what? They never give a thought to what it will do to
the children in the schools_ OK, regarding the war itself: This guy
simply doesn't know what he's talking about! We didn't have a
military edge, or a military supply line. There was an arms embargo
from the US. We got our arms in a very partisan manner, 'catch as
catch can.' There were guys who walked around with suitcases with
money, and they went wherever there were a couple of planes that they
could get - Panama, Mexico, or wherever. The embargo from the U.S.
was very strictly enforced. If you got caught smuggling a plane out
of the U.S., you would have your passport taken away_
Flying these WW2 planes to Israel from various corners of the world
was
very dangerous_ The DC-3's that we had were usually used as cargo
planes - we rigged them for war. We had bomb chuckers. An individual
was roped to the bulkheads, and he would chuck the bombs out the door.
Only after a while were they able to put regular bomb-releases under
the wings..."
Lichtman continued to describe the difficulties that Israel faced in
procuring arms and putting together a fighting army while in the midst
of waging its defensive war of independence. "In short, everything
this new book says is not true, and it certainly was not as easy as he
writes."
RM: "Thanks for being with us, Col. Lichtman, but most of all, thanks
for being with us in 1948 in our hour of need_ You and the others
must speak up." Col. Lichtman: "I do, and I write a lot, and I just
want to say that this book is a terrible insult to myself and to my
colleagues who fought at the time_"
[Ruth Matar then read aloud several passages from the book written by
Naveh.] One passage stated that the PLO was established after the
1967 war's conquest of the territories and their two million
Palestinian inhabitants "which Israel refused to recognize as a
national entity." This is of course part of the Big Lie, because the
Palestine Liberation Organization was really founded in 1964 - what
exactly were they trying to liberate at the time? The only
"territories" at the time were the original State of Israel - and
that's what the PLO was trying to liberate!
In addition, Naveh gives the students the standard left-wing empathy
exercises: "Pretend you are an Egyptian soldier writing to his family
from an Israeli prison," and "Pretend you are a woman refugee in a
Gazan refugee camp conquered by Israel." It's very significant that
in this whole empathy exercise, nowhere are the students asked to
pretend to be an Israeli soldier writing home about how exalted he
feels taking part in the return to our Biblical lands that G-d has
promised us in our Bible. This, Naveh does not ask!
WHAT TO DO
Fellow Jews in Israel and the Diaspora! This is your problem as well!
60% of Israel's students in the public school system will be
indoctrinated with these post-Zionist lies - and then if they don't
regurgitate these lies on their final exams and their Bagrut
matriculation examinations, they will receive failing grades! School
must be a place not only to learn facts, but also to be indoctrinated
with a love for one's country and a spirit of Zionism! A new
generation could G-d forbid arise that doesn't understand why they
must defend Eretz Yisrael! Why should they, if they have been taught
that it does not rightly belong to them!
This is not a small problem. The Jewish state is being destroyed from
within by the brainwashing of our children. You can stop this madness
by calling or faxing Prime Minister Barak and making him aware of what
the Education Ministry is doing. His fax number is (972-2) 566-4838,
and his phone number is (972-3) 670-5510. It is crucial that we raise
our voice on this matter!
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Subject: [BPR] - Arutz-7 News items (8/20/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 09:16:51 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
TERRORISTS CAPTURED; LEADER ISSUED ORDERS FROM P.A. PRISON
Israeli security forces have captured the Islamic Jihad terrorist cell
whose members carried out the recent shooting attacks in northern
Shomron. In the most recent incident, Mevo Dotan resident Eitan Vaknin
was wounded outside the main gate of his community, and the attackers
escaped into Palestinian-controlled territory. Arutz-7 correspondent
Haggai Huberman reports that the cell numbered seven terrorists, all
residents of the village of Araba in the Palestinian autonomy. The
commander of the cell remains in Palestinian Authority prison in
Shechem, from where he issued orders to his terrorist underlings.
ARAFAT HONORS MURDERER
Yasser Arafat awarded the highest Palestinian decoration yesterday to
terrorist murderer Halil Al-Ra'i. Al-Ra'i was convicted 25 years ago
of killing Israeli policeman Moshe Carmeli in Gaza, and has sat in
Israeli prison ever since. This week, in a gesture to the Palestinian
Authority, Israel released him from prison. Arafat informed Al-Ra'i
that he was receiving the "Jerusalem Decoration" in recognition of his
"struggle."
