Can an ET Scientist Find the Real Jesus?

By Philip Ramsey

University professor, and human, Henry Hawkins encounters ET scientist, Zeus who challenges traditional Christiaan interpretations of the virgin birth, death and resurrection of Jesus. Detailed examination is give to the death of Jesus and whether or not he actually died on the cross. It is noted that in the Gospel of Mark, Pilate is recorded as being surprised that Jesus had died so quickly. The body of Jesus is not released until the death is confirmed. If Jesus did not die on the cross but was rather in a coma or other medical condition, then no resurrection occurred. The fundamental logic of the death of Jesus to pay for men's sins is questioned.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jan 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9781667824147

Philip Ramsey

Dr. Phil Ramsey is a Senior Lecturer at Massey University in New Zealand, where he teaches Organizational Learning, Leadership and Teamwork. He also works as a Director of Incite Learning, a consulting company that mainly works with schools, helping school leaders apply Organizational Learning concepts to solve tough problems.

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Chapter 1: Voltaire and the View from Above

Henry Hawkins earned a Ph.D. in aeronautical engineering from Georgia Tech. All his life he had been interested in flying but recently he has become interested in flapping wing flight. Mankind had been interested in flying long before the Wright brothers.

In Greek mythology, Icarus and his father, Daedalus, were imprisoned on an island by King Minos. To escape, Daedalus, a master craftsman, created two sets of wings made of wax and feathers. He warned his son, Icarus, not to fly too close to the sun, as the wax would melt. Of course, Icarus ignored his father’s warning, flying too high, and fell to his death.

Henry Hawkins, upon first hearing the myth, knew immediately that the story was false. High altitudes have cooler, not warmer temperatures. Anyone spending time in mountains will be well aware of such temperature changes. A less obvious reason for doubting the Greek story is based on the relative muscle strengths and anatomies of men and birds. No human has the strength to flap wings fast enough to lift a human body. No man will ever fly like a bird in the sense of using his own muscle power to flap wings and rise into the air.

Henry Hawkins had followed, with interest, the investigations of Paul MacCready. Dr. MacCready first gained fame with his Gossamer Condor, the first aircraft to demonstrate flight powered only by human energy. The Gossamer Condor is a large, very light aircraft. The single pilot peddles, as if on a bicycle, which turns a propeller. It is truly a human-powered air craft.

The Gossamer Albatross, a similar aircraft, later carried a man across the English Channel under human power alone. Dr. MacCready and his associates even built a model of the extinct pterodactyl to demonstrate that the living creature could have been capable of flapping wing flight.

Since the extinction of the pterodactyl, the only creatures larger than insects which fly by flapping wings, are birds and bats. The so called flying squirrels, are only gliding. Birds are clearly masters of the air but bats are also true flyers. 

Henry began to consider the problem of constructing a flight suit to allow a single person to use flapping wings with some sort of electric motor to provide the needed power. Using bird feathers, or imitation feathers, does not seem practical. Even birds must replace their feathers once or twice each year. However, each bat uses a single pair of wings for the entire life of the bat.

Using bats as a model for human flight, the flying fox (a large, fruit-eating bat)