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The URANTIA BOOK .......debunked for all the spammers today
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Wow! A ton of Urantia threads today
Some of the WRONG information in this supposed divinely inspired book(I won't even get into the theological parts)
The described formation of the solar system (In the Urantia book)is consistent with the Chamberlin-Moulton planetesimal hypothesis. Though popular in the early part of the 20th century, by the early 1940s it was discarded by Henry Russell's argument that it was incompatible with the angular momentum of planets such as Jupiter
The book repeats the idea prevalent at the time of its origin that one side of the planet Mercury always faces the sun due to tidal locking. In 1965, radio astronomers discovered that Mercury actually rotates fast enough for all sides to see exposure to the sun.
The book says that a solar eclipse was predicted in 1808 by the Native American prophet Tenskwatawa. The eclipse actually was predicted in late April 1806 and occurred on June 16, 1806.
And most damning comes from Meredith Sprunger, a liberal believer in The Urantia Book and retired minister in the United Church of Christ
Quote "research has revealed that virtually all of the scientific material found in The Urantia Book was the accepted scientific knowledge of the period in which the book was written, was held by some scientists of that time, or was about to be discovered or recognized."
Matthew Block, published a paper that showed nineteen examples of The Urantia Book utilizing material published earlier. All of the source authors identified in Block's paper were published in English between 1905 and 1943 by U.S. publishers and are typically scholarly or academic works that contain concepts and wording similar to what is found in The Urantia Book. Block has since claimed to have discovered over 125 source books and articles, written by over 90 authors, which were incorporated into the Urantia papers.
Gardner and Block note that Paper 85 of the Urantia book appears to have been taken from the first eight chapters of Origin and Evolution of Religion by E. Washburn Hopkins, published by Yale University Press in 1923. Each section of the paper corresponds to a chapter in the book, with several passages possibly used as direct material.
New Religions: A Guide (2nd Edition). Oxford University Press.
Urantia: The Great Cult Mystery. Prometheus Books.
[link to www.daviddarling.info]
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