The Lunar

ZodiacDesign or Chance ?

Presented by Charles M Duke

The Twelve Signs of the Lunar Zodiac

1. Virgo

2. Libra

3. Scorpio

4. Sagittarius

5. Capricornus

6. Aquarius

7. Pisces

8. Aries

9. Taurus

10.Gemini

11.Cancer

12.Leo

VIRGO

Seed of the Woman, the Desire of nations, Man of double nature in humiliation, exalted Shepherd and Harvester.

NAME MEANINGAl Awa the Desired

Simak al Azel Branch of the Power of GodCaphir the Atonement, the Propitiation by sacrifice

LIBRA

The Price to be paid, the Cross to be endured, the Victim slain, the Crown purchased.

NAME MEANINGAl Zubena the redeeming, the regaining by purchase, the buying back

Al Iclil the complete submission

SCORPIOThe Conflict, the Serpent's coils, the struggle with the

Enemy, the toiling Vanquisher of evil.

NAME MEANINGAl Kalb the cleaving or wounding

Al Shaula the sting, the deadly wound

SAGITTARIUSThe double-natured One triumphing as a Warrior, he

gladdens the Heavens, he builds the fires of punishment, he casts down the Dragon.

NAME MEANINGal Naim the gracious, the delighted in

Al Beldah hastily coming, as to judgement

CAPRICORNUS

Life out of Death, the Arrow of God, Pierced and falling, Springing up again in abundant life.

NAME MEANINGAl Dibah the sacrifice slain

AQUARIUS

Life-waters from on high, Drinking the heavenly flood, Carrying and speeding the Good News,

bearing aloft the Cross over all the earth.

NAME MEANINGSa’ad al Bula witness of the rising or drinking in Sa’ad al Su’ud witness of the swimming or outpouringAl Achbiya the fountain of pouring

PISCES

Multiplication of the Redeemer's People, upheld and governed by the Lamb, the intended Bride bound and

exposed on earth, the Bridegroom exalted.

NAME MEANINGAl Pherg al Muchaddem the progeny of the ancient timesAl Pherg al Mauchher The progeny of latter times

Al Risha The band, the joined together

ARIES

The Lamb found worthy, the Bride released and making ready, Satan bound, the Breaker triumphing.

NAME MEANINGAl Sheratan The wounded, that was cut offAl Botein The treading under foot

Al Thuraiya The enemy punished

Taurus

The invincible Ruler come, the sublime Vanquisher, the River of Judgment, the all-ruling Shepherd.

NAME MEANINGAl Debaran the Leader, the Governor, the SubduerAl Heka the driving away

GEMINI

The Marriage of the Lamb, the Enemy trodden down, the Prince coming in Glory, his princely following.

NAME MEANINGAl Henah The wounded in the footAl Dirah The ill-treated

CANCER

The Possession secured, Lesser fold - the Church of the first born, Greater fold - Israel,

the Bride, safe folding into the kingdom.

NAME MEANINGAl Nethra The treasure, the possessionAl Terpha The healed, the delivered, the saved

LEO

The King aroused for the rending, the Serpent fleeing, the Bowl of Wrath upon him, his Carcass devoured.

NAME MEANINGAl Gieba The exaltation, the PriceAl Zubra The heaped-up, as sin and delayed punishmentAl Serpha The burning, the funeral-pyre

MICHAEL RUSE

‘Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology,

a secular religion – a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning

and morality.

I am an ardent evolutionist and an ex-Christian, but I must admit that in

this one complaint – Mr. [sic] Gish is but one of many to make it – the

literalists are absolutely right. Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it

is true of evolution still today.’

‘…Evolution therefore came into being as a kind of secular ideology,

an explicit substitute for Christianity.’

Michael Ruse was professor of philosophy and zoology at the University of Guelph,

Canada (recently moved to FSU).

PROFESSOR RICHARD

LEWONTIN‘Our willingness to accept scientific

claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the

supernatural.

We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a

commitment to materialism.

It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are

forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus

of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter

how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover,

that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.

The eminent Kant scholar Lewis Beck used to say that anyone who could

believe in God could believe in anything. To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to

allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured,

that Miracles may happen.’ In 1973, Richard Lewontin was appointed as Alexander Agassiz

Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University.

Famous

Scientists Who

Believed in God

SCIENTISTS WHO BELIEVE IN GODNicolaus Copernicus – Polish Astronomer

Sir Francis Bacon – Philosopher Established the scientific method of inquiry based on experimentation and inductive reasoningJohannes Kepler – Mathematician & AstronomerGalileo Galilei - Physicist, Mathematician, Engineer, Astronomer, and Philosopher Rene Descartes – Mathematician, Scientist & PhilosopherBlaise Pascal – Mathematician, Physicist, Inventor, Writer, Theologian

SCIENTISTS WHO BELIEVE IN GOD

Stephen M. Barr – PhysicistAuthor “Modern Physics and Ancient Faith”

Michael Behe – Biologist Robert Boyle – Physicist, ChemistFrancis Collins – Biologist, MD

Head of Human Genome ProjectHead of National Institute of Health

William Dembski – Philosopher, TheologianTheodosius Dobzhansky – Geneticist &

Evolutionary Biologist

SCIENTISTS WHO

BELIEVE IN GODFrederick A. Filby – Professor of Chemistry, EnglandSir Brian Heap – FRSFormer Vice President of the Royal SocietySir John Houghton – FRSFormer Director of British Meteorological OfficeCo-chair of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeGeorges Lemaitre – Astrophysicist, cosmologist Solved Einstein’s equations for expanding universe John C Lennox – Reader in Mathematics at OxfordFellow in Mathematics and the Philosophy of Science

SCIENTISTS WHO

BELIEVE IN GODDonald M. Mackay – Professor of Communications & Brain Psychology Sir Peter Medawar – BiologistStephan C Meyer – Background in Physics and GeophysicsPh.D. in Philosophy of ScienceA. Cressy Morrison – ChemistFormer president of New York Academy of Sciences Isaac Newton – Physicist who developed mechanics…The law of gravity, optics, and the calculus Bill Phillips – Winner of 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics

SCIENTISTS WHO

BELIEVE IN GODJohn Polkinghorne – Theoretical physicistTheologian, writer, and Anglican priestSir Ghillean Prance – FRS, Former Director, Kew GardensHenry Norris Russell – AstronomerHertzsprung-Russell Diagram bears his nameAllan Sandage – Observational CosmologistHenry F. Schaeffer – Quantum chemist at

University of Georgia

SCIENTISTS WHO

BELIEVE IN GODMichael Faraday – FRS, contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistryGregor Mendel - Silesian scientistWilliam Thomson Kelvin - Mathematical physicist and Engineer Max Planck – FRS, was a German theoretical physicist who originated quantum theoryAlbert Einstein - Theoretical physicist and philosopher of science