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p.02 Big Bang, Black Holes, Cuckoo ‘Scientists’ & Common Sense
p.04 Russia To Target Proposed Antimissile Bases In Poland – just as Blair softens up UK public for same!
p.05 US Generals "Will Quit" If Bush Attacks Iran
p.07 BEWARE OF MONOTHEISM by Dr. Timothy Leary: The Intelligence Agents.
p.09 Terence McKenna Burned Out! – unexplained blaze destroys furthest-out library on planet!
p.10 Al Gore's Oscar Stirs 2008 Election Buzz
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Big Bang, Black Holes, and Common Sense
by David Pratt
How big is the universe? How far does space extend?
Common sense tells us the universe must be infinite, for it is impossible to imagine an absolute boundary somewhere with no space beyond it.
And, since nothing can come from nothing, boundless space must always have existed.
The standard Big-Bang theory, however, the most popular scientific theory of the origin of the universe, tells a vastly different story. It claims that in the beginning – just 8 to 15 billion years ago – there was absolutely nothing, no matter, no energy, no consciousness, not even any space.
And out of this nothingness the universe suddenly popped into being as a result of a ‘random quantum fluctuation’. After originating as an infinitesimal point, of infinite density and temperature, space has supposedly been stretching like elastic ever since.
If, however, there was no space, no matter and no energy before the hypothetical Big Bang, there was obviously nothing to undergo a ‘fluctuation’ and nowhere for it to occur! But Big Bangers have long since abandoned ordinary rules of logic to create a fantasy world of their own, based on advanced mathematical acrobatics.
Some Big Bangers claim that space curves round upon itself so that it is finite and yet has no boundaries. They believe the universe will at some point in the future start to contract, and end its life in a ‘big crunch’ in which it annihilates itself, leaving ‘literally nothing’.
>> for the poor saps who’ve been brainwashed by all this Life must seem pretty damn pointless, u get me? If Reality has a psychedelic aspect then this shit would be at the opposite extreme.
Other Big Bangers claim that, although space popped into existence a finite period ago and expands at a finite pace, it somehow became infinite – and yet, even though it is infinite, it still manages to keep on expanding!
It is amazing that such half-baked ideas have managed to be passed off as ‘science’. But as George Orwell once said, ‘There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe them.’
>> any of you still out there?
When confronted with any scientific theory, it’s important to distinguish between facts on the one hand and assumptions and interpretations on the other. It’s also necessary to examine opposing points of view. But scientists who challenge the reigning theories often encounter major obstacles in trying to make their voices heard, with the result that the public may be completely unaware that alternative ideas exist.
In a recent article listing the top 30 problems with the Big Bang, astronomer Tom Van Flandern points out that the theory is constantly undergoing ad hoc adjustments in order to accommodate new, unexpected discoveries.
Perhaps never in the history of science has so much quality evidence accumulated against a model so widely accepted within a field. Even the most basic elements of the theory – the expansion of the universe and the fireball remnant radiation – remain interpretations with credible alternative explanations.
Plasma physicist Wal Thornhill puts it more bluntly: ‘Forget the glossy astronomy books and magazines – the Big Bang is pure fiction.’
The main piece of evidence for the Big Bang and an expanding universe is the redshift. This refers to the fact that light from distant galaxies shows a shift towards longer (redder) wavelengths, which indicates that it is losing energy. Big Bangers interpret this to mean that space is expanding and all galaxies are flying apart at immense speed. But not everybody agrees.
G. de Purucker rejected the theory of an expanding universe or expanding space as ‘little short of being a scientific pipe-dream or fairy-tale’, and suggested that the redshift might be caused by light losing energy during its long voyage through the ether of space. This is known as the tired-light theory, and it is supported by several scientists, including Tom Van Flandern and Paul LaViolette, who have shown that it fits the data far better than the expanding-universe hypothesis.
Furthermore, if redshifts were caused mainly by velocity they ought to show a continuous range of values, but instead they show periodicities, being multiples of certain basic units. Most Big Bangers have studiously ignored this puzzle. The entire edifice of the theory is therefore built on a single unwarranted assumption – that galaxy redshifts are primarily caused by recession velocities.