SUIT FILED AGAINST WAQF CONSTRUCTION ON TEMPLE MOUNT
A suit was filed in the Supreme Court yesterday, demanding that the
government and the Antiquities Authority prevent the Moslem Waqf from
continuing its building activities on the Temple Mount. The
petitioners, members of the Ne'emanei Har HaBayit movement (Temple
Mount Faithful), claim that the Waqf is destroying ancient Jewish
artifacts near the Hulda Gate on the southern side of the Mount, and
is causing irreparable damage. The suit further claims that the
authorities "close their eyes" to Waqf violations of the law and to
its erasure of evidence of the Temple Mount's Jewish history. Still
another claim is that the area in question may provide a solution for
still-denied Jewish prayer on the Mount, and that the Waqf activities
there are designed to prevent the future implementation of this
option.
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.a7.org>
Friday, August 20, 1999 / Elul 8, 5759
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Subject: [BPR] - US to seek new computer surveillance power
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 12:24:12 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Fri, Aug 20, 1999
U.S. To Seek New Computer Surveillance
Power
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department is seeking new powers
to break into private premises and disable security precautions on
personal computers as a prelude to a wiretap or further search, the
Washington Post reported Friday.
The department wanted to make it easier for law enforcement
authorities to get search warrants that would let them monitor
suspects' computerized records after break-ins, said the paper,
citing documents and interviews with Clinton administration
officials.
``In a request set to go to Capitol Hill, Justice officials will ask
lawmakers to authorize covert action in response to the growing use
of software programs that encrypt, or scramble, computer files,'' the
report said. Such encryption makes computers inaccessible to anyone
who lacks a special code or ''key.''
Justice officials worry that such software ``is increasingly used as
a means to facilitate criminal activity, such as drug trafficking,
terrorism, white-collar crime and the distribution of child
pornography,'' the Post quoted an Aug. 4 memo by the department as
saying.
Under the proposed ``Cyberspace Electronic Security Act,''
investigators armed with a sealed warrant could comb computers for
passwords and install devices that override encryption programs, the
Post reported, citing the Justice memo.
To pull information from a targeted computer, agents would still be
required to get additional authorization from a court, the paper
said.
Justice officials were not immediately available for comment. The
proposal is the latest in a years-long tug-of-war between the
government and computer users who want to protect their privacy by
encrypting documents.
While Justice officials said their plan was consistent with
constitutional principles, the idea alarmed civil libertarians and
privacy advocates.
``They have taken the cyberspace issue and are using it as
justification for invading the home,'' said Jack Dempsey of the
Center for Democracy and Technology, an advocacy group in Washington
that tracks privacy issues.
David Sobel, general counsel of the Electronic Privacy Information
Center in Washington, said in an e-mail early Friday that the
proposal ``strikes at the heart of the Bill of Rights.''
Surreptitious physical entries are relatively rare under existing
surveillance laws. Such entries are made only to install hidden
microphones, an investigative technique approved only 50 times by
federal and state judges last year.
According to Sobel, ``extending this extraordinary power to cases
involving computer files would make police break-ins far more common
than they are today.''
The proposal followed unsuccessful efforts by FBI Director Louis
Freeh and other Justice officials to secure laws requiring built-in
``back doors'' so investigators could pierce powerful encryption
programs said to be a boon to criminals.
http://headlines.about.com/index8.htm
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Subject: [BPR] - Comets tied to fall of empires
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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 11:45:39 -0500
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Comets tied to fall of empires
Environmental calamities after cosmic clashes wiped out
societies
August 17, 1999
BY ROBERT S. BOYD
FREE PRESS WASHINGTON STAFF
WASHINGTON -- Recent scientific discoveries are shedding new
light on why great empires like Egypt, Babylon and Rome fell
apart, giving way to the periodic "dark ages" that punctuate
human history.
At least five times during the last 6,000 years, major
environmental calamities undermined civilizations worldwide.
Some researchers say these disasters appear to be linked to
collisions with comets or fragments of comets like the one that
broke apart and smashed into Jupiter five years ago this summer.
