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		<title>Comment on &#8220;A Universe from Nothing&#8221; by Udaybhanu Chitrakar</title>
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		<dc:creator>Udaybhanu Chitrakar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>God is said to be one and He is also said to be spaceless, timeless, changeless, immortal and all-pervading. With the help of special theory of relativity all the last five properties of God can be very nicely explained. When we find that science can explain God, why shall we have to think that God is non-existent? If God is non-existent, then why has science explained Him? Is it the job of science to explain a non-existent entity like God? So either that particular science is faulty that can explain God, or if that particular science is not faulty, then God is not non-existent.

When we say that God does not exist, we are also saying that there is no one in this universe about whom it can be said that he is immortal. If there is no immortal being in this universe, then the concept of immortality is an imaginary concept. If we say about someone that he is immortal, then that statement will be a false statement. But if we say about the same person that he is mortal, then that statement will be a true statement. This is because we do not believe that concept of immortality is a real concept, but we do know that concept of mortality is a real concept, because we know that every living being is mortal. Now science is supposed to deal with something that is real, and not with something that is imaginary. If the concept of immortality is really an imaginary concept, then science is not at all supposed to deal with that concept. But if we find that concept of immortality is scientifically explicable, then we are definitely in a dilemma. Science has shown how time can become unreal. It can logically be shown that a timeless being is a deathless, immortal being. Death is some sort of change. I am alive at this moment. At the very next moment I may die. But in a timeless world this very next moment will never come. So a timeless being can never die. Thus science while showing as to how time can become unreal has also shown how one can become immortal. So concept of immortality is a scientific concept, because it is scientifically explicable. But if it is a scientific concept, then it cannot be an imaginary concept, rather it is a real concept, because science is always supposed to deal with something that is real. But concept of immortality is a real concept means there is an immortal being in this universe.

So efforts of scientists like Stephen Hawking or Lawrence M Krauss to demolish God are futile so long  as special theory of relativity will remain intact.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>God is said to be one and He is also said to be spaceless, timeless, changeless, immortal and all-pervading. With the help of special theory of relativity all the last five properties of God can be very nicely explained. When we find that science can explain God, why shall we have to think that God is non-existent? If God is non-existent, then why has science explained Him? Is it the job of science to explain a non-existent entity like God? So either that particular science is faulty that can explain God, or if that particular science is not faulty, then God is not non-existent.</p>
<p>When we say that God does not exist, we are also saying that there is no one in this universe about whom it can be said that he is immortal. If there is no immortal being in this universe, then the concept of immortality is an imaginary concept. If we say about someone that he is immortal, then that statement will be a false statement. But if we say about the same person that he is mortal, then that statement will be a true statement. This is because we do not believe that concept of immortality is a real concept, but we do know that concept of mortality is a real concept, because we know that every living being is mortal. Now science is supposed to deal with something that is real, and not with something that is imaginary. If the concept of immortality is really an imaginary concept, then science is not at all supposed to deal with that concept. But if we find that concept of immortality is scientifically explicable, then we are definitely in a dilemma. Science has shown how time can become unreal. It can logically be shown that a timeless being is a deathless, immortal being. Death is some sort of change. I am alive at this moment. At the very next moment I may die. But in a timeless world this very next moment will never come. So a timeless being can never die. Thus science while showing as to how time can become unreal has also shown how one can become immortal. So concept of immortality is a scientific concept, because it is scientifically explicable. But if it is a scientific concept, then it cannot be an imaginary concept, rather it is a real concept, because science is always supposed to deal with something that is real. But concept of immortality is a real concept means there is an immortal being in this universe.</p>
<p>So efforts of scientists like Stephen Hawking or Lawrence M Krauss to demolish God are futile so long  as special theory of relativity will remain intact.</p>
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		<title>Comment on No Dirty Gold: This Valentine&#8217;s Day, Say No to Gold That&#8217;s Mined at the Expense of the Environment and Workers by Robert</title>
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		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Have you read anything about Gerald Pollack&#039;s work with Structured Water?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you read anything about Gerald Pollack&#8217;s work with Structured Water?</p>
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		<title>Comment on &#8220;A Universe from Nothing&#8221; by depelton</title>
		<link>http://sierravoices.com/2012/01/a-universe-from-nothing/comment-page-1/#comment-4526</link>
		<dc:creator>depelton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>From an Amazon reader review:

