SCIENCES and COSMOLOGY
The higher any scientist progresses in his chosen science, the more will he abandon the theories of materialistic fact in favour of the cosmic truth of the dominance of the Supreme Mind. (1125:5)
ARTICLES
Astronomers use various types of standard candles or cosmic yardsticks to measure distances to stars and galaxies. One of these yardsticks is the class of stars known as the Cepheid variable stars...
Perhaps we'll have to wait till we get to the mansion worlds to get an answer regarding black holes and the dark islands of space. Till then we can amuse ourselves with endless speculation, unless of course we find a dark island orbiting our sun...
Discussing the origin of the solar system, The Urantia Book states: "As Angona more closely approached the sun, at moments of maximum expansion during solar pulsations, streams of gaseous material were shot out into space as gigantic solar tongues..."
The Urantia Book's statement, "in these collisional episodes enormous masses of matter are suddenly converted into the rarest form of energy" is not just the wild imagination it would have appeared to be at the time of the printing of the book...
The Urantia Book states "In the superuniverse of Orvonton there are one hundred octaves of wave energy" (474). Depending on how this statement is interpreted, this text can be shown to be correct, or demonstrably incorrect...
Definitions...
Human
Sources and The Urantia Book
The Strong Nuclear Force and Supernovae
Freeman Dyson is a professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. In recent years he has taken to writing historical material, for most of which he was a either a participant or had personal knowledge of the participants...
Scientific discoveries published in the early 1940's, have very obviously provided source material for the Urantia Papers. This has strengthened rather than weakened the case for the prophetic nature of the Papers...
"In large suns when hydrogen is exhausted and gravity contraction ensures, and such a body is not sufficiently opaque to retain the internal pressure of support for the outer gas regions, then a sudden collapse occurs..."
There appear to be statements in the Papers that are not consistent with modern science. Will this prevent any long term use of the revelation as a fundamentalist icon of infallibility...?
Religion of the Spirit - the Differences.
How many of us have been puzzled by the section in The Urantia Book entitled "Calcium, the Wanderer of Space?" Well, the main human sources used in composing these presentations have been discovered...
At its best the religion of the spirit is an intimate partnership involving actively sharing every moment of our existence with the indwelling spirit of God while voluntarily seeking to make all of life's decisions in full accord with the will of the Father...
Cosmic
Reflections -
Steady State, Big Bang, or Architects of the Master Universe?
Blame it all on Henrietta Leavitt. If it hadn't been for her, Edwin Hubble might never have discovered that the universe is flying apart due to an event that would later be known as the "Big Bang."...
The
Strong Force in the Atomic Nucleus
Prophesied in 1934 ...For
me, this is one of the truly remarkable passages on science from a Urantia
Paper said to have been written in 1934...
Cosmic Reflections - The Jupiter Problem Jupiter has always been fascinating to astronomers and non-astronomers alike. For Hector Berlioz, Jupiter was the bringer of joviality in his composition "The Planets." But some solar theorists may not feel so jovial when considering a recent theory about Jupiter...
The Steady State theory of the universe is in competition with the so-called Big Bang theory, which had its roots in Einstein's general relativity theory. How does the cosmology of The Urantia Book compare to these two theories...?
Process Theology And The Urantia Papers Modern process theology was born with Alfred North Whitehead's publication in 1929 of his treatise, "Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology."
Origins of Andon and Fonta Conventional wisdom on the origin of the human species is that, 4 million years ago in Africa, a little creature just over a meter tall emerged from the evolutionary melting pot, and stood up...
Gravity,
Newton, Einstein and
The Urantia Book "The
increase of mass in matter is equal to the increase of energy divided
by the square of the velocity of light. In a dynamic sense the work which
resting matter can perform is equal to the energy expended in bringing
its parts together from Paradise minus the resistance of the forces overcome
in transit and the attraction exerted by the parts of matter on one another."
(474)
This controversial article looks at key statements in the Urantia Papers that may be at odds with current scientific knowledge. This extraordinary contrast between error and amazingly prophetic statement in these papers constitutes a mystery - one that has yet to be solved.
Neutrinos, Neutrons and Neutron Stars Because of the mandatory restrictions imposed on the revelators (1109), the science and cosmology of The Urantia Book is at the approximate level of current human knowledge for the mid-1930's. It also contains some statements that were prophetic at that time...
