Download or read book Fifteen Billion Years Ii written by Rand McLester and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away... Revelation 21: 1 (RSV) Holy Bible A faraway place, a distant future... Beyond the horizon threshold, a note in a Coke bottle floating down the river; how did it get there? Where did it come from? And the prophetic omen: Something is wrong, John, very wrong. She was a Renoloi, and the Renoloi possessed a gift. Pieces of the Puzzle... Part of the Secret. The adventure begins... To rescue a Renoloi village from an unnatural predator, Tian, Ames, Reed and their team cross uncharted lands and embark on a treacherous voyage on a mysterious green sea, encountering a ghost ship from the Bermuda Triangle of long ago. With no passengers or crew, the vessel has somehow reappeared in an unnatural circular storm. To an even more inexplicable island in this volatile, ephemeral world; and whispered words: Mr. Ames, he is like you. Are they captives within a time warp, a tear in the fabric of time, or something more, much more? Pursued by the most wicked killers ever unleashed on innocent people in a primitive world, the rescue partys worst fears are realized. Driven by insatiable madness, they are relentless; beyond savage, they are monsters. They are Night Hunters. Tenaciously, the ultimate evil has followed from the distant past. It has come for them, hell-bent on taking them, killing them all of them. Despite unending adversity and the ruthless treachery pursuing them, the team must persevere in its quest for the Secret of the Legends; a race against time on a world destined for change... cataclysmic change. ...Something yet Unfinished.
Download or read book Fifteen Billion Years written by Rand McLester and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And they assembled them at the place which is called in Hebrew Armageddon. Revelations 16: 16 (RSV) Holy Bible In the not too distant future An open-pit copper mine, the worlds largest superfund site now refilled and reclaimed. Disguised as a scientific research center, but in reality the planets most imposing military stronghold controlled by the worlds most evil general. Two men who know the secret and a time machine. The leap to a faraway and distant future through a horizon threshold on the edge of the universe and callow people in a new but primitive world beyond the Black Hole. Then returning to an oppressive Federation controlling a world in tribulation and a wiry little old man with scraggly gray hair and bristling beard. The entire planet on a collision course toward the ultimate conflict. Armageddon.
Download or read book Fifteen Billion Years Iii written by Rand McLester and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. Revelation 21: 8 (RSV) Holy Bible A faraway place, a distant future... A blend of Indiana Jones and Lord of the Rings, the Fifteen Billion Years Trilogy is an epic adventure loosely based on the Book of Revelation in the Bible. With the end and beginning of mankind, the characters must overcome impossible odds in the unending conflict of good versus evil with hope for a future. Time Warriors is the final installment of an engrossing adventure bound with unfailing friendship, uncommon faith and undying perseverance. Time Warriors Beyond the horizon threshold Reed stammered, People dont just disappear they dont! There was peace in the new world until all but four disappeared and their vibrant world began to decompose. The challenge before them, to undo what had been done. With their first glimpse inside the mysterious Legend Mountain the puzzle becomes even more challenging and dangerous and a small twisted tree with its limbs drifting to the left. Now a world in decay, they must decipher the riddle ...part of the Puzzle... pursued by Night Hunters, a shadow-phantom, and haunted by the ghost ship dredged from the darkness and depths of the Bermuda Triangle long ago... and ultimately face an evil that no one has yet known in a climactic conflict of good versus evil. ...Then something more, the Final Revelation.
Download or read book Science and Religion Fifty Years After Vatican II written by Kenan Osborne and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past one hundred years, two major realities have changed both science and religion. The world of science has been enriched by quantum physics, the computation of the age of the universe, archaeological data in the Middle East, and a scientific stress on historical writing. The world of religion has been enriched by the establishment of the World Council of Churches and the Second Vatican Council. In the past fifty years, major scientists and major religious leaders have met together again and again. In the past fifty years, religious leaders from Christianity, Islam, and Judaism have held a number of thought-provoking conferences. In this volume, these gatherings are reviewed and evaluated. Two major religious problems have challenged the science-religion discussions, namely, which God should the scientists agree on, the Trinitarian God, Allah, or Yahweh? Which history of the universe sponsored by these three religions should scientists be looking for? This volume raises questions and suggests some preliminary forms of serious discussion.
Download or read book The Natural History of Creation written by Michael Anthony Corey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1995 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Natural History of Creation is the third and final installment in M.A. Corey's natural theology series. This remarkable trilogy has worked in tandem with the findings of modern science to help spearhead the rebirth of the once-dead natural theology movement. In this detailed, yet easy to read work, the author focuses on the religious account of creation found in Genesis One and comes to the astonishing conclusion that there is indeed much scientific truth to be found in this ancient work. Many other writers have also noticed the breathtaking parallels that exist between modern evolutionism and the creation account given in the Bible, but nowhere will the reader find a more thorough description of them than in The Natural History of Creation. - Back cover.
