A ‘thumpers’ reality
Every year, I enjoy listening to the Christmas Martyrology being sung before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. This year, I discovered there are two versions. The traditional version says creation was 5199 years BC, and Noah’s flood was 2957 years before Christ.
A newer version states; “unknown ages from the time when God created the heaven and the earth” and, “several thousand years after the flood.” A reason given for the newer version was to avoid reinforcing a type of “biblical fundamentalism.”
Many of us try to avoid being accused of being “scientifically illiterate” Bible thumpers. However, I submit that the “thumpers” version is closer to reality than what “main-stream science” is feeding us today.
Recent discoveries of soft tissue in dinosaur bones tells me they were probably buried rapidly in far less than a million years ago, thereby avoiding complete tissue decay. Can any experiment show us how soft tissue lasts millions of years?
Rapid burial was probably accomplished by the impact of a 6-mile diameter rock travelling at 12 miles per second, slamming into earth with an energy of some 72 trillion tons of TNT, blasting 25 trillion tons of material into the atmosphere.
The shock would have sent 600-mph winds and mega-tsunamis sloshing across the globe, ripping up everything in their path.
All life would have been rapidly buried under silt, rocks and ash. The shock caused the continental plates to break up and slide into the mantle. Earthquakes set off massive volcanic eruptions. Glaciers formed rapidly when sunlight was blocked by atmospheric dust thereby freezing massive rainfalls.
From an anthropology perspective, note Nick Liguori’s “Echoes of Ararat” drawing from some 300 non-Christian native legends referencing some kind of global flood, i.e. a Rosebud Lakota man referring to creating power stomping on earth, which split open in many places with water flowing out of them. This seems to align with Genesis 7:11.
Could this rock have been a large asteroid? (Search Chicxulub impact) There’s much more convincing evidence for a young earth, than for the flawed radiometric methodology which produces billions years age of earth.
PHIL DRIETZ DELHI
ICE issues in Minnesota — who is to blame?
This letter is in response to the article published on the front page of the Jan. 29 paper. The article you wrote on an individual who wishes to remain anonymous. Interesting that you state you don’t publish should one wish to remain anonymous.
This individual is afraid of ICE, yet the same person is a self-proclaimed expert in weaponry handling and criticizes agents on how they handle theirs — “I grew up around weapons, but you can tell ICE agents don’t hold theirs well, not well trained.” What a joke, as military does hold weapons differently than civilians during conflict. Maybe with her expertise, she could help agents with better training.
From the standpoint of anonymous, I will certainly question the credibility of such an article. Regarding ICE, you are here legally, you shouldn’t have to worry. I can certainly vouch for that as a naturalized citizen. I believe my research is on point by letting you know some of the cold, hard facts. Bill Clinton expelled 11.4 million, Obama 2.7 million. Media? Silent, no problem. Donald Trump is currently at 140,000. National outrage by the media.
Most of the problems lie with an inept state mayor, attorney general and city leaders who refuse to cooperate. Years ago, there was a journalist by the name of Walter Cronkite who gave the news based from facts — not biased, just the news. If today’s media followed the same standards, we wouldn’t be witnessing the current debate we have, particularly in this state.
DAVID BITTON GARVIN
