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Homepage for Lewis Loflin
Welcome to my website. This is my 24th year on the net.
This website covers a several subjects. They relate to applied science-engineering, history, religion, and education.
I also advocate individual liberty and individual freedom. My goal is to invoke thought. I reject any form of correctness - political, theological, etc.
I'm a former US Army soldier and here is a picture of my duty station in West Berlin. My military occupational specialty was 33S intercept systems technician and I held a top-secret SI clearance.
I grew up in Norton, Virginia, and graduated high school from John I. Burton High School in 1977.
I left King College in Bristol for financial reasons. I graduated with honors from Northeast State Technical Community College. I have AS degrees in Computer Information Technology and university parallel.
I live in Washington County, Virginia just outside Bristol. We may not have jobs but lots of great natural beauty. There is a difference between conservationist and environmentalist. See Common Sense Environmentalism in Southwest Virginia.
Yes I'm on Facebook and Skype. My Skype name is LLOFLIN1.
Science and Why I'm an Evolutionist Further down the page.
I have 45 years experience in electronics, from vacuum tubes to modern solid state and industrial controls.
See Build a 12AV6 Vacuum Tube AM Radio.
In college I had a year each of physics, chemistry, and biology along with C, C++. Pascal, and assembly. I tend to teach from a general science viewpoint.
See KIM-1 My First Computer from 1978.
Lewis Loflin Electronics Background Biography
What is Dark Matter? How religion could be misused FT Lewis Loflin The discussion: Lewis goes into how dark matter might be altering our reality in a way that we can't see it! The first half is a bit technical but then we do a deep dive into religion where Lewis shines with some interesting takes on his work and how things in the Bible might not be what you think.
The above is a podcast I participated in. Related to the above:
- An Overview Gnosticism
- Demiurge Creator of the World
- Classical Deism
- Marcion of Sinope Invented the New Testament
- Religious Syncretism
Definition of dark matter. Dark in this case means not detected by normal senses, not dark as in evil.
From www.energy.gov:
Dark matter accounts for five times as much of the universe as ordinary matter. (Some claim as high as 80-85% of the matter in the universe.) However, we know little about it other than that it only interacts with ordinary matter through gravity. Despite our lack of knowledge, scientists do have overwhelming indirect evidence for dark matter...
Another quote:
Dark matter is matter that does not interact electro magnetically, and therefore cannot be seen using light. At the same time, dark matter does interact gravitationally and can therefore be "seen" through its gravitational effect on other matter. It is common throughout the universe and helps shape galaxies. In fact, recent estimates put dark matter as five times more common than regular matter in our universe. But because dark matter does not interact electro magnetically, we can't touch it, see it, or manipulate it using conventional means.
The discussion started with Plato's Demiurge that created the universe and maintains it. The Demiurge organized pre-existing matter, which is less perfect than Plato's concepts of Forms. Christians deflate the Demiurge with the Hebrew OT God, Gnostics considered matter evil thus the Hebrew God was evil.
Assuming scientists are correct that dark matter does exist, then matter existed BEFORE the Big Bang. it also acts on matter in our universe shifting entire galaxies around.
Was the above living cell due to random chance?
Life is not Random Chance
Am I to believe the immense complexity of the above cell is due to random physics and chemistry?
Image source www.digizyme.com
Thomas Jefferson a Unitarian or classical Deist (he called himself Unitarian) had a view of God similar to the Demiurge of Plato. To quote Jefferson circa 1823,
I think that every Christian sect gives a great handle to atheism by their general dogma, that without a revelation. there would not be sufficient proof of the being of a God...
On the contrary. I hold (without appeal to revelation) that when we take a view of the universe, it is impossible I say, for the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design, cause and effect up to an ultimate cause, a fabricator of all things from matter and motion, their preserver and regulator while permitted to exist in their present forms, and their regeneration (evolution?) into new and other forms. We see, too evident proofs of the necessity of a superintending power to maintain the universe in its course and order...
So irresistible are these evidences of an intelligent and powerful agent that of the infinite numbers of men who have existed through all time they have believed, in the proportion at least to a unit, in the hypothesis of an eternal pre-existence of a Creator rather than in that of a self-existent universe...
This is speculation, but does the "agent" reside in the dark matter universe?
The entire tract can be read at Existence of Deity-God by Thomas Jefferson
The website and URL is based on a conflict I had with the Sullivan County Tennessee Commission over the Ten Commandments being hung in the County Courthouse in 1998. This is long settled and turned out well for everyone. See Sullivan County Tennessee Religious Wars 25 Years Later.
See my homepage covering religious topics surrounding Christianity, Deism, and related subjects.
Because of the Ten Commandments controversy and because I attended a Christian college as a non-Christian, I had to learn much more than some may have wished.
This is a Classical Deism Website
I have a lot of religious-historical material written from a classical deist perspective. I take a non-hostile view of other beliefs UNLESS they become primarily political and threaten our individual rights.
