New blog on the kid
Be my - local or otherwise - editor, if you like! : Soyez mon éditeur local ou plus large, si vous voulez!
Et pour tous ceux qui voient ceci sur les ordis - que Sainte Claire prie pour vous!
Sunday, 15 February 2026
There Clearly Are Things 15 is Too Young For
Dear Melissa Gilbert, Your Retrospect is Wrong · There Clearly Are Things 15 is Too Young For
Marriage isn't one.
A romance leading up to marriage, like between the real life persons Laura and Almanzo also isn't one.
But pretending to be in love on stage, while having never had an affair (let alone marriage) is one.
And affairs arranged for money with very powerful people who absolutely are not going to blow up their secret by allowing any marriage to ensue also is one.
In fact, I'm not sure these are appropriate for any age, especially not the latter./HGL
Quentin, est-il mort ?
J'avais compris de "mort cérébrale", si son cœur bat encore, il n'est pas vraiment mort.
Après certains LFI-stes, la prochaine menace ce sont les médecins, avec une mauvaise définition de la mort./HGL
Saturday, 14 February 2026
Signez aussi, s v p, contre la "loi" sur euthanasie
Merci aux sénateurs, tout d'abord !
MON INTERPELLATION AUX PRÉSIDENTS DES GROUPES POLITIQUES À L’ASSEMBLÉE NATIONALE :
REJETEZ LA LOI INIQUE SUR L’EUTHANASIE !
https://droitdenaitre.org/mon-interpellation-aux-presidents-des-groupes-politiques-a-lassemblee-nationale/
J'ai signé.
Je n'aimerais pas qu'on dégrade ma santé (vers le pôle diabétique) pour ensuite avoir une excuse de prétendre que j'aurais demandé l'euthanasie./HGL
Une semaine : Hong Kong et Royaume Uni ont exactement le même nombre de vues, sur les trois plus vus posts, deux répondent à un Orthodoxe
Friday, 13 February 2026
Pourquoi ceci sur le Seigneur des Anneaux ?
Seigneur des Anneaux, mes articles 2020 à 2024 en anglais sur ce blog · Seigneur des Anneaux, mes articles en anglais pendant 2025 sur ce blog · Pourquoi ceci sur le Seigneur des Anneaux ?
Il y avait un homme qui connaissait mes blogs, ou surtout celui-ci. Il avait trouvé quelque chose difficile à sa compréhension et c'était sur Le Seigneur des Anneaux, probablement sur ce blog et probablement en anglais.
Tout d'abord, je viens de vérifier mon total pour les années depuis 2020 en 2025.
- 2020
- 620 dont 237 ici
- 2021
- 603 dont 232 ici
- 2022
- 1098 dont 429 ici
- 2023
- 1243 dont 498 ici
- 2024
- 1471 dont 554 ici
- 2025
- 1411 dont 700 ici
620 + 603 + 1098 + 1243 + 1471 + 1411 = 6446
237 + 232 + 429 + 498 + 554 + 700 = 2650
14 des posts sur ce blog mentionnent Lord of the Rings (titre VO pour Seigneur des Anneaux) sur ce blog pour ces années et en anglais. Je n'ai pas compté les références vers d'autres blogs ou vers les posts antérieurs à 2020.
Dont les plus importants sont :
Dans le premier, je défends Tolkien contre les allégations de Yuri Maximov d'hétérodoxie (à part la question évolutionniste). Ce prêtre russe a retiré son article, j'ai modifié le mien pour en tenir compte. Dans le second, je défends Tolkien et C. S. Lewis contre les allégations assez peu probables de John Todd à leur égard. Il les proféra vers 10 ans après la mort de C. S. Lewis, et dans le moment que J. R. R. Tolkien se mourait. En plus John Wayne Todd est né en 1949. Bilbon le Hobbit était déjà écrit. Le Seigneur des Anneaux est sorti en 54 et 55, quand John Todd avait 6 ans au plus. Les sept parties du Monde de Narnia sortent entre 1950 et 1956. Cette dernière année John Todd célébra son 7e anniversaire. Il prétend avoir personnellement servi de coursier pour les Illuministes non seulement pour soudoyer Tolkien, mais même C. S. Lewis. Celui-ci mourrait en 1963, une heure avant l'assassinat du Président Kennedy. Et John Todd avait 14 ans cette année. Mais en plus, parmi les sources utilisées par les wikipédistes anglophones, aucune semble avoir considéré JRRT ou CSL comme des franc-maçons, comme des mystiques, comme des occultistes. Il ne s'agit pas de Gourdjeff, quoi !
