The final days, are they real?
If you are new to this blog you may find it makes more sense to start from the beginning and read the first or oldest posts first. It would be helpful to see not only how precarious life is, why we should not even exist and the concept that the world may be “written down for destruction” before arriving at this point and what may seem to be just another “end times” rant. We have examined end times predictions and discussed myths and legends that talk about the world being remade every seven thousand years the first question is obviously is there any evidence to support these claims?
The truth is that there is no definitive evidence that anything at all has happened in the course of history to create these myths and legends. There is archaeological evidence that supports part of the Biblical narrative but nothing to confirm miraculous events. Biblical stories of faith, such as Noah, the destruction of Sodom, Moses and the exodus from Egypt are purely matters of belief. Other stories such as those concerning Jericho, Kings David and Solomon, and the Temple are supported by archaeological evidence. The fact that part of the Biblical narrative can be substantiated is a reasonable indication that other parts should not be disregarded. The Bible does not however suggest that the world is periodically rebuilt; it does indicate that the Earth was created in its present form only about six thousand years ago, and that the current world will be destroyed.
Apart from the Bible many other cultures have legends concerning an end to the world, the people of the Andaman Islands, Norse legends, the Samangs in Malacca, the Gabonese pygmies in West Africa, the Australian Aborigines, the Altaic Tartars of Central Asia, North American Salish Indian tribes and the Parsis in India all believe that the world is going to end. A full list and details are given in my book “The End of Time” available in a free E-version on request from my website. Many of the events predicted to precede the end of the world in some of these legends have also recently occurred. It is possible that the legends could all have a common source and have been passed from tribe to tribe, altered slightly in each retelling to become different legends. This of course means that there is no evidence at all that the world will end. It may be that all notion of an end time scenario can be traced back to the early Biblical prophets.
If the Bible is the original source of all these ideas it becomes the only relevant source whose reliability needs to be ascertained. As explained earlier in this blog some parts of the Bible have been confirmed by archaeological evidence and in previous blogs I have detailed how the Bible is not in conflict with science about creation and the beginning of the universe, long before science discovered the facts the Bible had explained them. It now becomes purely a matter of faith that will no doubt split opinion between those who believe the Bible is a reliable guide and those who consider it just a collection of ancient legends. Those who do not consider the Bible to be of any significant value can breathe a collective sigh of relief and stick their heads back in the sand, for them there is no end of the world – until it happens.
In my recent book “Physics God and the End of the World” I explained the scientific principles that demonstrate how time is not the one way flow we normally perceive it to be, there are dimensions that are exempt from space and time as we know it. In science it is referred to as the implicate and explicate orders, implicate orders are the underlying effects that we cannot detect and the explicate order is all that we can see, feel, measure and weigh. Implicate orders are effects that may actually be happening at a distance or not at this moment but they are having an effect on the present moment. It is considered possible but not currently provable that some individuals may be able to perceive events from the implicate order. Science does not yet fully understand the nature of time but if it is proved to be what is known as Minkowski Time or a block universe then all time (past, present and future) exists at once, strangely this is exactly what the Bible says. Scientists have not yet devised a way to either prove or disprove this structure and it may yet fall to the prophets to provide the proof by demonstrating the accuracy of their prophecies.
Scientifically there is sound reason to believe that time travel is possible, in which case it would be realistic to assume that if we can travel in time it may be possible for some individuals to see where we can go. It might surprise people to know that the United States Air Force has spent money on researching a “Stargate” a traversable wormhole. Mathematically these wormholes seem to invariably lead to time machines. Scientific papers already published on this topic number in the hundreds, it is not a “way out” idea by a few fringe theorists but a part of mainstream scientific research. Why is it science can accept the mathematical model but refuse to accept the paranormal when the same principles apply to both concepts? Is it the thought that if these principles do apply to prophecy then we need to seriously consider the apocalyptic predictions of the Bible? That is a particularly disconcerting thought for many.
Assuming that science is correct and these things are at least theoretically probable the Biblical prediction of an end time scenario should be given some credence. We may not like it but just as science once discovered that the Bible was right and the universe did have a beginning science may also be about to discover that our world is coming to an end.
