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End Times by Charles Pallaghy, PhD
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Born in Kecskemet 1939 in Hungary, to a German mother and Hungarian father Charles Pallaghy PhD grew up in war-torn Hungary and Germany before emigrating to Australia. He can recall arriving in Port Philip Bay Melbourne on his tenth birthday. From there the family was shipped by train to Bonegilla Refugee Camp, where Charles first learnt to speak English. He attended services at the German Lutheran Church as well as the Hungarian Reformed Church. Charles graduated from the universities of Melbourne and Tasmania in Chemistry and Biophysics respectively with a doctorate to follow. While at university he met his Czech born teacher wife Milena who sadly passed away a few months ago. His son Paul and daughter Jennifer have broadly speaking followed in their father’s footsteps into the scientific world. As a child Charles could never understand why no one really challenged him about what he thought of God, and when he reflects on his life, he realises he spent a fair proportion protesting to the academia world against general evolution theory and here he is in this book ‘End Times’ protesting against creationism and church organisations for deliberately concealing important facts in the bible for fear of unnerving their adherents.
Controversy seems to follow Charles around when he speaks in public re the subject matter of creation-evolution, whether he relishes, courts controversary, or simply attracts it as he strongly debates his view points on creation and evolution well I’ll let you the public be a judge on that matter after you have read his book and delved into his website www.creation6000.com where he reveals more about his life and beliefs. Charles’ viewpoints have on occasions caught the attention of the Australian press, so much so he attracted the attention of one David Frost, later known as Sir David Frost who interviewed him about his creation-evolution thoughts, as he was working in Australia at the time. So, Charles’ one claim to fame is that he was interviewed by the same man who interviewed the late former US President Richard Nixon albeit on a different topic, not Watergate.
The book itself is not a book to be read as a novel, for me it’s more an anthology of biblical research, with personal views and insights surrounding the book of Revelations, not only is it the last book in the New Testament but in the Christian bible as well. Revelations is a complex as well as absorbing book and for me Charles has gone about debating this book diligently, and it’s well executed with poignant cross-referencing to other parts of the bible. The illustrations, time charts and pictures enhance the text. There are two parts to the book the first part Charles concentrates on the revealment of the Lord’s coming is nigh backed up with facts and biblical references, the second part Charles talks about lessons around the Bride of Christ coming, to whom will the Lord appear to? when the end comes what would it look like? and who will be saved and who won’t.
How do you sum up a person’s life in a few words or a short video especially as that person has led such a deep and fulfilling life in so many ways? The simple answer is with great difficulty as I have found. So read his book ‘End Times’ and head to his website www.creation6000.com to ascertain more about what Charles Pallaghy PhD is talking about and you’ll even discover why his website is aptly named.
Thank you, Charles, for giving me the opportunity to talk to you about your fascinating life and works.
I was born on a warm summer’s evening to Irish immigrants. My father was born in Ireland under British rule, he kept British citizenship, which allowed him to join the British Royal Air Force and follow a career in aero engineering at Rolls Royce in Derby. My mother was actually born in Manhattan New York but after the tragic death of her father when she was just seven months old led her mother eventually having remarried several years later to return to Ireland, it was there on the wild west coastline my mother spent much of her childhood.
In August 1957 my parents married and settled in Derby where my brother and I along with our late sister grew up. On reflection we weren’t particularly financially well off but there again nor where the kids that we grew up with, so we were non the wiser. However my parents instilled in us to respect others and to do things with our lives that they weren’t able to do.
When I was at school I excelled in Geography looking at all the different places in the world. So I suppose it was that geographical background coupled with wanting to achieve things that my parents weren’t able to do so, that set me on my worldly travels.
The excitement of travel coupled with the allure of seeing different cultures especially the many facets of kid’s lives in those places in contrast to my own narrow childhood inspired me to write the book. I want kids to see beyond their own streets and their smartphones and I hope that when they’ve read the book they will start to see that different kids from dissimilar places in the world live and experience contrasting lives and some of those lifestyles can be defined as harsh. But above all I hope it inspires some of my young readers to follow in my footsteps and witness life in all its forms.
The one thing that I’ve learnt in life is that theory in itself is fine but putting that theory into a practical form like a book is somewhat different. I suppose what I’m trying to say here is having an idea for a book and actually writing it and promoting it to the public is a far cry from the initial notion. So what made me take the leap from the first mental pictures to transferring them to words on a page that kids and adults alike can read any where in the world, well that hawks back to my parents encouragement wanting me to achieve things they couldn’t.
As a child writing never came easy to me, and when I look back at some of the letters I wrote to my parents from boarding school I can only hang my head in shame. I suppose being a boy more interested with what was going on in the school playground rather than the classroom would lead my mother who was by then an English teacher to tearing her hair out, the look of despondency written on her face as she tried to get me to read a single page of a book only to hear me begrudgingly recite a page in front of her and asking having got to the end of the page, ”can I go now.” Little did I know then that not having the ability to read and write properly would set me back in life, something I later rectified. So kids you can change but go and see the world in all its beauty, and don’t forget respect all nations.