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VoidEngineer writes "Well, it's that time of the year again... the World's Largest Scavenger Hunt has begun again. (This is the same annual Scavenger Hunt where the students built the breeder reactor, for item #240, back in 1999...) Anyhow, you can find the list here. This year, the competition is between 9 teams and there are 307 items. Nerdy items include, but are not limited to: #2 From the fetid swamps of Lotan to the teeming forests of Jojojop, Endor is an ancient, mysterious, beautiful land, deserving to be rendered as a full-color map fit for National Geographic, circa TA 3019; [51 points] #46 Mobius stripper. Must be non-orientable. Must not emphasize the one-dimensionality of the stripper's personality. [28 points]. #98 A piece of the Space Shuttle Columbia with NASA verification [155 points] #101 A hologram of an entire team member. [50 points]
#136 Explain string theory using only sock puppets. The Judge must understand. [19 points]"
I think some people should take a serious look at this article about Apollo 8. Just a quick introduction first. Don't forget that there has been scientific evidence that God actually caused time to stop for a period, as mentioned in the Bible. In addition, prophecies from the Bible have and continue to come true.
Orbiting the moon on Christmas Eve of 1968, the astronauts of Apollo 8, the first manned flight around the moon, gave a surprising Christmas message to the people of the earth.
As the telecast neared its end, Colonel Borman said, "Apollo 8 has a message for you." With that, Major Anders began reading the opening verses from the Book of Genesis about the creation of the earth.
"In the beginning," Major Anders read, "God created the leaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the waters."
Captain Lovell then read, "And God called the light day, and the darkness He called night."
Colonel Borman closed the reading with "And God called the dry land Earth: and the gathering together of the water called he Seas: and God saw that it was good." (Based on Genesis 1:1-10).
The astronauts showed their belief in God, the Creator (Maker), who made the world according to the Scriptures despite the general and widely accepted view, the idea of evolution.
And more than that the 1960's were the time of low interest in spiritual matters-the era of "God is dead." Getting impressed by what the astronauts had seen in space, the moon to which they were traveling was described as "vast, lonely, and forbidding sight...not very inviting place to live or work." However, in contrast, at every turn of the orbit of the moon, Apollo 8 crewmen welcomed the beautiful view of their home, the earth, which was about 230,000 miles in distance.
Like a tired and lost traveler in a hostile environment of desert, Lovell saw the earth as a "grand oasis in big vastness of space."
Through this experience, they admitted that God is the only answer to the questions of the beginnings and the existence of every living and non-living matter in the universe such as stars, sun, moon, earth, and life upon the earth.
The Christmas message from Apollo 8 not only brought hope and good will to all mankind on earth but it also may have caused a great blow to the very foundation of the idea of evolution.
Probably many people, especially those who were Christians who were having problems in deciding whether the Bible and its account of Creation were true or false were encouraged to hear this hopeful message that strengthened their faith in God and His Book.
I remember very well when I was in college as I was struggling to accept the creationism or not, this message touched my heart that God is the Creator (Maker) of all living things. The 1960's were the time when the general church attendance decreased and the doctrine of Creation was mostly left out of public schools curricula across the nation. Most scientists felt that the Biblical account of Creation was unscientific and untrue. The theory of evolution had its "heyday."
One great British anthropologist I met when I was in high school, L. S. B. Leakey, made exciting news to this scientific world about his "very exciting" discovery of what he then called "our earliest man" -- the supposed "missing link" between the modern man and his ancestor, the ape-like creature. Its discovery "proved" the idea of evolution which is the opposite of the Biblical account of Creation of man -- "God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him." Genesis 1:27.
Furthermore, many geologists continued attacking the idea that God made the heavens and the earth in six days because their studies showed that the evidences and findings in the earth conflicted with the Biblical view.
Generally, the geologists believed that the earth and its living things evolved through millions of years, not through creation in six days.
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that has to be the most pointless comment I ever read, you my friend are truly ignorant
All the organizers are going to be arrested for soliciting a piece of Federal property (piece of the space shuttle).
I'm suprised a stupid fag like you isn't familiar with Chip n Dales the famous male strippers.
Get off your political correct horse tard.
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just like the humble blood clot... turboporsche@telus.net
That's the major difference between most people that go to MIT and those that choose U of C: At U of C, we actually have creativity, and rather than choosing items that are 100% definately realizable in one and only one way, we allow for each team to interpret the list in their own way. It's like 10 different groups of actors performing a Shakespeare play, you're never going to get the same performance out of any 2, but each one will be spectacular in it's own ways.
Judging a contest where every team brought the exact same items must get extrememly boring.
-R