En d'autres mots, si c'est bien connu que j'aime Tolkien, ce n'est pas du tout une raison d'avoir honte, ni socialement, ni comme Chrétien.
Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre BU
St. Julien de Lyon
13.II.2026
Lugduni, in Gallia, sancti Juliani Martyris.
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Seigneur des Anneaux, mes articles en anglais pendant 2025 sur ce blog
Seigneur des Anneaux, mes articles 2020 à 2024 en anglais sur ce blog · Seigneur des Anneaux, mes articles en anglais pendant 2025 sur ce blog · Pourquoi ceci sur le Seigneur des Anneaux ?
New blog on the kid: For Those Who Pretend I'm Faking My Writing
https://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/2025/01/for-those-who-pretend-im-faking-my.html
Hence my lack of rereading Lord of the Rings in extenso, which I used to do. Hence (partly) my disconnect from the Rosary
Je me plains des privations de sommeil, qui m'empêcheraient de relire le Seigneur des Anneaux, comme je le fis avant, et qui m'empêchent de prier le chapelet.
New blog on the kid: Angels for Sungenis and Levi Pingleton
https://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/2025/02/angels-for-sungenis-and-levi-pingleton.html
However, if you are suggesting that angels and demons live in a kind of parallel reality called "the spiritual world" this is not the traditional Roman Catholic view. You can partly find it in Tolkien (whose upbringing involves not just father Francis Xaver Morgan, Oratorian, but also Methodists) when explaining the invisibility of ring wraiths and it is frankly an explanation which, suggestive as it is, and effective in dramatic setting, is clearly more suited to that particular work of fantasy than to a manual of theology. Apart from Lord of the Rings, it is also found in some Evangelical circles.
L'idée d'un monde parallèle spirituelle, à part dans le Seigneur des Anneaux se trouve aussi chez les Évangélistes. (Notons, si le tuteur de Tolkien, après le décès de sa mère était l'abbé Francis Xaver Morgan, de l'Oratoire, il dépensait aussi du temps chez des proches qui étaient Méthodistes).
L'idée catholique de base est que les esprit, quoique n'étant pas matériels et ayant une autre relation à l'espace et étant invisibles pour les yeux matériels est dans notre univers, pas dans un univers parallèle. Au moins pour les esprits pertinents pour nous.
New blog on the kid: Is Matt Walsh Pro-Russian?
https://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/2025/03/is-matt-walsh-pro-russian.html
Presque tout a un rapport avec le Seigneur des Anneaux, je ne vais pas citer, mais résumer.
- La feu Soviétique avait une rancune idéologique envers Le Seigneur des Anneaux, et le Soviéto-nostalgique Kirill Yeskov l'exemplifie en racontant l'histoire d'un point de vue selon lequel Sauron serait le bon et les Elfes les méchants ;
- Matt Walsh reprend pas mal d'un point de vue anti-S des A assez proche de ce genre de critique (y compris le bobard que Tolkien aurait omis une solution parfaitement possible, d'avoir la Compagnie de l'Anneau monter sur des aigles géants pour aller en Mordor) ;
- à l'époque, Matt Walsh m'avait banni de commenter, mes je laisse une réponse détaillée à Ben Shapiro ;
- et la reproche que Matt Walsh fait à propos les morts-vivants ayant rompu le serment est aussi une critique à l'encontre d'Aldebert de Baufort (La Guerre des sept fontaines).
New blog on the kid: Homages to St. Oswald for the Last Hundred Years
https://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/2025/05/hommages-to-st-oswald-for-last-hundred.html
Lord of the Rings (1954—55)
It seems Aragorn was based on St. Oswald.
Il semble que le personnage Aragorn avait ses bases de caractère et de destin en St. Oswald.
