Category: Natural Sciences

Eugenics Via CRISPR is No Different than Nazi Übermensch Agenda

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The Übermensch (German for “Overman, Superman, Superhuman, Hyperman, Hyperhuman”; German pronunciation: [ˈˀyːbɐmɛnʃ]) is a concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. In his 1883 book Thus Spoke Zarathustra (German: Also sprach Zarathustra), Nietzsche has his character Zarathustra posit the Übermensch as a goal for humanity to set for itself. It is a work of philosophical allegory, with a structural similarity to the Gathas of Zoroaster/Zarathustra. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Übermensch)

The above video [see companion article by Futurism HERE] takes one through the history, philosophy, current developments, & future plans of “science” to alter humanity so drastically that the human race will be free from death and disease. The argument is made from abortion that humanity is already selectively eliminating diseased populations from the human genome. At the same time, the video understatedly warns that there very well may be horror-book-type consequences to pursuing this aim, even comically showing a demonized human at the point of such warning. [Watch the video several times and consider each element.]

Lambs’ Harbinger, in previous articles, has warned audiences regarding the immoral and Godless (even demonic) pursuit of human heritable genome editing, designer babies, etc. in the name of escaping by humanistic efforts what Christian theologians call “the Curse.” (See also Search Results)

DNA alteration has happened and will continue to happen. Everything from plants to other food resources already have been being genetically altered since the 1970’s. The development of militarized, genetically modified supersoliders is already part of the “arms race”… a veritable Sputnik 2.0. The video makes slight, light-hearted  appeals to billionaires for making humanity impervious to disease and death, but this “call” has already been being answered around the globe by those (ex. GF2045, Ray Kurzweil) who are funding private laboratories for the purpose of conducting experimentation that governments either cannot or will not allow.

Demon Fairy Fiasco Update | Dr. Michael Heiser

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In previous blog articles, Lamb’s Harbinger passed on reports of a winged creature which L A Marzulli had recovered and tested. That winged creature is now known to be an elaborate hoax, though it was thought to be authentic by more than one veterinarian. To his credit, L A Marzulli did try to research the supposed entity to the best of his resources and conscience. Also, he exposed the truth of the matter as soon as solid evidence proved the thing is a hoax.

I do not believe one can blame Mr. Marzulli’s character or motives; it was on his character—personally known by me—that I passed on his findings. Perhaps the lesson here is to exercise more patience and utilize the full spectrum of scientific diagnostics before even implying a thing is genuine.
One critic of Mr. Marzulli demanded further testing from the onset of this phenom.

Dr. Michael Heiser writes:

Well, the demon fairy is a hoax. Just like I said I expected it would turn out to be. On August 9, 2016 I wrote:

See the full article here: http://drmsh.com/demon-fairy-fiasco-update/

Reverse Engineering DNA

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Below, find top news coming out of the genomics world. Here is solid evidence that geneticists are back-engineering human DNA for population eugenics purposes:

OPEN GENOMES — MISSION STATEMENT:

“…. Develop phylogenies of all human non-recombining haploid segments, derive the Reconstructed Ancestral Human Reference Sequence, create population-specific linkage maps, and use the phylogenies to help with population genetics, …” (Get Topical)

What is the Reconstructed Sapiens Reference Sequence (RSRS)?

The Reconstructed Sapiens Reference Sequence (RSRS) is a mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) reference sequence that uses both a global sampling of modern human samples and samples from ancient hominids. It was introduced in early 2012 as a replacement for the rCRS (revised Cambridge Reference Sequence). Because it is based on the likely modal haplotype of the common ancestor to both modern humans and such ancient groups as the Neanderthals, it shows an unbiased path back from any one modern mtDNA sequence to our distant common maternal ancestor.

Source:
Behar, D. M., van Oven, M., Rosset, S., Metspalu, M., Loogväli, E.-L., Silva, N. M., Kivisild, T., Torroni, A., and Villems, R. (2012). A “copernican” reassessment of the human mitochondrial DNA tree from its root. The American Journal of Human Genetics, 90(4):675-684.
( https://www.familytreedna.com/learn/mtdna-testing/reconstructed-sapiens-reference-sequence-rsrs/ )
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Why is this important? Besides RSRS being touted as a transcendence of evolution; and besides its uses in population genetics being disturbingly similar to NAZI eugenics projects like Lebensborn, the Book of Genesis speaks of humanity’s DNA having been altered in the days of Noah. This alteration came through the cohabitation of fallen angels with mankind. In fact, the reason God spared Noah and his family is “Noah was… perfect in his genomic heritage” (Genesis 6:9). After Noah, the human race endured yet more incursions of “demigods.” The prophet Daniel (2:42-43) states in the End Times mankind will once again have our DNA (genetic code, gametes, “seed”) mixed with “their” (fallen angel) fabricated seed. As Jesus says, “As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of Man” (Matthew 24:37).

