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Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him.”

We can distinguish the following cases:

• k < 1 (sub-critical mass): starting with one fission, we have on average a total of 1/(1 − k) fissions. Any beginning of a chain reaction dies out quickly.
• k = 1 (critical mass): Starting with one free neutron, the expected value of the number of free neutrons resulting from it is 1 at any time; in the course of time there is a decreasing additional probability that the beginning chain reaction has died out, which is compensated by the possibility of multiple neutrons still being present.
• k > 1 (super-critical mass): starting with one free neutron, there is a non-trivial probability that is does not cause a fission or that a beginning chain reaction dies out. However, once the number of free neutrons is more than a few, it is very likely that it will increase exponentially. Both the number of neutrons present in the assembly (and thus the instantaneous rate of the fission reaction), and the number of fissions that have occurred since the reaction began, is proportional to e^{(k − 1)t / g}, where g is the average generation time and t is the elapsed time. This cannot continue, of course: k decreases when the amount of fission material that is left decreases; also the geometry and density can change: the geometry radically changes when the remaining fission material is torn apart, but in other circumstances it can just melt and flow away, etc.

The conclusion is that the Star of Bethlehem cannot be naturally explained by science! It was a temporary and supernatural light.

God has often used special, heavenly lights to guide his people, such as the glory that filled the tabernacle (Exodus 40:34-38) and the temple (1 Kings 8:10) and that shone upon the apostle Paul (Acts 9:3). Such visible signs of God’s presence are known as the Shekinah Glory, or dwelling place of God. This special light is a visible manifestation of divine majesty.

CARGOISM – The theology and practice of the worship of cargo.

They wait for the ships and aircraft to return–this time carrying goods for them.

Typical of cargo dogma is a belief adopted by three groups in Vanuatu (formerly the New Hebrides). They worship a god named John Frum, king of America, who is said to have arrived in the islands before the appearance there of Christian missionaries in the mid-1800s. John Frum also is expected to return.

“Where is He who has born the cargo? For he has dropped His star in the East and we have fled the fallout.”

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