Astronaut Neil Armstrong, who uttered one of history’s most famous proclamations when he became the first man to walk on the moon in 1969, died Saturday.
Armstrong was commander of the Apollo 11 mission that made the first manned lunar landing on July 20, 1969. He had undergone heart surgery Aug. 8, three days after his 82nd birthday. His family said that Armstrong had passed from post-surgery complications.
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DNO, please do not put this one in your archives yet, it is ‘hot stuff’ and challenging that the hearts of many might be revealed one way or the other, as usual.
As you posted on your Website and as we are aware, Neil Armstrong, a well-known astronaut, passed on. His passing has prompted readers on your Website to provide their views, pro and con. Some believed that he walked on the moon. Others renounced it. Pertaining to a few readers’ comments they also deny the existence of God. Having read those comments (I provided mine). I contemplated on them and while doing so, I thought of a magazine which a dear friend had generously given to me as a gift, an annual subscription. I recalled an article in one of the books, entitled, “Ten Scientists Who Believe in God”. I searched for it among my archives, typed the entire information and thought that I would forward it to you, requesting that you post it on your Website, as probably a commentary for the interest of your readers and hope that they will appreciate it.
I do believe that there are times, if not all the time God guides our mind and thoughts in godliness and good works, if we are willing and to at least try to inform others about the truth and of His existence. He will have his way. I am not trying to change the skeptics and deniers. It is their prerogative whether they believe it or not. I read the article with interest. I concluded it is well-worth reading, taking note of and passing on. It is another excellent article which I treasure and, based under the circumstances, I am happy to share it with as many people as possible, near and far. I am not able to share it with your readers otherwise. They could print it, pass it on and also keep it in their archives for future reference.
I always say that life is a growing, learning process and reading is an education in itself. As adults, specifically the critics and deniers, they will not be able to learn and know the truth if they do not have such information and from intellectuals, people whom I term as being godly spiritually enlightened. I wished that I could have them posted one at a time. Thank you!
TEN SCIENTISTS WHO BELIEVE IN GOD
SCIENCE CANNOT PROVE or disprove religion. Religion is founded on faith. When confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers are religions. For me that means Protestant Christianity to which I was introduced as a child and which has withstood the tests of a lifetime. But religion is a great backyard for doing science. In the words of Psalm 19, “The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth His handiwork.” Thus scientific research is a worshipful act in that it reveals the wonders of God’s creation.
I find a need for God in the universe and in my own life. We are fortunate to have the Bible, especially the New Testament which tells us so much about God in accessible human terms.
-Arthur L. Schwawlow, Nobel Prize for Physics, 1981
RELIGION AND SCIENCE are two separate domains. The progress of science, no matter how marvelous it appears to be, does not bring science closer to religion but leads to dead ends and shows our final ineptitude at producing a rational explanation of the universe. To give my opinion on God’s existence, it would be necessary to define exactly the concept; unfortunately, for three thousands years that concept has taken infinite forms. I advise scientists and philosophers to read Ecclesiastes as well as St. Paul in his first letter to the Corinthians 13:1-13—with great humility.
-Professor Louis Neel, Nobel Prize for Physics, 1970
WE MUST ADMIT that there exists an incomprehensible power with limitless foresight and knowledge that started the whole universe going.
Einstein once said that “the most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible Universe, forms my idea of God.
-Professor Christian B. Anfinsen, Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1972
HUMAN WONDER AT THE WORLD PREDATES RECORDED HISTORY. When the psalmist asked, “What is man that Thou art mindful of him” that was surely not the first time someone looked up at the heavens and wondered.
When we look at distant objects in the sky—galaxies so far away that their light takes millions of years to reach us—we find that they are all moving away from us. At the start, each needed a staggeringly large amount of energy just to escape the gravitational pull of its neighbors. Furthermore, the matter from which the pieces were made seems to have appeared out of nothing in an instant.
According to Einstein’s General Relativity, we must assume not only the creation of matter and energy out of nothing, but creation of space and time as well. Moreover, the energy given to the emerging matter must be enough to move it fast enough to escape the bonds of gravity, but not so fast that the particles lose all contact with each other.
