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Watch: Glenn Interviews 12-Year-Old Boy Genius Who Wants to Disprove Big Bang
- Posted on March 30, 2011 at 8:58pm by
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He learned the theory of relativity at 10 years old! Read The Blaze’s original report about Jacob Barnett, the boy with a beautiful mind, here.
Glenn interviewed the child prodigy–and the child prodigy’s parents–on Fox News tonight. Just one of many highlights: Barnett’s mother explains that when Jacob was three years old, they were at a store when he walked over to a roll out piano and just began to play Beethoven.
Check out the rest of the interview here. After you click on the link, go to the 9 minute mark to pick up where the Fox clip left you off.
Here‘s a picture of Jacob and Glenn in Glenn’s New York City offices. Look closely at the window in the background, where Jacob wrote some mathematical equations.
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Comments (240)
ReallyAUnionGuy
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:39pmsome Union guys do get it….. check it out
Report Post »firefightersforfreedom.com
Nigel2
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 12:20pmYou will need to distribute some dvd’s of the show. Specifically the ones where Glenn demonstrates these unions heads political affiliations. Don’t just try to explain what Glenn said. They will stare at you like a confused Chinese Pug.
Report Post »ICANHANDLETHETRUTH
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:37pmI wish the best for this kid, maybe he could change the world !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Grandpa Harley
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:31pmIf 2 times 4 equals 8. What is the square root of a turd…..Obama…..CORRECT!
Report Post »Hisemiester
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 3:02pmGood show grandpa.
Report Post »Billsocal
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:28pmJacob is a amazing kid. I have one piece of advice please follow Tesla instead of Einstein. Tesla was greater than Einstein and if it wasnt for J>P> Morgan that spooky dude of his time we would have free energy. The reason Tesla’s knowledge is surpressed is because of the Banksters..
Report Post »Pezman
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 11:54amI agree. Hopefully the moderators will suggest to Glenn what I said on the last story. “Try to convince the kid to spend some time thing about a practical application of his talents. Maybe this gifted child should be directed AWAY from the joys of advancing academia, towards the real life world of actually making the world a better place. Be it energy independance or medical research. this childs gifts would be better used if applied to something useful. And YES…. Create more economic liberty for a higher percentage of humanity, and the ‘religious/secular/one world order centralized control people will be weakened considerably.
Report Post »There is a truism about hyper-intelligent people. They are never leaders. The world is lead by the charismatic. What I pray for is that this boy is influenced by charismatic people OF CHARACTER. (True enough there are precious few of these.) Whatever happens to this child, I’m with everyone who hopes that he can live to have a happy and content life. It will be difficult.
swigs
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 12:01pm@Billsocal
It’s gratifying to see someone remembers the great Tesla.
Report Post »He once worked for Thomas Edison (founded GE) and parted under unfriendly terms.
One of the reasons Tesla is rarely mentioned in text books. Yet his inventions touch all our lives everyday.
Sinista MACE
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 2:34pmTesla’s ideas are fairly simple.
The earth is a capacitor, and it can be charged like a battery.
In other words, you can ionize the atmosphere and have energy at all places within the atmosphere.
There is a video on youtube showing a strip of aluminum foil spiralling in midair between two charged plates, and Tesla showed that you can cause fluorescent bulbs to light between two parallel charged plates.
Parrellel-plate capacitors can also be used for antigravity, discovered when a scientist noticed the capacitors in a high voltage system jumping around and vibrating while being discharged.
It has to do with assymetrical charging of parallel plates, and the Poynting Vector.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:03pmSometimes I get the impression that some news sources are taking stories about technology, prodigies, and supposed good things that people do, and they are presenting them before God as if to say, “Look God, look at this thing, maybe America is worth sparing huh?”
Report Post »Squ33
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:56pmI just hope he isn’t limited by the scientific establishment. Either way go dude go.
Report Post »BlacksAgainstObama
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:54pmJust go to Daily Beck to see the whole show.
http://www.watchglennbeck.com
Danny Lawson
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dontbotherme
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:47pmWhat an amazing gift this young man has! I wish him much success with his gift from God.
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:44pmIt’s really fascinating watching these two super geniuses interact.