The impacts, yielding many megatons of explosive energy,
produced vast clouds of smoke and dust that circled the globe
for years, dimming the sun, driving down temperatures and sowing
hunger, disease and death.
The last such global crisis occurred between 530 and 540 -- at
the beginning of the Dark Ages in Europe -- when Earth was
pummeled by a swarm of cosmic debris.
In a forthcoming book, "Catastrophe, the Day the Sun Went Out,"
British historian David Keys describes a two-year-long winter
that began in 535. Trees from California to Ireland to Siberia
stopped growing. Crops failed. Plague and famine decimated
Italy, China and the Middle East.
Keys quotes the writings of a 6th-Century Syrian bishop, John
of Ephesus: "The sun became dark.... Each day it shone for about
four hours and still this light was only a feeble shadow." A
contemporary Italian historian, Flavius Cassiodorus, wrote: "We
marvel to see no shadows of our bodies at noon. We have summer
without heat." And a contemporary Chinese chronicler reported,
"Yellow dust rained like snow."
Researchers say similar environmental calamities occurred about
3200 BC, 2300 BC, 1628 BC and 1159 BC. Each led to the collapse
of urban societies.
Destructive as they were, the natural disasters that have
plagued Earth since the dawn of civilization are but popguns
compared with the truly titanic catastrophes of prehistoric eras.
There have been at least five of these monster events, each of
which wiped out most of the creatures living at the time, the
fossil record shows.
The best known was a six-mile-wide meteor that smashed into
what is now the Gulf of Mexico 65 million years ago. The
collision wreathed the planet in clouds of dust, poisoned the
atmosphere and drove the dinosaurs, then rulers of the Earth,
into extinction. Traces of the enormous crater, at least 100
miles across, created by the impact were found in 1990.
Even that wasn't the biggest blow the Earth has suffered. The
mother of all extinctions, which wiped out 90 percent of living
species, happened about 245 million years ago. Paleontologists
say other mass extinctions occurred about 214 million, 360
million and 440 million years ago.
Although the evidence is debated, many researchers contend that
most, if not all, of these ecological disasters are connected to
bombardments from space.
"Recent evidence is converging on the conclusion that mass
extinctions coincided with comet or asteroid impacts, and that
periodic comet showers, triggered by the solar system's motions
through the Milky Way galaxy, may provide a theory to explain
impact-related mass extinctions," said Michael Rampino, a
geologist at New York University.
"After an impact, the dense dust cloud that is created by the
impact spreads through the atmosphere, cuts out sunlight,"
Rampino said. "This stops photosynthesis and causes the climate
to get cold and dark, leading to the mass extinction of large
numbers of organisms."
These disasters, while terrible for their victims, opened the
way for the survivors to flourish, diversify and -- for humans --
take over the world.
"We mammals may owe our pre-eminent position atop the Earth's
food chain to a collision some 65 million years ago that wiped
out most of our competition, including the dinosaurs," said
Donald Yeomans, a NASA astronomer who tracks comets and asteroids.
These discoveries are lending weight to a revised theory of
evolution. Instead of proceeding gradually by a series of tiny
changes, as Charles Darwin proposed 140 years ago, life
developed in a series of starts and stops, some biologists say.
They call it "punctuated evolution," periods of slow development
interrupted by wholesale extinctions and recoveries.
"It may take millions of years, but as the new organisms fill
all the new niches that were emptied out, a whole new biosphere
is created," Rampino explained.
NASA and the Air Force are scanning the skies, searching for
comets and asteroids that might be on a collision course with
our planet. Fortunately, nothing of a dangerous size --
arbitrarily defined as more than a half-mile in diameter -- has
been spotted heading our way for at least another century. But
astronomers say a major impact is inevitable.
"Earth is currently enjoying a quiescent period," said Robert
Shoch, a Boston University geologist. "But around 2200 AD, it is
likely that a new flow of comet fragments will enter Earth-
crossing orbits and pose a real threat to our planet."
The civilization-shattering events of the historic era "must
have been near-misses, because if we had been hit by a full-
blown comet in the past 10,000 years or so, we wouldn't be here
today," said Mike Baillie, a British archaeologist who studies
tree rings.
