CHAPTER 12 CONCLUDING REMARKS

IF THE "LORD GOD" IS OMNISCIENT, OMNIPRESENT AND OMNIPOTENT THEN IT WOULD NOT BE UNREASONABLE TO EXPECT THAT THE STORY GIVEN IN GENESIS ABOUT THE CREATION OF THE EARTH AND HUMANKIND WOULD REFLECT SOMETHING OF WHAT WE PRESENTLY KNOW ABOUT THE EARTH AND HUMANKIND.

FOR EXAMPLE, WHERE DOES THE "HEAVEN(S)" END? THEN THE WORD

"INFINITY", WHICH MEANS "WITHOUT LIMIT OR END", IS USED TO EXPLAIN WHAT WE CANNOT EXPLAIN. THUS, IF "HEAVEN" EXISTS SOMEWHERE

"UP YONDER" JUST WHERE IS "HEAVEN" LOCATED IN THAT UNLIMITED OR ENDLESS SPACE?

WE NOW KNOW THAT THE GRAVITATIONAL ATTRACTION EXISTING WITHIN CONSTELLATIONS AND GALAXIES KEEPS THEM RELATIVELY SLOWLY CHANGING GIVING THEM THE APPEARANCE IN A RELATIVELY BRIEF PERIOD OF TIME OF BEING STABLE, AND YET WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE CHANGES WITHIN OUR OWN CONSTELLATION THAT INDICATE THAT THE CONSTELLATION IS IN THE PROCESS OF CHANGE. IF THE OLD TESTAMENT WAS ACTUALLY THE WORK OF THE "GREAT CREATOR", THEN WHY WASN'T THIS FACT EVEN ALLUDED TO?

WHY IS THE EARTH IN THE PROCESS OF CHANGE WITH A BURNING CORE CONSTANTLY ERUPTING AND WITH TECTONIC PLATES CONSTANTLY MOVING?

WHY DON'T ANY OF THE "BOOKS" OF THE VARIOUS RELIGIONS MENTION THE EXISTENCE OF DINOSAURS, WHICH INHABITED THE EARTH LONG BEFORE HUMANKIND. WERE THESE JUST CREATED FOR THE AMUSEMENT OF THE

"LORD GOD"? WHY DID THE "LORD GOD" ALLEGEDLY OBLITERATE THE DINOSAURS?

WHY WOULD ANY LOGICAL "LORD GOD" CREATE A SYSTEM IN WHICH IN ORDER FOR LIFE TO EXIST IT MUST DESTROY OTHER LIFE. THINK OF IT. HUMAN LIFE IS SUPPORTED BY THE CONSTANT SLAUGHTER OF MANY FORMS OF LIFE BOTH PLANT AND ANIMAL. PREDATORS PREY TO LIVE. BACTERIAL AND VIRUSES MUST PRAY UPON PREDATORS. THE FOOD CHAIN IS COMPOSED OF ONE TREMENDOUS CIRCLE OF DESTRUCTION OF LIVING PLANTS AND ANIMALS. AND THIS IS THE MAGNIFICENT CREATION OF A "LORD GOD"?

WHY IS IT THAT AMONG HUMANKIND THERE ARE SO MANY TRAGEDIES. INFANTS DYING, YOUNG CHILDREN DYING, DISEASES CREATING PAIN, SUFFERING AND DEATH, DISABILITIES AND HANDICAPS, ALL MANNERS OF NEGATIVITY CAN BE ENCOUNTERED. THIS IS ALL THE WORK OF AN ALLEGED

"LORD GOD"? A KIND, LONGSUFFERING, LOVING "LORD GOD."

EVEN A HUMAN COULD DREAM UP SOMETHING BETTER, FOR EXAMPLE, WHY NOT MAKE ALL LIVING THINGS EXIST BY SIMPLY HAVING CHLOROPHYLL AND MEETING THEIR NUTRITIONAL NEEDS OUT OF WATER, AIR AND SUNSHINE? NOTHING KILLED AND A SYSTEM THAT WOULD BE TOTALLY INDEPENDENT OF ANY NEED TO KILL.

WHY WOULDN'T A "LOVING LORD GOD" MAKE ONLY A CERTAIN NUMBER OF HUMANKIND AND LET THEM LIVE FOREVER? THE PRESENT CREATIONS RARELY EVER ACHIEVE THE AGE OF ONE HUNDRED TWENTY.

THE ULTIMATE QUESTION IS WHY DIDN'T THE "LORD GOD' SIMPLY IMPLANT THE KNOWLEDGE OF HIS COVENANTS AND LAWS INTO THE BRAINS OF HUMANKIND RATHER THAN THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF MAKING "BIBLES" FOR ALL OF THE RELIGIONS OF HUMANKIND.

HUMANKIND FINDS ANSWERS TO MANY UNKNOWN QUESTIONS EVEN IF THE ANSWERS LATER PROVE TO BE TOTALLY ERRONEOUS.

IS THAT WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE CREATION BY HUMANKIND OF THE ALLEGED "GREAT CREATOR" THAT WAS GIVEN VARIOUS NAMES SUCH AS THE

"LORD GOD"?

IS THERE TRULY A "LORD GOD" OR IS THIS JUST THE FIGMENT OF THE IMAGINATION OF HUMANKIND?

IF THE "LORD GOD" EXISTS THEN IT MUST BE PROVED WITH SUBSTANTIVE AND CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE.

CHALLENGE: PRODUCE SUCH SUBSTANTIVE AND CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE.