Matt Long > Quotes

“It is my position that this perception has been created to remove critical focus from the spinning ball model.  That is the model that postulates we are on a rock spinning 1,040 mph and going around the sun at over 60,000 mph, while shooting through the galaxy at over 500,000 mph.  This all happens in a remote part of the universe that was created when nothing exploded and created everything.”
― Matt Long, The House that Jesus Built: The Biblical Shape of the Earth, An Intelligent Alternative Design

“Usually in science, if we are off by a factor of 2 or a factor of 10, we call that horrible. We say, something's wrong with the theory… However, in cosmology, we are off by a factor of 10 to the 120th. That is a one with 120 zeroes after it. This is the largest mismatch between theory and experiment in the history of science (Michio Kaku, The Principle).”
― Matt Long, The House that Jesus Built: The Biblical Shape of the Earth, An Intelligent Alternative Design

“What did I discover during my solo—besides learning to unwrap my energy bar ahead of time? That you ask yourself a lot of questions when you're alone on a bike for that long. One question more than others: Why the heck am I doing this? When I was done, I think I had found the answer: For the satisfaction that comes with pushing your body to the breaking point and conquering the unknown.”
― Matt Long, The Long Run: A New York City Firefighter's Triumphant Comeback from Crash Victim to Elite Athlete

“Astronaut Don Petit said he would: “Go back to the moon in a nanosecond.  Unfortunately, we’ve destroyed that technology and it is a painful process to build it back again.”
― Matt Long, The House that Jesus Built: The Biblical Shape of the Earth, An Intelligent Alternative Design

“I survived because I had trained my heart to do the same: survive. Becoming an Ironman had kept me from becoming a dead man.”
― Matt Long, The Long Run: A New York City Firefighter's Triumphant Comeback from Crash Victim to Elite Athlete

“There is a Hebrew word that phonetically resembles the way the acronym NASA is pronounced.  It is written as, “נשׁא” and is pronounced as naw-shaw (Strong’s H5377),” or naw-saw (Strong’s H5375), depending on how it is placed in a sentence.  Therefore, this Hebrew word that is spelled the same in both cases has two different meanings.  It can mean “to lift up” like a rocket to space, or it can mean “to beguile,” or deceive,”
― Matt Long, The House that Jesus Built: The Biblical Shape of the Earth, An Intelligent Alternative Design

“Neil DeGrasse Tyson, maybe the biggest face of the spinning ball model said, “It is because we understand gravity that we know the earth is round,” yet when asked “what is gravity,” he responded with, “I have no idea, okay next question.”
― Matt Long, The House that Jesus Built: The Biblical Shape of the Earth, An Intelligent Alternative Design

“It is photoshopped, but it has to be,”
― Matt Long, The House that Jesus Built: The Biblical Shape of the Earth, An Intelligent Alternative Design

“In 1887, the Michelson-Morley Experiment, which has been repeated as recently as 2009, uncovered something very embarrassing for the scientific community.  Michelson and Morley attempted to prove the existence of an ether-wind (an invisible current that carries light rays in different directions). They attempted this by firing different color lights through assorted right-angle paths using mirrors and measuring the dilation or difference in arrival time between the two beams back at the source.  The fact that there was no dilation between the two beams proves two things.  One, there was no ether wind at earth’s surface and two, the earth was not moving.  If the earth was spinning and light beams were firing and bouncing around in perpendicular directions, the direction in which the beam was shot should have affected the arrival time in a positive or negative way.  It did not.  Thus, the earth is motionless.”
― Matt Long, The House that Jesus Built: The Biblical Shape of the Earth, An Intelligent Alternative Design