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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 19:43:10 +0000
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*** Woman kills baby born during eclipse
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - A Romanian woman killed her baby born
during the Aug. 11 eclipse, apparently fearing ancient superstitions
that the child would grow up cursed, a newspaper reported Friday. The
31-year-old woman from a remote village in northern Romania,
reportedly admitted throwing the infant down an outdoor toilet shortly
after giving birth in her home, local prosecutor Vasile Selaru said.
Neighbors in the village of Strahotin said the woman was "fearful of
rumors that monsters are born during the eclipse," the daily Monitorul
de Botosani reported. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560792157-e7d
*** Soccer used to celebrate peace day
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - To celebrate the U.N. International Day of
Peace, several countries have teamed up with voluntary groups and the
city of New York to organize a mammoth soccer tournament on Sept. 19.
The tournament at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, once the home to
the United Nations, will feature 64 teams from the New York
metropolitan area representing countries, ethnic groups and
soccer-lovers from around the globe. The soccer competition is being
called the September Debate Friendship Cup. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560793227-0ad
*** Tonga may get jump on millennium
TAVEUNI, Fiji (AP) - The small Polynesian kingdom of Tonga hopes to do
one better than neighboring island rivals for millennium business by
adopting daylight saving time. Its 27-member parliament will be asked
to approve a bill to move the country's 100,000 people from 13 to 14
hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time between November and February.
Tonga can then claim to be "the place where time begins" and hence
first by an hour ahead of Fiji into 2000. Appealing for approval of
the bill, the Tonga Visitors Bureau said today that Tonga, whose
tourist arrivals slumped recently to under 20,000 annually, could
expect a bonanza of 12,000 visitors in December and January. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560795352-926
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Subject: [BPR] - Weekend News Today items (8/21/99)
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Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 09:30:04 +0000
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Dead Sea quake would jolt Jerusalem
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: Ha'aretz daily
Fri Aug 20,1999 -- If a powerful earthquake were to hit the northern
part of the Dead Sea, it would damage about 20 percent of the
buildings in Jerusalem, according to a new study by Ron Avni, the
controller of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Be'er Sheva and a
researcher of earthquakes. Avni, who studied the earthquake that
rocked the Dead Sea in 1927 and killed 300 people, said he expects the
next quake in the region to occur within 10 to 20 years. "According to
past experience, an earthquake above 6 on the Richter scale occurs in
the Dead Sea region once every 100 years," Avni says. "The last one
was in 1927, the one before that in 1837 and before that in 1759." He
predicts that the next earthquake around the Dead Sea will be "at
least 6.2 on the Richter scale." A simulation conducted during the
study showed that the major damage in Jerusalem would be to old,
poorly constructed buildings from the beginning of the 20th century -
some 17 percent of them would sustain damage. About 11 percent of
newer buildings of low or intermediate quality would also suffer, as
would 6 percent of new buildings of high-quality construction. About
50 percent of the poorly constructed buildings would sustain heavy
damage, with 5 percent of them likely to collapse entirely. The
remainder would suffer moderate to light damage.
Montana earthquake measures 5.3
Weekend News Today
By Kelly Pagatpatan
Source: Reuters
Fri Aug 20,1999 -- An earthquake measuring an estimated 5.3 on the
Richter scale rattled a rural section of Montana on Friday morning,
the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. John Bellini, a geophysicist
at the USGS National Earthquake Information Centre in Colorado, said
the quake hit at 7:50 a.m. (0950 EDT, 1350 GMT) northwest of the town
of Lima, or about 120 miles (190 km) southwest of Helena.
Death toll from earthquake in Turkey passes 10,000
Weekend News Today
By Kelly Pagatpatan
Source: AP
Fri Aug 20,1999 -- Rescuers pulled two children barely alive out of
the rubble of Turkey's devastating earthquake today, while the
government admitted that the lack of water and sweltering heat made
chances of survival slim for the up to 35,000 people still believed
trapped under debris.The death toll surged to 10,059 dead, and more
than 45,000 were injured, the government said.
6.7 strong earthquake hits Costa Rica
Weekend News Today
By Staff Writer
Source: Yahoo! Reuters
Fri Aug 20,1999 -- A strong earthquake with magnitude 6.7 rocked the
Central American nation of Costa Rica early Friday at 4:02 a.m. with
its epicenter 55 miles south of the capital, San Jose, the U.S.