Report Post »KbJockey
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:44pm@ABC and other atheists that post on the Blaze
You have said that you have “reasoned” your way to the “knowledge” that God does not exist and that no one can prove otherwise. Some of you have said that all thought processes are nothing more than electro-chemical reactions in the brain and that so called spiritual experiences are nothing more than that.
Where does your “reasoning” tell you the stimulation for this child’s intellect come from? What would cause electro-chemical reaction in the brain result in such an intellect?
Ok, I am hoping you can help me “reason” away a few experiences in my life that lead me to believe otherwise, so I can be “freed” from the constraints of religion.
Thirty two years ago my wife and I, after eight years of trying unsuccessfully to have children decided to adopt. Being unable to afford a high priced attorney we went through a church adoption agency. They told us not to spend a lot of money on clothes etc. in fact they said we should only buy one set of generic baby clothes because until they called we would not know what gender the child would be. They also said that it would be anywhere up to 18 months or more before we would receive a child. As we were approaching the 18th month of waiting my wife told me she felt we should get an extra set of baby clothes. I asked why and she said she was pretty sure we were going to be getting twins. I laughingly asked “identical or fraternal?” She said “I don’t know, but it will be twins.” I was stunned when a few days later I received a call at work that I had to “come home right now. We have to go to the agency to pick up the babies.” Yes, we received twin boys.
You might be able to convince me it was a coincidence if that was the end of it but it isn’t. At four years old the twins started saying they wanted a baby sister. We told them that it was not possible. With my wife quitting work to take care of the twins and the added expense of raising twins we had even less money for another adoption. They continued to talk about a baby sister and actually started behaving as if we had a baby.
We would be in the car going to the store or elsewhere when one or the other would pipe up from the back seat “We forgot the baby.” We would explain that we did not have a baby and they would seem to accept it for awhile. It happened repeatedly. Then one day as we were getting them into the car to leave one of them got back out of the car, looked at the house and said emphatically “We forgot the baby.” When I put him back in the car and again explained we did not have a baby, he looked at me like I was nuts. Again a few days later the adoption agency called and asked if we would be interested in adopting a baby girl.
Now reason with me if you will how it is that something that is nothing more than electro-chemical reactions in the brain can either predict a future event or cause a future event. Personally I don’t believe that wishful thinking can produce these kinds of results.
As it was neither my wife nor I were wishing for twins. The thought would scare any normal person.
Granted much of the electro-chemical reactions in the brain are the result of input from our senses, sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell. But what stimulates imagination. Could it be that there is a sixth sense a spiritual sense? What exactly was it that was communicating with my wife and four year old boys.
Just as some people are without some senses maybe many of us are without the spiritual sense, or only have it periodically. Periodically is the case with myself.
Now to the third experience which deals with prayer. A friend of mine had let me take his remote controlled glider (airplane) out to do some slope gliding. I had been flying for about half an hour when I realized I had let the plane get far enough away and to left of me that I could no longer discern whether it was flying toward me or away from me. It seemed that no matter what I did it was just getting farther and farther away. I decided the only thing to do was to ground the plane before it got out of range altogether. So I brought the plane down the best I could hoping it would not be destroyed in the process. I then proceeded to search for the plane but because of the distance and the scrub brush covered hillside and that the plane went out of sight just before landing, I had to estimate where to start looking. In addition I had a miniature greyhound on a leash to complicate things. I searched for about a half hour with out any luck. I decided to ask for help outside of myself and said a prayer, acknowledging that in the grand scheme of things this was of trivial importance but that I would appreciate it if I didn’t have to go back to my friend and tell him I lost his plane. I had been taught that you don’t pray for help without busting your butt to achieve what you pray for so I spent another hour looking for the plane. Finally it was starting to get dark so I resigned myself to having to face the embarrassment of returning without the plane. Then it happened. The dog that was with me did something odd. First let me explain. I had taken him off the leash because it was continually getting caught in the scrub brush. But it was still very annoying because for some reason he was so intimidated by the scrub brush or whatever that he remained so close in front or in back of me that I was either stepping on him or he was climbing up the back of my legs. As I started back up the hill he suddenly decided to take off in another direction. I called for him to come back but he ignored me. I yelled at him to come back and he ignored me. He would turn and look back at me and wait. I would walk toward him and he would start moving again. If I stopped and called him to come back he would stop and wait again. Now I was really annoyed because it was getting dark and I didn’t want to be trying to climb out of the scrub brush in the dark. What trails there were, were hard to see as it was. But the dog left me no choice but to follow him or lose him, so I followed him. He led me to an about 12’ by 10’ clearing in the scrub brush where the plane had landed with only a few small holes poked in the wings by some stiff grass stalks. I retrieved the plane and started up the hill and darned if the dog didn’t return to clinging to my feet. Being sufficiently humbled I forgave him. And yes, I thanked God for the help.