New blog on the kid: A Young Swede of 15 Got a Price
https://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-young-swede-of-15-got-price.html
Une guide touristique donne une liste de 8 endroits qui ont inspiré les paysages du Seigneur des Anneaux. En vue d'un autre récit de Tolkien, Smith of Wootton Major, je remarque qu'il est drôle que cette fan ait pas inclus Wotton under Edge, vu que la bonne prononciation de Wotton s'écrirerait Wootton, et que Tolkien a certes le nom de Wotton under Edge. Surtout que l'orthographe Underedge a dû inspirer Underhill (Souscolline, en v. fr.)
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Seigneur des Anneaux, mes articles 2020 à 2024 en anglais sur ce blog
Seigneur des Anneaux, mes articles 2020 à 2024 en anglais sur ce blog · Seigneur des Anneaux, mes articles en anglais pendant 2025 sur ce blog · Pourquoi ceci sur le Seigneur des Anneaux ?
New blog on the kid: No, I'm Not English - and Why Should I Care?
https://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/2020/10/no-im-not-english-and-why-should-i-care.html
There are children's books that are really meant for small children, and may not give very much to adults. There are also the category "9 - 12". In the XXth C. this category has often involved better story books than the novels written for adults. Apart from Astrid and Tove, I very much favour Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. Though Lord of the Rings is considered the age group above 9 - 12, I first read it at 13.
Parmi les "livres d'enfants" une catégorie est pour les petits enfants en train d'apprendre la lecture. Normalement, un adulte qui ne lit pas ça à ses propres enfants ou en faisant du baby-sitting ne va pas les trouver très intéressants. La catégorie 9—12 ans et la catégorie au-dessus, par contre, normalement pour intéresser les jeunes ados et les préados, il faut un minimum de pensée, qui est apte à intéresser les adultes aussi.
Je positionne Le Monde de Narnia et Le Seigneur des Anneaux dans ces catégories.
New blog on the kid: What Happened Yesterday?
https://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/2021/02/what-happened-yesterday.html
Or someone could viciously and dishonestly pretend that just because I mentioned "Narnia ou Élidor" in an article I was writing while absent, I needed to have taken some kind of drug. This is not the case, I do not need any drugs to enjoy fantasy novels, though I do need more sleep than I have had recently to enjoy any book as long as Lord of the Rings (note, I have been re-reading The Book of Three a few years ago, it is shorter). I also don't need drugs to believe God is literally almighty as Bishop Tempier believed God to be. This belief does not believe on my hallucinating in any way. So, I obviously had no drug in my luggage, but this doesn't prevent certain someones to search for those.
Quelqu'un avait fouillé mon bagage. Or, pendant ce temps, j'avais fait une allusion à deux œuvres du fantastique.
J'énonce l'hypothèse qu'un connard aurait prétendu imaginer que je m'en serais abstiné à moins d'être drogué, et qu'il avait fouillé mon bagage pour drogues illicites en mon absence.
Enfin, je clarifie, ni pour aimer le fantastique, ni pour croire très en sérieux dans la toutepuissance de Dieu, je n'ai besoin de drogues.
New blog on the kid: Have you heard the expression "von Neumann chain"?
https://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/2022/08/have-you-heard-expression-von-neumann.html
May (yeah, Mayson) and Ter (Ter ... eesa) got a bit tired of waiting while four of their five were away. So they had a couple of friends who had received them after one tired measurement of stridings come over from Tennessee, all the way up to Niagara Falls across the Canadian border at Niagara Falls, where May and Ter were living. The friends - surprise - brought along a daughter, Danna, who married Theodore after another few months. They started to wonder what they were going to call the final correct distance to the moon - Theo-Dann? Oops, they heard of a case when someone had tried to name a business line "Lothlorien" and read Lord of the Rings and learned about Tolkien's copyright hawk, Christopher (who has reasons to hate certain very abusive derivatives) - "we can't name it Theo-Dann after all" said Theodore - "right, sounds too much like Theoden" said Danna.
