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 Is There
Another
Earth?
All my life I have been interested in Science. Fate has
it, I believe, that this interest led me to the study of the
Holy Scriptures. The Bible even enhanced my interest in
everything scientific. The first time I heard Johnny Mathis
singing “Fly Me to the Moon,” the lyrics and the melody
were already printed in my mind. Do you want me to
prove this? Pardon my voice, but I can sing it with gusto!

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 I am interested about everything
around me. I observe keenly how
ants move, how birds fly, and
how people live their lives. In
my elementary grades, when I
first heard the Darwinian Theory
on evolution, the first doubt that
came into my mind was that, if
humans came from apes, why are
there people with faces that look
like horses and dogs?
I am not a scientist and have
never finished any degree in any
branch of Science, but I always
have with me a scientific attitude
and approach in the study of
everything I am interested in. The
very recent discovery of a planet
2 light-years away from the earth,
which they say is very much ‘earth-
like,’ made it to the headlines of
global news reports. This led to the
resurrection of the very frequently
asked question: Is there life in
other places of the universe?
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Are there other planets that can
sustain life much like that of the
earth? I am sure of the answer!
And my answer comes from the
book which I have revered all my
life because it is the only book that
I found to be logical and scientific
in answering not only the questions
of hundreds of thousands of people
I am favored to meet, but my own
questions which I do not hear from
other people. The Bible has it!
In the book of Acts 17:26-27, it
is written –
“And He has made all nations of
men of one blood to dwell on all the
face of the earth, ordaining fore-
appointed seasons and boundaries
of their dwelling, to seek the Lord,
if perhaps they might feel after Him
and find Him, though indeed He is
not far from each one of us.”
The verse mentions the planet
Earth, and we must especially
notice the phrase “bounds of
their habitation”. Scientists agree
that until now, with all their
sophisticated equipments, they
have not yet found in the Solar
system, or in our galaxy, much
more in other distant galaxies, a “God is an
place that can sustain or support
human life. The recent planet
discovered has a temperature of
exact God.
300 degrees centigrade below
zero, with its size, 5.5 times larger Reduce the size
than that of the earth, and with its
year, much shorter than an earth
year, implying that it moves on a
of the earth;
greater speed than the earth, and
revolving on a star which is very reduce the heat
much fainter than our sun. It is
scientifically impossible for us to
live in such a place, period. of the sun; and

we will freeze.”

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 God is an exact God. Reduce the
size of the earth; reduce the heat
of the sun; and we will freeze. Make
it a little closer to the sun and we
will be baked or burned. Make it
as large as Mars and our weight
will be more than doubled. The
Earth’s size and distance from the
sun are the exact measurements
needed to sustain human life! GOD
MEASURED IT.
You want proof? Read the book of
Job 38:4, it says:
“Where were you when I laid the
foundations of the earth? Tell if you
have understanding! Who has set
its measurements, for you know?
Or who has stretched the line on
it? On what are its bases sunk, or
who cast its cornerstone...”
After all, the universe is the handy
work of God’s hand.
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Psalms 19:1-3 has this to say:
“The heavens declare the glory of
God; and the expanse proclaims
His handiwork. Day to day pours
forth speech, and night to night
reveals knowledge. There is no
speech nor are there words; their
voice is not heard.”
Undoubtedly, there are other
planets in our own galaxy and
in billion other galaxies, but the
reason why God created man
on Earth from the dust of the
ground (Genesis 2:7) is because
it is the only planet in the entire
universe wherein human life will
comfortably fit. Think of this: The
best place for your eyes is where it
is now. Put them a little below, i.e.,
in the belly or thighs and you can
imagine how ugly your person will
be. Put your nose or ears in other
places of your body and you will
not be a work of art, as written in
the book of Hebrews 2:6-7
“But one in a certain place testified,
saying, What is man, that thou
art mindful of him? or the son of “But
man, that thou visitest him? Thou
madest him a little lower than the according to
angels; thou crownedst him with
glory and honour, and didst set
him over the works of thy hands:”
His promise,
Human efforts and resources, we look
which scientists devote in
searching for other worlds that
can sustain life, will be futile! Let
for new
us search, instead, from the Holy
Scriptures the kingdom and the heavens and
righteousness of God and discover
a world called a “new Earth” where a new earth
righteousness, peace, and love
dwell (2 Peter 3:13).
in which
“But according to His promise,
we look for new heavens and a righteousness
new earth in which righteousness
dwells.” dwells.”