Now “reason” with me how it is that the electro-chemical processes in my brain were communicated to my dog and that the electro-chemical processes in his brain would somehow lead him to lead me to the plane even in defiance when I called him back.
Can you deny the possibility that there was some intelligent, purposeful communication from some source other than the individuals, including the dog, in any of these experiences?
If you can then I would suggest you suffer from the same intentional blindness that “scientists” paid by the tobacco industry suffered from when they “reasoned” that tobacco is not significantly harmful to smokers.
If you can’t deny it then you can’t deny the possibility that God exists and there goes your “reasoned knowledge” out the window.
When you dismiss or ignore all evidence that does not support your forgone conclusion you cannot in all honesty claim unbiased reasoning.
My attempt here is not to prove the existence of God but to maybe pave the way to the more honest position of agnosticism for you. Just as I cannot prove the existence of God, neither can you disprove it.
It is just as unreasonable for the person without spiritual sense to say that because I cannot feel anything spiritual nothing spiritual exists, as it is for a blind person to say because I can’t see color does not exist or the deaf person to say because I cannot hear music does not exist. True, for them it does not exist so they are dependent on the testimony of those for whom it does. Interestingly I have never heard a blind person say that color does not exist and I have never hear a deaf person say music doesn’t exist, but I have frequently heard the spiritually impaired claim that nothing spiritual exists.
Consider this. If I am wrong and at the end of my life there is nothing I will suffer nothing but will have lost very little in this life.
If you are wrong you may have a rude or possibly pleasant awakening depending on what the conditions are.
Sorry this was so long but I had a lot to say.
Report Post »obama_binpharteen
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:09pmKBJOCKEY – About 30 years ago I met a girl when I was 18. to make a long story short, we dated off and on for years, she was essentially my 1st love. Anyway, I kept in touch with my Ex and her Mom over the years. Back in 2002, I had a dream where I walked in to a hospital room and my ex was standing there and her Mom was in the bed, and in my dream my ex said that I was late. That’s all there was to the dream. The very next day after that dream, My ex who had been trying to locate me for 6 months called me, we hadn’t spoken in probably 5 years. She called me to tell me that her mom had died 6 months earlier in the hospital due to some Intestinal issues. I agree with you, how can you reason that away?
Report Post »Ozymandias
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:51pmI guess you’ve never heard the adage, “Brevity is the soul of wit?” You must really be narcissistic to believe that anyone will waste the time to read such a novel. Better luck next time.
Report Post »leftcoastslut
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:52pmwhat a beautiful story.
like I said before, autism is treated like a disability, God doesn’t create disabilities… there is always a purpose
Report Post »YouSir
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 7:03amUmmm….KB….We need to remember that deniers are merely persons who have never had the opportunity to…….experiance……Usually, there are events within the span of a persons life that are so utterly outside the realm of explanation, that it causes them to question a longheld belief or opposition……to…..belief
I used to be one such scientific personage, however, through a personal challenge to discredit faith and the total “otherness” of the spiritual, I, instead, discovered how terribly wrong….ego….had led me to be. Once you make an “honest” challenge to not blindly oppose possibility, then the truly inexplicable becomes a part of your experiance.
I would caution that “we who have experianced”, do not disparage the integrity or impugn the character of those who have not yet experianced…….
YouSir
Report Post »sodacrackers2
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:10amKBJOCKEY, I so enjoyed reading your story. When my mom was alive, we used to talk every day on the phone. Several times, I would pick up the phone to call her and she would already be on the line having just dialed my number.
Report Post »sodacrackers2
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:18amYOUSIR, I don’t believe that KB in any way disparaged the integrity or character of the unbeliever. Actually, we can only harm our own integrity and character by the way we act or react.