Download or read book Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica written by Rebecca Priestley and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebecca Priestley longs to be in Antarctica. But it is also the last place on Earth she wants to go.In 2011 Priestley visits the wide white continent for the first time, on a trip that coincides with the centenary of Robert Falcon Scott's fateful trek to the South Pole. For Priestley, 2011 is the fulfilment of a dream that took root in a childhood full of books, art and science and grew stronger during her time as a geology student in the 1980s. She is to travel south twice more, spending time with Antarctic scientists &– including paleo-climatologists, biologists, geologists, glaciologists &– exploring the landscape, marvelling at wildlife from orca to tardigrades, and occasionally getting very cold.A constant companion for Priestley is her anxiety &– both the kind that is brought on by flying to the bottom of the world in a military aeroplane; and the kind that clouds our thoughts of how our world will be for our children. Writing against the backdrop of Trump's America, extreme weather events, and scientists' projections for Earth's climate, she grapples with the truths we need to tell ourselves as we stand on a tightrope between hope for the planet, and catastrophic change.Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica offers a deeply personal tour of a place in which a person can feel like an outsider in more ways than one. With generosity and candour, Priestley reflects on what Antarctica can tell us about Earth's future and asks: do people even belong in this fragile, otherworldly place?
Download or read book The Shortest History of Sex Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation Shortest History written by David Baker and published by The Experiment, LLC. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wild—and satisfying!—ride through two billion years of sexual evolution. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read. From the first microbial exchanges of DNA to Tinder and sexbots, how did sex begin, and how did it evolve to be so varied and complex in humans? What influence do our genetic ancestors have on our current love lives? And what might sex look like in the future? With acuity, humor, and respect for human diversity, The Shortest History of Sex reveals where the many facets of our sexuality—chemical, anatomical, behavioral, social—come from. Chasing down our evolutionary family tree, from the first aquatic creatures to primate societies, David Baker sheds light on our baffling array of passions, impulses, and fetishes, and guides us toward a clear understanding of one of the deepest, most abiding forces of human nature. The Shortest History of Sex also charts how sex changed for humans across the foraging, agrarian, and modern eras, showing how, even as our biology and sexual instincts have remained the same, the current nature of our sex lives has no historical or evolutionary precedent. The result is a revealing, utterly unique insight into history and human behavior—and the profound forces of nature and nurture compelling our most intimate relationships.
Download or read book Intelligible Universe The An Overview Of The Last Thirteen Billion Years 2nd Edition written by Julio A Gonzalo and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2008-07-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interesting book reviews WMAP's main results (2003) and discusses in detail how the accurate qualitative results for the “age” of the universe and the Hubble constant were anticipated in an article published five years before in Acta Cosmologica, Krakow. In the final chapter on “Cosmic Numbers”, it is shown that, as a result of the coincidence at decoupling time between atom formation and matter/radiation equality, a reasonable cosmic justification for the mass ratio of protons and electrons is obtained./a /remove
Download or read book Evolution of Consciousness written by Vincent Frank Bedogne and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-07-20 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the alpha to the omega, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin offers an evolution-of-consciousness paradigm of the universe and a triumphant vision of humankind and its future. Guided by a creative process that motivated Teilhard, Vincent Frank Bedogne aims to unite matter with consciousness, science with spirituality. He looks beyond Darwin and the big bang; beyond traditional ideas of God, religion, and the human role in existence. As he does, we realize that the universe is crossing the most profound threshold in its evolution since the dawn of reflective thought a thousand lifetimes ago; and, like the threshold to reflection, this blossom of transcendence is unfolding within us. The book philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin would have written had he lived another fifty years.
Download or read book Extragalactic Adventure written by Jean Heidmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-01-29 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extragalactic universe, the immense world of a billion galaxies lying beyond out own, is the subject of this book. Our Sun is but a tiny star among a hundred billion other in our Galaxy, the Milky Way, which appears as a luminous veil trailing across the clear night sky. Beyond the Milky Way we will soar into space amid galaxies, clusters of galaxies, radio galaxies and quasars of enormous energy, out to the cosmological horizon which arrests our flight like an intangible barrier. Why do galaxies seem to fly from us? Is space so strongly curved that by going straight ahead we come up behind ourselves? Did it all begin with an enormous explosion, the famous Big Bang, which decided our fate in the first quarter of an hour? These are the questions which this rigourous and enthusiastic scientist tries to answer with complete honesty and non-technical clarity.
Download or read book New Evidence for Two Human Origins written by Gary T. Mayer and published by Author House. This book was released on 2007-01-29 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of human origins is a topic that not only feeds our curiosity; it also offers to be a topic that can bring us greater meaning to our lives. It has been assumed by many scientists and biblical scholars that the human race emerged from a single nucleus. Could this have been a wrong assumption? New evidence has come to light indicating that Adam and Eves descendants married into an existing race. Where did this existing race come from? When and where did these two races merge? This book provides a thesis which answers all these questions and, in so doing, harmonizes the teaching of the Bible and the true teachings of science.
