This is part of a series about the book “The Creation of the Universe” by Adnan Oktar. View Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6.

This is part of a series about the book “The Creation of the Universe” by Adnan Oktar. View Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5.

This is part of a series about the book “The Creation of the Universe” by Adnan Oktar. View Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.

This is part of a series about the book “The Creation of the Universe” by Adnan Oktar. View Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.

This is part of a series about the book “The Creation of the Universe” by Adnan Oktar. View Part 1 and Part 2.

This is part of a series about the book “The Creation of the Universe” by Adnan Oktar. View Part 1.

I’m going to be reading “The Creation of the Universe” by Adnan Oktar (under the pen name of Harun Yahya). The Introduction is called “The Scientific Collapse of Materialism”.

Auckland put on a hell of a party for the opening night of the Rugby World Cup. The opening ceremony kicked off at Eden Park at 7:30pm, followed by the first game, NZ vs Tonga at 8:30pm. At the same time, there was a world cup opening party in the CBD, with waka arriving, a procession of 600 warriors through the city, a mass haka and free concerts by Dave Dobbyn & the Finn brothers on Queens Wharf. Our place has a great view of "party central", Queens Wharf. We can see the big screens from here, although they are too far away to really be able to see anything. The best view was on TV. We can hear pretty well, so could hear both of the concerts, though. Stephen took a video of the view so will link to it when I can.

My flight was scheduled for 9: 45am. It was still dark at 6am but it didn't look like there had been any further snowfall, and it wasn't snowing anymore. Once it got a bit lighter, we could see that there was a couple of inches of snow, and they sent out a fire engine with a snowplow attachment to start clearing it.

My flight was one of two to depart at 4:20pm, but because the inbound flight was delayed, we were now scheduled to depart at 4:45pm, and start boarding at 4:25pm. About 5 minutes before boarding was due to start I thought I should probably go to the toilet and get packed up and ready to go. On my way to the toilet, I stopped to look at the view of the hills to the east out of the big picture windows. By the time I came out of the toilets, all I could see out of that window was white. The entire airport was engulfed in a blizzard. It was like being inside a snow globe. Over the next hour, they just kept delaying the flights by 15 minutes at a time, until finally around 5:30pm there was a bit of a break.