Report Post »RJO
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 12:58pmJust a little tip for the future…..keep it short. Reality – you may have had a lot to say, and that’s part of the process in communicating to others….but…..most readers will leave after the 34th paragraph!
By the way…..you’re wrong. See how shortness of message can be just as effective……
Report Post »jackelope
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 3:56pmreally enjoyed those stories. i’ve had a few similar events happen, myself.
Report Post »maryslittlelamb
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 4:45pmOzymandias
Report Post »Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:51pm
I guess you’ve never heard the adage, “Brevity is the soul of wit?” You must really be narcissistic to believe that anyone will waste the time to read such a novel. Better luck next time.
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Not only did I read it, I rather enjoyed it and was inspired by it. Conversely I find your comment rude, snarky and hurtful. To paraphrase a recent poster wiser than me (or YOU!): Even non-believers benefit from living in a community of believers. You would do well to quit your Christian-bashing.
KbJockey
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 6:39pm@OZYMAN and RJO
Report Post »Again I apologize for the length of my epistle. I am obviously not brilliant enough to make my argument in fewer words. Or, perhaps you haven’t the attention span to make it through more than a 30 second sound bite or 1 paragraph script.
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It has been over 6 hours since my original post. I have had 2 complaints about the length of my argument. I am amazed that I have not had complaints about my grammar or punctuation since I am obviously not a Columbia graduate.
I am also surprised that there has been no rebuttal to my “reasoning”.
KBJ
flevan
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:43pmThe Law of Conservation of Angular Momentum disproves the “Big Bang” theory. Not all celestial bodies rotate in the same direction.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 12:28amSeveral big bangs around the same time, Membrane theory.
Report Post »Echad
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 3:00amI agree FLEVAN:
Report Post »Another simple point could be made with the black whole. A black whole has such a massive gravitational effect that not even light can escape its grasp. If a hypothetical spaceship where sitting on a black whole you would have to have an almost infinite amount of power that could be used to accelerate that craft to achieve escape velocity and it would have to be able to go faster than the speed of light. At this point in time nothing has been documented that travels faster than the speed of light and therefore making it impossible to break free of its gravitational influence. Now take the mass of every black whole, star and planet that are contained in all of the galaxies that are out there and put them into one infinitesimal point. There is no amount of force that could accelerate an almost infinite mass away from that infinitesimal point it would simply collapse back upon itself.
heferwiz57
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:40pmThis is what I hate about Fox and this site…where’s the rest of the interview???????
Report Post »teachermitch32
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:31pmClick on the Dailybeck’s links above your post aways. His site provides some great highlights and the full interview is posted on YouTube.
Report Post »Cymry
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:39pmi hope glenn is smart like this kid and gets on the winning side of the birther issue (which is about to come into full view of the public). Those on the losing side (anti-birthers) got some splainin’ to do.
Report Post »BrianA
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:36pmGlenn you were kind of a jerk to him…saying you hate this kid right at the start of the interview…the stupid R2D2 joke…his parents did not look happy with you at all.
Brian
Report Post »teachermitch32
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:29pmHuh….what?
Report Post »bobrsta
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 12:46amthanks, Briana, exactly my thoughts. Glenn, for the the incredible good investigation and analysis he does, demeans the import of his work with all the sophomoric antics all the time. Watching the interview, I had the distinct impression that Beck‘s ego wouldn’t let Jacob take the center stage on his show. The integral equation he was doing on the blackboard was probably not the best TV, but Beck put him up to it and should have had the courtesy to allow the lad to complete it. He was talking to the parents as if Jacob wasn’t even in the room. I was pretty disgusted at it myself, and I think Glenn, like I said, is doing phenomenal work as a watchman.
Also, to all of you hoping that Jacob can disprove the big bang theory for the glory of the Christian religion, what is the explosion of matter, time and space from nothing into the universe we inhabit IF NOT CREATION? In the beginning, GOD…. and nothing else. From Divine force of will – BOOM – all of Creation that we perceive and cannot perceive. Science proved the existence of God, for me, with the big bang theory. As if the wonder of this world was not already proof enough…
Report Post »Al J Zira
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:28pmDon’t let Obama near him! He’ll have him come up with some kind of equation that says health care will pay every american $10,000 and cost nothing.