En cette drôlerie d'histoire, une vue alternative sur les découvertes en métrologie, quelqu'un propose de nommer la distance entre terre et lune "Theo-Dann" après les personnages Theodore et Danna. Ils mentionnent le copy-right et l'attitude du feu Christopher Tolkien. Theodore et Danna renoncent donc, pour ne pas se trouver face à un procès en copy-right à propos Theoden, personnage du Seigneur des Anneaux.
Cette référence est en passant, le point étant qu'on n'arrive pas en métrologie correcte à quatre années lumière pour α du Centaure et ainsi de suite, sans de présumer l'Héliocentrisme.
New blog on the kid: John Shelby Spong and Joseph Ratzinger
https://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/2022/10/john-shelby-spong-and-joseph-ratzinger.html
Third, how does a book claim to be history? Including boring detail with no or little action attached to most would be a candidate for internal evidence of historic intention.
[Citations de la Genèse et de l'Iliade]
But, this characteristic can be mimicked in fiction (see Tolkien's appendices to Lord of the Rings!). A safer approach would be the external evidence for historic intent. No one is taking Lord of the Rings as a work of history, everyone is taking it as fiction meant to entertain (even if some** consider the appendices to result in boredom rather than entertainment).
So, to formulate this external criterium, it is not the text itself that claims to be historic, it is its status in a society claiming it for it, and the evidence for historicity is, first known reception of the text taking it as history.
Je discute les critères pour distinguer la fiction des documents historiques.
Les critères internent favorisent certes quelque part que la Genèse et l'Iliade ne soit pas des fictions, car qui mettrait des détails barbants dedans (Genèse 4 après le verset 17, le Catalogue des Navires). Mais, ceci peut être imité en de la fiction, comme Le Seigneur des Anneaux (je pensais surtout aux Appendix) et il faut donc privilégier les critères externes. Le texte, a-t-il ou n'a-t-il pas été considéré depuis le début comme historique ? (Genèse et Iliade, oui, Le Seigneur des Anneaux, non).
New blog on the kid: Some People over Here in France Don't Get that Lewis means Louis and is a Very Common Name among Brits and Irish
https://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/2023/07/some-people-over-here-in-france-dont.html
Some have reasoned, only perverted people can enjoy John Ronald Reuel Tolkien or his friend Clive Staples Lewis. I don't think these villagers are very closely related to the late Jimmy Savile or to Jeffrey Epstein, or that they'd applaud smut:
Les deux vidéos, le canal est certes basé aux États-Unis, mais les villageois en question sont du sous-continent indien.
New blog on the kid: Rights, Exceptions, and Pushing them Too Far
https://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/2023/11/rights-exceptions-and-pushing-them-too.html
The Last Ringbearer is in many ways despicable, a Communist propaganda with enforced enrolment of Frodo and Sam, who are the brain children of the well known Anti-Communist J. R. R. Tolkien. However, it is at least good that the offense to good taste and manners is not driven out of existence on the online world. Once upon a time, Bored of the Rings* could be published and sold on paper, with no legal consequences, and whatever the arrangements may be between Harvard** and the Tolkien Estate, this seems to be true to this very day.
...
* People who think Tolkien is very much into illegal recreation drugs may have confused the text of Lord of the Rings with that of Bored of the Rings. Happens when your sources are oral conversations with people of quality, who, despite being people of quality, are not beyond tweaking the truth a bit in order to have what they consider legitimate fun at someone's expense.
Je discute le copy-right, avec Tolkien en exemple. Deux ouvrages dérivés existent, Lord of the Ringards (Bored of the Rings) et Le Dernier Anneau (The Last Ringbearer). Pour l'idée que l'on doive utiliser des drogues pour aimer Le Seigneur des Anneaux, je réplique qu'on ait probablement pensé à Lord of the Ringards.
New blog on the kid: We Are Not Just Consumers
https://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/2024/02/we-are-not-just-consumers.html
PS, if you think I'm unfair to AI, see what ChatGPT can do for a sequel of LotR ...
Je donne le lien vers une vidéo qui discute si on pouvait écrire une continuation du Seigneur des Anneaux avec l'aide de l'IA. La réponse dans la vidéo est assez accablante pour l'IA.