Enough of the initially-created matter must pull together under gravity to form galaxies, stars and planetary systems which allow for life. Thus the second “improbably” property of the early universe, almost as improbably as creation out of nothing, is an exquisitely delicate balance between matter and energy. Third—and this one puzzles scientists at least as much as the first two—somehow all these pieces, each without having any contact with the others, without having any way of communication, all must have appeared with the same balance between matter and energy at the same instant.
-Dr. Arno Penzias, Nobel Prize for Physics, 1978
THE EXISTENCE OF MAN, indeed of the entire universe, has long been regarded as a miracle, incomprehensible without assuming the existence of a Creator who is omnipotent and omniscient. British astronomer Fred Hoyle is noted for the statement that believing the first cell (in the universe) originated by mere chance is like believing a tornado ripping through a junkyard full of airplane parts could produce a Boeing 747.
God created the universe out of nothing in an act which also brought time into existence. Recent discoveries, such as observations supporting the Big Bang and similar astronomical phenomena, are wholly compatible with this view.
-Henry Margenau, Professor of Physics and Natural Philosophy, Yale University
THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE can be described scientifically as a miracle, here defined as a natural event having very small probability of happening. Life has an origin similarly described as a miracle. Faith in the concept of a God who is concerned with his creation is essential to human hope, an optimistic world view, and ultimate survival of the human race. Any contrary view aligns humanity with the frustration of a drifting, meaningless universe.
-Herbert Uhlig, Professor Emeritus, Department of Material Science and Engineering, M.I.T.
TO ME PERSONALLY nothing is more evident than the reality of God. I incline in fact to the view that the existence of God constitutes the only absolute certainty. Pascal was right when he distinguished between “the God of the philosophers” and “the living God of Abraham”; between the God in whom one believes “with a corner of one’s mind” and the God of religion, the God of the saints.
To resolve the riddle is ultimately to know the one Origin from which everything in the universe has sprung—and that is God. To be sure, scientific explanations have their validity; they do not however, resolve the problem but only shift the enigma to a deeper plane.
If science begins in wonder, as indeed it does, it ends in a sense of wonder that is greater still. The latest physics inspires in us a profound sense of awe in the face of the physical universe. If the physics of the last century prompted atheism, the physics of today is inciting the more thoughtful to reexamine “the question of God.”
-Wolfgang Smith, Professor of Mathematics, Oregon State University
SOME SCIENTISTS CONSIDER MANKIND ONLY AS AN ACCIDENTAL FEATURE OF THE UNIVERSE. Thus they refuse to give us the title of “coronation of the creation” and do not believe God guides us individually since he is much too busy with bigger astrophysical jobs. Such thoughts are foreign to my mind. I do not believe I can understand God with any human logic. I can only appeal to my personal experience when I believe that he guides me as he appears to do with every little bit of his creation.
-Walter Thirring, Director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Vienna.
I ACCEPT the theistic doctrine of God the Creator, the One who holds the world in being. Creation is not an act of the remote past but a continuing act of the Divine Will in every present moment.
I see the humankind as qualitatively different from the animals because of its self-consciousness and its ability to know and worship its Creator. In that sense we are indeed spiritual beings, but inescapably embodied (not apprentice angels). I take God very seriously. I am a Christian believer (indeed, an ordained Anglican priest) and I believe God has made himself known in human terms in Jesus Christ.
-Professor John Polkinghorne, Physicist, Dean, Trinity Hall; President Queens’ College, Cambridge University.
GOD CAN SPEAK TO US and show us how to live. I believe that we can and must ask God which way we ought to go, what we ought to do, how we ought to believe. In doing this, we must not be too impressed by the insights of (modern) molecular biology and astrophysics. It has been said that he who tries to marry his religion to the beliefs of one period risks widowhood in the next. We must respect the wisdom and insights of our ancestors.
I cannot forget the old Jewish story of how God talked to Abraham and said, “But for me, you would not be here.” “I know that, Lord,” answered Abraham. “But were I not here there would be no one to think about You.”