Mainstream astronomers believe that because quasars normally have very high redshifts, they must be situated near the edge of the observable universe, and are rushing away from us at velocities approaching the speed of light. If they were really as far away as their redshifts imply, some quasars would be radiating a thousand times more energy than an entire galaxy, even though they are only as big as our solar system. This has led to the belief that they must be powered by monstrous ‘Black Holes’.
>> and on and on it goes: if that shows a hole in the theory, patch this weird idea in to cover it, ooh there’s another hole how about this then?
The reasoning behind these conclusions is flawed. Not only is the redshift not a reliable measure of velocity; it is not a reliable measure of distance either, for there is abundant evidence that galaxies at the same distance can have vastly different redshifts. A galaxy’s redshift appears to depend partly on its age, for active, low-redshift galaxies are sometimes surrounded by high-redshift galaxies (often quasars) that have apparently been ejected from them; pairs of these embryo-galaxies often line up on either side of the parent galaxy and are connected to it by luminous bridges or jets of matter. The redshifts of galaxies and stars appear to decrease as they get older.
Orthodox cosmologists have systematically tried to ignore, dismiss, ridicule, and suppress this evidence. Astronomer Halton Arp has played a key role in bringing these findings to light. Like other opponents of the Big Bang, he has encountered great difficulties getting articles published in mainstream journals, and his requests for time on ground-based and space telescopes are frequently rejected.
The Big Bang has clearly become an article of faith for a great many scientists. Interestingly, it was first proposed by a Belgian priest, Georges Lemaître, in 1927, and in 1951 it even received the blessing of Pope Pius XII!
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/bang.htm
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As Blair Considers New US Antimissile Bases In The UK
Russia Threatens To Target Proposed Bases In Poland,
Czech Republic And Withdraw From INF Missile Treaty
by Arthur Bright / The Christian Science Monitor
A top Bush advisor left for Moscow Tuesday to deal with rising tensions between the US and Russia over American plans to build missile defence bases in Poland and the Czech Republic. National security advisor Stephen Hadley set out for talks in Moscow just a day after a Russian general warned that Poland and the Czech Republic could become targets if they played host to US antimissile bases, meant to defend against Iranian ballistic missiles.
Though the trip was planned weeks ago, it now comes in the context of the harsh Russian words about the antimissile plan, the earlier stinging denunciation of U.S. policy by [Russian] President Vladimir Putin, and the underlying Russian suggestion that a hidden American agenda is designed to expand its influence in Eastern Europe.
Comments earlier this month by Mr. Putin were hostile to the US missile defence plan, saying that American plans to build such a shield had "overstepped its national boundaries in every way."
RIA Novosti reports that those American antimissile bases could prompt Russia to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) that the US and USSR signed in 1987. Nikolai Solovtsov, commander of Russia's Strategic Missile Forces, said Tuesday that "If a political decision is taken to quit the treaty, the Strategic Missile Forces are ready to carry out this task."
Army General Yury Baluyevsky, the chief of the Russian General Staff, said last February 15 that Moscow might unilaterally abandon the treaty.
"It is possible for a party to abandon the treaty [unilaterally] if it provides convincing evidence that it is necessary to do so," said Baluyevsky. "We currently have such evidence."
The INF treaty eliminated nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges of 500 to 5,500 kilometres (300 to 3,400 miles). By the treaty's deadline of June 1, 1991, a total of 2,692 such weapons had been destroyed, 846 by the U.S. and 1,846 by the Soviet Union.
However, the Guardian reports that while the centre-right, pro-American governments of Poland and the Czech Republic support the missile defence plan, "some opposition parties are against the plan and polls in recent weeks suggest that up to two-thirds of Poles and Czechs oppose their country taking part."
Russian officials have said that Iran has no missiles capable of reaching the United States or even Western Europe, and that Iran is incapable of developing them any time soon. Sergei Ivanov, then defence minister, told the German newspaper Die Welt this month that it would take "at least 20 years" for Iran to develop missiles that could reach Central Europe.