Report Post »rdk
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:23pmGlenn Beck really shines on this sort of topic. In essence, he shows some of the workings of God. And that gives us hope, real hope.
Report Post »neverending
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 12:10amThe amazing workings of GOD.
Report Post »quicker
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:17pm@ Psycodad36;Don`t know if you seen my other post about your questiuon,Beechwood lake is at Sabinsville Tioga co.PA.hope this helps.
Report Post »Uncle Sambo
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:15pmI’d have to ask him how does he account for the cosmic background radiation? I’d love to question him to gain new insights.
Report Post »sbenard
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:11pmGreat interview! I loved the gifts Glenn gave to Jacob and his parents. He was a sweet kid, too! I hope the arrogant academics don’t destroy him!
Report Post »jim
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:11pmThis is who the other kids should be emulating… not tuning in to Youtube to watch bully fights.
Report Post »Beandawg
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:10pmI’d love to see Media Matters try and disprove this kid!! Not a chance!!
Report Post »MrObvious
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:14pmits all in his head :)
Report Post »thedailybeck
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:08pmIf you want to see the whole interview, I have posted it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBW4S9xcTOk
Thanks,
Report Post »Joe
The Daily Beck
http://www.watchglennbeck.com
Marylou7
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:11pmI really enjoy The Daily Beck, very informative.
Report Post »sbenard
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:13pmI use that website at least 1-2 times each week. Thanks for providing that service to the community!!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:15pmThanks. I watched him on Glenn Beck today; I watched the video on The Blaze, and I’m going to click on your links and watch again.
Report Post »BlacksAgainstObama
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:53pmNice Joe, The Daily Beck is winning.
Report Post »teachermitch32
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:27pmThankyou so much Daily. Some of us are struggling and don’t have cable TV…or any TV, and can’t afford the “Insider”. This helps immensely.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:19pmThanks for the link :)
Report Post »i want the truth
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:48pmThanks for the Web information. Great site!!
Report Post »redneck hickabilly
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:07pmem=2/4<g^dm
Report Post »4(a)
Showtime
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:14pm2+2=4 (the last time I checked with my calculator).
Report Post »MOTHERSMITH
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:28pmIs that an elliptic equation?
Report Post »Oh, God!
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:23pm1+1=19! At least according to Rush’s parodies. Man, what the H E double hockey sticks was I thinking?
Report Post »Mr. Miyagi
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:24amMiyagi use abacus,
Report Post »still come out same,
add 2 to 2, still add up to 4
Bob Holland
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:38amGod help us if he starts working for the Government
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:03pmGlenn, right along with everybody else, was simply dazzled by him. Can’t wait for him to come back.
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:09pmIt’s so good to see a genius with a sweet personality and common sense. Genius isn‘t everything although it’s nice. :-D
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:36pmI’ like to see this kid interviewed by Bill Moron (mahr). It would kill him to have to nice to the kid.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:07pm@J.C. are you into “child abuse” .. I wouldn’t want ANY child near that vile idiot!
This young man has potential to change the world .. and I think his parents are not only very supportive but down to earth .. hopefully he will have his “childhood” along with fame.
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:02pmA true child of God. Will be watching him and his research.
Report Post »Cymry
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:35pmI‘ll bet you that this kid could figure out that obama isn’t eligible to be president…….like colonel hollister who got the documentation to prove that soetoro isn’t eligible. In a phrase, “yee haw” :) very happy birther here. :)
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:53pmAll children are closer to God. And, just because someone is a prodigy it doesn’t mean they are more godly, although that is what Kings think which is why they always have taken the best of people. Elijah is a “Man” of God, where is it that he was working on equations, and playing instruments?
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:55pmLet me see if I can help him prove the big bang wrong. 0 + 0 = 0
It is a bit complicated but anytime you start with nothing and combine it with nothing you still get nothing !!!!!!! ……just sayin’…..
Report Post »jzs
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:13pmThe kid certainly is a super-genious. I’ve read some about him and have read this “disprove the Big-Bang” headline a few places. I’m not a genius, but this “disprove the Big Bang” headline is an attention grabber for sure, but inaccurate. He may be questioning some of the assumptions about what occurred, the resulting ratio of H to He for example, or the relative proportion of slightly heavier elements, or the rate of expansion or whatever else. But whatever he’s doing, it’s not “disproving the Big Bang.”