Geological Survey said. There was no immediate information on
casualties or damage.
Japan jolted by strong earthquake
Weekend News Today
By Kelly Pagatpatan
Source: AP
Fri Aug 20,1999 -- A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of
5.5 struck western and central Japan on Saturday, the Meteorological
Agency said. There were no reports of damage or injuries from the 5:33
a.m. jolt. The quake was centered about 45 miles under the ground in
northern Wakayama prefecture (state), the agency said. It was felt
most strongly in the city of Shingu and in nearby towns and villages.
Shingu is about 250 miles southwest of Tokyo.
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Subject: [BPR] - Intelligent Design Movement
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Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 13:22:52 +0000
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http://www.arn.org/docs/insight499.htm
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Scientists Find Evidence of God
Insight on the News, April 19,1999
by Stephen Goode
Reprinted with permission of Insight
The Darwinist hegemony in the natural sciences may be threatened by a
cutting-edge, revolutionary movement that sees intelligent design in
nature - and a Designer.
Chemist Charles Thaxton was amazed 15 years ago when The Mystery of
Life's Origin, a book he coauthored on chemical evolution with two
other scientists, provoked a very positive response from scientists
around the country. Thaxton, a visiting assistant professor at Charles
University in Prague, expected a negative reaction, if indeed the book
(which since has come to be regarded as one of the opening salvos in
what is called the Intelligent Design Movement) even was so much as
noticed.
After all, The Mystery of Life's Origin, which became a best-selling
college text, tentatively proposed the case for intelligent design in
nature and pointed out serious flaws in Darwinism. Such views were
regarded as unthinkable and most definitely unscientific by the vast
majority of scientists at the time, not only because Intelligent
Design suggested that evolution wasn't the random, chaotic process
most biologists believed it to be but (even more unacceptably)
indicated the probable existence of a designer - God, perhaps - who
was responsible for the design. The notion that a designer might be at
work behind nature was a concept no self-respecting scientist wanted
to bring into the scientific scheme of things.
"I didn't think anyone would accept the book. When we wrote it, it was
like being a lone wolf out there," Thaxton tells Insight. "Hard-core
materialists aren't going to tolerate intelligence in nature," he
says. "Then I got lots of calls from scientists and mathematicians who
did" - men and women in a variety of scientific fields who were coming
to the same conclusions that Thaxton had described in The Mystery of
Life's Origin. They (like Thaxton and his coauthors) daily were coming
across data in their laboratories and scientific pursuits that no
longer could be explained by the standard model of Darwinian
evolution. Such data could be better - and more scientifically -
understood by arguing that certain highly complex entities in nature -
the DNA molecule, for example - had been designed to do what they do
and hadn't evolved randomly, by accident, which is how Darwinian
evolution says they came about.
William Dembski was one of those who got in touch with Thaxton.
Dembski, a young man with a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University
of Chicago, a second Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of
Illinois at Chicago and a master's degree in theology from Princeton
Theological Seminary, had a strong conviction that Thaxton not only
was right but onto something that was going to revolutionize the way
man looks at nature and the way biologists approach their field. He
wanted to be part of that revolution.
Dembski recently published his own addition to the ever-growing
Intelligent Design Movement, a closely argued book that he calls The
Design Inference, in which Dembski (whose impressive list of degrees
led one friend to describe him as "the perpetual student") brings to
bear his knowledge of symbolic logic and mathematics to argue in favor
of design in nature. Dembski's book is one of the latest and most
impressive contributions that grace Design studies (the name its
adherents like to call it), which is a new branch of science that has
grown increasingly sophisticated since Thaxton's contribution 15 years
ago.
Between Thaxton's coauthored book and Dembski's very recent
contribution, the Intelligent Design Movement has traveled quite a
distance, and more developments are on the way, its adherents promise.
Intelligent Design now has its own professional journal, Origins &
Design. Many of its advocates belong to a think tank, the Center for
the Renewal of Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute in
Seattle, though many of those associated with the center are located
elsewhere: Dembski, for example, is in Dallas, and Thaxton remains in
Prague. And the movement has its own magazine for nonscientists, the
glossy quarterly Cosmic Pursuit, in which scientists such as Thaxton
and Dembski present their ideas for the general reader.