"I think you can draw your own conclusions about which missiles this system actually targets," Solovtsov said. "This is why we are watching the situation with anxiety and concern."
As NATO planned its expansion to the East, the alliance had guaranteed Russia it would not station any important military capacities on the new members' territory for the long-term, Nassauer said.
"Now Moscow feels betrayed because the biggest NATO state doesn't feel bound (to that guarantee) and wants to station national rather than NATO capacities," he said.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022307A.shtml
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Berlin Love Parade Dumps Berlin
Organisers of the Berlin Love Parade announced this week that they're seeking a new location 'in Germany or Europe' to stage an event this summer, and blasted local authorities for failing to grant them a permit.
"We have on several occasions attempted to get the City of Berlin to grant us written approval, and repeatedly postponed the press conference for this reason. But now time is running out and we cannot wait any longer!" Rainer Schaller, boss of the company behind the event, wrote on his official website.
"Because we nevertheless want to organize a Loveparade for this year, we have taken the decision to seek out a new partner city in Germany or Europe. As of this moment cities interested in hosting the event can get in contact with us."
However, Berlin city spokesperson Petra Roland said it was 'common practice not to issue a written permit till three weeks before the event' (expatica.com) and added that the only outstanding issue had been over the placing of temporary traffic signs.
Reuters pointed out that last year's event attracted just half a million revellers compared to the 1.5 million in 1999, but added 'in a city with close to 20% unemployment, festivals with the attraction power of the Love Parade provide a welcome boon to hotels, restaurants and clubs.'
http://www.loveparade.com
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BEWARE OF MONOTHEISM
Dr. Timothy Leary: The Intelligence Agents.
Monotheism is the primitive religion which centres human consciousness on Hive Authority. There is One God and His Name is (substitute Hive-Label).
If there is only One God then there is no choice, no option, and no selection of reality. There is only Submission or Heresy. The word Islam means "submission." The basic posture of Christianity is kneeling and begging. Thy will be done.
Monotheism therefore does no harm to hive-oriented terrestrials who eagerly seek to lay-off responsibility on some Big Boss. It does profound mischief to those who are evolving to post-hive stages of reality, however. Advanced evolutionary mutants do make the discovery that "All is One," as the realisation dawns that "My Brain creates all the realities that I experience."
The discovery of Self is frightening because the novitiate possessor of the Automobile Body and the Automobile Brain must accept all the power that the hive religions attributed to the jealous Jehovah. The First Commandment of all monotheisms is: I am the Lord, thy God: Thou shalt have no other Gods before me. All monotheisms are vengeful, aggressive, expansionist, intolerant.
It is the duty of a monotheist to destroy any competitive heresy. Concepts such as devil, hell, guilt, eternal damnation, sin and evil are fabrications by the hive to insure loyalty to Hive Central. All these doctrines are precisely designed to intimidate and crush Individualism.
The process of mutating into Self-hood plunges the mutant into this cross fire of neurogenetic moral flak. Most of the freak-outs, bad trips and hellish experiences are caused by Monotheistic Morality. Again, it must be emphasised, that Monotheism is a necessary stage. Monotheism is a technology, a tool, to bring pre-civilised tribespeople and caste-segregated primitives into the collectives necessary to develop the post-hive, post-terrestrial technologies.
The major evolutionary step is taken when the individual says: "There is only one God who creates the universe. This God is my Brain. As the driver of this Brain I have created a universe in which there are innumerable other Gods of equal post-hive autonomy with whom I seek to interest. And my universe was, itself, created by a Higher Level of Divinity - DNA, whose mysteries and wonders I seek to understand and harmonise with."
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US Funds Terror Groups To Sow Chaos In Iran
by William Lowther and Colin Freeman/ Sunday Telegraph
America is secretly funding militant ethnic separatist groups in Iran in an attempt to pile pressure on the Islamic regime to give up its nuclear programme.