-Sir Nevill Mott, Nobel Prize Nobel Prize for Physics 1977
How comes Mista dem neva went back to walk on the moon or set up camp on dere like they go and do on mars,,,
Is either dey saw someting dere dat tell dem doh come back or dey neva reallly set no foot on Moon,,,
Guess he go wiff all d secrets,,, Now I know I always tell allyou to go research,,,
if D moon have zero gravity right at list dats what dey say,,, so in the video where they show dem man walking on Moon how come dere is no dust all up in the air??? An d duss suppose to be super dry,,,
Ever walk in a place where water haven’t been for a while and d dust get disturbed,,, Duss all ova d place right,,,
Well my point is if dem man was disturbing duss in zero gravity den there would be duss all ovah d place!!!
Bwavo coco! bell beff! and they’re calling us Third World and sot?
@ Tri-State Beauty
And you believe that with his broken English. Are you not smarter than that to believe this nonsense? Think for yourself; do not allow less educated people and those who probably never heard or read about or saw it on TV doubt it.
There are some people who have to be present to see and to believe. They are the doubting Thomas’s of the world in this era. They doubt and deny everything which they cannot prove. Why, some of them even doubt the existence of God. Why should you believe them and applaud them?
Twenty-four astronauts have been on or near the Moon. Twelve of these landed on the Moon and actually walked on its surface.
As of 2006, only the following twelve people have walked on the Moon, each on one mission only. Nobody has walked on the Moon since 1972, and no additional individuals are expected to join this list for at least another decade.
Neil Armstrong – Apollo 11 – July, 1969
Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin – Apollo 11 – July, 1969
Charles “Pete” Conrad – Apollo 12 – November, 1969 (may have been scheduled to land again on Apollo 20, though unlikely as he had already walked on the Moon)
Alan Bean – Apollo 12 – November, 1969
Alan Shepard – Apollo 14 – February, 1971
Edgar Mitchell – Apollo 14 – February, 1971
David Scott – Apollo 15 – July, 1971
James Irwin – Apollo 15 – July, 1971
John Young – Apollo 16 – April, 1972 (also on Apollo 10, without landing)
Charles Duke – Apollo 16 – April, 1972
Eugene Cernan – Apollo 17 – December, 1972 (also on Apollo 10, without landing)
Harrison Schmitt – Apollo 17 – December, 1972
@ New Yorker
Tribute should be given as a mark of remembrance and respect to those astronauts who lost their lives upon returning to earth. They almost made it to earth and sadly, their space ship disintegrated when they entered earth.
The moon does NOT have zero gravity; no one has “set up camp” on Mars, unlike you, like Chavez, think Mars is inhabited (no lie–Chavez thought Mars once had a civilization, lol); people HAVE gone back to the moon; and the moon’s surface has relatively little dust, and dust does not act in space as it would underwater.
Unless your coment is a joke, you might as well be living under a rock on another planet, given what you know about this planet or its moon.
Garçon all I saying is look at the Data,,,
Right now NASA don’t have a rover mapping out Mars nuh,,, Curiosity is its title,,, They created transport vehicle that can be constantly working for 2 years straight but we still down here motorizing with combustible engines,,, You doh see is just questions Marn Asking to generate critical thinking???
I know no-thing about the moon or anywhere else I have not been to, just because question is brought to the authorities on their mis-information makes One stand out,,,
No wonder Dominica is the way it is this Day no body ever ask any questions and try to think outside the Box!!!
Practice some Critical thinking and your mind will travel beyond the cosmos,,,
Okay, Rasta…you MUST be a troll. That last thing you cannot be a real post. Because if that is a real post, my friend, all I can say is you been living under a rock for real. Jah!
Great observation! That was a staged feat on their part. Walking on the Moon was not a reality!
And what evidence do you have for this, Rastafari? A vision you saw while you were high as the sky?
@ Rastafari
I suppose that you were present with them.
Some people will die as doubters, deniers and critics and without knowing the truth. It is not a good way to live and die.
Racism will never go away!!Sorry Doc, I have children in College predominantly white, and I tell them go for it. As much as possible rub shoulders with the racists and penetrate their world. We live in a white neighborhood, my children go to white schools and we are not afraid. My husband is in the Military, working on a Master’s degree, I have a Master’s degree, we can’t do any worse comining from DA. We are beating them at their own game, because in God We Trust.
I can remember the day Neil Armstrong landed on the moon.That sunday afternoon their was a big football match at the Windsor Park betwwen Domfruit Rovers and Combermere and the match commentator was Mr. Jeff charles. In the hit of the excitement Mr. Charles stopped the commentary to tell Dominicans that a man had just landed on the moon. At the time, I thought Mr. Charles was out of mind,little did I know this historical day would have been the beginning of a phenomenon that would captivate Dominica and the rest of the world in astronomy.
