I Didn’t Want to Link,

I Didn’t Want to Link,

but now I have to. OK, the fellow with all the crazy ideas I mentioned a few posts back is here. I was going back and forth about whether I would try some fisking, even though most of the stuff he says has been scientifically refuted in bunches of places. I figured I’d put it into a word file and let it percolate in my mind for a bit, so I went back to his site to capture it. I just want to give you a little preface, a quote from the post that first got me irked:

This confirms was I was saying in my earlier post (below), that naturalists like Dawkins who are not reigned in my religion will believe in anything.

and he brings in G. K. Chesterton to reinforce this idea:

GK Chesteron said: “When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing — they believe in anything.

Now, turn down your irony meters so they don’t explode on this one. I’m just gonna let this whole thing spew out at you all at once. . .ready?

My theories on Skyfish and UFOs
About why no one has found any skyfish carcases.
In one of the articles I linked to in my last post on Skyfish, it said that someone actually found a dead skyfish, but it quickly turned into a goo and then it quickly evaporated.
My opinion on is that skyfish are more like a jellyfish than bird, and perhaps receive all their energy from the sun, and their bodies are constituted with minimal material matter.
That would go a long way in explaining how they could flit about at 300kmph, and be so transparent as to be invisible except under exceptional conditions (e.g., slow motion video, or seen at sunset while a person is looking straight up). Another theory of mine is that they are a purely spiritual animal, or an animal with a life force but no body. Yet another theory of mine is that it would seem plausible that if God could create many animals similar to man, he could also create a whole class of animals similar to angels during the Creation Week. Perhaps most genuine UFOs are just animals on the angelic order. Most UFOs sightings are harmless, but the sinister ones would be demonic. Thus, the harmless UFO sightings are of animals on the angelic order, the sinister UFO sightings are demonic, and the good UFOs like the ones Ezekiel and other O.T. prophets saw are angelic in nature.
Posted by Yoel Natan at 11:31 AM 0 comments

I saw a rod, or skyfish, with the naked eye on about 1 Oct 2002
I was outside doing situps behind my house on the driveway, and I saw this strange orangish bird fly east not more than 40 feet up.
It flew like a cuttlefish swims, but it wasn’t going more than 20 miles per hour, I’d guess. I thought it was going fast for its mode of flying, though.
It was about 5PM or so, and the sun was getting toward the horizon, so I thought that either the strange bird was white and the sunset made it look orangish, or else it was orangish.

Not able to describe what I saw adequately since it was so strange, I told relatives that I saw a bird that was a cross between a bird and a butterfly. They reckoned I had seen a Hummingbird Moth Hawk.
I looked that up but was unconvinced to say the least:
Sphingidae
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawk_moth

Now that I think about it, I should have just made a drawing of it.
Better late than never, as the saying goes. Here’s a picture:

[picture omitted]

You can see that what I saw quite clearly is different than what other Skyfish look like from pictures and video, though these show differences, too. Thus, I assume there are myriad types of Skyfish. I’ll call mine the Figure 8 variety.

Anyway, these skybirds fly so fast that few people have been able to see them with the naked eye. They just see streaks of light, or a blur. So my specimen must have been strolling along! They do suggest having the camera in the shade while pointing it into the sunny sky, and I was in the shade looking up, so that partly explains my sighting.

The bird I saw was about a foot long and shaped like a figure eight. It undulated its “wings” or “appendages” for lack of a better term. It’s body, minus the wings, was tubular. What made me think of butterflies is they have tubular bodies and wings that are thin and lack bones, but the size and apparent weight made me thing of a bird.

So, Mr. Pot, if it’s atheists who are so easily bamboozled, how the heck do you explain your own credulity? Wowsers.

(I didn’t go out of my way to figure out how to get the picture into the blockquote. Just not worth the effort. I also cut out his links to supposed “proof” at the end. If you are really that much of a masochist, click the link. Don’t say I didn’t warn you, though.)

Kitteh Update

Kitteh Update

Speaking of forgetting things (I think I was, at some point. . .)

Alfie and Edgar spent the afternoon at the store adopt-a-thon on Sunday. Unfortunately, since no signs went up and the cats haven’t been in the store for weeks while the new cat area was being constructed, the turnout was low and there were no adoptions. We have them back home, and will try again to get them permanent homes in the next week or two. It does get harder to let them go the longer you have them, but there are so many other cats in need that we have to. I keep reminding the kids that when they’re gone, we’ll get more adorable kittens. I keep reminding myself that, too.

Cool Color Image

Cool Color Image

Lisa at Polka Dot Creations is as fond of playing with colors as I am – maybe moreso. She has a series of posts on creating a color palette, with links to tools, and I figured I’d give it a shot.

Now, she spends a lot more time on flick’r than I do, so I didn’t already have a set of favorite images. Just so I could try making a color palette, I browsed a few garden and landscaping photo pools and randomly favorited a bunch that appealed to me. I used Big Huge Labs to make a mosaic, and then the palette generator that’s down the page a bit, and amazingly enough, it came up with a bunch of the colors I’ve been drawn to lately. Take a look:

pallette.jpg

How cool is that? Lisa has more links to tools on her site, but I’ve wasted enough time already playing around. Later on, I might gather up a few of my own pics and do the same thing to see how well the colors I picked in real life match the colors I picked at random. There has to be some deep psychological meaning behind peoples’ color choices, maybe I’ll look that up one day, too.