In a move that reflects Washington's growing concern with the failure of diplomatic initiatives, CIA officials are understood to be helping opposition militias among the numerous ethnic minority groups clustered in Iran's border regions.
The operations are controversial
>> bluddy immoral and insane!
because they involve dealing with movements that resort to terrorist methods. In the past year there has been a wave of unrest in ethnic minority border areas of Iran, with bombing and assassination campaigns against soldiers and government officials.
Such incidents have been carried out by the Kurds in the west, the Azeris in the north-west, the Ahwazi Arabs in the south-west, and the Baluchis in the south-east. Non-Persians make up nearly 40% of Iran's 69 million population, with around 16 million Azeris, 7 million Kurds, 5 million Ahwazis and 1 million Baluchis. Most Baluchis live over the border in Pakistan.
Funding for their separatist causes comes directly from the CIA's classified budget but is now "no great secret", according to one former high-ranking CIA official in Washington who spoke anonymously to The Sunday Telegraph.
His claims were backed by Fred Burton, a former US state department counter-terrorism agent, who said: "The latest attacks inside Iran fall in line with US efforts to supply and train Iran's ethnic minorities to destabilise the Iranian regime."
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US Generals "Will Quit" If Bush Attacks Iran
Some of America's most senior military commanders are prepared to resign if the White House orders a military strike against Iran, according to highly placed defence and intelligence sources.
Tension in the Gulf region has raised fears that an attack on Iran is becoming increasingly likely before President George Bush leaves office. The Sunday Times has learnt that up to 5 generals and admirals are willing to resign rather than approve what they consider would be a reckless attack.
"There are four or five generals and admirals we know of who would resign if Bush ordered an attack on Iran," a source with close ties to British intelligence said. "There is simply no stomach for it in the Pentagon, and a lot of people question whether such an attack would be effective or even possible."
A British defence source confirmed that there were deep misgivings inside the Pentagon about a military strike. "All the generals are perfectly clear that they don't have the military capacity to take Iran on in any meaningful fashion. Nobody wants to do it and it would be a matter of conscience for them.
"There are enough people who feel this would be an error of judgment too far for there to be resignations."
The threat of a wave of resignations coincided with a warning by Vice-President Dick Cheney that all options, including military action, remained on the table. He was responding to a comment by Tony Blair that it would not "be right to take military action against Iran". (Britain is concerned that its own troops in Iraq might be drawn into any American conflict with Iran, regardless of whether the government takes part in the attack or not).
Army chiefs fear an attack would backfire on American troops in Iraq and lead to more terrorist attacks, a rise in oil prices and the threat of a regional war.
One retired general who participated in the "generals' revolt" against Donald Rumsfeld's handling of the Iraq war said he hoped his former colleagues would resign in the event of an order to attack. "We don't want to take another initiative unless we've really thought through the consequences of our strategy," he warned.
The Sunday Times.
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Iraq Crackdown "Doomed to Fail"
Iraqi Shiite militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr says the US-backed security crackdown in Baghdad is doomed to fail and that no security plan would work unless Iraq's government assumed full responsibility for protecting its citizens. Mr. Sadr once again called on the Americans to withdraw from Iraq.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022607K.shtml
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Meetings Make Us Dumber, Study Shows
People have a harder time coming up with alternative solutions to a problem when they are part of a group, new research suggests.
Scientists exposed study participants to one brand of soft drink then asked them to think of alternative brands. Alone, they came up with significantly more products than when they were grouped with two others.
“When a group gets together, they can miss out on good options,” said a study team member. This could mean ordering from a pizza place advertised on television even if there’s a better option, or making a poor decision in the boardroom. “Whether it’s with family or a group of co-workers, we could very quickly fixate on things and all come up with the same options.”
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The researchers speculate that when a group of people receives information, the inclination is to discuss it. The more times one option is said aloud, the harder it is for individuals to recall other options, explained Krishnan, associate professor of marketing at Indiana University.
Another contributing factor is variation in learning and memory styles. Since people store and retrieve information in myriad ways, in a group situation the conversation could cause individuals to think about the cues differently than they would if they were alone.
