Did man really walk on the moon?
A few years ago, a video documentary made the claim that man never really landed on the moon. As a result, many have bought into this claim, or at least are unsure whether man really did land on the moon. Here is NASA's answer to the allegation. NASA has also provided some links to other, non-NASA affiliated sites.
As Bible believing Christians who are often castigated as being "anti-science", I believe it is very important that we study this matter out if we are to have credibility in today's world, especially if we are inclined to doubt that NASA indeed did send men to the moon. I am persuaded that a little investigation and thought is sufficient to show that the allegations are false, that the video was not being fair with the evidence, and that people really did land on the moon.
Here is an example of a piece of "evidence" cited to show that NASA faked the astronauts going to the moon. If you look at pictures of astronauts on the moon, you will notice that there are no stars in the black sky. It is claimed that the reason for this is that the pictures were faked. This claim is very easy to refute. Go outside on a starry night and take a picture of somebody against the starry sky. Be sure to use the flash so you can see the person and to simulate the sunlight that was shining on the astronauts and the moon in the NASA pics. Now look at your pic. No stars? Too bad. But why? I'll leave it to you to figure out, but suffice to say that any professional or serious amateur photographer, or any high school physics teacher, could explain why. All the same, the fact that the video would use such "evidence" to "prove" astronauts didn't go to the moon, puts the entire video in the "dubious box" for me. Mega-evolution propagandists (and alas, there are creationists who are guilty of this too), often do the same kind of thing to "make" their point.
Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Moon_Landing_hoax_accusations
http://www.gallup.com/poll/1993/Did-Men-Really-Land-Moon.aspx During 1999, this gallup poll showed that about 11% of Ameircans either believed we did not land on the moon, or were not sure.
E=mc2 : Dangerous Knowledge?
Although the atomic bomb could have been developed without knowledge of Einstein's famous mass-energy equivalence equation, this equation has become a symbol of dangerous knowledge all the same.However, dangerous knowledge does exist, otherwise the atom bomb would have never been made, nor would we be today polluting our atmosphere with tons of pollution every day, etc.
Is science then a bad thing? If I believed it were, I wouldn't be teaching science.
I will continue this essay later as I have the time. Meanwhile, let me say that while it is true that knowledge can be dangerous, knowledge is not a bad thing. Knowledge is a powerful thing that can be used for good or for bad. It is the power to do bad that can make knowledge dangerous. I teach science because of its power to do good. More later...
