Get ready folks, this is a humdinger.
Those of you who know me well, may (or may not) know that I have recently been going to a gym, which happens to be in the same building as my job. It’s a small, unpopulated gym (lucky for this anti-social girl), presided over by, as a friend put it, ‘a huge muscled man with a tiny head’.
Well, occasionally I see this tiny-headed man reading big books at his desk while waiting for his next appointment. Today, on the way out, I stopped and asked what he was reading. It was a book titled ‘Power, Faith and Fantasy’. He explained quite a bit of what it was about - basically a history book. I nodded my head quite a bit, and because it related somewhat to my current American Literature class, I asked a few questions. He talked a bit more, kind of a run-on sentence jumble of words that actually made sense (meat-head has a brain!).
Then he picked up the other book.
This is where it gets interesting.
‘The View From the Center of the Universe‘.
He picked it up, kind of smiled, and gave a disclaimer. He has a degree in THEOLOGY.
Okay, Theology… Astrology… what’s going on here?
“I get my books from secular writers,” he said, “Because I love to see how secular scientist come to conclusions that point directly to God. Don’t get me wrong,” he continued. “I believe in evolution. I just believe in evolution by Divine Guidance.”
I furrowed my brow and waited for him to continue. It didn’t take long.
Apparently the book talks about how for many years, Earth was considered as the center of the universe, but then science proved, step by step, how it was NOT, ie, the Earth actually revolves around the Sun, not the other way around, ie, there are many other stars and planets, etc…
BUT! He says, the books explains how, if you take the smallest measurement possible of light (Angstrom or something like that), and average them all with the largest measurement known to man (he gave the example of ‘the edge of the cosmos), the average size is the size of man. (!) He then went on to say that, if you take everything man-size and larger and average it with the largest measurement of all (again, the edge of the cosmos), the average size is Earth!
“This clearly proves,” he said, “that Man has made himself a home in the Universe, and that Man is therefore the most important being in the Universe.”
I had to interject. “How then, do you explain that with all of this unexplored space, that there is not another star, with other planets orbiting it that also host life?”
He gave a small smile. “Of course, no one can prove that there isn’t such a thing,” he said. “But if someone came up and asked me ‘why would god create the entire universe when he only cares about THIS?’, I would say that Mankind could not exist without the entire universe. There is just the exact amount of matter - no more and no less - than is required for creating the perfect living conditions for Man. Really, when you consider how fine-tuned the universe it, you have to believe it was designed.”
I was going to ask him about those random death-stars that explode and destroy other stars, and about the one that is actually aiming right at Earth, but I desisted.
“I really get into stuff like this,” he said. I shook my head fuzzily, but the worst was yet to come.
“I love how Science really proves the Bible to be true,” he stated. “For instance, if you take a certain sequence of numbers in the Bible, and do a certain set of math with them, the total comes up to be exactly the number that Science believes the Earth to be in years old.”
He proceeded to give an equation which went something like this. “The Bible says that a Thousand years is like a day. So, if we take the seven days of creation and count them each as one thousand years, and then we take seven days for each day, that gives us 49. Then, we take 49 times 365 (days in the year) times .25 (for something else), and something else and something else, that gives us something like 35 billion, which is how old scientists say the earth is!”
OH my. Talk about far-fetched!
Thank goodness one of his clients came in at that moment.
I chuckled the entire way home…
How can anyone employ this man to speak ‘fair and balanced’ news? He is THE MOST bigoted, small-minded, one-sided ASS I have ever laid eyes on. 