&quot;Dr. Krauss points out that these &quot;light&quot; elements are the only elements that could have been produced in the course of the Big Bang and the subsequent expansion and cooling of the Universe. ALL of the heavier elements--carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, iron, and so on, in other words the things that make US--could only have been produced later by the atomic effects of exploding stars. These are the Supernovas, the result of giant stars burning through their hydrogen fuel and dying in a cataclysmic explosion of radiation and newly formed heavy elements. As he puts it somewhat poetically, our own Milky Way Galaxy has seen more than two hundred million of these supernovas since forming billions of years ago. The matter formed by these explosions became the matter that then formed our planet and then us. The atoms in your left hand most certainly came from a different star than the atoms in your right hand. We are all stardust!&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From an Amazon reader review:</p>
<p>&#8220;Dr. Krauss points out that these &#8220;light&#8221; elements are the only elements that could have been produced in the course of the Big Bang and the subsequent expansion and cooling of the Universe. ALL of the heavier elements&#8211;carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, iron, and so on, in other words the things that make US&#8211;could only have been produced later by the atomic effects of exploding stars. These are the Supernovas, the result of giant stars burning through their hydrogen fuel and dying in a cataclysmic explosion of radiation and newly formed heavy elements. As he puts it somewhat poetically, our own Milky Way Galaxy has seen more than two hundred million of these supernovas since forming billions of years ago. The matter formed by these explosions became the matter that then formed our planet and then us. The atoms in your left hand most certainly came from a different star than the atoms in your right hand. We are all stardust!&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Comment on &#8220;A Universe from Nothing&#8221; by depelton</title>
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		<dc:creator>depelton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One great Krauss quote: &quot;&quot;The universe is huge and old and rare things happen all the time.&quot;

He says that the empty space inside a proton accounts for more than half of its mass.

He says that the most poetic thing he has ever heard about the Universe is this: every atom in your body was created in the thermonuclear furnace of stars. You are made of star stuff.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One great Krauss quote: &#8220;&#8221;The universe is huge and old and rare things happen all the time.&#8221;</p>
<p>He says that the empty space inside a proton accounts for more than half of its mass.</p>
<p>He says that the most poetic thing he has ever heard about the Universe is this: every atom in your body was created in the thermonuclear furnace of stars. You are made of star stuff.</p>
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		<title>Comment on How GOP Candidates&#8217; Economic Plans &#8220;Screw the Middle Class&#8221; by GregZaller</title>
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		<dc:creator>GregZaller</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I believe the reasoning behind tax cuts for the rich creating jobs is faulty. Taxes are on profits.  Higher taxes encourage businesses to protect their profits by investing them. This investment translates into job creation. Lower taxes on the rich therefore does the opposite and shifts the wealth to the rich and does not help anyone but them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I believe the reasoning behind tax cuts for the rich creating jobs is faulty. Taxes are on profits.  Higher taxes encourage businesses to protect their profits by investing them. This investment translates into job creation. Lower taxes on the rich therefore does the opposite and shifts the wealth to the rich and does not help anyone but them.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Professor Juan Cole on the Iranian Scientist Murders by GregZaller</title>
		<link>http://sierravoices.com/2012/01/professor-juan-cole-on-the-iranian-scientist-murders/comment-page-1/#comment-4515</link>
		<dc:creator>GregZaller</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t understand why he thinks a targeted killing like that of someone working to build a weapon of mass terrorism is terrorism, and it is silly to suggest there is any court jurisdiction in such matters. That said, I believe that sincere efforts to build peace would be far more productive in the long run.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t understand why he thinks a targeted killing like that of someone working to build a weapon of mass terrorism is terrorism, and it is silly to suggest there is any court jurisdiction in such matters. That said, I believe that sincere efforts to build peace would be far more productive in the long run.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Professor Juan Cole on the Iranian Scientist Murders by depelton</title>
		<link>http://sierravoices.com/2012/01/professor-juan-cole-on-the-iranian-scientist-murders/comment-page-1/#comment-4514</link>
		<dc:creator>depelton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;&quot;In spring 2010, a promising effort – led by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Brazil’s then-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – got Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to agree to relinquish Iranian control of nearly half the country’s supply of low-enriched uranium in exchange for isotopes for medical research.

