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	omphalos - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Omphalos, in classical antiquity, a conical stone, thought to mark the center of the world, notably that in the temple of Apollo at Delphi in Greece.
		An omphalos is a religious stone artifact in the ancient world.
		The omphalos hypothesis was named after the title of an 1857 book, Creation (Omphalos) by Philip Henry Gosse, in which Gosse argued that in order for the world to be functional, God must have created...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /omphalos.html (171 words)

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		Omphalos is a language induction competition in the same lines as Abbadingo and Gowachin, both of which concentrated on regular languages.
		The Omphalos stone was the location of the main sanctum of the shrine of the Delphi Oracle.
		In ancient Greek "Omphalos" means "the centre of the earth" (from http://www.aroundparnassos.com/history/).
	www.irisa.fr /Omphalos/faq.html (433 words)

	Omphalos (theology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The idea has seen some revival in the twentieth century by some modern creationists, who have extended the argument to light that appears to originate in far-off stars and galaxies, although many other creationists reject this explanation[1] (and also believe that Adam and Eve had no navels[2]).
		There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that "remembered" a wholly unreal past.
		Since the hypothesis is based on the idea that apparent age is an illusion, it is perfectly reasonable to suggest that world was created mere minutes ago.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Omphalos_hypothesis (544 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Omphalos (theology)
		Since the hypothesis is based on the idea that apparent age is an illusion, it is a consistent extension to then suggest that the world could have been created as recently as minutes ago.
		He presented it not as an hypothesis but as a law or logical necessity: any created organism must be "from the first marked with the records of a previous being".
		There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that "remembered" a wholly unreal past.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Omphalos_(theology) (651 words)

	Encyclopedia: Omphalos hypothesis
		The idea has seen some revival in the twentieth century by modern creationists who have extended the argument to light which appears to originate in far-off stars and galaxies.
		The Omphalos hypothesis contains a powerful philosophic problem, one that troubles even those who have applied it in recent times.
		Since the hypothesis is based on the idea that apparent age is an illusion, it is perfectly resonable to suggest that world was created ten minutes ago.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Omphalos-hypothesis (215 words)

	Read about Creationism at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Creationism and learn about Creationism here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Panspermia – the belief that life on Earth was seeded here by meteors carrying primitive microbes and bacteria.
		This scientific hypothesis relies on the notion that life could have survived in these meteors for extremely extended periods.
		Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Creationism (1429 words)

	A New Approach to Earth History » The created world no longer exists
		Omphalos was the creationist position pushed to its extreme.
		If the only choice was between believing that God had so created the Earth 6,000 years ago as to make it look older than it was and believing that it really was older, churchmen were bound to join the rest of educated society in preferring the latter.
		In itself such a hypothesis might not be unreasonable, especially if one were to admit that the cause of accelerated decay was unknown and needed to be investigated.
	www.earthhistory.org.uk /technical-issues/gosse-and-age-of-earth (6251 words)

	OMPHALOS: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot by Phillip
		OMPHALOS: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot by Phillip
		OMPHALOS: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot by Phillip Henry Gosse.
		OMPHALOS appeared in print that fall; within two years it had disappeared into history's rubbish heap.
	www.burgy.50megs.com /omphalos.htm (802 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Omphalos was originally founded as a means for Hellenic Neopagans to contact...
		Omphalos The omphalos is a very common type of religious stone artifact/ tablet.
		OMPHALOS is intended as a networking resource, a forum and an inspiration for those Crones and Sages who...
	omphalos.iqexpand.com (360 words)

	book review - Omphalos (Phillip Henry Gosse)
		," the hypothesis that we were all created, complete with memories of unreal events, on Thursday morning of last week, and (2) that it must be rejected because "God can't lie" and a false history must be taken as evidence that he did lie.
		But Gosse's arguments go well beyond Russell's hypothesis, and he argues well that any fiat creation, even by God, must necessarily include unreal history.
		Gosse's thesis is not, of course, "scientific." While it may be true, it is not testable, nor does it suggest future research projects.
	www.asa3.org /ASA/education/origins/omphalos.htm (897 words)

