I could not make this up!

Picture this, it’s Sunday evening and your family gathers around the TV with cool drinks, eager to watch your favorite game show. That;s right folks, it’s time for “Faith Off”!

The first word that comes to my mind is “degrading”. I simply cannot see rational, self respecting religious people of ANY faith jumping with excitement to get a few minutes on national television in order to show how much more omnipresent and omnipotent their particular God is then the false prophet of that bunch of heathens in the blue team.

My bet is that there will be a punch-up in the first ten minutes of the pilot episode.

Let us take a deeper look at why this is such an unbelievably bad idea;

My first question is, how are school children in the UK educated on religious matters? Quite simply; from my investigations, the Christian faith is dominant while other faiths are glossed over to give the appearance of inclusion. One school begins their religious education with the endearing topic “Who is Jesus and why is He special” and then proceeds to “Christmas – The very special baby”. Although other religions are mentioned, the scope of Christian material far outweighs anything presented on Judaism, Hinduism or Sikhism.The BBC’s own version of religious education is even more geared towards the Christian point of view.

The second flaw in this plan is how contestants will be attracted to this program; online advertising on Muslim websites and through the Islam channel’s network. Why is the recruitment of contestants so narrowly targeted? How many execs at the BBC do you think said

“Sure, Abrar! You can advertise your insane religious stand off show on our channel.”

Hmmm….

I think that Mr. Hussein has latched onto one sure way of making money; controversy! He has unfortunately dreamed up a game show so ridiculous that I think he is just making a fool of himself.

I think I should make my own game show “Atheism – Faith Not Important”.

Sun and Moon

This landed up in my in box this morning;

A scene you will probably never get to see, so take a moment and enjoy God at work at the North Pole.
This is the sunset at the North Pole with the moon at its closest point. And you also see the sun below the moon.
An amazing photo and not one easily duplicated.

Wow! This is a really lovely picture. But it is not real! Here are a few reasons why this is not possibly a real photograph;

Firstly, is that a land mass I see? The North Pole is located in the middle of the Arctic Ocean, amidst waters that are almost permanently covered with constantly shifting sea ice. The sea ice of the north pole is approximately two to three meters thick. It is only in recent years that the rise in ocean temperatures has led to stretches of water being exposed by moving ice floes.

The second reason for this image not being possible on Earth is purely mathematical;

The sun’s diameter is 1,392,000 km. The sun will appear 3,7% smaller at perihelion (point closest to earth) then at aphelion (point farthest from the earth).

The moon’s diameter is 1,737.10km. The moon will appear 14% larger at perigee (point closest to the earth) then at apogee (point farthest from earth).

Therefore, using the simple comparison of the ratios of apparent size, the moon appears 14% larger, the sun 3.7% smaller.
That yields relative apparent difference of 17.7% when viewed from earth…
No where even close to the 12 times (or 1200%) increase that would be needed to create such a spectacular view.

The truth behind this image;

The image is in fact a work by artist Inga Nielsen. The image, called “Hideaway” can be viewed on the artist’s website.

The image was created using a scenery generator program called Terragen™