Resurrection Science – Trailer from Eric Paternot on Vimeo.

In geneticists’ attempts to reach back into the mtDNA anals of mankind, they will no doubt retrieve (mistakenly or by intent) the corrupted DNA sequences of past fallen angel/demigod incursions—call them Neanderthals, Proto-man, humanoids or otherwise. Transhumanism clearly desires to utilize biotech like CRISPR to accomplish this goal, as described in books like Resurrection Science. Geneticists are attempting to recover Neanderthal DNA and splice it with our own. Their big ethics question is not the morality of doing this abomination but “who will carry the egg—ape or woman?” This is nothing short of an abomination.

If geneticists are resurrecting Neanderthals, what would stop scientists from doing the same with historical humans, with the most notable humans for which we have genetic material—ex. The Pharoahs and Queens of Egypt, or even Gilgamesh (a.k.a. biblical Sumerian/proto-Babylonian Nimrod) who was equated with Osiris and Apollo in ancient Egyptian and Greco-Roman cultures. In the Hindu worship, he is revered as Shiva the destroyer…the very same whose statue stands outside of CERN today. Nimrod is revered by the occult, and they seek his resurrection. These names of Nimrod are the same as the spirit called Apollyon / Abaddon in the Bible. Will the work of “resurrection science” be the fulfillment of Revelation 9:11 Apollyon / Abaddon?

[UPDATE: First CRISPR Trial in Humans to Start Next Month]

[UPDATE: International Committee Cautiously Endorses DNA Editing of Unborn Babies | Christian News

[UPDATE: Forget Mammoths, We Could Bring Dinosaurs and Neanderthals Back to Life | Futurism]

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OTHER RESOURCES:

Fallen Angels, Not Aliens!!

Study of Fallen Angels: Demonology

Transhumanism & Genetic Engineering / Enhancement vs. Christian Ethics

ARGUMENTS for FLAT EARTH MADE from the BIBLE & DEBUNKED by the BIBLE

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The Bible is accurate on all the scientific matters to which it speaks. Sometimes however, due to its supernatural nature, humanity has a difficult time interpreting the Bible. One example arises in the “flat earth” theory. Due to misinterpretation—made “out of context” and from not knowing the lexical meanings of words in their original language—students of the Bible have made claims from the Bible, which the Bible refutes in other places. Or, these erroneous claims are refuted by one’s accurately understanding the same passages according to context and word meaning. When misinterpretation occurs, the Bible is not the inaccurate party.

Many make argumentation for a spherical earth from observable phenomena like sea currents, wind currents, measurable curvature and circumference, and varied seasons and ecological systems (which prove earth’s axis and tilt in relation to the sun). Still, those who are proponents of a flat earth will not be persuaded, since their ideology has been formed from their interpretation of the Bible. Only evidence from the Bible would change their minds.

To help set the record straight regarding this “flat earth” misinterpretation of the Bible, Lamb’s Harbinger presents the following compilation of contextual and lexical Bible resources. Our planet earth is not flat; it is spherical.

