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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'''." This is not a statement that "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'''." This is not a statement that "the sun gets its light from Kolob." | ||
*The suggestion that Abraham taught that the photons leaving the surface of the sun originally came from Kolob is incorrect. 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. | *The suggestion that Abraham taught that the photons leaving the surface of the sun originally came from Kolob is incorrect. 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. | ||
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Response to "Science Concerns & Questions"
| [[../Temples & Freemasonry Concerns & Questions|Temples & Freemasonry Concerns & Questions]] | A FAIR Analysis of:
[[../|Letter to a CES Director]] |
[[../Scriptures Concerns & Questions|Scriptures 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: "Other events/claims that science has discredited" [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: "the sun gets its light from Kolob"
- Response to section: "They carried honey bees across the ocean? Swarms of them?" [Work in Progress]