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|claim=The author states, "Facsimile 2, Figure #5 states the sun gets its light from Kolob. We now know that the process of nuclear fusion is what makes the stars and suns shine. With the discovery of quantum mechanics, scientists learned that the sun’s source of energy is internal, and not external. The sun shines because of thermonuclear fusion; not because it gets its light from any other star as claimed by the Book of Abraham." | |claim=The author states, "Facsimile 2, Figure #5 states the sun gets its light from Kolob. We now know that the process of nuclear fusion is what makes the stars and suns shine. With the discovery of quantum mechanics, scientists learned that the sun’s source of energy is internal, and not external. The sun shines because of thermonuclear fusion; not because it gets its light from any other star as claimed by the Book of Abraham." | ||
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| − | *Joseph did not say that "the sun gets its light from Kolob," he said "this is one of the governing planets also, and is said by the Egyptians to be the Sun, and to borrow its light from Kolob through the medium of Kae-e-vanrash." The author has simplified this down to "the sun gets its light from Kolob." | + | *Joseph did not say that "the sun gets its light from Kolob," he said "this is one of the governing planets also, and is said by the Egyptians to be the Sun, and '''to borrow its light from Kolob through the medium of Kae-e-vanrash'''." The author has simplified this down to "the sun gets its light from Kolob." |
*There are many scriptures or statements by the prophets that seem to have scientific implications. Unfortunately, they are never couched in modern scientific terms and their meanings are often very obscure. Any faith-promoting proof from Abraham’s astronomy is a flimsy house of cards and any faith-destroying attack on some straw-man interpretation is unsustainable, such as the suggestion that Abraham taught that the photons leaving the surface of the sun originally came from Kolob. | *There are many scriptures or statements by the prophets that seem to have scientific implications. Unfortunately, they are never couched in modern scientific terms and their meanings are often very obscure. Any faith-promoting proof from Abraham’s astronomy is a flimsy house of cards and any faith-destroying attack on some straw-man interpretation is unsustainable, such as the suggestion that Abraham taught that the photons leaving the surface of the sun originally came from Kolob. | ||
*Some examples of how this might be interpreted and the questions that it raises: | *Some examples of how this might be interpreted and the questions that it raises: | ||
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A FAIR Analysis of the online document Letter to a CES Director section "Science Concerns & Questions"
- Response to section: "no death of any kind (humans, all animals, birds, fish, dinosaurs, etc.) on this earth until the 'Fall of Adam'"
- Response to section: "If Adam and Eve are the first humans, how do we explain the 14 other Hominin species who lived and died 35,000 – 250,000 years before Adam?" [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: "Science has proven that there was no worldwide flood 4,500 years ago"
- Response to section: "Tower of Babel" [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: "People living to be 600+ years old" [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: "Humans and animals having their origins from Noah’s family and the animals contained in the ark 4,500 years ago." [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: "Jonah and the whale" [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: "People turning into salt in Sodom & Gomorrah" [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: "the sun getting its light from Kolob" [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: "They carried honey bees across the ocean? Swarms of them?" [Work in Progress]