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Indeed, ignorance
of the Bible will lead
somebody to ‘wrestle’
the word of God!
(2 Peter 3:16) “As
also in all his epistles,
speaking in them of
these things; in which
are some things hard
to be understood,
which they that are
unlearned and unstable
wrest, as they do also
the other Scriptures,
unto their own
destruction.”
when he wrote to the Colossians
that he was able to preach the
Gospel to ‘every’ creature which is
under heaven. At about the same
time that Paul was preaching the
gospel to the known world (the
world of the Roman Empire), the
famous Rice Terraces in Banaue,
Mountain Province in the Philippines
is being built by the Ifugaos, one
of the aborigines of the Filipinos.
The Banaue Rice Terraces are
2000-year old terraces that were
carved into the mountains of Ifugao
in the Philippines by ancestors
of the Batad indigenous people.
It is commonly thought that the
terraces were built with minimal
equipment, largely by hand. The
terraces are located approximately
1500 meters (5000 feet) above
sea level and cover 10,360 square
kilometers (about 4000 square
miles) of mountainside. They are
fed by an ancient irrigation system
from the rainforests above the
terraces.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Banaue_Rice_Terraces)
“The idea of a
worldwide flood did not
come from the Bible,
but from people who
do not understand its
language!”
But Paul did not reach the
Philippines, or the Americas,
so, having flexibility in mind in
understanding the language of the
Bible we can discern that what the
apostle Paul means when he said
he “preached the gospel to every
creature under heaven”, is to the
people only of the known world
then. Incidentally, the Philippines
was discovered only in the sixteenth
century by the Europeans led by
Ferdinand Magellan.
When the Bible classified the bats
(Leviticus 11:13,19) as belonging
to the ‘oph’ (Hebrew), it means
that it is classified with those “as
covering with wings” or those “that
flieth”.
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ôph
From H5774; a bird (as covered
with feathers, or rather as covering
with wings), often collective:
- bird, that flieth, flying, fowl
(Dictionaries of Hebrew and
Greek Words taken from Strong’s
Exhaustive Concordance by James
Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.)
Detractors of the Bible say that it
is not scientific because science
classifies bats as belonging to the
mammalian group. They rely very
much on science, and for them
science is the final authority of
what they believe. This author is
not against science, but human
science is not as exact as ‘divine
science’ in the Scriptures.
(Daniel 1:4) “Children in whom
was no blemish, but well favored,
and skillful in all wisdom, and
cunning in knowledge, and
understanding science, and such
as had ability in them to stand in
the king’s palace, and whom they
might teach the learning and the
tongue of the Chaldeans.”
Human science has classified
plants and animals only on the
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seventeenth and eighteenth
century.
At any one time in history, there
are millions of different kinds of
plants and animals in the world.
In 1753, a scientist in Sweden
named Carolus Linnaeus thought
of an orderly system for classifying
plants and animals. He grouped all
organisms according to a two-part
name (binomial). The first part of
the name is the “generic” grouping
or genus. The second part is the
“specific” grouping or species.
Scientists today still use this basic
idea of his system, but modern
classifications systems are much
more complicated having many
levels of hierarchical organization.
For example, taxonomic systems
group organisms according
to structure and physiological
connections between organisms.
(http://www.fi.edu/tfi/units/life/
classify/classify.html)
Before these times, the acceptable
classifications for bats, because
they fly, is that they belong to
the ‘ophs’ or the fowls, or the
birds. The book of Leviticus was
written almost 2500 years before
classifications in human science
came. Note that the classification
introduced by Linnaeus employs
two basic ideas: the ‘generic’ and
the ‘specific’. The classification
used in the Bible is exactly generic,
and therefore, in a way, scientific!
After all, the word mammal is not
in the Bible! The word mammalia
was coined by Linnaeus only in
1758!
Mammalia (1773), coined 1758 by
Linnaeus for the class of mammals,
from neut. pl. of L.L. mammalis
“of the breast,” from L. mamma
“breast,” perhaps cognate with
mamma.
(http://www.etymonline.com/
index.php?search=mammal&sear
chmode=none)
The book of Leviticus that records
the existence of bats was written
by Moses in around 1512 BC, more
than three thousand years before
Linnaeus was born!
When the apostles were
commissioned by the Lord Jesus
Christ to make disciples and
‘teach all nations’, the Lord Jesus
Christ knows, and the apostles
understood it, that He speaks only
of all nations of the ‘known world’.
It is impossible for the apostles
to physically reach the Americas
or my country, the Philippines.
The apostles do not have the
slightest idea that there are
countries existing that time, like
the Philippines and the Americas!
The phrase “all nations” does not
necessarily include all nations of
the world or the whole earth.
When the Bible mentioned that the
whole ‘erets’ was flooded, it does
not necessarily mean that the
whole world, including the seas,
were flooded! Remember that the
word ‘erets’ was used in the Bible,
not only to mean the planet earth,
but also the dry land.
Most probably, Noah lived not far
from where Adam and Eve lived.
He is about the tenth generation
from Adam. Adam and Eve lived not
far from Eden after being expelled
from the garden of Eden. Eden is
within Turkey. So, the probability
is that the flood happened within
Turkey. The highest mountain
ranges in Turkey are the mountains
of Ararat. It was where the ark
rested.
(Genesis 8:4) “And the ark
rested in the seventh month, on
the seventeenth day of the month,
upon the mountains of Ararat.”
The mountains of Ararat are at the
extreme eastern part of Turkey.
The ark of Noah did not go too
far from ground where it floated
because it was not meant to travel,
but to float.
The idea of a worldwide flood did
not come from the Bible, but from
people who do not understand its
language!
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Uric Acid; Toxic Component of
Meat to Humans
About 5% of the flesh volume of all
animals consists of waste material
called uric acid that is normally
eliminated by the kidneys. Uric
acid is a poison to humans
because it is toxic and non-
metabolizable. Nearly
100% of Americans
suffer some form
of osteoporosis
which is due in large part, to the
acidic end-products of meat (and
grain) eating. All carnivorous
animals however, secrete the
enzyme uricase that breaks down
uric acid so it can be readily
eliminated. Humans do not
generate this enzyme. Instead,
we ABSORB uric acid when meat
is eaten. As a result, calcium-urate
crystals form and concentrate in
joints, feet, and in the lower back.
These deposits lead to arthritis,
gout, rheumatism, bursitis, and
lower back pain. Humans are
physiologically unsuited to utilizing
meat as food. Natural carnivores
swallow hunks of carrion almost
unchewed, and the flesh is digested
in the stomach with ease and
facility. If humans were to do the
same, we would digest very little
of it before putrefaction set in and
illness ensued. For humans, meat
is a pathogenic and nutritionally
deficient food.
Saliva pH Varies Widely Among
Species

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