Hat tip to Bad Astronomy.
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The Statement, leaked to The Times is being considered by the Vatican, where Catholic bishops are preparing a formal response.
It comes as the archbishops who lead the 38 provinces of the Anglican Communion meet in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in an attempt to avoid schism over gay ordination and other liberal doctrines that have taken hold in parts of the Western Church.
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Were this week's discussions to lead to a split between liberals and conservatives, many of the former objections in Rome to a reunion with Anglican conservatives would disappear. Many of those Anglicans who object most strongly to gay ordination of women priests.
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Ernst Zundel has been sentenced to 5 years in jail in Germany for
Holocaust Denial. Link to Dispatches Post
<http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2007/02/holocaust_denier_gets_5_years.php>
Again, I'm left with mixed feelings. I won't miss him. I wasn't upset
when he got the boot out of Canada; I don't really support these sorts
of laws.
To paraphrase the once funny Dennis Miller: Is it fair to have these
people screaming this hateful bile anywhere they like? Sure, because
when you can hear them, you know where the fuck they are.
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Research: God did speak world into existence
Okay, so there's a science student in Kentucky who says that he can
scientifically prove that god spoke the world into existence.
To quote:
"If God spoke everything into existence as the Genesis record proposes, then we should be able to scientifically prove that the construction of everything in the universe begins with a) the Holy Spirit (magnetic field); b) Light (an electric field); and c) that Light can be created by a sonic influence or sound," Samuel J. Hunt writes on his website.Now the first thing that I don't understand is that the Holy Spirit is a magnetic field. Does that mean that the little kitten saying "Hang in There!" holding my hydro bill to the fridge is imbued of the Holy Spirit?
"There are several documented and currently taught laboratory experiments that accurately portray the events in Genesis in sequential order, the most important being that of sonoluminescence," he wrote.
That, he described to WND, is the circumstance in which sending a sonic signal into bubbles in a fluid causes the bubbles to collapse and they release photons, or create light.
Sonoluminescence?!? Okay a little Googling tells me that it's real and even has a Wikipedia entry. Who knew that? Okay now this actually brings about a couple of problems then...
1) Fiat Lux means Let There be Ultraviolet for About 35 Picoseconds.
2) Theologically, this is God:
Fluid Mechanics
The dynamics of the motion of the bubble is characterized to a first approximation by the Rayleigh-Plesset equation
R\ddot{R}+\frac{3}{2}\dot{R}^{2}=\frac{1}{\rho}\left(p_g-P_0-P(t)-4\eta\frac{\dot{R}}{R}-
\frac{2\gamma}{R}\right).This is an approximate equation that is derived from the compressible Navier-Stokes equations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier-Stokes_equations), and describes the motion of
the radius of the bubble /R/ as a function of time (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time)/t/. Here, η is the viscosity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscosity), /p/ the pressure (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure), and γ the surface tension (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_tension). This equation, though approximate, has been shown to give good estimates on the motion of the bubble under the acoustically (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustics) driven pressure collapse of the bubble.
Things that make you go Hmmm. Indeed.
So what do this student's teachers think?
"My professors think my application of accepted laws and theories may bend the rules a bit, but the ideas are thought-provoking and progressive," he said.
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"Some of my teachers are like, 'That's complete hogwash,'" he said, "while others say, 'That's pretty interesting.'"
Somehow, I think I know where some of the teachers are going with this.
So why does he want to do this?
His goal is to bring a unity to the Christian community, "just like the founders of our nation expected and wanted from the Constitution."
The documentation of his processes, Hunt believes, could end debate.
"People want to know the truth, to have something to stand on that's not
trickery and deceit," he said. "This gives people something real to
touch, hang on to."
Hmmm. Only if I could buy a book or something to find out a bit more.
The outline, available at scienceprovescreation.com, already has sold more than 1,700 copies.
Oh, yeah. There's a book for sale.
So if you can prove it mathematically, is it actually God?
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So the text and commentary:
An initiative filed by proponents of same-sex marriage would require heterosexual couples to have kids within three years or else have their marriage annulled. Initiative 957 was filed by the Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance. That group was formed last summer after the state Supreme Court upheld Washington's ban on same-sex marriage. Under the initiative, marriage would be limited to men and women who are able to have children. Couples would be required to prove they can have children in order to get a marriage license, and if they did not have children
within three years, their marriage would be subject to annulment.
An interesting idea. It really does follow the logic of the Theocratic Conservatives in the States and spilling over into Canada. It smacks of a wholesale buy-in of the logic of mariage. But it's a logic that the Theo-cons themselves don't see. They would never step in to ban divorce
-- too big an infringement on their god given rights...or somesuch.
All other marriages would be defined as "unrecognized" and people in those marriages would be ineligible to receive any marriage benefits.
"For many years, social conservatives have claimed that marriage exists solely for the purpose of procreation ... The time has come for these conservatives to be dosed with their own medicine," said WA-DOMA organizer Gregory Gadow in a printed statement. "If same-sex couples should be barred from marriage because they can not have children together, it follows that all couples who cannot or will not have children together should equally be barred from marriage."
Supporters must gather more than 224,000 valid signatures by July 6 to put the initiative on the November ballot.
Opponents say the measure is another attack on traditional marriage, but supporters say the move is needed to have a discussion on the high court ruling.
The thing I like here at the end is that this is also an attack on traditional marriage. By going along with what people say you can also attack them. Now that's some sneaky, shifty gay agenda...
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http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BadAstronomyBlog/~3/88195512/
Do check it out. It's got its funny moments.
And if the HTML is correct in this bit, I'll have a link to Aldrin
punching that aho in the chin. Look up the word 'aho' at Jim Breen's
online dictionary <http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/%7Ejwb/wwwjdic.html>.
Use the second definition. You'll agree.
Oh and there's Plait on the Penn Jillette show here
<http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/BadAstronomyBlog/%7E3/87552352/>.
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