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Classic Science Fiction: ‘The Thing’

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Shouldn’t’ve thawed it out, boys!

Given really bad weather yesterday, we stayed in and watched a movie: classic science fiction, The Thing, vintage 1951.

A flying saucer crashes near the North Pole, and a scientific team makes a lot of not-so-wise decisions that result in a Thing From Another World (James Arness, pre-Gunsmoke) getting loose and killing people. It’s a monster vegetable, just about impossible to kill. Like, what do you get if you cross the Frankenstein monster with a turnip?

Directed by Howard Hawks, and based on a 1938 story by science fiction great John W. Campbell, The Thing crackles with suspense; but to me it’s more a great big air raid siren blasting out a warning: “Do not make an idol of Science!”

Still true today. Maybe even more so. Damn the consequences, jump right in–head-first. What could possibly go wrong?

‘Is the Bible Just Stories?’ (2015)

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“Noah’s Ark,” by Currier and Ives

I run this post from time to time because there’s always someone out there, very often someone who calls himself a Christian, who insists that the events described in the Bible never happened–that they’re “just Bible stories” intended to convey a “moral lesson.”

Is the Bible Just Stories?

This is the price of admission into the temple of this world, where Science is the idol and whatever’s happening now is the liturgy.

Honk if it’s a place you want to be.

‘The Age of Total Surveillance’ (2018)

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Big Brother is watching… all the time.

I’ll have more nooze about total surveillance later this morning. In the meantime, the topic provoked quite a discussion here, four years ago.

The Age of Total Surveillance

Tyrants everywhere, and their playmates and accomplices in Big Business/Big Tech, use cutting-edge technology to keep their people penned up tight and under strict control. There really must be nothing more intoxicating than running other people’s lives. Well, ruining them might be even more fun…

That there’s any human liberty left anywhere in this fallen world can only be due to God’s personal intervention.

“‘Your God?” Really?’ (2017)

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The first step toward Beethoven’s symphonies… and Gilligan’s Island reruns.

Yeah, yeah–it rained on the rocks and the rocks came alive, and we don’t need God because we’ve got Really Smart People and Science…

‘Your God’? Really?

I can’t even imagine the horror of there being no God, no hope of justice, no mercy, no salvation or forgiveness, and no higher court than our own miserable excuses for government.

It is kind of funny, though, the way they claim God does not exist and that the Bible is just a lot of made-up stories–and then gnash their teeth and say they hate God (who doesn’t exist) for wiping out the Canaanites (which never happened).

That bit about it raining on the rocks and the rocks coming alive is pretty funny, too.

‘So Who’s the “Tribal Bronze Age Mythology” Guy?’ (2018)

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Atheists like to call us Christians “primitive.” But who worships the works of man’s own hands?

So Who’s the ‘Tribal Bronze Age Mythology’ Guy?

Are we the ones who think the government will save us? Are we the ones who think the State and Science will produce an earthly paradise? Are we the ones who hope to live forever by somehow downloading ourselves–whatever those “selves” may be–onto a machine?

And they say we’re superstitious!

The Race for Eternal Life

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The monkey juice doesn’t do much for his posture.

Companies race to find the key to eternal life–I thought it was click-bait, but I clicked anyway.

It’s a Market Watch article about companies investing hundreds of millions of dollars, worldwide, in various scientific schemes to “reverse aging” (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/companies-race-to-find-the-key-to-eternal-life-2019-08-19).

This is not new. In 1923 Arthur Conan Doyle published a Sherlock Holmes story, The Adventure of the Creeping Man, in which an elderly professor, obsessed by his desire to marry a young woman, tries to restore his own youth by dosing himself with an “extract” from monkeys. It debases and degrades him, with Holmes and Watson only narrowly preventing a tragedy. Such “science,” reflects Holmes, would lead to a calamity for the human race: “It would be the survival of the least fit.”

Which brings us back up to 2019.

Perpetual youth would be bound to be expensive. Only the rich and the powerful, and great criminals, could afford it: “the least fit.” Trust Holmes to get it right.

