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The Case for Creation According to the Bible, when Adam sinned, all creation fell. Jesus, the Only Begotten Son of the living God, once lived on Earth. When the antichrist rules the Earth, the stars will fall and the sky will roll up like a scroll. Satan, God's greatest enemy, will be cast down to Earth. Jesus will defeat Satan and rule over the Earth. Doesn't it sound like Earth has a special place in God's creation? But what if science finds intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? Doesn't that imply Earth isn't special? Doesn't that challenge the authority of the Bible? Perhaps, but a case can be made that it is evolution, not biblical creation, that has broken down on the sands of Mars. Let us begin where evolution says to begin -- with the 'primordial ocean.' This is the great 'organic soup' that formed shortly after the crust solidified on both Earth and Mars, billions of years ago. But unlike the oceans of Earth, the single ocean of Mars did not stay around for long. Planetary scientists Jeffrey S. Kargel and Robert G. Strom state: "Based on the knowledge of how water behaves on Earth, scientists estimate that Mars may have had an Indian Summer, a warm, wet period that may have lasted for as long as one million years." An entire ocean may not have been around for this long, but only "warm pools on the ruddy surface." They add, "Biochemists believe that the formation of life from complex organic molecules probably takes something like 2 to 5 million years, perhaps less." According to evolution, oceans are the 'primordial soup' where organic molecules randomly combine to form life. Mars had much less water than Earth, its Great Northern Ocean only a sixth the size of Earth's oceanic domain. So where it took 2 to 5 million years for life to evolve on Earth, it would require 12 to 30 million years on Mars. But the Martian ocean lasted only one million years!
Evolutionary Rates, Earth vs. Mars That's only the first roadblock. According to NASA research scientist Christopher McKay, the atmosphere of Mars lasted only 700 million years -- a fraction of the time required for life to step from single-celled algae to multi-celled organisms! Evolution has no answer for the Cydonia monuments. But does the Bible even mention another form of intelligent life in this universe? The answer is yes. They are called the Nephilim. Their story begins in Genesis 6:
Tradition interprets the term 'Sons of God' to mean angels -- so the Nephilim are the offspring of human women and (fallen) angels. Following the Nephilim, God floods the whole Earth, and only Noah's family survives in the Ark. Yet the Book of Numbers tells of the reappearance of the Nephilim! Why didn't they drown in the Flood? Possibly, they were exiled to Mars. God, disapproving of the union that created them, allowed them to migrate to another planet. Cydonia's faces tell us the Martians have human faces. The Bible tells us the Nephilim are half-human in descent. In contrast, evolution tells us human evolution is a random walk, never to be repeated elsewhere in the universe. And Cydonia's faces coincide with the biblical account about Nephilim parentage. The First Face, human in proportion, has soft features, resembling a woman. The Second Face's long and narrow visage has reminded many of a demon. Did the Martians mix ancestor worship with moon god worship after the passage of millennia?
The Nephilim: Mother and Father? On Earth, the Nephilim were renown for immense size. The Book of Numbers reports on what Israelite spies found in Canaan:
An exaggeration; a more precise report tells of 'King Og,' whose bed was thirteen feet long. This is gigantic, but not preposterous. Genetic mutations sometimes cause humans to grow up to nine feet tall even today. On Earth, such mutations are rare. Giants of this stature are burdened by the tremendous weight of their bodies, which overcomes the structural strength of their bones and muscles, leading to short, crippled lives. As a result, they rarely leave offspring. On Mars, however, surface gravity is only forty percent Earth's. Giants would weigh much less. They could lead healthy lives, and successfully breed. The giantism mutation would spread throughout the Martian gene pool. Martian surface gravity is half Earth standard, and Nephilim stand twice human height. Could the correlation be that Nephilim generations mutated to gigantic stature by living on Mars?
Astronauts: Homeworld Gravity vs. Physical Size A brief article can't answer all the questions. The conflicts of evolution and Mars, the compatabilities of scientific creation and Mars, the parallels between the Martians and the Nephilim, the connection between ancient civilizations and the Martians/Nephilim, are discussed in much greater detail in my 'web-book,' A Hill on Mars: Evidence for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Is the Bible a lucky guess, or a distorted account of extraterrestrial contact -- or is it the literal truth? This is a 'fringe issue' where science may soon give us a definitive answer.
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