New blog on the kid: Why "Labyrinth"?
https://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/2024/09/why-labyrinth.html
But the film was an actual work of beauty, a real piece of art. Not just because of Jennifer Connelly, but because of the actual story. What inspired it, on the plane of story, as distinct from one very probable message in the context of the age?
[Chesterton citation]
This could have been to Labyrinth what the following may have been to The Lord of the Rings:
[Other Chesterton citation]
This also was by Chesterton, it was from the essay Ethandune.
Comme j'ai tracé une partie de l'inspiration pour Le Seigneur des Anneaux à l'essai Ethandune, par Chesterton, je trace une partie de l'inspiration pour le film Labyrinth à un extrait de Short History of England, par Chesterton.
New blog on the kid: Sharing on Conlanging
https://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/2024/11/sharing-on-conlanging.html
Tolkien est connu pour avoir inséré dans le Seigneur des Anneaux des phrases comme "elen síla lúmenn'omentielvo" et le serment d'Elendil qui commence "Et Eärello Endorenna utúlien" et je cite une vidéo par quelqu'un qui aussi fait ses langues construites. Dans son cas, du vidéaste, il avait le devoir d'inventer une langue pour la série Pendragon (produite par Daily Wire).
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Wednesday, 11 February 2026
Bonum Festum Apparitionis BMV Lapurdi
Christifidelibus lectoribus exopto./HGL
Lapurdi, in Gallia, Apparitio beatae Mariae Virginis Immaculatae.
Tuesday, 10 February 2026
Still Not a Novelist
My writing is mainly essays.
If and when I finish Chronicle of Susan Pevensie, I'll have written a fan fiction novel, for which the source material is not yet in the public domain.
While I write basically every day, I have written very little on Chronicle of Susan Pevensie since 2014.
So, I need an independent publisher, like Lost Island Press, but which, unlike Lost Island Press, considers publishing essays.
There are some people who think my essays should NOT be republished on paper and commercialised. Such people I consider as my enemies, like they are also enemies of my faith and my philosophy and (somewhat below these) my political loyalties. NOTWITHSTANDING if said enemies have acted friendly. Look, there are people I could recall, once I get things going, with as much gratitude as Nissan Mandel (a survivor of Auschwitz) recalls a certain SS officer. But Nissan Mandel does not consider the SS in general as having been simply normal and friendly with Jews or as having been his consummate pals or as having been the company he chose.
If Nissan Mandel wants to considere National Socialists as his enemies, I quite understand him. They were enemies of Austro-Fascism as well. They were part time military allies, but not ideological equivalents, of Franco.
So, in a similar manner, even if being on the street rather than having my material printed is less of a chore than being a prisoner in Auschwitz back in the time, it is by now a more prolonged chore. Auschwitz camp was in use for 1711 days or so (wikipedia says "May 1940" but doesn't specify the date). I arrived in Paris and have since been working to get off the street as a writer, on 26 of July 2009. This has been blocked for, by now, 6044 days.
You block, and are therefore my enemy, if:
- you say I shouldn't write (like you pretend I'm a drug addict or sth)
- you say I haven't finished my book yet (the novel I haven't finished is not the only book and not the main book I could produce, and many books could, depending on your taste as a publisher, be assembled from my essays in an hour)
- you say I am not ready to write on what I write on
- you judge my productivity as a writer on my progress with the novel (and even less progress with another novel that's not fan fiction
- or you say, I need to reconsider this, that or sundry before you unblock the blockade.
You are in a blockade and therefore my enemy, if you say any of above while being in some kind of position to speak about me, whether dishonest (like posing as a shrink I consult, I'm not voluntarily and knowingly consulting a shrink) or honest (like you are a family member, or you know me from the St. Nicolas du Chardonnay parish, or from the neighbourhood where I've been most of the time since the first 2020 lockdown, or you are a childhood friend or whatever) and you use that position to promote any of above.