Report Post »Anti_Spock
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:03pmMARY…. “A true child of God.”
Not exactly. Most brilliant men reason away religion. Instead, try one in 64 Trillion (his unique genetic expression based on total number of other possibilities)
Report Post »Tifn8r
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:15pm@watchtheotherhand
You’re absolutely right. If you could get life from an explosion and the random reorganization of molecules, every once in a while when a bomb goes off, we should end up with a cute fuzzy bunny, or a leprechaun, or SOMETHING other than a crater and the charred, smoking remains of the bomb and whatever was unfortunate enough to be near it at the time of detonation.
restorehope
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:25pmBeck gave him some historical books to read. I would be curious to hear the boy’s opinion of Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. I hope he will be able to adjust to society, have a happy life, and not be treated as a specimen to study. Think of what his mind could do if he were to concentrate on a particular problem in the field of medicine, physics, etc. Awesome.
Report Post »Cesium
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:30pmHe’s not trying to prove or disprove a god or creator people!!! He is challenging a model… for those nutty believers out there.. don’t even for a second think that if the big bang is disproved that this is proof of a creator!!!!
Report Post »Peace
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:35pmMaybe he will come up with a way to create peace on earth.
God has given each of us unique gifts, if we can only believe in ourselves like this boy has been allowed to do. Notice the school put him in special Ed, and his mom is the one who knew he was gifted.
Report Post »MASTER YODA
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:36pmThis kid really bothers me. To use the force to turn his hat around to the front he needs. Hmmmmmm.
Report Post »RightWrite
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 12:14amI read somewhere that Jacobs IQ is so beyond any test, they can’t measure it. I’m sure that a whole lot of snobby scientists are hating Jacob Barnett — the debunking of the big-bang theory is huge.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 1:04amjzs
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:13pm
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Considering your IQ is about 100 points lower than this kids, you should not doubt him. Especially when he says he actually has TWO theories that dis-prove the big-bang. BTW… your try at coming off smart did not work. The regulars here know better.
CNN Poll is Bogus!
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PrfctlyFrank
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 1:08amWhy would you want to disprove the “Big Bang?” How do you think The Creator got the process started in the first place?? He made the bang happen.. No doubt in my mind..
Report Post »Capo
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 2:24amHeck with the Big Bang….how about deciphering the “Big Budget”!!! Get the kid to do the math and tell the Democrats EXACTLY what their problem is….TOO MUCH SPENDING!!! …of course, we don’t need a kid genius to splain that….BUT, I bet Jacob could mathematically balance the budget better n faster than any of those politicking fools in Congress and Senate!!! Wouldn’t THAT be a trip…a 12 year old kid balances the Federal Budget while the old fools in both parties stand there with their undies in a bundle knowing they ain’t smarter than a 7th grader!!! …sorry, 12 yr old college boy genius! d:) God Bless ya Jacob….whatever you do in life!!!
Report Post »Echad
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 2:41amI believe that this wonderful boy will challenge many of the so called established theories. He knows how to think out of the box because he hasn’t had years of indoctrination of the public schools and sees things with a fresh mind!
Report Post »txbigfoot
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 7:28amWhile he is a child of GOD, he is trying to dispel GOD and the Big Bang theory.
Report Post »VerySeniorCitizen
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:02amThink ‘Good Will Hunting’! Think Albert Einstein! Think Stephen Hawkings! Think Leonardo DaVinci! One is a fictional character but the other three probably (in different fields) were/are the most brilliant minds in history. And what happened to all – except the fictional character? Each and every one is/was subject to ridicule because folks like you and I don’t understand their minds. And what we don’t understand – because this country fails to educate our children to their full potential – we tend to either turn into a ‘money-making-machine’ or they are ridiculed. In each case it is the person with brain power who loses.
Autism is still a mystery to the medical profession. I remember some thirty years ago (maybe more) there was a young boy who read the bible once and could then repeat it by heart, Chapter and verse! He then went on to read the Cambridge Dictionary. He had a photographic memory and his ‘handlers’ were greedy. The young man died because he was worked too hard by his greedy family – just as if he had been a beast.