&quot;The Turkish-Brazilian initiative revived a plan first advanced by Obama in 2009 – and the effort had the President’s private encouragement. But after Ahmadinejad accepted the deal, Secretary Clinton and other U.S. hardliners switched into overdrive to kill the swap and insist instead on imposing harsher sanctions against Iran.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;

From &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/13-1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Herding Americans to War With Iran&lt;/a&gt;&quot; by Robert Parry</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>&#8220;In spring 2010, a promising effort – led by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Brazil’s then-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – got Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to agree to relinquish Iranian control of nearly half the country’s supply of low-enriched uranium in exchange for isotopes for medical research.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Turkish-Brazilian initiative revived a plan first advanced by Obama in 2009 – and the effort had the President’s private encouragement. But after Ahmadinejad accepted the deal, Secretary Clinton and other U.S. hardliners switched into overdrive to kill the swap and insist instead on imposing harsher sanctions against Iran.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>From &#8220;<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/13-1" rel="nofollow">Herding Americans to War With Iran</a>&#8221; by Robert Parry</p>
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		<title>Comment on Professor Juan Cole on the Iranian Scientist Murders by depelton</title>
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		<dc:creator>depelton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is rich with irony, given the paranoia in the US:

&quot;The MEK is known to have been involved in espionage on the Iranian nuclear program, and it wants to overthrow the current government in favor of a &lt;strong&gt;Marxist-Islamic regime, working with Israeli intelligence.&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is rich with irony, given the paranoia in the US:</p>
<p>&#8220;The MEK is known to have been involved in espionage on the Iranian nuclear program, and it wants to overthrow the current government in favor of a <strong>Marxist-Islamic regime, working with Israeli intelligence.</strong>&#8220;</p>
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		<title>Comment on Who&#8217;s Systematically Murdering Iranian Nuclear Scientists? by RL Crabb</title>
		<link>http://sierravoices.com/2012/01/whos-systematically-murdering-iranian-nuclear-scientists/comment-page-1/#comment-4510</link>
		<dc:creator>RL Crabb</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Given that the publicly stated goal of the ruling theocrats in Tehran and their allies is to drive the Israelis into the sea, how else should the Israelis respond? You can bet that the neighboring Sunni states (along with Christian and other minorities) are quietly thinking &quot;right on&quot;, even if they publicly condemn these violent acts. Makes our politics at home look like kindergarten.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Given that the publicly stated goal of the ruling theocrats in Tehran and their allies is to drive the Israelis into the sea, how else should the Israelis respond? You can bet that the neighboring Sunni states (along with Christian and other minorities) are quietly thinking &#8220;right on&#8221;, even if they publicly condemn these violent acts. Makes our politics at home look like kindergarten.</p>
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		<title>Comment on APPLE Center Slated to Close After 2 1/2 Years of Sustainability Education by depelton</title>
		<link>http://sierravoices.com/2012/01/apple-center-slated-to-close-after-2-12-years-of-sustainability-education/comment-page-1/#comment-4509</link>
		<dc:creator>depelton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Notice The Union&#039;s headline:

        &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theunion.com/article/20120111/NEWS/120119929/1066&amp;ParentProfile=1053&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;APPLE to close facility, oust exec.&lt;/a&gt;&quot;

Oust? Ouch!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Notice The Union&#8217;s headline:</p>
<p>        &#8220;<a href="http://www.theunion.com/article/20120111/NEWS/120119929/1066&#038;ParentProfile=1053" rel="nofollow">APPLE to close facility, oust exec.</a>&#8221;</p>
<p>Oust? Ouch!</p>
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