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Biblical scientific foreknowledge

Biblical scientific foreknowledge is the idea that the Bible can accurately predict scientific knowledge that was supposedly unknown before the (multiple) times of when biblical texts were written down. The intent behind this is to try and prove that an all-knowing entity penned/inspired the book with knowledge that mere human scribes at the time could not understand. In effect, this is an effort to wrap biblical statements — about how the world works — around modern science, reinterpreting the biblical language in such a way that would make fortune tellers jealous.
==Natural Artificial selection described in the Bible?==
The Bible contains what some hold is a description of artificial selection (also known as selective breeding). Specifically, in the book Genesis, Jacob seems to affect the mating habits of goats that he is tending () as part of a scheme to take ownership of his father-in-law Laban's herd. The Bible story maintains that as the goats multiply, a larger and larger percentage of the offspring become dark colored, spotted, and speckled, and as a consequence, the property of Jacob.
However, the Bible states that Jacob watered his flocks in front of dark colored sticks, and "And since they bred when they came to drink, the flocks bred in front of the sticks and so the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted..." (). As having goats drink in front of things of different colors would have no effect whatsoever on the colors of their coats, this shows that Jacob did not use artificial selection, but rather magical thinking: making the Bible 0 for 0 on scientific foreknowledge on this point.
==Rotation of the Earth==
Several fundamentalists claim that the Bible predicts the rotation of the Earth. They're incorrect. In fact, the Bible supports an unmoving Earth with the Sun revolving around it.
==Compilations==
There are several fundamentalist collections of supposed Biblical scientific foreknowledge:
*Science Confirms the Bible
*Modern Science in the Bible
*Scientific Facts in the Bible: 100 Reasons to Believe the Bible is Supernatural in Origin
*101 Scientific Facts and Foreknowledge
*All books by Jonathan Cahn
*Gaps between science and the Bible
==See also==
*Qur'anic scientific foreknowledge
*Scientific errors in the Bible
*Pseudoscience
*Nostradamus
==Notes==
==References==
 
Category:Bible woo
Biblical sexism

The Bible is rife with sexism. More liberal Christians are quite rightly embarrassed by this and consequently try to ignore it and may wish to dissociate themselves from it by attributing it to the patriarchal ancient Near East societies of the authors and compilers of holy scripture. The societies who created the bible certainly did treat human females as objects and as property.
More conservative Christians, who might hold to more "traditional" family values, might or might not be uneasy by the outright displays of male chauvinism, but literalists really do have no choice but to accept biblical sexism as fact, and to conclude that they support it as prescribed. Some encourage and advocate such sexism in practice.
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Worth noting is that Abraham already had a wife at this point (Sarah), as well as his very own abandoned sex slave concubine (Hagar).
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If a woman gives birth to a male child, she is unclean for seven days. If she has a female child, she is unclean for 14-66 days. Go figure.
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== Women in the Bible ==
Amusingly, there are several prominent women throughout the Bible who actually go against the above norms and rules, especially in the Old Testament. A standout example is the story of in Genesis 38.
Tamar was a woman who married a man, but he was murdered by God for being evil before they had any kids. She then married his brother Onan, who was killed for God for performing before she got knocked up. Their dad, Judah, thinks Tamar is cursed and tells her to wait before marrying his youngest son, as the custom of the time is a woman must marry the brothers of her husband if he dies childless. Any children from those unions are considered the dead eldest brother's. Tamar has to wait before she can marry again, however, when the youngest does come of age, Judah still won't let them marry. So Tamar disguises herself as a prostitute, tricks Judah into getting her pregnant and is given his signet ring so he can pay her later. When her pregnancy is discovered, Judah wants to burn her alive for adultery, until Tamar gives him the ring. Realizing he's the father, Judah admits Tamar is in the right and he in the wrong for not freeing her from the marriage obligation. Tamar had twins, one of whom is an ancestor of Jesus.
==See also==
*Actions which demand the death penalty in the Old Testament
*Essay:The female image in the Old Testament 
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Category:Sexism
Category:Bible analysis
Bicameral