What, then, are those ideas? First, they argue that their defense of
Design arises directly out of the empirical data they have observed as
scientists, rather than from any theological or philosophical notions
they may hold. "Discoveries in mathematics and biology are making way
for Design and a Designer," says Thaxton. And Michael Behe, a Lehigh
University biochemist who is author of one of the Intelligent Design
Movement's most important texts, Darwin's Black Box (1996), tells
Insight, "Intelligent Design flows directly out of the data that now
are available."
What makes this claim significant is that it makes Intelligent Design
a phenomenon to be dealt with and studied scientifically rather than a
topic left to religion or other pursuits. It's a claim that leads
directly to the other principal argument made by Intelligent Design
adherents: that science as it now is constituted isn't adequate to
deal with the discovery of intelligent design in nature because
science is too closely wed to materialistic and naturalistic
interpretations of what nature is.
This is a very revolutionary claim. What's at the basis of the
argument, says Dembski, is a controversy over "the nature of nature."
Dembski finds naturalistic science "impoverished" when it comes to
handling intelligent design. How impoverished? Because materialism and
naturalism assume that natural explanations will suffice to answer
every question that arises in science, and this simply won't do when
it comes to dealing with the phenomenon of Design. (Indeed, any
Intelligent Design Movement advocate will tell you that understanding
how to deal with design in nature scientifically is one of the chief
problems facing the movement.)
Intelligent Design does not argue any specific theology. "The word
'Designer' doesn't necessarily mean the God of Genesis," says Thaxton
(though it doesn't exclude Him). "My view is that from the empirical
data we have we cannot make affirmation of a deity. It is the
possibility of a deity that we arrive at." Thaxton explains that it is
a "generic design that we talk about in Intelligent Design. When
people want to go beyond that, that's where their particular views
about God come in."
What makes the Intelligent Design Movement so revolutionary is that it
goes full force against the perceived wisdom of science, and
particularly biology. Darwinism pervades every aspect of Western
civilization, Dembski notes. And Darwinists argue that there is no
design in nature, none at all that would suggest a designer.
Everything in nature, say the Darwinists, is the result of random
evolution, with no design that would suggest direction or planning.
Here is how one of the world's foremost Darwinists, Oxford
University's Richard Dawkins, described this worldview in his 1995
book, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life, a direct attack on
the possibility of design in nature: "The universe we observe has
precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no
design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless
indifference."
The Darwinian position was put in even starker words by Peter Atkins
in his book The Second Law, which appeared in 1984, the same year that
Thaxton and his coauthors published The Mystery of Life's Origin: "We
are the children of chaos, and the deep structure of change is decay.
At root, there is only corruption, and the unstemmable tide of chaos.
Gone is purpose; all that is left is direction. This is the bleakness
we have to accept as we peer deeply and dispassionately into the heart
of the universe."
Against this dominant Darwinian view, Thaxton's argument for
Intelligent Design, reduced to simplest terms, runs like this: The DNA
molecule, the basis of life, is a message, he says. It is information
coded in a double helix. It's not like a message; it is the message.
The molecule itself is an elaborate, complex design that is a message.
We humans know from experience that, when there's a message, an
intelligence created that message, Thaxton says. No other explanation
will suffice to account for the existence of the message. We don't
receive letters from a random, undirected source, for example. Thus
the implication is clear that DNA, a message, was produced by
intelligent design. "We know from experience that when there is a
design, there is a designer."
Behe takes on Darwinism from a different angle. A Ph.D. in
biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania, Behe argues that
life at its most fundamental is "irreducibly complex," a phrase he has
added to the Intelligent Design debate. To explain what he means by
irreducibly complex, Behe talks about a mousetrap, a human
construction made up of a base, hammer, spring and holding bar, each
of which is needed for the mousetrap to work. Without any one of the
aspects, the mousetrap would not be a mousetrap.
Nature, too, has examples of irreducible complexity - the system in a
cell that targets proteins for delivery to subcellular compartments,
for example. Almost every one of the components that make up this
system is necessary for the system to work. Without one of the
components, the proteins are not delivered to their proper
destination.