Krishnan said individuals should take time to consider the facts on their own before coming to a consensus.
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Activists occupy Carbon Neutral Company While Carbon Neutral Company Occupies Houses of Parliament, 21.2.07
3 London Rising Tide (LRT) activists barricaded themselves inside the London headquarters of the Carbon Neutral Company (CNC) last week to high-light the damage that offset companies are doing in promoting climate complacency in the general public.
LRT had been invited by the CNC to take part in the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Climate Change, which is chaired by the Carbon Neutral Company. But Rising Tide instead chose to occupy the offices of the CNC as a statement against the CNC chairing a committee which they see as a clear conflict of interest given that they are profiting form climate change.
Speaking from the blockade, LRT activist Sam Chase said that, “The Carbon Neutral Company has no business chairing a committee like this. Their livelihoods and profit margins depend on exploiting people’s anxiety about climate change, and as such it’s a travesty that they are chairing a governmental panel on climate change.”
Tony Gordon, who also took part in the occupation said that, “The whole idea of offsetting is a throw back to the sale of indulgences to guilty sinners in the middle ages - both patently ridiculous and ineffective.”
The occupation came the day after a report was published, “The Carbon Neutral Myth - Offset Indulgences for your Climate Sins,” that was highly critical of the offsets industry, arguing that not only were supposed climate benefits impossible to quantify, that projects are also being imposed on communities in the global South with little consultation.
Earlier, people from LRT outside the office had unfurled a banner reading 'CARBON "OFFSET = CLIMATE UPSET', and symbolically swept coal under a piece of carpet, to symbolise the 'effectiveness' of carbon offsets. The indoor activists left the office voluntarily at about 4.30 having occupied the offices for the entire day.
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Cheney's Role Dominates Closing Arguments at Libby Trial
It was the defence attorney representing I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby who first told jurors, during closing arguments in the perjury and obstruction-of-justice trial last week, that the government believes Vice President Dick Cheney told Libby to leak the identity of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson to a New York Times reporter in July 2003 to undermine the credibility of her husband, a critic of the Iraq war.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022307R.shtml
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Terence McKenna Burned Out!
On February 7, a 5-alarm blaze erupted in an old building in downtown Monterey. The fire started in a Quizno’s sub shop, and went on to thoroughly destroy a number of joints, including Goomba’s Italian Restaurant, a Starbucks, and some storage offices belonging to Big Sur’s Esalen Institute - ground zero for the human potential movement and now an upscale New Age resort.
Esalen lost little of their own archives, the vast bulk residing elsewhere, but the institute was also using the offices to store the amazing library of Terence McKenna, the visionary psychedelic bard who passed away in 2000. The plan was to eventually install the books at Esalen, a place he loved. That plan will now never be realised.
The fire is a tragedy, and not simply because it consumed his private papers.
>> he might well have giggled however, had he been alive :)
Terence's library reflected the multidimensional facets of his own mind: mysticism and history, drugs and dreams, science fiction and systems theory, natural history and art. Terence was a head who fed his head with books more than the drugs he became known for.
Terence's brother Dennis owns an index of Terence’s collection, which will at least give us an overview of his library - sorta like a playlist without the MP3s. But even this valuable document will not replace the body of knowledge itself - a body that had become, in the weird ways of the memetic world, a kind of second body for Terence’s fabulous and fascinating mind.
No budding head will ever be able to poke through this collection again, with its faintly perfumed volumes on Chinese alchemy and butterflies and hash. And the world has one fewer 1659 folio of Isaac Casaubon’s A True and Faithful Relation of what passed between Dr. John Dee and some spirits, and one fewer old-school copy of Agrippa’s Three Books of Occult Philosophy, which Terence swapped for a pound or two of yummies back in the day. The content of these books, at least, is reproducible; Terence, of course, was one-of-a-kind.
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Chavez: U.S. Trying to Sabotage Economy
President Hugo Chavez warned that the U.S. government, allegedly frustrated by failed assassination plots against him, was now planning to sabotage the oil-producing country's economy.