Neil Armstrong was a hero in his time. He will go down in history as such a person. He will never be forgotten. May his soul rest in peace. I do believe that he landed on the moon and walked on the moon. No one can make me think otherwise. I am not gullible to believe that it never occurred. It is history and remains as is.
Neil Armstrong lived to prove the authenticity of the space mission on that historical day. The majority of people who believe that it took place counts. As for the minority, the non-believers please take a back step. Your denial serves no useful purpose and cannot change a thing.
@ Justice & Truth: and that my dear is the height of unwavering IGNORANCE no highest peak could you climb! but hold up you can believe what you want, but EVIDENCE is something else. Anything can be proven or disproven. Once a hole has been pierced in a theory it’s no the purpose has been served. You always come with a high handed approach as if this is the only place you seek validation. What do you know about the Astronomy really or space programs? Sit you arse down for once and stop blabbing. Believe what you want, heck half the time you running like a loose cannon with bible quotes that elude you
Did you even read Justice’s post? It had nothing to do with bible quotes and was in complete support of Armstrong landing on the moon. I tend to disagree with Justice’s posts but this one was spot-on. Anyone who disagrees with Armstrong landing on the moon is a nutcase.
You are the one who is ignorant.
How can you call me ignorance when you do not know me. I am not gullible to listen to some of you spew ignorance on this Website due to your mentality.
You have a right to your opinion but not to insult others on this Website. Allow them their privilege and rights of commenting. Live by the Golden Rule. You should know it. 
Your opinion does not reflect mine. You were not in the space ship with Neil Armstrong. You did not land on the moon with him. You heard and read negativity and from the enemies of the U.S. I have no time for people like you. You are the one who is ignorant, the pot calling the kettle black. In your ignorance you are calling someone ignorant. Is this fair?
I have stated time and time again that people as you should keep your derogatory comments/words to yourself. This Website is meant for amicable and respectable dialogue. It is obvious you lack these godly virtues. Learn it and practice it. You know nothing.
Rest in PEACE Mr Neil Armstrong
such a great man.
some of us who are smart enough to read , learn and understand will know that the MOON LANDING WAS FAKED.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNWW8swrvWs
just as 9-11 was also staged
J @ freethinker
Free thinker, eh? Radical, yes. Oh please! What’s next? Are you a communist? Only communists and those who hate their country could believe that and make such a silly statement. What fun do you find doing this?
I am convinced that one like you is a hater. Who is the fool who would think of that and make such a statement? Only you I suppose.
Many of us are intelligent and have a higher intelligence than you. Not for a minute we believe you and the likes of those whom this garbage originated from.
DNO should not have posted your stupidity. As for me, I would not waste my time to access that Website. Watch out, the FBI may have you under surveillance.
so what you’re saying is that 9-11 was really mastermined by terrorists and not the US Govt as well?
diownload and watch the documentary called ” loose change 911 , then commment here after ppl
I agree.
LOL! Congrats, gasah. You just did what I hoped you would. Conspiracies DO happen, but 9/11 and the moon landing (and I didn’t even mention 9/11…stupes)? Come on. Unless you’re just joking around, suffice to say that unless you also believe all the probes sent to the moon, Venus, Titan, and Mars are also fakes/conspiracies (and why? For what conceivable purpose?), there is no good reason to think the moon landing (and there are multiple) was a hoax. This claim has been debunked time and time again by Michael Shermer, NASA, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and countless other scientists and professional debunkers. The same goes for 9/11 (it was a plot by Muslim terrorists, yes, but not a US-government conspiracy). Come on, man…don’t make yourself look crazy. You can believe what you like, but believing that the rest of the world is engaged in a series of grand conspiracies does not help you fit in well with others, be they professionals or lay persons.
I concur with you.
To freethinker
I’m amaze at how naive you are and using it to pass as truth.What you believe about the moon landing and what really happen are two different things.This I will tell you, the best place to hide something is in the open. The story of the moon landing is very complex and involves many forces and organizations.