	Metanexus Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This edition of OMPHALOS is a reprint of a book originally published in London in 1857, two years before Darwin's ORIGIN OF SPECIES.
		Long out of print, unavailable to students of origins issues, it has reappeared as a study text for historians who would like to see how one scientist struggled to reconcile what he understood of both science and the scriptures.
		On page 336 he writes, "...we cannot avoid the conclusion that each organism was from the first marked with the records of a previous being.
	www.metanexus.net /metanexus_online/show_article.asp?4229 (1267 words)

	ipedia.com: Philip Henry Gosse Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The problem of the age of the earth was a vexed one for much of the 19th century.
		Regardless of whether one believed James Ussher's date of 4004 BC to be the true date of Earth's origin, no biblically reconstructed date for the creation of the earth was long enough to be anything but the smallest fraction of the time that was implied by geology or, later, zoology.
		His life from a few years before the publication of Omphalos to his death is recorded to some extent in Father and Son (1907), written by his son -- Sir Edmund William Gosse, who became a famous biographer in the late Victorian and early Edwardian period.
	www.ipedia.com /philip_henry_gosse.html (962 words)

	Omphalos -- why the YECs cannot be refuted - TheologyWeb Campus
		Omphalos is the classical example of an utterly untestable notion, for the world will look exactly the same in all its intricate detail whether fossils and strata are prochronic or products of an extended history.
		When we realize that Omphalos must be rejected for this methodological absurdity, not for any demonstrated factual inaccuracy, then we will understand science as a way of knowing, and Omphalos will serve its purpose as an intellectual foil or prod.
		It seems that Omphalos (or as I like to refer to it affectionately as "Adam's Bellybutton") would be the most logical view for the YEC.
	www.theologyweb.com /campus/showthread.php?t=20071 (5256 words)

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		Gosse's hypothesis claims that, just as Adam had a navel, evidence of a gestation he never experienced, so alsothe Earth was created ex nihilo complete withevidence of a prehistoric past that never actually occurred.
		Gosse's hypothesis allows for a young earth without giving rise toany predictions that would contradict scientific findings; Young Earth Creationists, by contrast, attempt to re-interpretscientific data to support their hypothesis that the earth is in fact young.
		This hypothesis, called the "C decay" hypothesis, was originally proposed by Barry Setterfield.
	immune-system-help.com /light/years/young_earth_creationism.html (1757 words)

	Omphalos hypothesis
		The idea has seen some revival in the twentieth century by modern creationists who have extended the argument to light which appears to originate in far-off stars and galaxies.
		Since the hypothesis is based on the idea that apparent age is an illusion, it is perfectly resonable to suggest that world was created ten minutes ago.
		Any memories you have of times before this were created in-situ, in exactly the same fashion that the fossils were.
	www.fastload.org /om/Omphalos_hypothesis.html (156 words)

	Omphalos (theology) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Omphalos hypothesis contains a powerful (additional info and facts about philosophic) philosophic problem, one that troubles even those who have applied it in recent times.
		Since the hypothesis is based on the idea that apparent age is an illusion, it is perfectly reasonable to suggest that world was created ten minutes ago.
		This philosophical approach, extended to other areas, has serious negative implications for science as a whole.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/om/omphalos_(theology).htm (157 words)

	Pharyngula
		The Omphalos hypothesis is just the most extreme version of an uninteresting explanation.
		Not enough people appreciate that science is generally a contrastive activity - one hypothesis (e.g., the earth is millions of years old) can be strongly favoured over another (the earth is 6,000 years old) even if it is predicitvely equivalent to some third, skeptical Russellian scenario.
		The Omphalos hypothesis, in whatever form, is philosophy, not science.
	pharyngula.org /index/weblog/print/3156 (7292 words)

	Philip H. Gosse Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The name Omphalos hearkened back to the earlier Christian debate over Adam's navel, the existence of which would have implied his non-existent birth from a non-existent mother -- Omphalos being Greek for "navel".
		If one wishes to reconcile the geologic record with ex nihilo creation, Gosse ended up satisfying no-one, and his book was savaged by critics on both ends of the spectrum.
		Father and Son was a tale of young Edmund's struggle between his belief in evolution, and the shadow cast over him by his father's religious convictions.
	www.sunysb.edu /libspecial/collections/manuscripts/gosse.html (810 words)

	Creationism information - Search.com
		This is the belief of a small subgroup of Young Earth creationists, which is sometimes termed the Omphalos hypothesis.
		It is termed the Omphalos hypothesis because it is based on the question of whether or not Adam (or Eve for that matter) had a navel (given that they were created as adults rather than born, they can be assumed to have never possessed an umbilical cord).
		Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot.
	www.search.com /reference/Creationism (5707 words)

