ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: First Cause

ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: First Cause: "Friends, the greatest thinkers throughout the ages and up to modern times have utterly failed to give a satisfactory explanation as t...

Moon Landing 1969

Summer School is a good thing!

In 1969 I participated in voluntary Middle School summer school activities. Those being meteorology and astronomy.

In astronomy the class drove 70 miles to the University Planetarium and then out to lunch. One evening the class congregated at our teacher's house where his wife served us a light supper, including raspberry lemonade, and then we viewed the moon through the teacher's telescope. We also talked about the upcoming Moon landing and our excitement was at a fever pitch.

I remember the Moon walk of Neil Armstrong. It happened July 20, 1969. My family watched from our television. When Neil Armstrong took that first step and uttered those immortal words, "One small step for man, one giant step for mankind," Mom and I cried. It was too awesome to comprehend. My friend Diane called and cried, "Did you see it?! Did you see it?!" Diane was in my astronomy class too. The entire class was super-excited and almost stunned that such things were happening in our world, in our lifetime.

First Cause

"Friends, the greatest thinkers throughout the ages and up to modern times have utterly failed to give a satisfactory explanation as to how and when this earth came into existence. Whatever theory they have evolved, they have all eventually come face to face with the necessity of the first cause when they cannot define. So forever they stumble along groping for it, drawing millions after them; and all the time walking patiently behind them, hoping that they will turn around and look Him in the face, is the First Cause, the Lord of heaven and earth!" Frank Jeffries

Frank Jeffries, fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society - astronomer, scientist, mathematician - charged with time determination at famous Greenwich.