This blog is mostly about freedom of speech.
So go away(I wanted to write something else but were afraid to offend you.) if you can’t bear a casual swearword.

The winner by unanimous decision is……

This story is not that surprising though. An increasing number of xians now believe that President Obama is the anti-christ! I mean, for f**ks sake, they have Dubya for 8 years and they think Obama is the anti-christ?

http://www.religiondispatches......lical_vote

Quote: “Obama is caught in a classic catch-22. The Antichrist, the Bible explains, is going to masquerade as an angel of light. This means that the more Obama accomplishes as president and the more he improves America’s image abroad, the more suspicious evangelicals will become; they don’t want to be duped by the devil. Obama’s talk of more cooperation with other nations, the possibility of a national health care plan, his move to nationalize some private businesses, and his goal of expanding protection of the rights of gays and lesbians will drive evangelicals to one certain conclusion: the End of Days are upon us. ”

There’s no saving them, is there?…..

I was brought up by Anglicans in a sea of Methodism, where people do not swear at all. If we said “damn” or “bloody” in school we were uncouth and had to stand in the corner. Only people of low intelligence or little education swear, to cover up for their lack of vocabulary. In a high quality website like this one I am disappointed when someone uses curses instead of useful words. If you use women’s body parts as swearwords you have a real problem with feminism.

I have seen clips of that lecture before, and I consider Krauss to be, not only a brilliant thinker, but an entertaining speaker. But, without writing a book, I will put down my reasons for doubt about current accepted dogma of astrophysicists.

They consider that the fact that redshift evidence demonstrate that the further a galaxy is from us, the faster it is moving away from us, to be conclusive evidence of anti-gravity dark energy. Bullshit!! If you lived on a particle of dust involved in an explosion in a vacuum, you would observe the same effect.

And he alludes to the experiments below ground to detect dark matter, but fails to reveal that all these experiments have been total failures. Square one.

But, like me, he subscribes to the theory that if you add up everything in the universe, it necessarily must equal zero. So, let me get weird here, and speculate that an intelligence could spit zero in half. A negative one (electron) and a positive one (proton) then we would have a hydrogen atom. Repeat the process enough times, and you would have a cloud of sufficient gravity to reach critical mass at its core. Since every natural element in nature is known to be the product from collapsed hydrogen stars, and since Mr. Krauss’s video model of how energetic “nothing” is, is wildly theoretical, it settles nothing, and brings me no closer to accepting that which can not be known. Granted, religion is BULLSHIT!!!! but when you accept facts not in evidence, you are becoming religious yourself.

NeoWolfe

“So what is beneath the tortoise?” asks Russell .

“You think you are so clever young man but you are not. It is tortoises all the way down,” she says.

OK, it is simple stuff. Sadly, that is about the quality of much of the fundamentalist debate in the USA.

In defence of Texas and the rest of the USA. It is so sad that so many brilliant scientists, academics etc in Texas and elsewhere are besmirched by the ID crap that infects their schools.

You might find the following video of interest:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....38;index=2

It’s the amazing Lawrence Krauss talking on the subject of ‘A Universe From Nothing’.

In a nutshell, since the negative energy of the universe (its gravity) is exactly counterbalanced by its positive energy (its mass), the universe is the ‘ultimate free lunch’.