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  • The Circle of the Earth — Did Bible writers believe the Earth was flat? by ChristianAnswers.net | “Note, the Biblical Hebrew word for “circle” (חוג—chuwg) can also mean “round” or ‘sphere.'”
  • Contradictions: Hanging on Pillars of Nothing? by AnswersInGenesis.org
  • ‘Pillars of the Earth’ — Does the Bible teach a mythological cosmology? by Creation.com
  • Genesis 1:9-13 DAY 3: Pillars of the Earth by IBSS | From this word study, I gather the lexical value of “pillars” as is used in Psalm 75:3 and other places, indicate that, “yqxm means, ‘a molten like pillar'”… also equated with “mountain.” In logically reconciling these two concepts, it is best either to interpret pillars symbolically, as is fitting the context of poetry. OR else, one must look to the contexts’ coupling pillars with “earth” — eretz … lit.: “Land.” In this more literal case of interpretation of a word pair within their genre of prayer/poetry, the pillars of the land can be none other than volcanic mountains (above or below the ocean), which regulate the earth’s crust from being dissolved into molten lava. If it were not for these venting pillars, then all would melt away. Therefore, the LORD has strengthened them, yes… even until That Day, when he will melt the earth and its unrepentant inhabitants with a fervent heat (2 Peter 3:10).
  • Proper Interpretation of “Earth” and “Expanse” in Ezekiel 1:15-27:
    • Earth in the context of Ezekiel 1 cannot possibly refer to the entirety of our terrestrial habitation. Rather, egrets (earth) is commonly translated as “land” or ground, as in the abode of dirt upon which mankind goes. Therefore, in describing the vision of ezekiel, the angels (spirits) were manifesting to the prophet’s sight as being upon the very ground that the prophet himself walks.
    • “Expanse” in the context of Ezekiel 1 cannot possibly refer to the expanse above or beneath the terrestrial abode of humanity, otherwise referred to as the “firmament” (cf. Genesis 1:6). While the firmament is known as an expanse, all expanses mentioned in the Bible are not to be equated to “the firmament.” Rather, the expanse mentioned here means, rā-qí, lit.: “a thing spread out over another; a canopy; a beaten metal plate, a dome or arch; an overhead vaulted ceiling.” This lexical value, kept in its context can only be relative and limited to the anatomy of the vision being described by the prophet—that shining bow of light located above the heads of the spirits. Are the angels themselves the pillars upholding the earth? The connection is not implied in the immediate context, nor by parallel / comparative studies the broader contexts of the Tanahkh and GreeK New Testament. This is rather, the description of the very inter-dimentional, mobile Throne of God (v. 26, seating the Son of God), having been made visible to Ezekiel.
  • The Bible refers to “the four corners of the earth.” How can a spherical Earth have corners? by ChristianAnswers.net
  • Genesis 1:9-13 DAY 3: Ends of the Earth by IBSS | (bold mine, for emphasis)
    • Hebrew Texts
      • The Bible uses the phrase “the ends of the earth” some 28 times, and “end” three times. There are several different Hebrew words for “end,” [nk, [ws, spa and hxq. The Hebrew word [nk which BDB lexicon translates as “the extremities of the earth,” is used twice in the book of Job (37:3, 38:13; BDB 1980, 489). The root of the word means “winged” from which the word “pinnacle” comes. The LXX translates “ends” as pterugwn which is used in the NT in Matthew 4:5, “the pinnacle of the temple.” The Vulgate renders it by terminos, extrema (extremity, farthest reaches), and quatturo. The KJV translates it by “ends,” “quarters,” and “corners” of the earth. Isaiah 11:12 mentions the four corners of the earth, and Ezekiel 7:2 says, “the four corners of the land (of Israel). These are two other places where the Hebrew word [nk is used. This does not mean they thought Israel was a square, but referred to the four extreme points North, South, East, and West in Israel.
      • The Hebrew word [ws also means “end.” It is used five times in the book of Daniel. Only twice is it used to refer to the earth. Another Hebrew word hxq is used more often than any of the other words for “end.” There are two forms of this root word. One is feminine in form, and the other is masculine.
      • There is another Hebrew word spa that means “extremities.” This is similar to the Ugaritic word aps which also means “top” or “extremities” (Gordon 1965, 364, #309). This probably comes from the Akkadian apsu (Pope 1955, 72). This is the place where Ea dwelt, a subterranean sweet-water ocean (Heidel 1942, 81). Tiamat was killed, and half of her body formed the firmament; the other half he put over the Apsu, the waters of the deep, the subterranean sea (Heidel 1942, 155). So the ends of the earth go the ocean that encircles the earth, and where heaven and earth meet. In Psalm 65:5 the ends of the earth are parallel to the farthest sea. 
      • Another interesting parallel is in Isaiah 41:5 which says, “The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.” Here islands are considered to be synonymous with, or near the ends of the earth. The earth was surrounded by water, but there were islands at the edge of the world where the sky met the sea. 
    • New Testament
      • In the New Testament in Revelation 7:1 and 20:8 it mentions the four corners of the earth. Thayer’s Lexicon says this means “the four extreme limits of the earth” (Thayer 1962, 123) [as in length (longitude), height, depth, breadth (latitude)]. The Greek word gwnia can also mean an angle, corner, cornerstone, and a secret place [uncharted, unexplored] (A&G 1957, 168). The Vulgate translates this word with angulos. The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE) says, “The four corners of the earth or land are therefore simply the extremities of land in the four cardinal directions” (Orr 1939, 887). When gwnia refers to a building it means corner, but when it refers to land it means the extremity. For example, in the Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library (11 130, 9) it says, “in the area of Euhemeria in the division of Themistes at the corner” (Moulton and Milligan 1976, 134).
      • In Greek literature Herodotus in Book 3:25,1 writes, which means “the ends of the earth” (Hude 1979, 3:25,1). Cambyses was to take his men to the ends of the earth.