In a Godless age, Godless men and women look to their idols, science and the state, to do for them all the things that God has promised to do–only of course they don’t believe in Him. Let’s be smart! Let’s give incredible and unprecedented powers to fools and sinners! And they’ll take us to Utopia, by cracky!

Think about it–another 700 years of being lorded over by every power-hungry jidrool in Congress, Hollywood, and Wall Street. All the ones we’ve got now, forever.

If that doesn’t make you run screaming back to the Bible, what will?

‘Do You Worship Science?’ (2013)

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This was written before “Artificial Intelligence” became a buzzword and, at least for the moment, the eventual solution to every problem in the world.

There is a logical error here. I can’t remember what this particular species of error is called, but it consists of presuming to derive one quality from another when the qualities are totally different from one another. For instance, expecting perfection to arise from imperfection, intelligence from stupidity, apples from oranges–you get it.

https://leeduigon.com/2013/12/11/do-you-worship-science/

I think this is how we wind up with 47 different genders.

‘Your God’? Really?

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If the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, then what is it to have no fear of God at all?

I frequent a few websites whose members certainly think of themselves as more than usually intelligent and well-educated. Some of them are atheists, and they criticize, or even mock and insult, Christians for believing in God. The phrase they always toss around is “your God”–as if the God who made the heavens and the earth were some kind of possession of ours, rather than the other way around.

It’s “your god didn’t do this” or “your god shoulda done that,” blah-blah. They claim that not a word in the Bible constitutes true history, it’s all just made-up stories, and then burst into rage because God wiped out the Canaanites–I mean, why get so upset about something that you say never happened?

They pat themselves on the back for believing in Science. For us, science is a method of learning about God’s created reality. For them it is an idol to be worshiped. A substitute for God. They created it themselves, and then they worship it. Like a poor benighted heathen bowing down to a thing he carved out of a chunk of wood.

Science tells them God didn’t create anything because, of course, God does not exist (they hate Him anyway). Everything sort of evolved. And it all got rolling–by merest chance!–when it rained on earth’s primordial rocks… and the rocks came alive.

I find I just can’t get comfortable with all this “your god” stuff and can’t take it in stride. I come from a time when people didn’t talk like this. And I come from a belief that God hears what we say and will hold us to account for it. So to me such talk seems very dangerous.

The Bible assures us that the fool has said in his heart, “There is no God” (Psalm 13 and elsewhere).

When fools do things, it doesn’t turn out well.

Which, I think, explains this age.

‘The March for Bullsh–er, Science’

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Ooh-ooh! Today’s the March for Science [raspberry fanfare, please]! It’s set up to go with Earth Day! (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/c1cce65224164de8b5e10db11684fe1d/march-science-events-take-place-around-globe)

One good pagan holiday deserves another.

These quotes from the Associated Press article, I think, say it all.

“Scientists world wide left their labs”–oh, please–“to take to the streets Saturday along with students and research advocates”–who asked for the barf bag?–“pushing back against what they say are mounting attacks on science.” (Gag)

They’ve even got really clever signs that say, “Science is the Answer.”

“Scientists,” says the AP, speaking, I suppose, of all scientists, and not just left-wing socialist moron scientists, are “anxious about political and public rejection of established science [sic] such as climate change and the safety of vaccine immunizations.” Nope, no controversy there.

Science is a tool. It is a method. It is the creation of human minds and hands. It is not The Answer to bloody anything. What we are looking at here is idolatry. A substitute religion. A monstrous misuse of science.

I mean, are people blind? Do they honestly, truly not see what happens to places that are ruled by the kind of people who organized this march? Places like Detroit, Venezuela, North Korea. Come to New Jersey and see what the Climate Change and Earth Day Liberal Democrat crowd has done to it. I saw it done before my very eyes. Trust me! What libs do to where you live is not a bit nice. Or don’t trust me, and visit some of these places and see for yourself.

“Science” as exalted by these left-wing pin-heads is not science at all, but an idol. Its acolytes have already demanded sacrifices–by you, of course. Not from themselves. They’ll keep their private jets and mansions. You’ll lose your air conditioning.