Behe argues that the development of such an elaborate and complex
system in Darwinian evolutionary terms by one small step after another
simply won't do, because during any step prior to all the complex
parts working together, the system would be nonfunctional. What is the
probability of all those parts that have to work together starting to
work together at a given moment? Just as the irreducible complexity of
a mousetrap indicates a design that renders the possibility of its
parts working together, so the irreducible complexity of the cellular
protein-delivery system indicates design.
Behe likes to quote from Darwin himself to show the importance of
irreducible complexity when it comes to Darwinian theory. In the
Origin of Species Darwin wrote: "If it could be demonstrated that any
complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by
numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely
break down." Behe believes that the existence of such a complex organ
already has been demonstrated.
It's very important to scientists such as Thaxton, Behe and others in
the Intelligent Design Movement that their design arguments be
recognized as scientific. Indeed Thaxton, a Christian, spent a great
deal of time asking himself, "Am I outside the bounds of science?" and
finally decided that he wasn't but adds that it's incumbent upon
Intelligent Design adherents that "we come to a realistic
understanding of what the movement is without destroying the integrity
of science."
Thaxton takes a certain solace in the fact that the contemporary
Design Movement isn't introducing something new to science. The great
physicist Sir Isaac Newton (who died in 1727), for example, wrote,
"This most beautiful system of sun, planets, and comets, could only
proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful
being."
Dembski likes to mention the English divine William Paley who
published his Natural Theology in 1802 in which he made his famous
argument that if we came upon a watch in a field, we would assume that
it was made by intelligence because its various parts are directed
toward one aim: the telling of time. (Paley also had much to say about
the complexity of the mammalian eye, which seemed to him to indicate
design. Darwin, who was equally in awe of the complexity of the human
eye, concluded that, despite this complexity, the eye could have
evolved small step by small step over time.)
Behe is optimistic about the future of the Intelligent Design
Movement: "I don't know whether it's going to be two years or 20, but
that's where the data of science is heading," he says. "Scientists
sense that something's not quite right. There are new ideas we need
new definitions for."
Dembski, whose recent book, The Design Inference, presents in great
detail how the Intelligent Design argument satisfies logic and
probability, likes to compare the movement's influence on science to
the freedom and democracy movements and their effect on Eastern
Europe. Criticism of Darwinism now threatens the hegemony of
Darwinism, he says, just as the move toward freedom upset the Soviet
empire.
Dembski emphasizes that the Intelligent Design Movement must prove its
scientific mettle, but he nonetheless waxes expansive about where
Intelligent Design thinking may lead: "Questions of morality can
seemingly be added." Also possible: "revival of the whole notion of
natural law."
Thaxton, who will chair a seminar on "Detecting Design in Nature" at
the annual gathering of the American Scientific Affiliation in July,
compares the situation Intelligent Design now is in with where quantum
physics was a century ago. Max Planck, the quantum theorist, despaired
somewhat about getting his theory accepted by his fellow physicists,
Thaxton points out. He concluded that for his theory to gain
respectability, a whole generation of scientists would have to die off
and be replaced by younger men and women with more-flexible minds,
ready to move in the direction data took them, which would be toward
the quantum hypothesis. What has to be done to make Intelligent Design
accepted, he concludes, "is to overcome the inertia of the age."
Where to Read More about the Intelligent Design Movement
At the layman's level the quarterly magazine Cosmic Pursuit offers
very readable essays by, and interviews with, the Intelligent Design
Movement's leading scientists and mathematicians. Subtitled "In
Pursuit of Answers to Life's Big Questions," Cosmic Pursuit is
published by Day Star Network in Wheeling, Ill., and is very new. Its
second issue (Spring 1998) took up the subject of "Intelligent Design:
Why Is Science Returning to the Old Way of Explaining Life."
The Intelligent Design Movement's professional journal is Origins &
Design and can be found at www.arn.org.