 

The below excerpt is taken directly from the full article:

Is the Earth Flat?

by Dr. Danny R. Faulkner on May 24, 2016 as posted on AnswersInGensesis.org

Reasons We Know That the Earth Is Spherical

Earth’s Shadow
So how did people in the ancient world know that the earth is spherical? The earliest recorded discussion of a spherical earth is from Pythagoras in the sixth century BC. Pythagoras correctly understood that the cause of lunar eclipses is the shadow of the earth falling on the moon. This can happen only when the moon is opposite the sun in our sky, which coincides with full moon. The earth’s shadow is larger than the moon, so we cannot see the entire shadow at once. However, during a lunar eclipse we see the earth’s shadow creep across the moon. Because the edge of the earth’s shadow always is a portion of a circle, the earth’s shadow must be a circle. If the earth were flat and round, similar to a disk, it could cast a circular shadow, but only for lunar eclipses that occur at midnight. For a lunar eclipse at sunrise or sunset, the earth’s shadow would be an ellipse, a line, or a rectangle, depending upon how thick the disk was compared to its diameter. However, the earth’s shadow during a lunar eclipse is always a circle, regardless of the time of night when the eclipse occurs. The only shape that consistently has a circular shadow, regardless of its orientation, is a sphere.

THE ONLY SHAPE THAT CONSISTENTLY HAS A CIRCULAR SHADOW, REGARDLESS OF ITS ORIENTATION, IS A SPHERE.

Visibility of the Stars
Another argument involves the stars that are visible in the northern and southern parts of the sky. The North Star lies within a degree of the north celestial pole, the direction in space that the earth’s rotation points at. As the earth rotates each day, the stars, the sun, and the moon appear to spin around the north celestial pole, so the north celestial pole remains fixed in the sky. In the ancient world, many people thought that the celestial sphere rotated each day around a non-spinning earth. For our purposes here, it doesn’t matter which is the case. The north celestial pole makes an angle with the northern horizon. We call this angle the altitude of the north celestial pole. Since the North Star is so close to the north celestial pole, we can approximate the altitude of the north celestial pole with the North Star’s altitude.

The altitude of the North Star is noticeably higher in the sky at northern locations than it is at southern locations. For example, the North Star is much higher in the sky in the northern United States and Canada than it is in Florida, as anyone who pays attention on a trip, such as a vacation, can attest. This can happen only if north-south motion is along an arc. This is further underscored by other considerations. There is a region around the North Star in which the stars do not rise or set but instead are continually up and appear to go in circles around the north celestial pole. We call these circumpolar stars, meaning “around the pole.” The region of circumpolar stars is larger at northern locations than in southern locations. Likewise, there is a circumpolar region below the southern horizon whose stars are always below the horizon, northern circumpolar region where stars are always visible, is very large, the southern circumpolar region, whose stars are never visible, is also large. At more southern locations on earth, the two circumpolar regions are smaller. For example, for many years I lived in South Carolina, about four degrees farther south latitude from where I now live in Northern Kentucky. I can see that the North Star is slightly higher in Northern Kentucky than it was in South Carolina. Furthermore, during winter in South Carolina, the bright star Canopus barely rose above the southern horizon each night; but in Kentucky I can never see Canopus. This is because in Northern Kentucky, Canopus is in the southern circumpolar region where stars are never visible, while in South Carolina it is not. This too shows that the earth is curved in the north-south direction.