Coming next; Debunking, getting rid of the rubbish.
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Don’t forget to visit my website, if you have a comment go to the forum, or to find out more buy my latest book.
The truth is that there is no definitive evidence that anything at all has happened in the course of history to create these myths and legends. There is archaeological evidence that supports part of the Biblical narrative but nothing to confirm miraculous events. Biblical stories of faith, such as Noah, the destruction of Sodom, Moses and the exodus from Egypt are purely matters of belief. Other stories such as those concerning Jericho, Kings David and Solomon, and the Temple are supported by archaeological evidence. The fact that part of the Biblical narrative can be substantiated is a reasonable indication that other parts should not be disregarded. The Bible does not however suggest that the world is periodically rebuilt; it does indicate that the Earth was created in its present form only about six thousand years ago, and that the current world will be destroyed.
Apart from the Bible many other cultures have legends concerning an end to the world, the people of the Andaman Islands, Norse legends, the Samangs in Malacca, the Gabonese pygmies in West Africa, the Australian Aborigines, the Altaic Tartars of Central Asia, North American Salish Indian tribes and the Parsis in India all believe that the world is going to end. A full list and details are given in my book “The End of Time” available in a free E-version on request from my website. Many of the events predicted to precede the end of the world in some of these legends have also recently occurred. It is possible that the legends could all have a common source and have been passed from tribe to tribe, altered slightly in each retelling to become different legends. This of course means that there is no evidence at all that the world will end. It may be that all notion of an end time scenario can be traced back to the early Biblical prophets.
If the Bible is the original source of all these ideas it becomes the only relevant source whose reliability needs to be ascertained. As explained earlier in this blog some parts of the Bible have been confirmed by archaeological evidence and in previous blogs I have detailed how the Bible is not in conflict with science about creation and the beginning of the universe, long before science discovered the facts the Bible had explained them. It now becomes purely a matter of faith that will no doubt split opinion between those who believe the Bible is a reliable guide and those who consider it just a collection of ancient legends. Those who do not consider the Bible to be of any significant value can breathe a collective sigh of relief and stick their heads back in the sand, for them there is no end of the world – until it happens.
In my recent book “Physics God and the End of the World” I explained the scientific principles that demonstrate how time is not the one way flow we normally perceive it to be, there are dimensions that are exempt from space and time as we know it. In science it is referred to as the implicate and explicate orders, implicate orders are the underlying effects that we cannot detect and the explicate order is all that we can see, feel, measure and weigh. Implicate orders are effects that may actually be happening at a distance or not at this moment but they are having an effect on the present moment. It is considered possible but not currently provable that some individuals may be able to perceive events from the implicate order. Science does not yet fully understand the nature of time but if it is proved to be what is known as Minkowski Time or a block universe then all time (past, present and future) exists at once, strangely this is exactly what the Bible says. Scientists have not yet devised a way to either prove or disprove this structure and it may yet fall to the prophets to provide the proof by demonstrating the accuracy of their prophecies.
Scientifically there is sound reason to believe that time travel is possible, in which case it would be realistic to assume that if we can travel in time it may be possible for some individuals to see where we can go. It might surprise people to know that the United States Air Force has spent money on researching a “Stargate” a traversable wormhole. Mathematically these wormholes seem to invariably lead to time machines. Scientific papers already published on this topic number in the hundreds, it is not a “way out” idea by a few fringe theorists but a part of mainstream scientific research. Why is it science can accept the mathematical model but refuse to accept the paranormal when the same principles apply to both concepts? Is it the thought that if these principles do apply to prophecy then we need to seriously consider the apocalyptic predictions of the Bible? That is a particularly disconcerting thought for many.
Assuming that science is correct and these things are at least theoretically probable the Biblical prediction of an end time scenario should be given some credence. We may not like it but just as science once discovered that the Bible was right and the universe did have a beginning science may also be about to discover that our world is coming to an end.
Coming next; Debunking, getting rid of the rubbish.
____________________________________________________
Don’t forget to visit my website, if you have a comment go to the forum, or to find out more buy my latest book.
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