Bicameral is an SAT word, meaning "two chambers" just as you thought it would.
==Weird science==
In psychology, "bicameralism" is Julian Jaynes' hypothesis that the left and right sides of the human brain used to operate separately, with the thoughts of one appearing as auditory hallucinations in the other, until just a few thousand years ago, when humans suddenly became conscious as we know it.Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, 2000 (1976), Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-618-05707-2.
Supposedly, one half of the brain thought, and then the other half received messages via auditory hallucinations and obeyed without question, as it was not capable of independent thought.
Jaynes supports his theory by stating that no people in ancient texts such as the Old Testament of the Bible or the Iliad are described as taking part in cognitive processes (which is fairly obvious, since some of the texts are in third-person and/or non-autobiographical) with Ecclesiastes, Psalms, and other later prophets being notable exceptions, and reasoning that people with schizophrenia are remnants of this state of mind.
There are many flaws in his theories, such as the fact that many human populations have been isolated for significantly longer than 3000 years, and yet still all think in the modern sense, and that the Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest known work of literature, describes Gilgamesh as performing introspection, something that would be impossible under Jaynes' hypothesis.
This idea is not widely accepted and there's some lack of falsifiable versions of the hypothesis, but at least a few psychologists consider the idea "interesting" rather than "crank." It has had a bit of a pop cultural influence regardless of its truth, notably featuring in multiple works by Neal Stephenson including Snow Crash.Stephenson, Neal, The Encyclopedia of Science fiction, edited by John Clute, David Langford, Peter Nicholls (emeritus) and Graham Sleight (managing), May 29, 2020
==Politics==
It refers to any legislative house in government which has two independent yet essential chambers. The United States Congress is one such bicameral body, composed of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Other bicameral bodies include the Australian, Canadian, and British parliaments. Many other parliamentary democracies (including Denmark, Finland, New Zealand, and Norway) only have one legislative house, that is, a unicameral system.
Except for those studying for end-of-high-school standardized tests or those studying political science or government courses, there is absolutely no reason to know this word.
==References==
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Big Brain Radio Show

The Big Brain Radio Show was an embarrassing radio show hosted by chiroquacktic "doctors" David Stussy and Zena Xanders. It was sometimes referred to by the hosts as "The Big Bane Radio Show", an inside joke sarcastically hinting that "This show is the bane of our existence." The show aired on the so-called "Progressive Voice of Minnesota," from 2005 to 2011.
The show revolved around promoting as much woo and bullshit as possible, while carelessly throwing around words like "quantum" and "healing" in every sentence. As the show was hosted by chiropractors, it promoted some of the strangest, most unproven aspects of chiropractic, namely that it can be used to heal anything.
According to advertisements for the show, they promoted (among other things):
*The law of manifestation
*The law of balance
*The law of appreciation
==External links==
*Their brains are so big they have a web shite on the Internet!
*Their brains are so incredibly big they also have an audio archive on the Internet!
*David Stussy & Zena Xanders at the Encyclopedia of American Loons
==References==
Category:Alternative medicine promoters
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Big science

"Big science" is the debut album of the greatest avant-gaurde artist, Laurie Anderson a pejorative term used by creationists which they apply to any specific subjects or theories within science that do not fit with their viewpoint. The term is based on previous uses such as "Big Tobacco" or "Big Petroleum", which are generic terms for large companies that run the cigarette and oil businesses, respectively. This is done in an attempt to characterise current consensus within the scientific community as being oppressive towards the 'small science'Done by local Mom and Pop laboratories, which had been part of your community, passed down from parents to children for over 150 years before being forced out when that big-box chain synchrotron moved in just outside the town limits. Sure, their proton-proton collisions are a little cheaper (mostly because their protons are imported from who-knows-where in China), but do they know your name? Or remember your children's birthdays? I didn't think so. made up of opposing creationist viewpoints.
The term is also used by other various peddlers of pseudoscience, perhaps most notably free energy types and those who believe there is a conspiracy to suppress cold fusion.
The obvious difference between science and Big Industry is the benefits of a united front. Businesses stand to benefit by cooperating to push a dishonest viewpoint that flatters the industry. Scientists, by contrast, gain face by disproving each other's theories, and the more widely touted a given theory is, the greater the prestige of defeating it.An astronomer can enjoy a long and meaningful career continually proving Einstein correct. But prove him wrong, and future astronomers will enjoy long and meaningful careers proving you correct.
Among the sane, "big science" refers to large, collaborative scientific projects that usually involve large, expensive items of equipment such as particle accelerators or satellites. This is contrasted with "small science" done by individual laboratories or smaller collaborations.
==See also==
* Big Pharma
* Evil Liberal Science Conspiracy
==Notes==
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Bill Ayers

Bill Ayers (1944–) is a former domestic terrorist and Vietnam War protester-turned college professor who was one of the founders and leaders of the "Weather Underground" movement in 1969. He describes himself as a "radical, leftist, and small 'c' communist." He is married to fellow terrorist Bernardine Dohrn, with whom he formed a romantic attachment when they were on the run from the FBI.
During the 2008 presidential elections Sarah Palin, John McCain, and the rest of the right-wing echo chamber started squawking about how Barack Obama was a communist and palling about with terrorists, viz., that he had shaken Ayers's hand once in 1995 (and had maybe, possibly, incredibly ghostwritten Obama's autobiography),Some fucking idiots reckon so and later served with him on the board of a non-profit; it being, of course, a given that any two co-workers agree in all particulars on political matters.
==Terrorism: a force for good==
Ayers freely admitted his role in the Pentagon bombing of May 19, 1972, and attempted to justify it:
Ayers has defended his bombings on the basis that they were acts of protest against the Vietnam War and they didn't kill anybody. Both claims are disingenuous. The bombings were not part of any strategy for protesting the war. They were part of the Weather Underground's then-public strategy of drawing the government into a civil crackdown that would cause a cycle of escalating violence that was somehow supposed to lead to a revolution. Bloodshed was at the core of that strategy. Of course, being a remote destruction kind of guy he wouldn't be directly involved in the bloodshed, and if the strategy failed his rich parents could bail him out (they eventually did).
==See also==
*Ward Churchill
==References==
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Bill Hicks