Speaking Thursday on his newly scheduled prime-time TV talk show, he predicted that "one of the fiercest battle fronts" was coming ahead as Washington readied to destroy Venezuela economically.
Recent comments by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accusing Chavez of "destroying" his country's economy meant, the president said, that "the imperialist plan of the moment" had turned to economic sabotage.
"That's one of the plans. The other is assassination," he said, reiterating past claims that the U.S. government is plotting to kill him. "We've neutralised various attempts, and I have faith we will continue neutralising them. But they won't rest."
Chavez said that recent urgings by President Bush for the US to reduce its oil dependency on unfriendly nations, including Venezuela, meant that Venezuela was already on "the drawing table" and Washington was laying its plans.
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Al Gore's Oscar Stirs 2008 Election Buzz
Al Gore’s win at the Oscars is fuelling calls for the former Vice President to make a late entry into the wide-open 2008 presidential race.
Some key strategists believe he could hold off an announcement about running until as late as September or October and still raise campaign contributions and win the Democratic nomination, according to a report on Web site politico.com.
"Gore's political stock is hot right now,” Donna Brazile, his former campaign manager, said after Gore’s global warming film "An Inconvenient Truth” won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
"I don’t know if I would cash in now with so many players still on stage. There’s no reason to force him to declare tomorrow.” Sources close to Gore say that he is sincere when he tells the press that he’s not planning to run for president. Backstage at the Oscars on Sunday night, he repeated: "I do not have plans to become a candidate for office again."
But the sources note that Gore has deliberately not closed the door, politico.com reports.
"He could come in at the end of the day as a candidate who can truly unite his party as well as his country,” Brazile said. "He can help repair our country’s image abroad. He’s someone who can go toe-to-toe with world leaders and doesn’t need a crash course in diplomacy.”
Gore will be back in the limelight three more times in the next five months:
On March 21, he’ll testify about global warming before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, a committee he once served on. He will also testify before two House subcommittees.
A new book by Gore is scheduled to be published in May: "The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Fear, Secrecy, and Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision Making, Degrade Our Democracy, and Put Our Country and Our World in Peril."
>> goodbye to the Age of the Dinosaurs.
On July 7, Gore he will be among the celebrities heading a 24-hour "Save Our Selves” concert marathon across all 7 continents. The concert will bring together more than 100 top musical acts and broadcasts could reach more than 2 billion.
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I don't believe in 'Big Bang'. It is simply Jewish (Hebrew? Israelite?) Creationism by another name. It's a matter of the absence of causal antecedents; as in no cause, no effect. If a so-called 'Big Bang' had a cause then the Universe already existed prior to 'Big Bang' in order to be able to supply that cause, so 'Big Bang' is NOT the beginning of the Universe in any case, even if it actually happened, which the space aliens tell me is the Devil's Lie (i.e. Creationism).
Physicists who do not believe in 'Big Bang' do not get promoted, their work does not get peer-reviewed and they do not get jobs.
As for 'Panspermia', one has only to ask "Where did the space aliens originate?". Were they too 'seeded' by intergalactic travellers? In which case, who seeded *their* race, and so on and so forth ad infinitum? IF there was a 'Big Bang' then there would have to have been an original race of space travellers who seeded everyone else and who must have appeared and evolved spontaneously. So, if it can happen once it can happen a hundred thousand million times.
What happens when religion walks in the door is that reason flies out the window.
>> i thought u just proved the opposite. both Big Bang AND Panspermia a re scientist attempts to refuse to face up to the Question. Goddess :)
I don't care how many PhDs they have between them - I've met PhDs and few have had an IQ over 150-ish (mine is 220, sans PhD but I have reconstructed the math derivation of our system of music which is considerably more than most PhDs will ever get near). In fact PhDs reek of grace and favour on the part of the universities. 'Big Bang' is religionism conspiring to look like science.
>> it’s scientism. it’s a religion based on denying spirituality.
http://home.pacbell.net/skeptica/
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