Another child could listen to any of the great composers and play the same concert piece when he got home. By the time he was nine years old – he was teaching music.
You know, if there is someone out there who can DISPROVE the Big Bang, there is also someone out there who can PROVE Genesis, the Garden of Eden and God! Why? Because there is either a relationship between the two answers – or they are BOTH wrong!
I do hope that the young man in Glenn’s piece is taken seriously – and allowed to do ONLY what he wants to do – and NOT what everyone else EXPECTS him to do.
Report Post »swigs
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 9:18am@PrfctlyFrank
“Why would you want to disprove the “Big Bang?” How do you think The Creator got the process started in the first place?? He made the bang happen.. No doubt in my mind.”
This is precisely what the non-believers will have God believers believing. It nakes God believers look stupid. Only an infinite God can create an infinite Universe. Always was always will be…like God.
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 9:21amThe CIA is going to try to gobble him up.
Report Post »Marcobob69
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 9:44amI just hope he does great things with his abilities. He has the brainpower to change the direction of science for decades to come. there is literally nothing this person cannot do with the brainpower he has. Almost scary, if you stop and think about it, and if he decides to go the DE-structive route instead of CON-structive, he will REALLY be scary!!! Intellect like his comes around once in a millennium, if we are lucky.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 10:07amthepatriotdave, nice slam. But explain to me what “disprove the big bang” actually means? That broad concept is universally accepted by comsologists, without exception. It’s “proven” by the CBR. It’s simply the idea that the universe was once very small, and now is very large. Go buy a Steven Hawking book and learn something about the Big Bang.
Whatever he’s doing, he’s not “disproving the Big Bang.” Maybe he questions the standard model of the event, but not that the universe was was tiny, and is now large. That’s all the generic term “Big Bang” means.
Report Post »Clydie_Clyde
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 11:30amJZS is correct. The universe is expanding. It’s observable for crissakes.
wow
Report Post »ginsberg
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 11:42amI would rather have the kid around mahar then a little gold hoarding troll like beck.
Report Post »Kartisan
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 11:47amIf God created the galaxies before He let time run freely then as soon as He let time run the appearance of the universe would have been a Big Bang. Think of a team of computer programers creating a video game or simulation of some environment time is not initialized until the environment( or what they are currently testing) is complete because it is by far easier than in a dynamic environment ( in this world we don’t create our building molecule by molecule, so that is not a comparison). For an almighty being on the other hand either way can be done but for the dynamic environment the time to create an individual object is beyond miniscule thus say a galaxy could be created in 1 trillionth of a second then the universe would appear to have popped up in less than a second, and can you discern a trillionth of a second?
Report Post »Old Truckers
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 11:50amhhmmm,,,, but can he tie his own shoe laces?
As far as the Big Bang THEORY, explosions do create anything worthwhile.
Only design and engineering produce useful things.
Job 38:1 “And Jehovah proceeded to answer Job out of the windstorm and say:
2 “Who is this that is obscuring counsel
By words without knowledge?
3 Gird up your loins, please, like an able-bodied man,
And let me question you, and you inform me.
4 Where did you happen to be when I founded the earth?
Tell [me], if you do know understanding.
5 Who set its measurements, in case you know,
Or who stretched out upon it the measuring line?
6 Into what have its socket pedestals been sunk down,
Or who laid its cornerstone,”
If the kid can figure this out, then he has true wisdom.
Report Post »Cerealface
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 12:47pmChild of God? Could you get any more vague?
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The kid they had has autism.
He is gifted in applying his photographic memory.
Lets marvel at the fact he has photographic memory.
stifroc
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 12:55pmJZS
ZOMG you totally WTFPWN!
Report Post »This kids can think circles around everyone else on this planet, but NOT YOU buuuuuudy!
You’re so awesome you do more drugs that Charlie Sheen!
S G Applebee
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 12:58pm10-15 years ago I watched a show on the worlds “smartest” man. His IQ was off the charts and couldn’t even be calculated. He said he was going to “prove” the existence of God, but it‘s been over a decade and I’m still waiting. He had a “photographic memory” as well, but did that mean he truly UNDERSTOOD, or that he simply had a photographic memory?