"What could be more fundamental to science than the assumption that the explorability and thereby the cognizability of reality arises due to its bearing the handwriting of its author? God speaks the language of his creation, and our spirit, which is likewise his creation, is able to perceive it, to hear it, to comprehend it."
Christoph Cardinal Schonborn
- Jesus the Man
- Apostle Paul Founder of Christianity
- Why we should know John Calvin
- Egyptian-Christian Connection
- Judaism Meets Zoroastrianism
- Judaism Meets Hellenism and the Logos
- Pelagius Why He Was Right
- Saint Augustine Introduction
- Saint Augustine His Christian World View by Lewis Loflin
- Hellenism Meets Judaism
- Judaism Versus Zoroastrianism
- Resemblance Between Zoroastrianism and Judaism
- Did Jews Really Kill Jesus Christ?
- Remembering the Jews of Monticello
- Why Judaism is not a Race
- Questions on Christian Antisemitism
- Alexander, the Jews, and Hellenism
- More on Alexander the Great, the Jews, and Hellenism
- Hellenistic Period After Alexander
- Alexandrian Philosophy and Judaism
- Why Christian Morals Need to be Rejected
- Hard Look at Jewish Religious Leftism
- Among the Goths and the Jews
- Leftist War Against Jews
- George Soros the Radical Non-Jewish Jew
- Judeo-Christian Violence vs. Islamic Violence
- When Christianity Pushed Back Muslim Attacks
- Islam the Demise of Classical Civilization
- Plato's Trinity
- Why Judaism Is The Key To Deism
- Judaism and politics
- About Jewish proselytizing
- What Now for Post Christian Deism?
- Deism Must Oppose Homosexual Tyranny
- Deism Versus Phony White Guilt Cult
- Deism Must Oppose Infanticide
- Rise of Deism from Reform Christianity
- Doom Of Deism?
- Links to Religious Topics
- My View of Other Faiths
- Humanism, the Early Church, and Rational Religion
- Deist Critique of the Gospel of Mark
- Deist Examination of Islamic Trinity
- Scientific Case for a Transcendent God
- In Defense of Classical Deism
- Environmentalism is Still a Religion
- Classical Deist' View of Religion and Its Application Today
- Taking a Closer Look at Gnosticism and Christianity
- Thoughts on Theistic Evolution and Deism by Lewis Loflin
- My Answer to a Secular Fundamentalist by Lewis Loflin
- Separation of Pseudo-Religion and State
- Environmentalism Religion or Political Philosophy?
Essays on Religion
Gnosticism Versus Christianity
Religious Traditions
- New Age Religion
- Christian Trinity
- Gnosticism
- Jesus the Man
- Pelagius was Right
- Apostle Paul
- Original Sin
- Christianity
- Deism
- Article lists:
- Islam 1
- Religion 1
- Religion 2
- Religion 3
- Religion 4
- Religion 5
- Religion 6
- Religion 7
- Deism Mainpage
- A Broad Exploration of Deism
- Voltaire's Legacy of War on American Values
- How Voltaire's Atheism Overthrew Deism
Christianity
- Jesus the Man
- Apostle Paul Founder of Christianity
- Why we should know John Calvin
- Egyptian-Christian Connection
- Judaism Meets Zoroastrianism
- Judaism Meets Hellenism and the Logos
- Pelagius Why He Was Right
- Saint Augustine Introduction
- Saint Augustine His Christian World View by Lewis Loflin
- St. Augustine and Evolution
- Christianity 101
- Religious misc.
- Demiurge Creator of the World
- Gnosticism Overview
- Pelagius and Why He Was Right
- Original Sin an Overview
- Gnosticism as Explained by Bishop N. T. Wright
- Deist Critique of the Gospel of Mark
- Religious Syncretism and Christianity
- Biblical Monotheism an Overview
- Jesus was not Zoroaster or Buddha
- Judaism Versus Zoroastrianism
- What are we to believe?
- The Devil
- Hellenism Meets Judaism
- Zoroastrianism Sources
- Why Christian Morals Need to be Rejected
- Modern Deist Manifesto Based on Classical Deism
- Gnosticism as Explained by Bishop N. T. Wright
- Deist Critique of the Gospel of Mark
- Religious Syncretism and Christianity
- Classical Deist' View of Religion and Its Application Today
- Taking a Closer Look at Gnosticism and Christianity
- Thoughts on Theistic Evolution and Deism by Lewis Loflin
- My Answer to a Secular Fundamentalist by Lewis Loflin
- Separation of Pseudo-Religion and State
- An Overview Gnosticism
- Apostle Paul Founder of Christianity
- Apostle Paul versus Pelagius
- Platonism and Christianity
- Demiurge Creator of the World
- Allegorical Interpretation
- Hellenism and Its Influences on Judaism in Alexandria
- Historical Jesus FAQ by Jorn Barger
- Overview Hellenistic Judaism
- History of Christianity in Egypt
- Christian Gospels a Christian Overview
- Zoroastrianism Vs. Judaism
- Exploring Neo-Platonism
- Plato's Trinity
- Jesus the Man
- Paganism Explained
- What's New Age Religion?