Now, why do I need an independent publisher? I got a mail from Hello Editions, who seem to have been publishing only fiction, but their distribution system is linked to Hachette, and Hachette very certainly publishes non-fiction too. So does Heinemann ... for classrooms in public schools. A publishing house that provides text books in Earth Sciences with suppositions like Heliocentrism, Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago, life formed from chemical reactions, life forms progressing from protids to eucaryotes, from invertebrates over fish, from amphibiae, over synapsids, early mammals, early primates, to man, human history being over 1 million years old, if you don't limit yourself to Homo sapiens sapiens, that publishing house will not agree to publish essays promoting Geocentrism, Life necessarily formed by God, Man necessarily formed by God, Deep Time as unproven as Deep Space, Archaeology re-calibrated to within the Biblical Chronology. Same thing goes for Hachette. Even if they aren't limited to text books, they do have the Atheist bias I just described for a UK school books publisher.
So, I need an independent publisher. And rather yesterday than tomorrow. One which, like any other independent publisher, has its own submission rules, and more specifically, one who's submission rules don't exclude essays and don't exclude the kind of Christianity that a Freemason would term "Fanatic" simply for strictness of adhesion to the faith and to questions subordinate to it but connected to it.
Why I don't become one myself? I have no appartment. More specifically, I don't have an apartment on the private market, I learned the case about the Télenne couple, who, after Virginie Télenne started organising protests against "mariage pour tous" (gay marriage), were thrown out of their apartment, which had a "bailleur social" because the rules didn't allow her husband to use that apartment as adress for a publishing house (of a paper, not sure if monthly or weekly).
Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
St. Scholastica
10.II.2026
Apud montem Cassinum sanctae Scholasticae Virginis, sororis sancti Benedicti Abbatis, qui ejus animam, instar columbae, migrantem e corpore in caelum ascendere vidit.
PS. If you start a publishing house, whether in Paris or New York or London or Dublin, my material is available on conditions favourable to you, and it is plentiful./HGL
Monday, 9 February 2026
No, Theistic Evolution is Not Theologically Viable
Miniminuteman VS Creationism | What He Got Wrong - RESPONSE
Metatron | 14 July 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIzrH55E1_M
5:46 You are aware what options are available as per Catholic authors between 1830 and 1919 (I used to say 1920, but Institut Catholique de Paris was preceded by one year by École biblique in the Holy Land)?
1) Young Earth Creationism
2) Gap Theory
3) Day Age theory
All three converging in the idea that from the creation of Adam on, basically one can follow Biblical chronology. Or some version of it.
Day Age got a Pontifical Biblical Commission OK, 1909, but this did not include the right to meddle radically with post-Adam chronology.
And in 1920, Institut Catholique de Paris made a logically faulty refutation of YEC, but very cogent ones of the other two, from Scientific Evidence.
"Why the [ _ ] did he made us eat and 12:33 breathe through the same tube?"
In order to talk, we breathe out, with or without vibrating vocal chords. In order to talk, we also form both vowels and consonants with lips, tongue, and for consonants we can add the teeth.
16:19 Day-age is theologically, if not fine, at least "not banned" and free for discussion.
Note this 1909 permission did mention discussion both ways, i e it is equally fine to conclude that day-age is incompatible with the Bible.
However, the real crux is science.
My hobby horse is carbon dating, and if day age were true, whenever Neanderthals were living at Gibraltar, the atmosphere was already old. This means, the carbon 14 content would have been so high that it would be impossible for a carbon date of 47 k years ago (a genuine dated Neanderthal, not in Gorham Cave, which still has no skeleta, but in a nearby one) to reduce to more recent than Adam's creation in 5200 BC.
On the other hand, if the atmosphere was created four days back from Adam's creation, so 96 hours earlier, a Flood 2242 (or 2262) years later could be just c 5000 years ago, and still date to 39 000 years ago.
Other item, the Ark. With Day Age, you can't have a global flood, since this presumes that most fossils come from the Flood, and Day Age presumes they come from very different time periods.
However, if you check Wyoming, a wooden vessel this long would be highly at risk in shallow waters. Wyoming had no problem surviving travels in deep waters 1909 (!) to 1924. But in 1924, they got into Nantucket Sound, to ride out a storm. The problem is, Nantucket Sound is on average 9 meters deep. This means, waves get way edgier.
16:45 You are basically comparing God to a watchmaker.
Paley did.