Report Post »Oh, btw, he worked as a bouncer in a bar.
YellowFin
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 1:25pmOld Truckers, “explosions do create anything worthwhile”
I think you meant explosions do NOT create anything worthwhile. Just saying..
I was thinking of the current inventions of man, none of those successful inventions came about from an explosion. Design, Thought, and Engineering always come before a completed project.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 1:54pmGlen…when you said you had a gift for Jacob and his parents….books?…give him a trip to disneyland or something like that…but books?….I’m guessing the kid has enough books…looking forward to what this kid comes up with.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 2:27pmThis is the second time this story has run.
The kid was wrong the first time, and wrong the second time, and Glenn is obsessed.
watchmany2k
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 2:27pmHear O America
How many gifts like Jacob have you aborted ?
Because some “doctor” says they are deformed, or will not be “normal”…
How many great musicians have you aborted ?
Because some “mother” was a drug addict…
How many great artisans have you aborted ?
Because some teenager did not have to tell her parents ….
How much great love have you aborted ?
Because if was not convenient, or you convinced yourself you could not afford it …
How many children of God have you aborted ?
Because you allow those with a sick mind to declare it a “right”
I sent you your mathematician to solve your puzzles,
I sent you your musician to bring you Joy,
I sent your artisan to restore your beauty,
I sent you your “George Washington” to restore your honor, and freedom,
these and more you murder with abandon, and declare yourself civilized,
You have drunk the cup to it’s dregs.
Yet you will be surprised when they take you away with hooks in your nose…..
You behold this child Jacob and wonder !
Yet he is one of many, only his parents ARE parents.
Even the “ordinary” child has great intellect,
until you let the unionized, agenda driven, abomination called public school
to destroy their curiosity, their spirit, and their will, along with the greatest crime of all, you allow them to prevent the child from knowing the Father, the Lord Our God,
in honor of their idols of government, greed and power disguised as scholars and scribes.
This Child, Jacob, is what could have been …
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 3:08pmHey JZS,
Report Post »This youing man theory of disproving the big bang theory can and should just as accepted as much as the big bang theory ……why because theories are assumption from the start science can no more prove him wrong than it can prove him right. The bigger point to all this is why waste time on something that’s unprovable when there are so many real problems in the world. Like how do we get rid of all the JZS’S of the world.
jzs
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 3:24pmSometimes coming to this website I feel like I‘ve walked into Alice’s Wonderland given the responses I get. This kid is miraculous and I have said nothing to the effect that he’s wrong. What I’ve questioned is the reporting. I watched the interview (good one by the way) and was impressed. I actually did take a class in infinite series, and although I remember next to nothing, I know enough to realize the kid knew what he was doing in proving the convergence of that series. I’m not questioning the kid. Why the knee-jerk reaction?
In any case, I watched the interview and read the linked article. Nowhere did the kid say he was “disproving the big bang”. The person that wrote the article said “if not the big bang, then what?” Glen said the kid was disproving the big bang. But the kid didn’t say that.
Best I can tell, he’s saying that the neither current models supernova explosions, nor the models of big bang explain the amount of carbon in the universe today.
Perhaps someone would kindly post a link or video of he, himself – not Glen, not a reporter – saying he is trying to disprove the big bang.
Report Post »Nick84
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:15pmYou people fail to realize that, even if the Big Bang Theory is wrong, it doesn’t make religion correct. Furthermore, it is a ridiculous assumption to think that out of all the possible religions, it makes YOUR specific religion correct.
Report Post »Jim S
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:53pmIt’s a shame no one told the boy that true science research is following facts to a end truth. NOT stating a truth and then find facts to support it. We should NOT encourage poor science because we might agree with his goal. It’s this method that leads to Global Cooling then Global Warming and Global Climate Change. If someone had followed proper protocol we would not have had the mass confusion we have now. Encourage the boys hunger for knowledge with the proper guardrails to keep him on track.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:24pmJZS..in answering your question whether Jacob said he wanted to disprove the big bang theory…your right… he never said it…but…when Glen said Jacob wanted to disprove the big bang theory… in the tv interview…did you see Jacob’s reaction?…his arm went down like…yeah…I‘m thinking thats exactly what Jacob’s aiming for….I for one wish him luck.
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