Curvature of the Earth
Not only is the earth curved in the north-south direction, it also is curved in the east-west direction. There is a time difference of three hours between the east and west coasts of the United States. That is, the sun rises and sets approximately three hours earlier on the east coast than it does on the west coast. This is easily verified by anyone who has flown between the east and west coasts of the United States. Not only will your watch show that there is a time difference of three hours, but your body will notice the difference in time as well. If one drives from one coast to the other, the trip will take several days, so our bodies will not notice the time difference as much. However, our watches reveal that the time has changed. Such rapid transportation was not possible in ancient times, but the ancients could see this time difference a different way. A lunar eclipse obviously must happen simultaneously for everyone on earth, but it will be different times at different locations. For instance, a lunar eclipse may start shortly after sunset in the eastern Mediterranean, such as in Greece. However, in the western Mediterranean, such as in Spain, the moon would already be in eclipse when the moon rose that night. This means that the lunar eclipse began before sunset/moonrise in Spain, but after sunset/moonrise in Greece. Communication was such in the ancient world that people were aware of this effect. This shows that the earth is curved in the east-west direction. If the earth is curved in both the north-south and east-west direction, the most likely shape of the earth is a sphere.

Ancient Sources
Ancient sources, such as Aristotle, also mentioned that the hulls of ships disappeared before their masts did as ships sailed away. This would happen only if the earth is spherical. Without optical aid, this is difficult to see. However, one easily can see a related effect. If one is perched atop the mast of the ship, one can spot land or other ships before people on the deck can. This is why spotters often were placed in a crow’s nest high above a ship’s deck. If the earth were flat, there would be no advantage to being above the deck. A similar thing can be observed on land. The Door Peninsula in Wisconsin forms the eastern shore of Green Bay. The distance across Green Bay from the northern portion of the Door Peninsula to Northern Michigan is more than twenty miles. Looking across Green Bay from the beach on the west side of the Door Peninsula, one cannot see Northern Michigan. However, if one ascends the bluffs above the beach, one can see the shoreline of Northern Michigan. This is possible only if the earth is spherical.

Not only did ancient people know that the earth was spherical, one of them accurately measured the size of the earth around 200 BC. Eratosthenes worked at the Great Library in Alexandria, Egypt. Eratosthenes is the father of geography because he coined the term and commissioned the creation of many maps. One particular year on the summer solstice, Eratosthenes was in southern Egypt near modern-day Aswan. Being on the northern limit of the tropics, the sun was directly overhead at noon on the summer solstice. Eratosthenes realized this, because he could look down into a deep well and see the bottom.

Normally, the bottom of a well is not visible because the sun’s light does not shine directly on the bottom, but it did at noon on the summer solstice because the sun was directly overhead. The sun never was directly overhead in Alexandria, because it is not in the tropics. Back in Alexandria the following year, Eratosthenes measured the altitude of the sun at noon on the summer solstice. He did this by constructing a vertical pole of known height and measuring the pole’s shadow at noon. Trigonometry allowed Eratosthenes to compute the sun’s altitude. The difference between ninety degrees and the altitude was how far the sun was from being vertical. Eratosthenes found that the angle was about one-fiftieth of a circle. This meant that Alexandria and Aswan were separated by one-fiftieth of the earth’s circumference. Eratosthenes knew the distance between those two locations, so multiplying that distance by fifty gave him the earth’s circumference.

Why do so many people today assume that everyone thought that the earth was flat until the time of Columbus? The argument at the time of Columbus was not over the earth’s shape, but over the earth’s size. Muslims had closed to Europeans the overland trade routes to the Far East. Everyone realized that travel to Asia by sailing west from Europe was possible, but why would you want to? There was a vast ocean (they didn’t know about the two American continents in between) separating Europe and Asia. It was much shorter to sail eastward from Europe, perhaps around Africa, to reach Asia. In the small ships used at the time, it was not advisable to sail more than a few days out of sight of land. Columbus was proposing a voyage of a few months over open, uncharted waters. That was very dangerous. To make his proposed voyage more palatable, Columbus overestimated the eastward distance from Europe, and at the same time he decreased Eratosthenes’ measurement of the earth’s circumference. The difference in these two was Columbus’ expected distance to Asia by sailing westward from Europe. In Columbus’ estimation, it was shorter to reach Asia by sailing westward than eastward. A glance at a modern globe or map of the world reveals that this is false. In other words, Columbus was wrong, and his critics were right!

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