St. Thomas didn't. In modern terms, think of God as a Stradivarius and a Paganini in one. So, we have day and night, summer and winter, full moon and new moon and so on because God and angels are not just leaving nature to run "on its programme" ...
18:08 "quite literally undeniable"
Pepper moths or man descending from crossopterygian fish ?
The latter very obviously is deniable, as it is being denied.
Btw, I hope your views on Theistic Evolution don't involve Adam having biological ancestry.
Imagine Adam's not yet image of God progenitors (a non extant item, but for argument's sake). Did they have Adam's psychology, roughly, or didn't they?
If they did, they could be his parents, but functionally he's no longer the first man ... except as image of God is a kind of undetectable theological extra.
If they didn't, they could not functionally be parents to him, while he was already an image of God. This was by the way the only Evolutionist view allowed under Pius XII to be defended, and I argue that view implies God committed severe child mistreatment of Adam ... meaning, that view is the adoration of another God. Quite a few of those who held it (and this was fortunately not in Italy so much) went on to act in ways incompatible with Catholic clerical duties.
18:40 It can be mentioned, if you take Geological column from lithology and to palaeontology of land biota, you don't have a column.
In aquatic biota, it makes sense for ammonites to be another level than trilobites, perhaps, and certainly for trilobites to be below whales or plesiosaurs.
You do not find whales above plesiosaurs. You just find either above trilobites, if involved in different layers (as can happen in drill holes).
However, in land biota, you find one level of fossils. Yes, even in Karoo. A Moschops capensis is from the Middle Permian (Capitanian). An Eucnemesaurus fortis is from the Upper Triassic. But the Eucnemosaurus is not found in a layer that's locally higher than the layer of the Moschops. You find, instead the Moschops in one "assemblage zone" and Eucnemosaurus in another one.
This is perfectly compatible with each and every fossil or with relatively few exceptions being rapidly buried during one mega-event, a roughly speaking year long global Flood.
19:26 Science is not a pilgrim and its changes are not a Camino.
Don't say "science progresses" but "scientists innovate" ... sometimes for bona fide discoveries, like electro-magnetism, sometimes for fake theories, like once upon a time Phlogiston, and more accepted still, Evolution and Heliocentrism.
20:45 "completely differently"
Like a global Flood, attested in the Bible?
"in the not too distant past"
Flood being c. 5000 years ago (2958 BC), check.
21:14 In chapters 5 and 11, there are genealogies.
Give me one reasonable interpretation other than the YEC one.
Between chapters 1 and 2, one could squeeze in two origins of man, one of man in general, one of Adamic men ... the latter being basically the first white or the first Jews or whatever, but the problem is, Isaac Peyrère tried this, and this is condemned by the Catholic Church. His book was on the latest edition of the Index librorum in 1948 I think it was.
If we hold that between Adam and Abraham there are c. 2000 to 3000 + years (depending on text version) and that Adam was the first man, you are basically stuck with YEC as soon as carbon dates and dated human fossils in general come into the picture.
"this between 6,000 to 10,000 years 21:44 number. Problem is, there are a lot of sections in the Bible that could be read as a possibility for a longer period of 21:51 time."
No. There are not.
There was a greenlight for Day-Age, about Genesis 1. From Rome, for no other passage. Not before 1958, at least.
If you want to correct me on that one, go through AAS (Acta Apostolicae Sedis) for the years. It goes into much well below encyclicals, like 1943, Ethiopian women applied to the Rota for annulment (probably wanted to marry Italian soldiers), and they got a no, bride rapture didn't prove forced marriage in the sense that is relevant for the canon law.
So, if Rome made a decision, you'd find it in AAS.
Some diocesan manuals, like not sure if pre-Conciliar or early post-Conciliar, have greenlighted, abusively, Archibald Sayce. A specialist in Assyriology, he commented on regal genealogies, where unimportant people were left out of the ancestry, as context from the surrounding culture that genealogies in Genesis 5 and 11 could have a hole in them.
Obviously wrong, since the Sethite genealogy is probably not regal or at least didn't remain so (Noah couldn't have built the Ark if he had had an Empire or even City alternative to Nod to take care of), and since it features people who died before their dad did, so couldn't have been regal genealogy, since featuring non-rulers. Furthermore, unlike the Cainite genealogy in Genesis 4, there is no actually indicated political entity or signs of political power attached to the Genesis 5 genealogy.
