January 4, 2010
New Songs Praise Sub-atomic Particles and Fossils
Scientists try using music to promote their viewpoints
New Songs Praise Sub-atomic Particles and Fossils
Scientists try using music to promote their viewpoints
SUMMARY: The official choir of the European Organization for Nuclear
Research, better known by its French acronym Cern, is set to record a song
dedicated to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC is a huge physics
experiment built in a 27 km-long underground tunnel under the French-Swiss
border. Written by psychologist Danuta Orlowska, the song is praises the
Higgs boson, a sub-atomic particle the LHC is designed to detect. "Higgs,
Higgs, glorious Higgs," goes the song. "the theory told them these thingamijigs
were so fundamental."
Buzz Aldrin, the second man to step on the moon, also has gotten into the
action, releasing a song called "Rocket Experience" and recorded with help
from rap artist Snoop Dogg. Intended to commemorate the 40th anniversary
of the first manned mission to land on the moon, the song has Aldrin saying, "I
am the space man. It's time to venture far. Let's take a trip to Mars. Our
destiny is to the stars."
There are even tunes dedicated to paleontology discoveries. Jonathan Mann
wrote a song about the discovery of a “4.4 million-year-old human-like” creature
called Ardipithecus ramidus some consider a human ancestor. “Oh!
Ardipithecus ramidus, Ardipithecus ramidus. She’s related to all of us!” the
lyrics go.
Scientists are even using music to campaign for certain projects. The song
“Don’t Go Messing with our Telescope” was released by a group called The
Astronomers in order to fight the closing of the famous Jodrell Bank Telescope
in the UK.
“Scientists can feel a little unappreciated, in that there’s this incredible stuff
that they’re discovering that is difficult to bring to popular attention,” says
Andrew Harrison, the editor of a music magazine.
To read the entire article click on this link to THE BBC.
COMMENT: So, is it true that scientists are feeling unappreciated and are
using music as a way to get more attention? Certainly they have the right to
do this and, for all I know, the tunes might even be a bit catchy. However, as a
creationist, I would suggest somebody write songs instead about such topics
as the “150-million-year-old” squid fossil that still contains liquid link or the
argument among scientists over the Ida fossil or recent polls showing evolution
may be losing its influence. Probably most secular scientists would want to
avoid songs like the plague if they covered embarrassing topics like those.
Isn’t it a bit sad though that these songs are praising such things as sub-atomic
particles and fossils of extinct animals when they should be praising the One
who created sub-atomic particles and all animals? I predict no music about
worldly things could ever reach the majestic heights of hymns of praise
devoted to the Creator and to our Savior, songs such as “A Mighty Fortress,”
“Beautiful Savior,” or “How Great Thou Art.” If any of the topics covered by
the science songs prove to be of any practical value to us humans, they surely
won’t begin to compare to the eternal gifts our Lord is offering to us. When we
meditate on all the suffering our Lord Jesus went through to pay for our sins
and when we consider the eternal peace that awaits us and all believers in
heaven, there is no way we can keep our voices stilled for long.
Oh, that I had a thousand voices
To praise my God with thousand tongues!
My heart, which in the Lord rejoices,
Would then proclaim in grateful songs
To all wherever I might be,
What great things God has done for me.
(Christian Worship: A Lutheran Hymnal, Northwestern Publishing House)
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What ancient musical instrument discovered in southwestern Germany
produces sounds almost identical to its modern counterpart?
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Research, better known by its French acronym Cern, is set to record a song
dedicated to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC is a huge physics
experiment built in a 27 km-long underground tunnel under the French-Swiss
border. Written by psychologist Danuta Orlowska, the song is praises the
Higgs boson, a sub-atomic particle the LHC is designed to detect. "Higgs,
Higgs, glorious Higgs," goes the song. "the theory told them these thingamijigs
were so fundamental."
Buzz Aldrin, the second man to step on the moon, also has gotten into the
action, releasing a song called "Rocket Experience" and recorded with help
from rap artist Snoop Dogg. Intended to commemorate the 40th anniversary
of the first manned mission to land on the moon, the song has Aldrin saying, "I
am the space man. It's time to venture far. Let's take a trip to Mars. Our
destiny is to the stars."
There are even tunes dedicated to paleontology discoveries. Jonathan Mann
wrote a song about the discovery of a “4.4 million-year-old human-like” creature
called Ardipithecus ramidus some consider a human ancestor. “Oh!
Ardipithecus ramidus, Ardipithecus ramidus. She’s related to all of us!” the
lyrics go.
Scientists are even using music to campaign for certain projects. The song
“Don’t Go Messing with our Telescope” was released by a group called The
Astronomers in order to fight the closing of the famous Jodrell Bank Telescope
in the UK.
“Scientists can feel a little unappreciated, in that there’s this incredible stuff
that they’re discovering that is difficult to bring to popular attention,” says
Andrew Harrison, the editor of a music magazine.
To read the entire article click on this link to THE BBC.
COMMENT: So, is it true that scientists are feeling unappreciated and are
using music as a way to get more attention? Certainly they have the right to
do this and, for all I know, the tunes might even be a bit catchy. However, as a
creationist, I would suggest somebody write songs instead about such topics
as the “150-million-year-old” squid fossil that still contains liquid link or the
argument among scientists over the Ida fossil or recent polls showing evolution
may be losing its influence. Probably most secular scientists would want to
avoid songs like the plague if they covered embarrassing topics like those.
Isn’t it a bit sad though that these songs are praising such things as sub-atomic
particles and fossils of extinct animals when they should be praising the One
who created sub-atomic particles and all animals? I predict no music about
worldly things could ever reach the majestic heights of hymns of praise
devoted to the Creator and to our Savior, songs such as “A Mighty Fortress,”
“Beautiful Savior,” or “How Great Thou Art.” If any of the topics covered by
the science songs prove to be of any practical value to us humans, they surely
won’t begin to compare to the eternal gifts our Lord is offering to us. When we
meditate on all the suffering our Lord Jesus went through to pay for our sins
and when we consider the eternal peace that awaits us and all believers in
heaven, there is no way we can keep our voices stilled for long.
Oh, that I had a thousand voices
To praise my God with thousand tongues!
My heart, which in the Lord rejoices,
Would then proclaim in grateful songs
To all wherever I might be,
What great things God has done for me.
(Christian Worship: A Lutheran Hymnal, Northwestern Publishing House)
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QUESTION OF THE DAY
What ancient musical instrument discovered in southwestern Germany
produces sounds almost identical to its modern counterpart?
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those containing alternate views. However, comments containing profanity or
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1 Comment
anonymous said...It'd be surprising if there weren't such instruments from
long, long ago. Genesis 4:21
anonymous said...It'd be surprising if there weren't such instruments from
long, long ago. Genesis 4:21
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An five-holed bone flute, said to be
"35,000-years-old," produces a
sound that according to an expert
"is almost identical to tones of the
major scale played on today's
flute." Other bone and ivory flutes
and flute fragments have also been
found at the site in a cave in the
Swabian mountains.
Source: Discover
(January/February, 2010)
"35,000-years-old," produces a
sound that according to an expert
"is almost identical to tones of the
major scale played on today's
flute." Other bone and ivory flutes
and flute fragments have also been
found at the site in a cave in the
Swabian mountains.
Source: Discover
(January/February, 2010)