Download or read book Re Vision written by Clifford Chalmers Cain and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-03-25 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-Vision addresses four issues that lie at the crux of the relationship between science and religion—the origin of the cosmos and creation in Genesis; evolutionary theory and God’s action in the world; genes and human freedom; and whether intelligent design is good science and/or good theology. This book includes commentary on each of these issues from three scientists, a philosopher, and a theologian. The contributors represent a wide variety of worldviews and beliefs, and readers are encouraged to use their thoughts as springboards for personal reactions and conclusions.
Download or read book Freedom God and Worlds written by Michael J. Almeida and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael J. Almeida presents a powerful argument which holds that several widely believed and largely undisputed objections to the idea of the existence of God are in fact just philosophical dogmas. He challenges some of the most well-entrenched principles in philosophical theology, which have served as basic assumptions in influential apriori, atheological arguments. But most theists also maintain that the principles express apriori necessary truths, including those principles that are presumed to follow from the nature of an essentially omnipotent, essentially omniscient, essentially perfectly good and necessarily existing being. Among the atheological arguments that deploy these philosophical dogmas are the Logical Problem of Evil, the Logical Problem of the Best Possible World, the Logical Problem of Good Enough Worlds, the Problem of Divine Freedom, the Problem of No Best World, and the Evidential Problem of Evil. In Freedom, God, and Worlds Almeida claims that these arguments present no important challenge to the existence of an Anselmian God. Not only are these philosophical principles false, they are necessarily false.
Download or read book Recipes for Science written by Angela Potochnik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, scientific literacy is an essential aspect of any undergraduate education. Recipes for Science responds to this need by providing an accessible introduction to the nature of science and scientific methods, reasoning, and concepts that is appropriate for any beginning college student. It is designed to be adaptable to a wide variety of different kinds of courses, such as introductions to scientific reasoning or critical thinking, philosophy of science, and science education. In any of these different uses, the book helps students better navigate our scientific, 21st-century world. Key Features Contemporary and historical examples of science from many fields of physical, life, and social sciences. Visual aids to clarify and illustrate ideas. Text boxes to explore related topics. Plenty of exercises to ensure full student engagement and mastery of the information. Annotated 'Further Reading' sections at the end of each chapter. Final glossary with helpful definitions of key terms. A companion website with author-developed and crowdsourced materials, including syllabi for courses using this textbook, bibliography of additional resources and online materials, sharable PowerPoint presentations and lecture notes, and additional exercises and extended projects.
Download or read book What If the Earth Had Two Moons written by Neil F. Comins and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astronomer and author explores ten examples of what Earth would be like if conditions in the universe were slightly altered, in a fascinating journey into scientific scenarios.
Download or read book The Science of God written by Gerald L. Schroeder and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the readers of The Language of God, another instant classic from "a sophisticated and original scholar" (Kirkus Reviews) that disputes the idea that science is contrary to religion. In The Science of God, distinguished physicist and Biblical scholar Gerald L. Schroeder demonstrates the surprising parallels between a variety of Biblical teachings and the findings of biochemists, paleontologists, astrophysicists, and quantum physicists. In a brilliant and wide-ranging discussion of key topics that have divided science and religion—free will, the development of the universe, the origin of life, and the origin of man—Schroeder argues that the latest science and a close reading of the Bible are not just compatible but interdependent. This timely reissue of The Science of God features a brand-new preface by Schroeder and a compelling appendix that addresses the highly publicized experiment in 2008 in which scientists attempted to re-create the chemical composition of the cosmos immediately after the Big Bang. It also details Schroeder’s lucid explanations of complex scientific and religious concepts, such as the theory of relativity, the passage of time, and the definitions of crucial Hebrew words in the Bible. Religious skeptics, Biblical literalists, scientists, students, and physicists alike will be riveted by Schroeder’s remarkable contribution to the raging debate between science and religion.
Download or read book The Reluctant Jew written by Michael Grossman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-03-02 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even if you are agnostic or hard-core atheist there is a dazzling, thought-expanding, bright side to religion you may have overlooked. Living a spiritual life in the tradition of the Jewish faith, does not mean mindless adherence to outdated dogma. Judaism, instead, can be a source of exhilarating wonder, an inspiration to justice, and an impetus to ever increasing knowledge. Nowadays, even many who profess to be the most pious among us realize that when asked, What is God?, they must answer logically, even scientifically, to be persuasive. Theyre aware that any religion, to be convincing, other than to die-hard adherents, can not be at odds with reason and blindly insist only it speaks the truth. The field, therefore, is wide open. Each of us can attempt to journey towards a concept of God that makes sense, celebrates the discoveries of science, and will, hopefully, imbue the traveler with wonderment at the astonishing beauty in the world that too often lays hidden from us. Join Michael Grossman in his journey to the heart of Judaism, which places much more emphasis on "what people do" than on "what they believe," and in the process, an understanding of all the worlds great faiths.