- Zoroastrianism
- Taking a Closer Look at Gnosticism and Christianity
- Gnosticism as explained by Bishop N. T. Wright
- Alexander, the Jews, and Hellenism
- More on Alexander the Great, the Jews, and Hellenism
- Hellenistic Period After Alexander
- Alexandrian Philosophy and Judaism - Jewish Encyclopedia
- Platonism and Christianity
- Allegorical Interpretation
- Defining Religion in American Politics 2016
- Exploring Classical Deism with the Skeptical Deist
- Scientific Case for a Transcendent God
- In Defense of Classical Deism
- Environmentalism is Still a Religion
- Babylonian Captivity and the Birth of Modern Judaism
- An Overview of Manichaeism
- Zoroastrians Keep Dwindling
- The Heresy of Luke - Social Conscience
- Debunking the Jesus-Mithra Connection
- Is it Christianity or Mithraism?
- Saul of Tarsus, Mithraic Cults, and Christ's Blood
- Democracy and the Origins of the US Constitution
- On Religion and the Fall of Civilization: Quotes from Will Durant
- Thoughts on Theistic Evolution and Deism by Lewis Loflin
- My Answer to a Secular Fundamentalist by Lewis Loflin
- Why Christian Morals Need to be Rejected
- Why Judaism Is The Key To Deism
- Judaism and politics
- About Jewish proselytizing
- Why Islam is in Desperate Need of a Reformation
- The Holocaust by Rabbi Meir Kahane
- Why Kahane was Right by Lewis Loflin
- Debunking the Khazar Jews Anglo-Saxon Israel Myth
- Why Jews Are Not a Race
- Questions on Christian Anti-Semitism
- Islam's History of Anti-Semitism
- Christian Identity A Religion for White Racists
- Christian Identity Dogma of Hate
- Christian Identity History of Hate, Irrationalism
Science and Why I'm an Evolutionist
We are often given a choice of two extremes - either one must have blind faith in some book with dictated nonsense or in atheism. Both are false choices and I'm not buying it.
Science has been a life-long love and I'm very defensive of it. I reject the abuse of science to bolster various political claims and the invasion of money, religion, and politics into research. I define science as strictly the description of the physical operation of the universe as defined by my chemistry professor in college, a devout Christian.
Science is no more about "truth" than the computer gadgets I build on my other website. Those devices do give some indication of their builder-creator, but are hardly objects for worship in themselves.
I've had college level physics, chemistry, and biology, but claim no expertise in these fields. I've read every science text in the school library and have been an amateur geologist since I was a kid. I loved collecting fossils and rocks from the coal-mining sites near Norton, Virginia. Strip mines are great for collecting fossils.
I'm very strict on the scientific method and the proper use of it. To quote, "It is a process for making observations, recording data, and analyzing data that can be duplicated by other scientists...If a theory cannot be tested, it cannot be a scientific theory." That makes me a big skeptic of any claim that refuses to follow it. Without verifiable scientific proof I'm not going to buy into it for the same reason I reject literal Six-Day Creationism.
- Introduction to the scientific method.
- The scientific method.
- How Alarmists undermine Science and Theology
- 25 Questions and answers for Creationism
- Why fundamentalists are beyond reason.
- Evolution debate in schools
- Look at C.S. Lewis on Evolution
- Quotes from C.S. Lewis
- Permission to believe (in God) Dr Gerald Schroeder
- Where the Bible meets the Big Bang
- Evolution and the early church, and Islam
- Christian Orthodoxy On Creationism and Evolution
- Handbook on the History of Modern Science
- Topics on Religion and Environmentalism
- Separation of Pseudo-Religion and State
- Environmentalism Religion or Political Philosophy?
Al Gore Green Religion
- Dr. James Hansen Paid Environmentalist
- NASA Scientist Demands Prosecution Climate Change Critics
- Dissecting Al Gore's Book Earth in the Balance
- Ages of Gaia Writer James Lovelock Sounds an Alarm
- Writer James Lovelock Backtracks on Revenge of Gaia
- How Bacteria Created Natural Nuclear Fission
- Religious Fundamentalism Explained by Michael Crichton Part 1
- Religious Fundamentalism Explained by Michael Crichton Part 2
- Environmentalism as Religion by Michael Fumento
- Environmentalism's Fear-Loathing of Technology
- How Ecological Homeostasis and Hysteresis Regulate Climate
- Shockingly Rapid Climatic Shifts are Real
- Hypsithermal Warming Spreads Civilization 6000-9000 BC
- Fall of the Late Roman Empire
- End of the Vikings in Greenland
- Lost Colony of Roanoke Island
- Whale Fossils Show Ice Free Arctic
- Geiger Counter Introduction
- Climate Change and Volcanoes
- Religion of Isaac Asimov
- Isaac Asimov Science and the Bible
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