William A. Dembski traces the origins of the Intelligent Design
Movement to the 1984 publication of The Mystery of Life's Origin
(Philosophical Library) by Charles Thaxton, Walter Bradley and Roger
Olsen and Michael Denton's 1986 book Evolution: A Theory in Crisis
(Adler & Adler), both of which pointed out flaws in Darwinism and
evolutionary theory from a purely scientific point of view without
reference to theological views on creation (see "A Giant Totters: Can
Darwin Survive?" Dec. 21, 1992). More recently, Denton published
Nature's Destiny: How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the
Universe (Free Press, 1998).
Also essential are three books by Phillip Johnson. One is Darwin on
Trial (InterVarsity, 1991), in which the author, who teaches law at
the University of California, Berkeley, subjects Darwinism to the same
tests of validity that would be required in a court of law. From the
same publisher come Johnson's Reason in the Balance (1995) and
Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds (1997).
After these books laid the groundwork by outlining the flaws in
Darwin's version of evolution, other books turned to the question of
what evolutionary theory might look like from the perspective of
design. Among these were Dean Kenyon and Percival Davis' Of Pandas and
People - The Central Question of Biological Origins (Haughton, 1993)
and J.P. Morland's The Creation Hypothesis: Scientific Evidence for an
Intelligent Designer (InterVarsity, 1994).
The first major and the most influential book in the Design Movement
is Michael Behe's Darwin's Black Box (Free Press, 1996), which was
followed by the important Mere Creation: Science, Faith & Intelligent
Design (InterVarsity, 1998), a book edited by Dembski, with
contributions from 20 leading Design Movement scientists,
mathematicians, theologians and philosophers, and Dembski's very
important The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance Through Small
Probabilities (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Other books significant to the movement are God and the New Physics by
the Templeton Prize-winning physicist Paul Davies, Freeman J. Dyson's
Disturbing the Universe (1981) and The Anthropic Cosmological
Principle (1988) by John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler.
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Subject: [BPR] - Aug 11th eclipse causes some to panic
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Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 13:16:16 -0500
From: owner-bpr@philologos.org
Friday August 20, 11:00 PM
The Eclipse Turned My Face Yellow
DOCTORS were swamped by false alarms from worried sun-watchers
who gazed at last week's eclipse, it was revealed yesterday.
Only a handful of people across the UK suffered eye damage but
thousands more contacted medical experts with bizarre fears that
they had been adversely affected.
One frantic Glasgow woman insisted her face had been turned
yellow by the eclipse, only to be told a long-standing liver
problem was the culprit.
Another Glasgow hospital was visited by an overseas tourist in
a panic because she had not been exposed to the "Scottish sun"
before and thought it might be particularly harmful.
Scotland was actually one of the least likely places in Britain
for eye damage.
The country experienced only a partial eclipse compared to the
south-west of England and much of the sky was obscured by cloud.
Just 14 cases have been confirmed - all in England - which
shows that public health warnings were heeded by most UK eclipse
viewers.
But several thousand people rang helplines or attended special
eclipse clinics after the event.
The number of eye damage cases reported by hospitals was lower
than had been widely anticipated, the British Medical Journal
revealed yesterday.
Jonathan Dowler, of Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, said:
"We are quite pleased that the number of people suffering damage
to their eyes is relatively low so far.
"It shows the campaign and health education messages worked and
did reach the vast majority of people."
BMJ researchers know of six confirmed cases at Moorfields, five
at Birmingham Eye Hospital and three at Derbyshire Royal
Infirmary's eye unit.
There is one suspected case at Bristol Eye Hospital.
Most resulted from staring at the sun with the naked eye.
In one of the more serious cases, the patient had reportedly
looked at the sun for about 20 minutes without protection.
The August 11 eclipse occurred at the height of summer with the
sun near its zenith.
Doctors believe it was fortunate there was widespread cloud
cover on the day, which might have helped keep casualties down.
However, eclipse helplines were flooded, with Moorfields
receiving 1600 calls and another 600 between Birmingham and
Bristol.
At Moorfields, 220 people turned up at the accident and
emergency department while 64 patients went to special clinics
set up by Birmingham Eye Hospital.
Ellen Drummond, spokeswoman for Glasgow's Gartnavel Hospital,
said: "We did get a lot of people coming in with concerns
regarding the eclipse which, how could I put it, were not
exactly justifiable.
"Our staff were amused by some of the stories but in a way it
was a good thing. It showed the warnings did work."
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