Astronomy for the Layman

Table of Contents

• Choosing Priorities: Ancient Religious Myths or Twentieth Century Science?
• How Much Reality Can be Found in Religious Belief?
• Four Billion Years Squeezed into 24 Hours
• Evolutionary Ancestors or Descendants of Adam and Eve?
• Another Theory About the Origin of Modern Man
• The Reality: One Big Global Animal Family
• Insects and Evolution
• The Power of DNA and Genes
• More on the Real Building Blocks of Life
• An Ever-Changing Universe - Nature Never Stands Still
• Life Exists Where It was Never Expected - and - The Possibilities of a "Biblical Flood"
• Ongoing Battles: Intelligent Reasoning Against Senseless Beliefs and Emotions
• Looking for Common Sense in Religion
• Who was Jesus Christ?
• All Life is Really "Victim" or "Beneficiary" of Natural or Man-Made Circumstances
• "Victims" and "Beneficiaries" Regardless of Religious Faith
• Scientific Facts and Changing Environment are Shaping Our Lives, NOT Religious Myth
• Birth, Life and Death - Determined by "God" or by the Facts of Nature?
• Negative and Positive Effects Through Civilization and Technology
• Death - Part of a Natural Chain of Events of "God's" Wish? What is "Heaven" and "Hell?"
• Causes of Death
• Science May Never be Perfect, It is Usually More Beneficial to Humanity than Religious Faith
• Nature: Self-Regulating, Always Trying to Catch Up With Itself, yet Forever Imperfect
• World Religions, Traditions, Facts and Logic
• A Critical Look at Major Scriptures and at Religious Prophecies of Doom and Gloom
• Criminal Laws - Influenced too often by Religion
• The Reality of Statistics and World Religions
• Facts about Death and Destruction in the name of Religious Faith
• What is a Believer's "True" Image of "God" or "Allah?"
• Prayer: What Does It Do For Anybody? Is it a Form of Self-Hypnosis?
• Did Prayer REALLY Help?
• The Greatest Clash Between Reality and Mythical Religious Belief: Simple Numbers
• Higher Life Forms and Three Basic Varieties of "Love"
• "Homo Sapiens" and Other Mammals: Identical in Many Ways, an Often Overlooked Reality
• Predictability of Disasters Through Science
• What is the "Spirit" - What Do We Know About It?
• Reincarnation - Reality and a "Transfer" of "Spirits?"
• Extraterrestrial Visitors, No Longer Just Fiction, the Evidence is Mounting
• The African Dogon Tribe and Their Most Incredible Legend
• More Creditable Reports of UFO Sightings
• Why are Alien Landing Sites and UFO Sightings Usually Reported from Remote Areas?

• The True Source of all Creation - The Universe
• Facts and Theories of Astronomy Made Easy and Compared with Religious Teachings
• A Variety of Radiation Throughout the Universe
• The Solar System, Planets, Satellites and Asteroids
• The Planet Mercury Never Really had a Chance
• Venus, our Inhospitable "Twin" - Or the Biblical "Hell?"
• Mars, Often Thought to be the Closest "Relative" to Earth
• Asteroids, Mysterious and Dangerous Companions in the Solar System
• Jupiter, our Giant Companion in the Solar System
• Saturn, the Second Giant and a Majestic Sight
• Interesting Discoveries in the Atmosphere of Saturn's Moon "Titan"
• More About Saturn
• Uranus, too Distant to be Seen with the Unaided Eye
• Neptune, What we see Happened Over Four Hours Ago
• Pluto, Usually the Most Distant Companion Planet, Planet "X" and the Ancient Sumerians
• Interstellar Space Beyond Pluto
• Our Home Star, the Sun
• A Basic Introduction to "Fusion" or "Thermonuclear" Reaction
• More About our Sun
• Nothing in Interstellar Space is "Stationary"
• Our "Neighbors" Beyond the Solar System and the Constellations
• Astrology or Astronomy?
• How Immense are Galaxies Really?
• Our own "Average" Galaxy
• Galactic Neighbors, and Their Origin
• Continuous Creation in the Universe, Observable and Predictable?
• The Creation of a Star
• What have we Learned from "Halley's" Comet?
• Aging of a Star
• The Building Blocks of the Universe, Seemingly the Same Everywhere
• Probing into Old Mysteries of Deep Space with the Hubble Telescope
• Quasars - Are They Part of the Answer on the Formation of the Universe?
• Black Holes, Perhaps the Strangest Cosmic Phenomenon
• Mythical Religious "Creation" vs. Cosmic Creation

• The Future - Will it be Guided by Knowledge and Logic and Less by Religious Myth?
• Uncontrolled Weather Extremes: One of the Most Destructive Forces on Earth
• Gradual Elimination of International Borders to Commerce, Ultimately a World Government
• Another Choice: The Annual Loss of Tens of Thousands of Lives or Giving up "The Right to Bear Arms?"
• After Weather Control, Let Scientists "Cut Out the Middle Man" in the Food Chain
• More Small Priorities, Often Overlooked
• The Final Choice is Ours

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