William Melvin "Bill" Hicks was an American stand-up comedian, musician and satirist. He is pretty much dead, much to the relief of the establishment that he lampooned with ruthless incisiveness.
Hicks' comedy revolved largely around drugs, social norms, politics, drugs, religion, drugs and dicks. Occasionally, his act would include an appearance from "Goatboy." He was known to have taken drugs, especially magic mushrooms and LSD, although he later stopped and even gave up smoking. 
He saved his most scathing social commentary for the Republican Party (especially Sen. Jesse Helms), the pro-life movement, John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories, the War on Drugs, the first Gulf War (his commentary thereon was also eerily applicable to the second Gulf War) and the state of the US entertainment industry, in particular reality TV, teenage pop stars and artists who "sold out" to do advertisements.
Hicks died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 32. Or did he turn into Alex Jones?Alex Jones is Bill Hicks! Proof Hicks Faked His Death at atlanteanconspiracy and Irrefutable Proof that Bill Hicks was Resurrected by the CIA as Alex Jones at beforeitsnews. He was a devotee of Transcendental Meditation.http://www.ianwatsonuk.com/billhicks.html
== Quotes ==
=== Drugs ===
Bill Hicks, although saying he didn't do them any more, was against criminalization of drugs and viewed them as a positive and enlightening.
=== Conspiracies ===
Hicks did many jokes revolving around conspiracy theories. His favorite was the John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory which he believed to be true. 
Such conspiracies, as well as faking his own assassination on stage, were used by Hicks in his routines to illustrate the insidiousness of out-of-control governments who have killed influential people who threaten their interests and encouraged people to think for themselves.
=== Religion ===
Bill Hicks was somewhat of a deist (or a pantheist, it's rather unclear what he was) but didn't believe in any religions. He especially liked to mock Christian fundamentalism in the USA.
=== Worldview ===
==External links==
*Official website
==References==
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Bill Kristol

William "Bill" Kristol is an American neoconservative triumphalist, pundit, "analyst," and "strategist." In 1995, he founded the now-defunct journal of opinion He also was its editor-in-chief until 2017."Who Killed the Weekly Standard" by Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 2019 January 3, archived on 2023 April 24 His father is the man who also fathered the neoconservative movement. 
Irv was actually a shrewd guy who said conservatives had "nothing left" to fight for once the Soviets collapsed. His son, on the other hand? "It's not going to happen. This is going to be a two-month war."Jonathan Schwarz, Bill Kristol’s Obscure Masterpiece. Tom Dispatch, 14 February 2008. "A spectre is haunting the liberal elites... able to invigorate a McCain administration and to govern beyond it."William Kristol, Let Palin Be Palin. Archived from The Weekly Standard, 8 September 2008. "No objective evidence [Palpatine] was 'evil.'"No objective evidence Empire was "evil." A liberal regime w meritocracy, upward mobility. Neocon/reformicon in spirit. Bill Kristol, archived from Twitter, 10 December 2015. And so on.Hi Bill did you know Irving Kristol? Jamison Foser, archived from Twitter, 26 october 2014.
Bill appeared with regularity, several times a year, on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, where he displayed good humor in response to Stewart's rapier wit.
He was the only significant member of the Republican scribbling class to actively embrace John McCain in 2008, in contrast to others (e.g. David Brooks, David Frum, and even William F. Buckley's only son, for God's sake!) who appeared to retain possession of their faculties.
He is also a noted chickenhawk, even after the Iraq debacle.
==Trump era==
Since the 2016 election cycle, Kristol has been one of the most vocal "Never Trump Republicans", and called Donald Trump a "bigot". He proposed putting together a conservative third party to run against Trump, but the plan failed due to lack of support. Everyone who neocons ever appealed to was the sort of bigot that Kristol claimed to be against, and no one else was right-wing enough to support neocons.
In 2017, Kristol suggested that Trump-era conservatism was genuinely pushing him to the left:
In early 2019, Kristol and conservative talk show host founded a centrism oriented anti-Trumpism opinion news website, which per Sykes had a core mission of "pushing back against some of the trolls and grifters on the right"."Former Weekly Standard staffers find new home at The Bulwark, a conservative site unafraid to take on Trump" by Oliver Darcy, CNN, 2019 January 4 By 2025, The Bulwark had become one of the more popular U.S. political websites on "Top U.S. Politics Substacks", Substack.com, archived on 2024 August 22 with a corresponding YouTube channel that as of February 4 2025 had nearly 950,000 subscribers.The Bulwark, YouTube channel, archived on 2025 February 4
==See also==
*Fractal wrongness
==References==
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Bill Muehlenberg

