Here is some tech info about the launch and flight which was the second amateur flight to reach space. They then dishonestly claimed that the separation of the two stages is the rocket hitting the dome, which is nothing short of barefaced lying we can clearly see in the official video the stages separating and the bottom stage falling away with the top stage carrying on into space. In the tampered version they cut to 'on the ground shot footage' showing the separation at 1:07, that is clearly shown on the official video taking place. I then found a link to the actual official untampered video. He posted this doctored misleading video:. Totallacky, who shall be re-named as totalnumpty, posted a video regarding an amateur rocket launch that officially reached space. I recommend the book with the above warning.Today has been quite an interesting day on this forum where two flat earthers, Totallacky and Skeptimatic have both shot themselves in their respective feet by both offering up evidence that disproves their own flat earth beliefs. The author hits a lot of bases, I won't cover them all here. Naturalist atheists who understand don't like it it's only the Internet Atheist Warrior who somehow thinks quantum theory does away with a creator. He also makes the duel case here that Christians should understand as much as they can and that it supports rather than hinders our argument for a conscious creator. O'Connell also spends several chapters on quantum which require some work in reading but I found his treatment the easiest (relatively) I've read elsewhere. This is different than, say, Gordon Glover's "Beyond the Firmament" who relies only on science and his own assessment of what God would or wouldn't do (his is a worthwhile read as well but that part of his book is the weakest). But O'Connell's approach is worth the consideration as he relies more heavily on the Bible and less on science (he still throws science in there but his overall approach is scriptural. However, if evolution were proven to have occurred it would do nothing to my faith in Jesus and the Bible, so there's that. I am not sold on it, finding myself in the camp of agnostic David Berlinski in that evolution as a theory is built upon anecdotes and is mathematically unlikely. He makes a clear case for creation and the age of the universe and he always goes back to the Bible. (It still amazes me when young earthers perjoratize the Big Bang when in fact it was repulsive to the atheist). O'Connell covers the history of how we viewed the universe and the watershed moment in the 2oth century when we realized it did in fact have a beginning and the implications there-in. This will not be pleasing to young earthers but they should read it. Now the good stuff and what makes this a worthwhile read. After that he did it once again here and there and I found myself skimming. These stories took up the first chapter, which I understand to an extent in establishing his bona fides, but they were then inserted in the following places seemingly at random in between some really good stuff on our planet and solar system. I don't mean to be harsh, but I don't care what the names were of his co-workers, supervisors, or the cat his daughter picked up on a trip that I also didn't care about. I don't know why the book opened with so much recounting of his career, getting into specific things he was doing that could possibly be interesting to another engineer but not the average reader looking for a book on the subject implied by the title. If I had sampled the Kindle version and say the sample gave a generous first six chapters I would not have purchased this book. I want to begin with the negatives because I think those are important to encourage, rather than discourage, potential readers of this book. I've read several books on the topic of God and Science, including those cited by the author of this one, but O'Connell brought a slightly different insight in some areas, such as evolution and creation.
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