Furthermore, before you give Matthew 1 as an example of a "Swiss cheese genealogy", in order to accomodate a Neanderthal dated to 47 000 BP, you'd need, not a Swiss cheese genealogy, but one with more holes than cheese. Probably Matthew 1 left out exactly 4 ancestors of St. Joseph because of a damnatio memoriae. Like the three generations after Athaliah. So, with that kind of leaving out, if more were left out than recorded, there would have been no preservation of truth in that family line. Which preservation of truth was precisely the point why God chose Noah for a rebooting of mankind, and Abraham for a rebooting of the Church (the earliest version of it beginning with Abel, obviously).
From Abraham's birth, you have 75 years to his vocation, with a promise, 430 years before the Exodus of Moses and the Israelites. And that 480 years (or up to 530) before Solomon's Temple. Less than 1000 years BC. 1000 years + 530 + 430 + 75 = 2035, Roman Martyrology says 2016 BC.
Abraham was born 2000 to 3500 after Adam was created, depending on text versions of Genesis 5 and 11. 2035 + 2000 = 4035 (Ussher has 4004), 2035 + 3500 = 5535 (Roman Martyrology has 5200 BC, Syncellus 5500 to 5510 BC).
That's all the leeway there is after Adam was created, nothing comparable to the very theoretic and scientifically discardable Day Age.
"instead of looking back at the Bible and trying to address the 22:04 translation, trying to look at the original text, trying to find surrounding elements and cultures to see 22:10 if their interpretation was in fact correct. They try to modify science"
First, your attitude. Science isn't set in stone, because it can "progress" (i e collectively accepted paradigms can shift). But again, it is set in stone, sufficiently so to warrant desperate attempts at changing the interpretation of the Bible.
Second, they do look at the Bible, if you looked at their sites, instead of hopping on the bandwaggon of a "Catholic" rumour mill.
Dr Jonathan Sarfati is a Hebrew Christian. He knows Hebrew. Yet, in an article dated to 2018, titled "OT scholar: Genesis teaches a short timescale" he still goes to a scholar of the Old Testament, namely ...
Dr Travis Freeman serves as Professor of Old Testament at the Baptist College of Florida in Graceville. He is a graduate of Ouachita Baptist University (B.A.) and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div., Ph.D.).
Biassed, since he's a YEC. Let's go to someone else.
A similar article from 2014, "Hebrew professor: Genesis teaches six solar days!" he is dealing with Dr Andrew Steinmann but also citing one Barr.
And it’s not just ancient Hebraists who understood it this way; most modern Hebraists also understand that the author of Genesis intended to teach literal days. For example, James Barr (1924–2006), Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University, said:
“[P]robably, so far as I know, there is no professor of Hebrew or Old Testament at any world-class university who does not believe that the writer(s) of Genesis 1–11 intended to convey to their readers the ideas that: creation took place in a series of six days which were the same as the days of 24 hours we now experience; the figures contained in the Genesis genealogies provided by simple addition a chronology from the beginning of the world up to later stages in the biblical story; Noah’s flood was understood to be world-wide and extinguish all human and animal life except for those in the ark.”1
Dr Barr was quite liberal theologically, so did not believe Genesis, but he understood what Genesis taught.
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"Mount St. Helens had erupted a million 22:22 years ago, the exact same thing would have happened to the ash that would happen right now. And geologists, get 22:28 this, would be able to apply what happens in front of us right now to understand that volcanic eruption a 22:34 million years ago."
If we find K-Ar dates dating to a million years ago from Mt. St. Helen's recent eruption, we can also apply that to sth happening much more recently and dating a million years ago.
23:46 "one event"
The year long Flood would have given room to several different deposition events. And perhaps even more events of rocks eroding and colonies of clams being swept away with them.
Hence the non-uniformity, like Ammonites over sth else, for instance (not sure if correct) trilobites.
"I won't mention the flood or comment on 23:57 it because I'm preparing a dedicated video. I'll put a link in the description once it's up."
Couldn't find that link, didn't it go your way?
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