	Philip Henry Gosse - Articles and Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The problem of the age of the earth was a vexed one for much of the 19th century.
		The name Omphalos hearkened back to the earlier Christian debate over Adam's navel, the existence of which would have implied his non-existent birth from a non-existent mother -- Omphalos is Greek for "navel".
		Gosse was crushed by the reception his book received, and spent the remainder of his days rather obsessed with religious extremism, and crime and murder stories.
	www.ezresult.com /article/Philip_Henry_Gosse (689 words)

	Abolish the Absurdities - Chapter 3 - Part 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It appeared in his book, Omphalos, An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot [Omphalos], which was first published in 1857.
		The author's first task is to present the hypothesis in detail; the reader's task is to disprove it.
		The author's second task is to defend the hypothesis against the reader's arguments.
	www.lifeorigin.com /chap3-0.htm (7164 words)

	talk.origins/Evolution Echo Biographica File 'G' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Noted for his book, "The Material Basis of Evolution" (1940), in which he advanced a hypothesis of macroevolution via systemic or macro- mutations.
		This is popularly known as the Hopeful Monster hypothesis.
		[1810-1888] Author of "Omphalos" (1857), which advanced the idea that God created the earth with "the appearance of age".
	www.talkorigins.org /origins/jargon/biofile_g.html (178 words)

	Freeper Research on Framing the Intelligent Design Argument
		The intelligent design hypothesis does not dispute the age of the universe, that mutations occur or that natural selection is a factor.
		Of a truth, the intelligent design hypothesis is theologically and ideologically neutral, despite the liberal correspondent’s attempts to characterize it otherwise.
		The original hypothesis, therefore, was that "head" animals would require little retraining (because the head would have contained the original memory), whilst the "tail" animals would require full retraining (because the tail would not have contained any original memory).
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1421883/posts (9655 words)

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		This edition of OMPHALOS is a reprint of a book originally published in
		OMPHALOS appeared in print that fall; within two years it had
		kind, an appearance of age must be a part of that hypothesis.
	www.jodkowski.pl /wk/SEAke.html (1157 words)

	The world's top young earth creationism websites
		Young Earth Creationists usually distinguish their own hypotheses from the Omphalos hypothesis put forth by Philip Henry Gosse.
		Gosse's hypothesis claims that, just as Adam had a navel, evidence of a gestation he never experienced, so also the Earth was created ex nihilo complete with evidence of a prehistoric past that never actually occurred.
		Gosse's hypothesis allows for a young earth without giving rise to any predictions that would contradict scientific findings; Young Earth Creationists, by contrast, attempt to re-interpret scientific data to support their hypothesis that the earth is in fact young.
	dirs.org /wiki-article-tab.cfm/young_earth_creationism (2193 words)

	omphalos - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Omphalos : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
		Phrases that include omphalos: omphalos hypothesis, omphalos theory
		Words similar to omphalos: navel, bellybutton, omphalus, umbilicus, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=omphalos (232 words)

	Amazon.com: Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot (Originally Published: London: J. Van Voorst, 1857): ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot (Originally Published: London: J. Van Voorst, 1857) (Paperback)
		Gosse christens his brain-child "prochronism," but it has come to be known as the "Gosse hypothesis" or the "Omphalos hypothesis."
		Skeptics admit that this hypothesis is not falsifiable, but point out that it is not verifiable either.
	www.amazon.com /Omphalos-Attempt-Geological-Originally-Published/dp/1881987108 (1169 words)

	Ministry of Art & Jump - Ministry News Blog » The Art theorist
		One of the most famous/infamous artists in Sweden Lars Vilks give you this treat on his official as if it was inofficial blog.
		Lars Vilks with Omphalos, the sculpture that was stolen - by the swedish authorities!
		Sometimes I wonder about Art Theory, is it a science or merely a working hypothesis?
	www.ministryofart.se /blog/archives/category/the-art-theorist (461 words)

	ps\|blog » Blog Archive » The Origins Debate
		It ranges from the idea that Earth already existed by life was created and re-created by God to the idea that life was created by natural means but guided by God at key points in time.
		Omphalos creationism proposed by Philip Henry Gosse in a book called The Omphalos Hypothesis says that God designed the ‘circle of life’ perfectly with a preset history.
		And for it to work, he created the illusion of age.
	www.prateeksureka.com /2005/09/26/the-origins-debate (1636 words)

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