Freaky Phenomena

The phenomenon known as 'The Bloop' is quite possibly one of my favorite of the great, unsolved mysteries of the world. It is such a simple thing, a mere sound, but so large it was that several different sensors thousands of miles apart were able to record it. So essentially, in the summer of 1997, a sound was registered, a loud sound and it was traced to the location of 50 degrees S 100 Degrees W, roughly off of the west coast of South America. Each time it occurred, it rose in frequency for about roughly 60 seconds on an ultra low frequency. Heard at normal speed, it sounds like nothing. At least nothing that human ears can discern. However, when sped up by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration to 16 times its normal speed, it sounds like a bubble rising in the water.

Supposedly, the profile of said sound matches that of a living creature. The only problem being that according to scientists who have studied said noise have concluded that any creature able to make such a noise would have to be larger than any creature as of yet known to man or science.

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In Carl Sagan's "Contact," Dr. Sagan describes what he personally would view as an acceptable scientific proof of the existence of a transcendent intelligence: a mathematical design element. In "Contact," the aliens reveal that after 1,000,000 digits of the number Pi, you can "grid" them (as in a Bible Code matrix" to reveal a circle. This, to Sagan, was the type of occurrence that should constitute convincing evidence of design.

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Dr. Plichta has multiple Ph.D's and scientific credentials in chemistry, biology, physics, and mathematics, as well as major discoveries in chemistry.

In his book "God's Secret Formula," he describes a series of purported design elements in the very nature of real numbers, the very territory that Sagan suggested. Plichta's main argument comes from his "Prime Number Cross," in which he places the prime numbers on a visual matrix to draw a cross.

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Reports are common, worldwide but most often in English-speaking countries, of sky-falls of silky, sticky strands that resemble spider webs or fine hair. It is easy to imagine superstitious cultures (or people) attributing this to hair lost from angels as they fly overhead, hence the name "Angel Hair."

Typically these filament-like strands are glittery and translucent, and the falls can contain a high volume of the strands - often covering a football field-sized area, draping over telephone lines, etc. The strands might be 0.5 to 1.0 inches wide and from 4 inches long to 20 meters long.

Angel hair is usually reported to sublimate -- to evaporate into gas while bypassing the liquid state -- as soon as they are touched.

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For a mini-primer on the force G and other "balancings" in the universe, see The Fine-Tuning of G.

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Dr. Francis Collins is hardly the "obscure creation scientist" that we think of when we think of Creationist spokesmen. Collins was the head of -- not a member of, but the head of -- the Human Genome Project and is one of the world's greatest geneticists.

Collins, a former atheist, was not persuaded by arguments of the origin of life, by arguments against origin of species or other fundamental arguments used by theistic scientists.

Why? Because, according to Collins, even if we cannot imagine how inorganic materials coalesced into the first reproducing, organic life form with 5,000 codons -- and we cannot -- it is fundamentally a "God of the gaps" argument, and therefore unconvincing.

Someday, somehow, there might be a mechanism discovered that explains the leap from 0 codons to 5,000 codons in one generation. (I - jemanji - do not concur with this reasoning, but the spirit is clear.

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