When you make the statement Quote “there is no good reason to think the moon landing was a hoax” that just tells me how ignorant you are about world events. Do you think the forces at play need to please you with a good reason to do things, get out from that naive mentality learn to think, put your thinking cap on. That is one of the treats of a freethinker. Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Gary, a “freethinker” is not a person who “agrees with Gary.” A “freethinker” is a person who generally does not accept the traditional explanations offered by religious authorities. The term can be broader than that, sure, but that is its primary meaning. It is your own ignorance showing by being utterly unaware of the actual definition of the word. “Freethinker” is certainly not synonymous with “conspiracy theorist.”
Anyway, how have I demonstrated to you that my thinking cap is not on? I named professionals who have debunked the moon-landing-was-a-hoax nonsense. I can add to the list if you like–Michio Kaku, one of the fathers of string theory, is another. If you refuse to accept the carefully explained and logical explanations of professional scientists for the wild theories of fringe lunatics on the outskirts of the Internet , go right ahead. If that is the case, nothing will convince you. And that is truly sad. If I had evidence that the thing was a hoax, OF COURSE I would believe it was one. But I have no such evidence that stands up to scrutiny. None.
At the end of the day, you either choose to be reasonable or you can pretend the world is run by secret organizations and that aliens abduct farmers on lonely roads and that reptilians have intermarried with humans and all the various insane things conspiracy theorists may buy into. I choose to be reasonable and evaluate evidence both honestly and from a common-sense perspective (except in the case of things that defy common sense, like quantum mechanics). So you can pretend to yourself that you’re part of some great movement to learn the truth by buying into conspiracy madness, but the easiest way to learn the truth is to approach these things with as unbiased a mind as possible. Once you get rid of the baggage holding you back–your presuppositions–you will likely come to see things the way the rest of the rational world does.
Seriously? Your brain is that small? Are you alive, or was your birth staged? Shame on you.
Tell him, Dominicapearl. These “staged” people think just about every event in the world is actually conducted by the government or, better, by “secret” organizations. Their favorite organizations are the Illuminati and the Masons, of course, which they probably first head of in The Da Vinci Code, lol. People would rather believe in crazy possibilities than more sensible, more mundane realities.
R.I.P
Truly a great loss. Armstrong represents a literal step for human endeavor.
Let’s hope the conspiracy theorists who claim the moon landing was a hoax will stay away, and, if they don’t, they deserve to be ridiculed for their foolishness.
A real discussion point to take from his death is why decades have passed since our last landing on the moon–and why, in all that time, no human has set foot on another planet. Neil deGrasse Tyson is quite clear in saying we could have landed a manned mission on Mars had our priorities been clearer–and he’s right. But with the Mars probe doing well so far and a new mission for Mars planned soon, hopefully a manned mission there will follow. And hopefully all this will stir up Dominicans’ interest in astronomy and science in general.
Do you know that 90% of dominicans won’t understand anything you’re saying? Thumbs down my comment and your in the 90%!
~RIP
Thats a low blow. We have a higher percentage than this. Most DAs are not on the computer. We are smrt people.
Amazing!!! Neil Armstrong’s historic landing on the moon in 1969 had such an impact on me that I commenced flight training at The Light Aeroplane Club of Trinidad and Tobago based at Piarco Airport within weeks. I later moved to the Unit
ed States with the intention of joining the US Airforce as a step to applying as an astronaut in the Space Program. However racism and the Vietnam war enlightened me and I subsequently pursued medicine eventually graduating from Yale University School of Medicine. May his soul rest in peace.
how could the images taken cast two shadows when the only source of light was the sun which would have generated ONE shadow.
Why didn’t armstrong ever swear on the BIBLE that he did land on the moon?
…how did you escape from the psychiatric ward, “me?”
@ me
What made you think of that? Was he asked to swear on the Bible? That is the question. Why should he be asked to swear on the Bible when he was sent into space and he walked on the moon and millions of people viewed it on TV? This was proof enough.
The U.S. enemies are many, even those who migrated to the U.S. They are bent on denouncing everything that the U.S. has done. Too bad for them and woe to them. The day will come when the truth will be revealed to them.
Check this out–7 thumbs down so far. LOL. At least 7 Dominicans have proved themselves to be pathetic morons. Please continue revealing yourselves–it’s hilarious.