Bill Muehlenberg is an American-Australian Christian and homophobic/transphobic hate leader. He is Secretary of the "Family Council of Victoria", and lectures in ethics and philosophy at various Melbourne (Australia) theological colleges, where he lives with his wife and three sons. He was born in the United States and has a BA with honours in philosophy (Wheaton College, Chicago) and an MA with highest honours in theology (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Boston). On his blog "CultureWatch", he publishes rants such as "Top Twenty Myths Pushed by the Homosexual Activists". He strongly supports the death penalty, because the Bible says so. He believes that Darwin is to blame for Hitler. He also writes for Creation Ministries International's website creation.com. And he hates Muslims too.. He strongly opposes Donald Trump's presidential candidacy because the American billionaire is an ungodly man, like the pagan kings of the Bible. Yet after a near 2000 word grand-standing lecture on that topic, Bill concedes in the comments that he may "grudgingly vote for" Trump, which goes to show how much Bill's verbose articles lack basic coherence. Bill has seen this page, and he doesn't like it.
==External links==
*Bill Muehlenberg: Bullying and lying for Jesus: defunct blog devoted to exposing Bill Muehlenberg as a "Bigot, Christian fundamentalist and liar. This blog served to expose his vile campaign of hatred and lies against the LGBT community, atheists and Muslims."
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Bill Richardson

William Blaine Richardson III was the governor of the state of New Mexico and was destined for even greater things in the Obama administration until he withdrew under pressure of a federal investigation.MSNBC: Richardson withdrawal leaves cabinet gap 6 January 2009 He was known for being a big bear of a man and occasionally sporting a pretty fantastic beard. When he shaved it off, no less than the President-elect mourned it publicly during a press conference.Politics Daily: Barack Obama on Bill Richardson's beard (with photo)
Richardson worked as a hostage negotiator in the Clinton administration. He proved to be one of the few people to understand Iraq's politics when he freed two Americans held in Iraqi custody.Council on Foreign Relations: Bill Richardson 
He was an unsuccessful candidate for President in 2008. While he was the first Hispanic to be a serious contender for the presidency, being Mexican simply isn't that impressive when you're running against a woman, a black man, and an elf. He also was shoehorned into the role of "the Hispanic candidate," rather than as someone representing the Democratic Party."I'm not running as the Hispanic candidate." (Democratic Underground)
It didn't help that he made many gaffes, particularly in front of key Democratic constituencies. The greatest example was when, asked by LOGO during the "gay debate" whether homosexuality was a choice, he rapidly assented and said it was, despite all evidence to the contrary and the normal stance taken by gays and gay rights groups.Gay Rights Watch: Late Thoughts on Bill Richardson's "Choice" Answer
He was the founder of the Richardson Center, a nonprofit that works to release political prisoners with an emphasis on Americans imprisoned in North Korea. The group was responsible for the successful negotiation of 
In 2024, released court documents implicated him as being connected to Jeffrey Epstein, allegedly receiving massages at his residence.Epstein documents show New Mexico ties, Stephanie Muñiz, KOAT 4 January 2024
==References==
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Billy James Hargis

Billy James Hargis was a radio preacher, Christian college founder, and head of a pressure group called the "Christian Crusade" (sort of an early precursor to the Moral Majority and Christian Coalition) who railed against the evils of communism, sex education, and rock & roll corrupting the morals of America's youth. His empire collapsed in 1974 after (why oh why is this so predictable?) a sex scandal, when students from his Christian college came forward to reveal that they had both lost their virginity to Billy James Hargis. Even more bizarre, the two students who came forward were a married couple who had admitted this to each other on their honeymoon.Religion: The Sins of Billy James (Feb. 16, 1976) Time (archived from September 23, 2009).
Hargis was closely associated with the John Birch Society, going on evangelism tours in coordination with the JBS.Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right by Matthew Dallek (2023) Basic Books. ISBN 1541673565.
One of his associates (David Noebel) was the author of two books published by the Christian Crusade claiming the Beatles were a communist plot to brainwash America's youth into placidly accepting Soviet rule using hypnotism and demonic jungle rhythms.
Radio host Don Imus has often included a televangelist character named "Billy Sol Hargis" in some of his material.WNBC 66 New York - Billy Sol Hargis - Don Imus - November 1972 (Mar 26, 2018) YouTube.
==See also==
*Haggard's Law
==References==
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